In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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We got some rain here last night. Roof tops are wet with puddles.
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Quote:You won the War of the Raccoons!! Good for you! (Also, I'll keep that ammonia trick in mind for future reference.)
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I think at this point it's safe to say that the racoon(s) is out for good.
I think the $2.00 I spent on ammonia and the tumblers I poured it into and left everywhere did the trick. One of these days I'll have to get around to putting up the pictures of how I blocked the entrances both into the house proper and the porch itself.
Why do I sound so sure?
Because I went up there yesterday while cleaning out more from my garage and although it was hot, it didn't smell like a gorram zoo anymore. Now I never went up there and scrubbed everything down with bleach yet, mind, but after pulling out anywhere from 3 lbs to 5 lbs of crap last week, it doesn't look (or smell!) as if there is any new activity up there.
Quote:That sucks that you can't find those pieces. you DO know what's going to happen, right? A couple of days after you get the new ones, you'll find the missing parts.
I still haven't finished those steps yet since I'm still looking for the missing pieces to that countersink bit set. I might just have to bite the bullet and buy a new one. Maybe I'll order that and the Kill A Watt combined and get free shipping.
Quote:Good job SIX! The re-org sounds like a thing of beauty!
I'm going to clean up those guitars for my niece today and clean out the pantry closet that I use to store some tools so I can organize everything and put only those that I'm most likely to use in the next few months in the house. Everything else can be organized in my garage that has room for them now. :)
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Yeah Sigs... A clean house is a clean mind.
Not quite there, yet, but making headway. Got some more big stuff that I need to clear off to get out to the street a few days before trash day. I've been having quite a lot of luck lately with people pulling stuff from the curb now that it's not raining everyday.
Guitars, guitar bags and duffel bags are all cleaned and ready to go. Cleaning an old project computer off that is just absolutely gross. I need it for one of my hobby things since installing linux through this platform involves a bit of hacking and a truly ancient PC. Unfortunate, since otherwise it would be an easy decision to just dump it and the small monitor I have for it. But holy cow I smoked a lot in my old apartment where it was stationed because it's just totally gross. I'm so glad I don't smoke in my house.
Once I get those cleaned up and out of the pantry, I can give it a good scrub down and let it dry overnight so I can start putting stuff in there I'm going to be using while remodeling.
lol.... yeah. I know I'm going to find those damn countersink bits right after I buy a new set. It's really stupid of me to have put off fixing those steps for so long because of this, but I haven't been able to bring myself to buy a new set just yet.
Hopefully by mid-week I'll have truly gone through everything and if it hasn't turned up by then I can write it off as lost for good.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Just had an afternoon when nothing wanted to go right.
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Sorry to hear that Brenda.
That's every other day for me these days. I feel your pain.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Lost track of time there...
I didn't bother restringing the large guitars since it will be years until my niece could play them, but I did the small one and it sounds pretty great for a glorified toy. I actually got lost playing it for a few hours there. Got dents in my fingertips. It's sure been a while since I could say that.
Don't imagine I'm getting much else done tonight. Freakin hot in my house now. 80 on the 2nd floor. Not much better outside at the moment. Good thing there's only one more really hot day before it cools off again. Not nearly as bad as last heat wave.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:Well, dang it all. Hopefully all small things, what my oldest sister calls yapping Chihuahuas.
Originally posted by Brenda:
Just had an afternoon when nothing wanted to go right.
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Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Sorry to hear that Brenda.
That's every other day for me these days. I feel your pain.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Yeah, just one of those days. Trying to put up some shelving and that didn't work. Then I wanted to redo a frame with multiple pictures in it only to discover it and another one got ruined over the years. So they will have to be replaced.
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Quote:Well, dang it all. Hopefully all small things, what my oldest sister calls yapping Chihuahuas.
Originally posted by 1kiki:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
Just had an afternoon when nothing wanted to go right.
They are small. One was a couple of photo frames have to be replaced. They've gotten ruined over the years. And also have to figure out how to put up some shelving. I'll tackle both next week.
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