In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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Sigh. I'm jealous of you guys, making so much progress.
I guess I'll just have to keep on keeping on. (Though that includes keeping an eye out on the cat who hasn't pooped in a while, has a low appetites, and has thrown up the small amount of soft food I gave him, immediately after eating- I need to make sure he doesn't need an emergency trip to the vet ... and getting my phone fixed, whose screen just died (I think it's the power connection).)
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
SIX, you have experience painting. Have you ever used painter's tape? We're using the stuff from 3M that promises not to let paint "bleed" under the tape edge, and I've got to say that (unlike other tapes) this does a nice job leaving a crisp line when the tape is peeled off. But the tape is SO adhesive it's actually pulled paint off the wall. I know youre not supposed to leave i on more than 24 hours, so we've been careful not to tape unless we can paint/peel tape within that time period.
Any advice?
3M has always worked good for me. It's hard to explain exactly how "hard" I put on the tape, but unlike how I force the back of my pointer fingernail with my thumb into tape when putting packing tape on boxes or aluminum tape on hard drive magnets who's coating broke when removing them, easy does it when putting painter's tape on a surface. I usually use my thumb to put a smooth taught line on it, but not a lot of pressure. You don't want paint getting underneath the tape or what's the point, right?
That being said, I usually remove the tape immediately after I'm done painting whatever surface I'm doing. If I'm painting a wall, I'm cutting in with the paintbrush in the corners first, then I'm hitting the inside with the rollers. If I'm putting on more than one coat, I make sure I have time in a single day to let the first coat dry and put on a second one then immediately remove the tape after that. I don't like putting on the second coat after I go to sleep for the night because you're in danger of ripping off more than you want to when you finally get around to pulling the tape then.
I'm assuming that you were having problems with the paint that you just laid down ripping off with the paint, and not whatever you were covering? At least in my experience, that's usually the case if I need to do touchups. If you pull that tape off as soon as you can after you're done painting that should eliminate that problem.
But if you're pulling up stuff that was under the tape that you put down, you're putting it on too hard. In that case, Kiki's video would probably be a good place to start to find a tape with less adhesive power, but at the same time, I don't have that problem with 3M tape, so it's really just a learning process to know that you do it right the second time.
Good luck
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Nice to know that you're starting on your property! Does that mean that your friend's work is done? Has he passed inspection? Fingers crossed!
I'll believe it when I see it, but yeah, it sounds like it should start soon. My friend's work is hardly done. There's a TON more to do over there. We did pretty much do everything outside that needs to be done except for the outside of the garage, but there was a lot of damage done to the inside of the house from leaks.
I told him that this is because he has hoarders living in the house. Being a former hoarder myself, I know the mindset. It's got to be extremely tough for them now that they're in the position where somebody outside has to see what they live like. I'm sure they're mortified. They were happily sending their full rent on time every month just to keep him from going inside. It wasn't until the city contacted him because how bad the property looked on the outside and neighbors were complaining that he saw the hoard and the fact that they were letting the ceilings start to cave in without complaining to him about any of it. The house stinks.
But our main focus with him is to get the outside watertight, which I believe were right on the cusp of doing. And second to that is to continue to get good visits from the inspectors. They're working with him, but it needs to look as though there is continual progress being made. Quite a few things were checked off of his list, but they're coming back in a month.
Fortu
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Beautiful weather for the end of August into the beginning of September.
Flipside, I probably did something dumb today. Lightbulb blew out in the kitchen overnight. Well, I fixed it myself today. I am okay but it could have been bad. It's just that I am so used to doing things myself.
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Still cleaning earrings. Just redid 5 pairs as when I first did them I realized that I didn't do a good job. One is a favourite pair of silver musical notes.
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Do you mean it blew out and shattered?
If you did, how did you get it out?
That recently happened to me, and I was able to find a pair of needle nosed pliers with a rubber coating on the handles to get it out. I still should have turned the electric off before doing the deed, but I've been shocked by 110v before. No big deal. You guys use 110 up on Canada, right? Not risking your life everyday with 220v like they do in Europe?
