In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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AHA! And here it is!
I didn't realize there was a nut right underneath the actuator/ diaphragm. Easy peasy!
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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 SIGNYM:Quote:
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.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
As long as you insist that everything is the Republicans'/ Democrats' fault, then you fail to grasp the REAL problem with American politics.
America is an oligarchy http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876
It's really too bad that I don't live by you. Considering what you paid your gardener, I think you'd pay me quite well for the work I could do on your house and you'd be getting a steal compared to paying the "pros".
Ain't Youtube wonderful?
I was just talking to my store manager about it this morning for about 10 minutes when I broke the news to her that I would no longer be putting a large part of my wages back into cheap motor oil. :)
Glad you figured out your sprinkler issue. ;)
I couldn't remember if you and your husband were actually retired yet. Might as well make that money while the gettin' is good. Smart to work on the house now though so you can move as soon as you figure everything else out.
While it's true my house kind of ties me down to where I'm at, the taxes are so cheap and I like my neighbors. It's close enough to my family to not be a problem too. I don't imagine I'm going to be moving for a very long time unless something major were to pop up.
I won
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
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!!
******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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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
As long as you insist that everything is the Republicans'/ Democrats' fault, then you fail to grasp the REAL problem with American politics.
America is an oligarchy http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876
Well Sig, I take a fair amount of seizure medication so that could be the reason and also my Native blood too I think plays into it. My hair goes from brown to black in the summer depending on the amount of sun we get up here.
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Quote:Well, bad for me. Good for you!
It's really too bad that I don't live by you. Considering what you paid your gardener, I think you'd pay me quite well for the work I could do on your house and you'd be getting a steal compared to paying the "pros".
Do you have any idea of the COSTS around here??? Plus all of the traffic and aggravation?? You'd HATE the lifestyle!!!
Quote:No shit! With all of that knowledge at people's fingertips, they should be vastly empowered! I'm getting smarter every day!
Ain't Youtube wonderful?
Quote:Well, oil IS expensive! So, what are you going to do with that "extra" money? (Knowing you, you'll probably save it or turn it to productive use, and not just fritter it away.)
I was just talking to my store manager about it this morning for about 10 minutes when I broke the news to her that I would no longer be putting a large part of my wages back into cheap motor oil. :)
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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.- BRENDA
How does that work? Usually my hair gets bleached by the sun??? SIGNY
Well Sig, I take a fair amount of seizure medication so that could be the reason and also my Native blood too I think plays into it. My hair goes from brown to black in the summer depending on the amount of sun we get up here.- BRENDA
I wonder if overall you're lacking vitamin D. I know (from dear daughter's trials of many anticonvulsants) that some of them - carbamazepine for sure - reduce the amount of vita D in the system. Dear daughter's doctor recommended additional vitamin D.
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If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
As long as you insist that everything is the Republicans'/ Democrats' fault, then you fail to grasp the REAL problem with American politics.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:Well, bad for me. Good for you!
It's really too bad that I don't live by you. Considering what you paid your gardener, I think you'd pay me quite well for the work I could do on your house and you'd be getting a steal compared to paying the "pros".
Do you have any idea of the COSTS around here??? Plus all of the traffic and aggravation?? You'd HATE the lifestyle!!!Quote:No shit! With all of that knowledge at people's fingertips, they should be vastly empowered! I'm getting smarter every day!
Ain't Youtube wonderful?
Quote:Well, oil IS expensive! So, what are you going to do with that "extra" money? (Knowing you, you'll probably save it or turn it to productive use, and not just fritter it away.)
I was just talking to my store manager about it this morning for about 10 minutes when I broke the news to her that I would no longer be putting a large part of my wages back into cheap motor oil. :)Quote:
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.- BRENDA
How does that work? Usually my hair gets bleached by the sun??? SIGNY
Well Sig, I take a fair amount of seizure medication so that could be the reason and also my Native blood too I think plays into it. My hair goes from brown to black in the summer depending on the amount of sun we get up here.- BRENDA
I wonder if overall you're lacking vitamin D. I know (from dear daughter's trials of many anticonvulsants) that some of them - carbamazepine for sure - reduce the amount of vita D in the system. Dear daughter's doctor recommended additional vitamin D.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
As long as you insist that everything is the Republicans'/ Democrats' fault, then you fail to grasp the REAL problem with American politics.
America is an oligarchy http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876
I do take additional Vitamin D now Sig. Have for the last almost 4years.
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Well the oil wasn't actually all that expensive, believe it or not. I found out that I could use 10W40 in my car and we had an off-brand oil for 20 bucks for 12 quarts that went on clearance for $14.97, so I bought 7 at a time one day back during winter and I just ran out. The killer was the 40 bucks I was spending on the two 12 packs of Pennzoil before I did some research about the 10W40.
Still though, you can't imagine how nice it was to just hop into my car last night and go to work and not have to do the usual routine of popping the hood and putting oil in the car first. Not too big a deal now, but that really sucked during the dead of winter.
