In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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Yeah... I hate the winter when it's here, but it's good for the landscaping.
Plus it's nice not to have any huge nasty bugs that you find in all the places that you don't get the annual deep freeze.
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Originally posted by Brenda:
Nice and sunny here today.
Nice to hear it Brenda. Miserable and 89% humidity here. My sweat is sticking to my sweat. I honestly can't wait to go back to work so I can spend some time in the A/C again.
So my bro is going to try to arrange something with his BIL next week to maybe give me 15-20 minutes of his time. My plan is to go to my bro's house in the afternoon and strip the engine back down to get the timing belt off, and when his BIL is coming home from work he can swing by and maybe between the two of us we can get the timing right. Then if I can't put it all back together again before nightfall I can just crash on the couch and finish it in the morning.
According to somebody on a DIY forum, the camshaft fighting with me isn't all that abnormal and shouldn't be anything to worry about. It's just more pronounced on some engines than others.
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Sorry to say this Jack. But you can keep your A/C. Almost everywhere I go in malls and stores in the Summer the A/C I swear is cranked up as high as it can go and I just freeze. I hate A/C.
At least with the sun, I will pick up some colour. And the heat feels sooooo good.
I hope everything works out with your car. Fingers crossed for you.
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Went to the vampires today. I'll go in next week to find out what they say.
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Originally posted by Brenda:Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
Nice and sunny here today.
Nice to hear it Brenda. Miserable and 89% humidity here. My sweat is sticking to my sweat. I honestly can't wait to go back to work so I can spend some time in the A/C again.
So my bro is going to try to arrange something with his BIL next week to maybe give me 15-20 minutes of his time. My plan is to go to my bro's house in the afternoon and strip the engine back down to get the timing belt off, and when his BIL is coming home from work he can swing by and maybe between the two of us we can get the timing right. Then if I can't put it all back together again before nightfall I can just crash on the couch and finish it in the morning.
According to somebody on a DIY forum, the camshaft fighting with me isn't all that abnormal and shouldn't be anything to worry about. It's just more pronounced on some engines than others.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Sorry to say this Jack. But you can keep your A/C. Almost everywhere I go in malls and stores in the Summer the A/C I swear is cranked up as high as it can go and I just freeze. I hate A/C.
At least with the sun, I will pick up some colour. And the heat feels sooooo good.
I hope everything works out with your car. Fingers crossed for you.
Well... I don't have A/C in the house or even my car. It's nice to be inside of it when I'm doing really physical work though. The last retail job I had turned it off at night and it would be near 100 degrees and I don't think I could really handle that anymore even though I'm good shape.
I don't know how it gets during summer up in the great white north, but when we're stuck in the 90's for about a week and humidity is close to 90% and you're only dipping to the low 60's at night you just can't cool anything off without the A/C. I'm going to have my windows open all night and the lowest it's going to get in my house by the time I need to close them again is the low 80's.
I'm going to look for a deal on an A/C unit when the summer is over this year. I won't use it but once a day just to get the humidity out of the house when it gets like this.
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Originally posted by Brenda:
Nice and sunny here today.
Nice to hear it Brenda. Miserable and 89% humidity here. My sweat is sticking to my sweat. I honestly can't wait to go back to work so I can spend some time in the A/C again.
So my bro is going to try to arrange something with his BIL next week to maybe give me 15-20 minutes of his time. My plan is to go to my bro's house in the afternoon and strip the engine back down to get the timing belt off, and when his BIL is coming home from work he can swing by and maybe between the two of us we can get the timing right. Then if I can't put it all back together again before nightfall I can just crash on the couch and finish it in the morning.
According to somebody on a DIY forum, the camshaft fighting with me isn't all that abnormal and shouldn't be anything to worry about. It's just more pronounced on some engines than others.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Sorry to say this Jack. But you can keep your A/C. Almost everywhere I go in malls and stores in the Summer the A/C I swear is cranked up as high as it can go and I just freeze. I hate A/C.
At least with the sun, I will pick up some colour. And the heat feels sooooo good.
I hope everything works out with your car. Fingers crossed for you.
Well... I don't have A/C in the house or even my car. It's nice to be inside of it when I'm doing really physical work though. The last retail job I had turned it off at night and it would be near 100 degrees and I don't think I could really handle that anymore even though I'm good shape.
I don't know how it gets during summer up in the great white north, but when we're stuck in the 90's for about a week and humidity is close to 90% and you're only dipping to the low 60's at night you just can't cool anything off without the A/C. I'm going to have my windows open all night and the lowest it's going to get in my house by the time I need to close them again is the low 80's.
I'm going to look for a deal on an A/C unit when the summer is over this year. I won't use it but once a day just to get the humidity out of the house when it gets like this.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Weather site I go to says the humidity in my area is at 43% but then it is suppose to cloud over for a couple of days then by next Monday go up to around 29C which is 88F. So I will have to check back.
