In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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Finally got that boom box up there. I think another few days of living with them finally gave me the balls to do it. I didn't even get all armored up. She was just on the other side of the wall when I did it too. I started by banging the hell out of that door and barking at her and shining a flashlight in there while she was growling back at me.
I managed to have it open wide enough to get the box in the porch attic, which was easily 3 times as wide as she'd need to come at me, but she made no such moves. Closed the door and plugged it in.
It's LOUD. I need to make a decision on whether I should leave it on all night or not. I don't think it's loud enough to be pissing off any neighbors since I don't live on top of anybody. But turning it down would be counter-intuitive as well, and now that it's in there I don't really feel much like opening that door again either. It's really just a choice between on and off by pulling the plug on the extension cord.
Hopefully this flushes her out.
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Quote:How exciting!!! (Except for where there was actual touch down; then it's just scary and destructive.)
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
No sun around here, I'm afraid.
Just saw about the hardest rainfall I've ever seen in my life for around 15 minutes straight with some hail. Tornado warnings were all over the place with a few touchdowns. My old man said that there was 20 minutes hard hail by him and that when it was over it looked like snowfall in the middle of November. 2 hours later it still hadn't all melted. He said the water came up so high in his driveway that it was about an inch away from flooding the cabin.
Thankfully everyone I know is alright and there wasn't any flooding in the houses. Streets were all fubared for a while, but the water didn't get in.
Crazy.
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We had some close calls near Buffalo. I even saw a tornado form overhead, fortunately it never touched down. Even had a couple of events in LA. One of them the meteorologists spent a week trying to figure out if it was a downburst or an actual tornado (downburst) but it sure led to some crazy rainfall, hail, and exploded transformers!
It's all OK if you have a basement to hide in, then you go to the windward corner and wrap up in blankets or something to protect yourself from flying debris. Oh, and take a flashlight or fully-charged cellphone. But if you don't have a basement or storm cellar, it's not exciting, just really scary.
You might want to look around and see where you might be the safest. You have a basement, right?
I know your state isn' really known for tornadoes, but apparently this is becoming a new "thing" where you are, so best to take precautions where you are and wherever you move. Look for a place with a basement.
Indiana and Tornado Alley: What we know about increasing twisters
https://www.indystar.com/story/news/crime/2018/10/17/indiana-and-torna
do-alley-what-we-know-increasing-twisters/1659799002/
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Yeah. It was a bit thrilling, actually.
With all my house problems, my old man said just about a week ago something like "wouldn't it be great if a tornado just knocked it down and you could just collect on homeowners insurance?"
I thought about calling him up and saying I had good news and bad news. The good news is I was ground zero for the tornado and it knocked my house down. The bad news is there's nowhere good to hide in my house so I'm dead now.
Didn't they have tornados back in '59?
Every single room in this house has windows in it. The only place that doesn't is the crawl space, but it faces northwest.
If we were ground zero, that's where I would have gone for sure, but really not an ideal situation. I'll probably go to my neighbor's house next time since they have a full basement.
I forgot to mention that as bad as the hail was at my dad's (he's going to check to see if any windows were broken today), he said Bolingbrook, IL got the worst of it and had hail that was 3 1/2" in diameter!
That's bigger than a freakin baseball!!!
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I heard about the tornadoes JACK. That is scary for sure.
Think I have mentioned in a different part of the thread that we can get them in Canada, though only on the Prairies which means Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba because they are so flat.
Sun's gone away today it seems. Hope that doesn't mean rain.
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Yeah. This isn't the first time I've been so close to tornadoes in my life, although I've never actually seen one before. Areas where I live aren't exactly hotbeds for them, but we get them here and there on occasion.
This time just felt different since it seemed so imminent. Maybe I'm just extra sensitive about stuff like this with all of the other things going on with my house right now, but if you saw the literal waterfalls coming off the roof of my house you'd understand what I'm talking about. I've never actually seen it rain so hard in my life. I'm glad it only kept up for 20 minutes or so because there was flooding everywhere just from that short time. You couldn't even drive through the streets until a few hours later when most of it had gone away. When I woke up this morning about 1/4 of the street still had standing water though you could drive through it. It wasn't until a few hours ago that it had finally gone away.
I think the boombox is having the reverse effect on the racoon that I wanted to. It sounds like she's possibly burrowing her way even deeper into the attic instead of leaving.
If I don't figure out what I'm going to do with my porch so I can get the city involved with the racoon, I might actually have to consider getting into the walls and trapping her.
I just wish she'd leave already. I really don't need her shit with everything else going on right now.
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Yeah. This isn't the first time I've been so close to tornadoes in my life, although I've never actually seen one before. Areas where I live aren't exactly hotbeds for them, but we get them here and there on occasion.
This time just felt different since it seemed so imminent. Maybe I'm just extra sensitive about stuff like this with all of the other things going on with my house right now, but if you saw the literal waterfalls coming off the roof of my house you'd understand what I'm talking about. I've never actually seen it rain so hard in my life. I'm glad it only kept up for 20 minutes or so because there was flooding everywhere just from that short time. You couldn't even drive through the streets until a few hours later when most of it had gone away. When I woke up this morning about 1/4 of the street still had standing water though you could drive through it. It wasn't until a few hours ago that it had finally gone away.
I think the boombox is having the reverse effect on the racoon that I wanted to. It sounds like she's possibly burrowing her way even deeper into the attic instead of leaving.
If I don't figure out what I'm going to do with my porch so I can get the city involved with the racoon, I might actually have to consider getting into the walls and trapping her.
I just wish she'd leave already. I really don't need her shit with everything else going on right now.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Whoa! I've only seen rain like that on the tv news. Not saying that we can't and haven't gotten heavy rains where I live. I'm just lucky that my city doesn't flood.