In the future, if you've got some potatoes laying around, they're good for getting the bulb out. I didn't have any though.
Nice job on the work, btw Brenda and Sigs. Nice to hear that everyone is making progress to their goals.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
Sigh. I'm jealous of you guys, making so much progress.
I guess I'll just have to keep on keeping on. (Though that includes keeping an eye out on the cat who hasn't pooped in a while, has a low appetites, and has thrown up the small amount of soft food I gave him, immediately after eating- I need to make sure he doesn't need an emergency trip to the vet ... and getting my phone fixed, whose screen just died (I think it's the power connection).)
Aaaaah... You'll get there too.
I know you're retired and not working too, but the difference is that I'm not retirement age and I should be working full time and not have the free time to do everything that I'm doing right now.
Just don't beat yourself too much about the days that you don't get anything accomplished. I've had plenty of those since I was laid off. (It's been 2 months and 2 days now).
You just got to bounce back and get to it.
If you're like me, you're going to find that you start having really good days where you're on a roll and you start to enjoy it. I hope you can feel that, because once you get there it doesn't even feel like work anymore.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Hey Jack
I appreciate the kind words. I am working 6 hours a day come hell or high water ... fortunately I have a 'hot weather' list of computer and desk work and a 'cooler weather' list of physical work. (It'll be months I think before I get to the 'cooler weather' stuff. It's been ranging 92 - 102 the last couple of months and I expect it'll be ranging that through October.)
It's just that things are piling up and disasters are happening faster than I can manage. I mentioned I had screen doors put in and an exterminator come to kill off a gopher.
But when I went to check to make sure there were no more gopher hills, I found that a critter (not a gopher, probably a raccoon) had literally ripped the siding off my house to get under the house. That was last Thursday. OK - too busy to get to it, put that on hold.
Then a couple of days ago I went to the pharmacy get my scrips that I have to have, and was told THE most important one was 'unavailable' - for months. Not until December. Except for a couple of mfgs where they thought they could try to purchase some August 30th, or another mfg where they could try to purchase some September 16. But it was all very iffy. They'd put in an order and see ... WTF??? After some frantic calls around and going back to the pharmacy they said that it's only the combo pill that's 'unavailable', they could call my doctor to split the scrips into 2. So I'm waiting till the 30th, if that doesn't work out I'm going to ask them to call and split the scrips because I can't, CAN'T, be without and I'm running low.
Then literally last night my phone broke, and it would be no problem to get a new one and have the info transfered over, except I'm not the person who has control of the contract, so I have to work out how to do that. (The last couple of times I needed a new phone, the SIM card from the old one fit in the new one, so I batted my baby blues and they sold me a new, unregistered phone to put my old SIM card in on the QT. But I can't do that now since the SIM card format is different.)
On top of that my cat has been really iffy. He hides illness well, and I have to keep up on whether or not he needs an emergency trip to the vet. (When he was about a year I noticed his appetite was off for a few days, and when I finally checked on how heavy he was hefting, he was skin and bones. He goes downhill quickly.) It sounds silly but I have to hand feed him and see if he's keeping it down.
And I have a crap-ton of important things to do paperwork-wise.
What really stymies me are the problems where I have to do that before I do this ... but I can't do that.
I feel like I'm trying to run in quicksand.
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Originally posted by 1kiki:
Hey Jack
I appreciate the kind words. I am working 6 hours a day come hell or high water ... fortunately I have a 'hot weather' list of computer and desk work and a 'cooler weather' list of physical work. (It'll be months I think before I get to the 'cooler weather' stuff. It's been ranging 92 - 102 the last couple of months and I expect it'll be ranging that through October.)
Wow... all the way through October! I feel for you. Did you get your A/C situation fixed? Without A/C that blower saved my summer.
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It's just that things are piling up and disasters are happening faster than I can manage. I mentioned I had screen doors put in and an exterminator come to kill off a gopher.
But when I went to check to make sure there were no more gopher hills, I found that a critter (not a gopher, probably a raccoon) had literally ripped the siding off my house to get under the house. That was last Thursday. OK - too busy to get to it, put that on hold.