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Yeah. It was 89% humidity last night at around 11:00PM by me. Fortunately, it never hit 80 degrees today, so even though the humidity was high I just left the windows open all day. As I expected, it was 82 in my house this morning. I just looked right now and it's reading 80. It's supposed to get down to 61 tonight, so when I get back from work it should actually be pretty comfortable for the first time in about a week.
The 10 day looks pretty good now. Looks like less humidity and only a few days in the low to mid 80s. Would have preferred that weather on my stretch of off days though. Oh well.
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Yeah. It was 89% humidity last night at around 11:00PM by me. Fortunately, it never hit 80 degrees today, so even though the humidity was high I just left the windows open all day. As I expected, it was 82 in my house this morning. I just looked right now and it's reading 80. It's supposed to get down to 61 tonight, so when I get back from work it should actually be pretty comfortable for the first time in about a week.
The 10 day looks pretty good now. Looks like less humidity and only a few days in the low to mid 80s. Would have preferred that weather on my stretch of off days though. Oh well.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Outside today it must have it around 80F at least then the clouds rolled in. Right now the thermometer I've got in my place reads at about 78F which means I am nice a comfortable.
It'll start getting cooler as it gets later. Right now the sun is till out and the sky is pretty blue with a bit of clouds.
With clouds it means jeans instead of shorts when I go to my chiropactor's tomorrow, then just have to see what happens for the rest of the week.
Did notice today while I was combing my hair that some spots have gone black because of all the sun we've been getting up here for the last couple of days.
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Well, we have AC here; and a good thing too because hubby has some really weird temperature-regulating thing going on. So I'm totally and completely spoiled.
However, I HAVE been working outdoors; like I said: Our former gardener "Dave" left for a much better situation (He keeps sending me pix of Idaho, damn him! It looks so nice!) and I have to put in at least an hour a day just to keep up. Hmm... maybe not even keeping up! So I take doggie out for a one-hour walk, then get in an hour of vigorous gardening and I sweat my ass off! My T-shirt gets pretty wet. So after that, I'm ready for a nap!
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So, those tasty pineapple-teriyaki meatballs that the family likes? I bumped up the ground ginger, and reduced the pineapple a bit which makes for a better recipe, and make them kebob-style: Browned meatballs, onion, red pepper, and (pre-cooked) yam slices, broiled. Served with salad (lettuce for hubby, arugula for me, with radicchio, green onion and finely-shredded cabbage and yogurt blue-cheese/lite Caesar dressing, and strawberries and red wine. I figured that hubby would be less grumpy if he had something to focus on besides how awful he feels. Guess what? It worked!! 
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Quote:How does that work? Usually my hair gets bleached by the sun???
Did notice today while I was combing my hair that some spots have gone black because of all the sun we've been getting up here for the last couple of days.
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Do you have anything really tying you down to Cali, Sigs?
With all the taxes out there I'd be looking to get out asap. I don't know if Idaho's a big retirement destination or not, but my parents LOVE Arizona. I've never actually seen a mountain in my life, and they've got a beautiful view of one right outside their back patio door where they spend their evenings relaxing. Looks lovely and there's almost zero humidity which is great for my Mom's MS.
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Quote:Well, quite a bit, actually. Hubby is still working at a job that can't possible be replaced, with benefits that can't be duplicated, so until he retires we're still here. Also, like you, we have a house, and I would like to finish up fixing it up before we put it up for sale. We need to be extremely careful about health insurance and medical benefits for our darling daughter ... altho she's eligible for Medicare, not all states require that insurances sell "medigap" for people under 65, plus our health insurance (one hubby retires) is still tied to specific providers. And, we have some family here.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Do you have anything really tying you down to Cali, Sigs?
With all the taxes out there I'd be looking to get out asap. I don't know if Idaho's a big retirement destination or not, but my parents LOVE Arizona. I've never actually seen a mountain in my life, and they've got a beautiful view of one right outside their back patio door where they spend their evenings relaxing. Looks lovely and there's almost zero humidity which is great for my Mom's MS.
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So I'm just trying to get thru Step One of the Get Out of California Plan ... fix up the house. It has been very difficult because hubby's ongoing health problems and dear daughter's disabilities means that I get to do everything - from chauffering her around to keeping up with hubby's health to yardwork to cooking to taxes to legal matters to my own health problems; finding and honchoing contractors and taking care of minor repairs and maintenance only gets an hour a day, at most. The day before, I narrowed down where the sprinkler zone problem was (the valve). Yesterday, I screwed the dishwasher into the frame so it wouldn't keep tipping forward (the installer didn't finish the job) and painted a window casing for installation. Today, I finished up with the AC repair guys (Freezing up at the compressor, baffles/dampers not moving for zone heating), today I'm slated to give the casing another coat of paint and install it.
Which reminds me .... I have to figure out how to rebuild or replace a sprinkler valve ... yanno, one of this big brass jobs. I managed to troubleshoot it to the valve itself (not the controller, not the solenoid, not the incoming water pressure, not a break in the downstream line) so I'm going to to some inet research. The inet ... what a wonderful thing!
But I feel like the Little Dutch Boy with my fingers in about 17 holes ... and I only have 10 fingers!
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