Sorry about the racoon not taking the hint and leaving.
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Another box down and this one had dishes in it. And for all the years they've been boxed up only 1 glass plate broke. I throw it out and the rest are going to be donated. I kept 8 dinner plates, some I bought and some I don't know where I got. They are in good shape. The other 4 or 5 I pulled out are too many for me a long with the glass ones. Found some coffee mugs that are going to be donated and 2 I am keeping. One was bought for me by a lady that is gone now. So that one is special and the other is just a funny one.
Also keeping a couple of sets of salt and pepper shakers that were my mom's. One cause it is in the shape of a rattlesnake and the other set are alligators.
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Nice. It's nice getting stuff done and getting rid of stuff you don't use, innit?
Made a lot of headway in the Kitchen today, even though I still haven't finished the living room yet. Both chairs and the table had crap all over and in front of them, and the countertops were full. Got about 80% of that stuff out now and the table and chairs are clear. :)
Decided to donate almost everything in the kitchen, including a nice salt and pepper shaker I never, ever used. I never put salt on anything, and if I feel the need for pepper they come in a shakable container.
I kept two plates, two big bowls, two smaller bowls, two very large coffee mugs, two drinking glasses and a nice set of silverware. Also getting rid of at least half of my mixed and match pots and pans.
Threw out all of the cheap ziplock stuff. Kept a nice tupperware container, but that's it.
Also going to keep all the BBQ utensils and plates, but that about does it for the kitchenware.
Goodwill won't take the Christmas tree out of season, unfortunately. It's a great tree, so hopefully somebody takes it when I put it out. I may bring it back to the garage and keep trying with it until somebody does.
Got the two higback chairs out to the garage instead of waiting for my bro. They were fairly light, so I figure why make a huge project for him when he comes. Tomorrow we get the king bed and the crappy dresser out to the garage. Got a full garage now, so hopefully I can dump some stuff on my neighbor's curb on Friday and clear it out quickly. Some of the stuff is pretty good, so I expect that the pickers will take some. Thursday is supposed to be dry and sunny, so I plan on keeping tabs on what I put out there and the second somebody takes something I will put another piece out.
By the end of the week I'm hoping not only to have all of this stuff out, at least to the garage, but I hope to have the living room, living room closet and the kitchen spotless and bleached down.
New beginnings. :)
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Quote:Still the same.
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Not that anybody would have noticed, but since sometime Wednesday evening or afternoon, I have been unable to login.
I tried on my mobile phone, which I mostly use to post now, and I had thought I also tried on a desktop computer.
It was a weird symptom. My password has not changed for either 7 or 12 years. I put in the correct email and password, and then I was forwarded to the main page - which is normal - but my username was not displayed in place of the login/sign in links - which is unusual.
I tried with incorrect passwords, and the login screen does not forward, but returns to itself, keeping the correct email address but with the password field blank. All of that is normal. So it seems the software is recognizing the correct password and matching email address, but then was not allowing me to BE logged in, nor to post or reply.
So I sent an email to HAKEN. This morning he rebooted the database (or similar). My mobile phone device continues to exhibit the same behavior, but now I find that I can login with a desktop computer at the library.
I am posting this here so that it can be known and/or referenced by anybody who ends up with a similar problem, but OBVIOUSLY cannot post about it while they are unable to login. I don't recall if this has happened to me before at this site.
Haken says this site has no difference between mobile and desktop aplications. He suggested that some changes to cookie settings could be the cause. The described symptom indicates cookie problems, he said.
I have never messed with cookie settings, but started to, nothing has changed anything yet.
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Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Nice. It's nice getting stuff done and getting rid of stuff you don't use, innit?
Made a lot of headway in the Kitchen today, even though I still haven't finished the living room yet. Both chairs and the table had crap all over and in front of them, and the countertops were full. Got about 80% of that stuff out now and the table and chairs are clear. :)
Decided to donate almost everything in the kitchen, including a nice salt and pepper shaker I never, ever used. I never put salt on anything, and if I feel the need for pepper they come in a shakable container.
I kept two plates, two big bowls, two smaller bowls, two very large coffee mugs, two drinking glasses and a nice set of silverware. Also getting rid of at least half of my mixed and match pots and pans.
Threw out all of the cheap ziplock stuff. Kept a nice tupperware container, but that's it.
Also going to keep all the BBQ utensils and plates, but that about does it for the kitchenware.
Goodwill won't take the Christmas tree out of season, unfortunately. It's a great tree, so hopefully somebody takes it when I put it out. I may bring it back to the garage and keep trying with it until somebody does.
Got the two higback chairs out to the garage instead of waiting for my bro. They were fairly light, so I figure why make a huge project for him when he comes. Tomorrow we get the king bed and the crappy dresser out to the garage. Got a full garage now, so hopefully I can dump some stuff on my neighbor's curb on Friday and clear it out quickly. Some of the stuff is pretty good, so I expect that the pickers will take some. Thursday is supposed to be dry and sunny, so I plan on keeping tabs on what I put out there and the second somebody takes something I will put another piece out.
By the end of the week I'm hoping not only to have all of this stuff out, at least to the garage, but I hope to have the living room, living room closet and the kitchen spotless and bleached down.
New beginnings. :)
Do Right, Be Right. :)
It is nice. I am starting to realize how much I kept just because it was my mom's. So, I think a good bit will be donated. Don't think anymore pots and pans will be donated but dishes I think will be. We shall see. I know I have a small coffee pot that I will be donating as I don't drink entire pot of coffee anymore. Also know that I have a salt grinder and a pepper grinder somewhere but I haven't found them yet.
Going to get one more bin done tonight as it just has books in it.
Yeah, I got some recycling to get out in the next couple of days. I will.
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