What am I going to do with the money? Every year I keep telling myself that this is the year I'm going to finally buy a big flatscreen TV on black friday, but I never pull the trigger.
You're probably right though. I will probably just put it into one of my big ticket items that need buying.
I was able to work with my interim manager last night to fix my schedule that keeps getting botched now that our old manager was fired and the guy that hired me initially is running overnights until around winter sometime. He has no problem giving me whatever days I want to work because of my "bang for the buck", but told me not to tell anybody else about it because he's been telling people just to work what they're scheduled. A lot of people aren't happy right now, so I have no problem keeping that secret.
It looks like I'm going to get my three days at the end of one week and then again at the beginning of the next, so I'm in for very long "weekends". Once summer is over I think I'm going to volunteer an additional day and start working 7 days straight for a full 26 weeks a year. That'd be an extra 2,000-2,500 per year if I just started doing that, and I'd like to get it established before the new manager comes in.
6 straight days kind of sucks, so 7 would be even worse, but when you've always got 7 days off to look forward to it's not all that bad. 
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:Has your doctor tested your levels? It's a common test around here .... in LA! where the sun shines 90% of the time! Maybe more is necessary? Or maybe D3 not D2? That's the only explanation I can think of for seasonal changes possibly based on sunlight exposure.
I do take additional Vitamin D now Sig. Have for the last almost 4years.
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Well, the video on sprinkler actuators sure made everything look easy-peasy but reality didn't conform. :wrysmile: Yesterday was not able to remove either the backflow regulator OR the actuator. I even called on hubby's help ... being a former mechanic and construction guy he tends to know how to pull things apart ... no go. So I sprayed some "liquid wrench" on the frozen parts .... also on the same parts of a different unit that's easier to reach which is my test case .... today I'll give it another try. If worst comes to worst I'll have to cut it out. In the meantime delegated dear daughter to hose-water the veggie garden.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
As long as you insist that everything is the Republicans'/ Democrats' fault, then you fail to grasp the REAL problem with American politics.
America is an oligarchy http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876
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Had another great night last night. Love working for a good manager that knows to just point me in the direction he wants and then get the @#(! out of my way.
Man... I'm really starting to tell that all this work and the diet and not drinking is paying off. For the first time in years I'm actually feeling strong again. I only managed about 5 hours of sleep in between shifts because I got a little carried away with one of my projects yesterday, but the amount of energy this gluten free diet provides is amazing. I wouldn't want to run on only 5 hours of sleep every night between shifts, but before I got back in shape and started eating differently, a 5 hour sleep would have meant I felt like hell all night.
The new manager likes wrapping things up early, so instead of being scheduled until 6 and sometimes not getting out until 6:30, I've been scheduled until only 5:30 and there isn't much work left to do by then except for straightening things up which I find to be a total drag at the end of the night. I've been going in a half hour earlier to make up the difference and I gave the manager a heads up that he's going to have to override that today and he said it's no problem and just to "come in whenever".
It's a shame that he's only going to be my manager for the next 3 months. Oh well... I kind of enjoy breaking in a new manager. And this time I've got the store manager and the 2nd in command behind me. I don't imagine they're going to be so quick to take his side if I get written up for insubordination again.
Who knows though. He might be good. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt until he proves he's an idiot just like the last one.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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I went to post in a thread I created and saw the disgusting horrifying pictures sig posted there.
Sig loves to do that.
So I think I should share those pictures here. I will continue to do so
because I can't think of a better way to stop her from doing this.
From now on sig these type pictures will wind up here in your garden. Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:
Hey THUGR, fuck you deep state troll and your bogus lies. You're so stupid think we buy into that. What an ass. 
http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20111204/news/712049915/
We came, we saw, he died (giggle!)
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:Has your doctor tested your levels? It's a common test around here .... in LA! where the sun shines 90% of the time! Maybe more is necessary? Or maybe D3 not D2? That's the only explanation I can think of for seasonal changes possibly based on sunlight exposure.
I do take additional Vitamin D now Sig. Have for the last almost 4years.
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Well, the video on sprinkler actuators sure made everything look easy-peasy but reality didn't conform. :wrysmile: Yesterday was not able to remove either the backflow regulator OR the actuator. I even called on hubby's help ... being a former mechanic and construction guy he tends to know how to pull things apart ... no go. So I sprayed some "liquid plumber" on the frozen parts .... also on the same parts of a different unit that's easier to reach which is my test case .... today I'll give it another try. If worst comes to worst I'll have to cut it out. In the meantime delegated dear daughter to hose-water the veggie garden.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
As long as you insist that everything is the Republicans'/ Democrats' fault, then you fail to grasp the REAL problem with American politics.
America is an oligarchy http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876
I do take Vitamin D3 and not that I know of. I just went to the lab and I always read the lab paper. She checks a lot of things. Potassium, calcium, my thyroid of course because of meds. Heart, liver because of my seizure meds. Iron levels on levels.
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