Then a couple of days ago I went to the pharmacy get my scrips that I have to have, and was told THE most important one was 'unavailable' - for months. Not until December. Except for a couple of mfgs where they thought they could try to purchase some August 30th, or another mfg where they could try to purchase some September 16. But it was all very iffy. They'd put in an order and see ... WTF??? After some frantic calls around and going back to the pharmacy they said that it's only the combo pill that's 'unavailable', they could call my doctor to split the scrips into 2. So I'm waiting till the 30th, if that doesn't work out I'm going to ask them to call and split the scrips because I can't, CAN'T, be without and I'm running low.
Then literally last night my phone broke, and it would be no problem to get a new one and have the info transfered over, except I'm not the person who has control of the contract, so I have to work out how to do that. (The last couple of times I needed a new phone, the SIM card from the old one fit in the new one, so I batted my baby blues and they sold me a new, unregistered phone to put my old SIM card in on the QT. But I can't do that now since the SIM card format is different.)
On top of that my cat has been really iffy. He hides illness well, and I have to keep up on whether or not he needs an emergency trip to the vet. (When he was about a year I noticed his appetite was off for a few days, and when I finally checked on how heavy he was hefting, he was skin and bones. He goes downhill quickly.) It sounds silly but I have to hand feed him and see if he's keeping it down.
That's quite a list. :(
You're going to get through it though.
Not to instigate a pissing contest, but to show solidarity here, I've still got quite a few of the issues that I had at the beginning of summer that I'm either dealing with or haven't even started dealing with yet.
Hrmmmm... let's start with what I have fixed.
1. Racoon is out, and no more are coming back in.
2. The fixes from the piece of shit car I did last summer are thankfully keeping it hobbling along, but I still refuse to drive it further than about 35 miles just in case.
3. Most of my hoard is gone from the house and garage and I'm just trying to wrap the rest of it up and organize everything.
Next, the things I'm dealing with...
1. Looking for a job, dealing with the unemployment office. (Which seems to be extraordinarily helpful compared to Illinois. Something I didn't take notice of last time when I drank my way through it).
2. Finishing cleaning the hoard out.
3. Helping my friend deal with his major issues so I can get help with mine.
4. Getting my yard back under control.
5. My never-ending battle with the ants. (At least they're out of the house, even if they're still tearing the patio apart). Moles are a problem here too and seem to be tag-team
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Hey Jack - first off CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR HOARD !!! That is a major, major accomplishment, and maybe you can even see me smiling for you all the way out here !!!
Anyway, I figured out how to get so many hours worked in a day, and that was to recognize I don't have the strength, energy, or stamina I used to. So I limit what I try to do physically under bad conditions. You can only do what you can do ...
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU for sharing your list! It's not just me. THAT'S a RELIEF!!
Quote:HA HA !! How MANY lists do you want to see?
Hope you're making a to-do list. It's the only way I keep my sanity.
Quote:My nightmare dreams about my house mostly have to do with rain (which is weird b/c we hardly get rain here) and it's raining, and the entire drywall ceiling in every room starts bowing down with little streams of water running down off the low spots ... and then I look up and I see the underside of the attic roof (somehow) with rain just pouring in ... why that is my PARTICULAR nightmare idk ... but I really hear you on that!
If I'm not having dreams of my house falling down ...
Thanks Jack.
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Keep your head up.
You too.
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Hey KIKI, don't forget, we're working in air conditioned space. I set the A/C in the zone where we're working to 78F, not terribly cool I know, but I'll bet it's a full 22 degrees (OR MORE!) cooler than what you're experiencing. Do you know what I'd be doing at 100F?
Nothing!!!
We had to go out for our teeth cleaning, and just walking to and from the car was exhausting! I think you can only realistically expect to get anything done beginning in October.
Altho I have to say, when I DO have to work outdoors in the heat I find it refreshing to wet my shirt down.
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Did a little something different for dinner today, did "southern style" ... collardgreens and bacon/onion (Dear Daughter had green beans bc of her food sensitivities), roast yam, and oven "fried" chicken, which I made from a modified ATK recipe. yum yum!
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