In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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Originally posted by 1kiki:
As for me, yesterday wasn't the hottest day ever, but BOY was it humid! So I didn't manage my 6 hours.
I just wanted to explain that whole '6 hours' thing. If I do anything physical at all under adverse conditions, I poop out in an hour, maybe two. And I'm finished for the day in the literal sense. But if I limit myself to easy stuff, I can keep going.
It looks like we ALL have the stack of before I do this I need to do that - except maybe Brenda! Anyway, yeah, I too need to get going on stuff.
See ya!
Trust me, I got the 6 hour thing. I'm probably the only one here that can truly empathize with you without having any A/C at all. At least you have one room to retreat to when it gets bad. You're having a MUCH hotter summer than I have, and this was our hottest one for about 5 years. But I do remember those miserable weeks where my thermostat on the second floor was reading body temperature. Ugggghhhh...
Just do what you feel you can right now. It won't be hot forever. I'm sure there's plenty of smaller stuff that needs doing in the mean time.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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No work for me next week so plenty of time to do little things around here. Got some flat headed screws from my boss's husband and hopefully one of them will fit to repair my mom's jewellery box.
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Good luck. Next week is cool by you, no?
Do you have a Home Depot by you, or a Menards? If that screw doesn't fit, I'm sure you could take it to a place like that and ask somebody there to help you get the right one.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Good luck. Next week is cool by you, no?
Do you have a Home Depot by you, or a Menards? If that screw doesn't fit, I'm sure you could take it to a place like that and ask somebody there to help you get the right one.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Next week is. It means no rushing around. Still have things to do but just bill paying and such.
There is a Home Depot or Rona just into another city that I can reach by bus quite easy if none of these screws work. I can do that if I have too.
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Wet today. And I have somethings to do.
Looks like a soggy end to August up here in BC. Suppose to rain off and on over the weekend according to the weather news I heard on Wednesday.
Hope it dries out for September.
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Yeah... the rain sucks. Looks like it's supposed to rain here again Sunday, which means we can't work on my friend's house outside. Might not be the worst thing in the world for me though since we've started my work and we'd have a roof over our heads for most of what needs being done.
Just got a call from my friend, btw. He's coming back tonight. 
Unfortunately though, that means he's not going to see his old man to get more jacks before he comes over, and we really can't do anything else until we get one. Stores around me don't have what I need, so I've got to do some traveling to pick it up. They're cheaper than I thought they would be though, so that's a plus. I can't think of anything else in particular I'd ever use it for, but for 20 bucks it's probably not a bad tool to have in my box.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Yeah... the rain sucks. Looks like it's supposed to rain here again Sunday, which means we can't work on my friend's house outside. Might not be the worst thing in the world for me though since we've started my work and we'd have a roof over our heads for most of what needs being done.
Just got a call from my friend, btw. He's coming back tonight.
Unfortunately though, that means he's not going to see his old man to get more jacks before he comes over, and we really can't do anything else until we get one. Stores around me don't have what I need, so I've got to do some traveling to pick it up. They're cheaper than I thought they would be though, so that's a plus. I can't think of anything else in particular I'd ever use it for, but for 20 bucks it's probably not a bad tool to have in my box.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
The rain does suck but soon will be heading into autumn so got to expect it.
Too true on tools. Never know when you are going to need something out of the ordinary.
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DONE!
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
You idiots have been oppressing the entire sexual spectrum as long as you have existed. I can't wait for the day your kind is dead - WISHIMAY
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Screws I got from my boss's husband don't fit. So I will have to go to the Home Depot or Rona in the next city. Have to be next Friday as Monday is a holiday and I don't plan on doing much.
It is so nice not to have to worry about the weather to take out the garbage, which I did earlier before watching some tv.
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If you feel comfortable doing it, I would bring the jewelry box with you. I know you don't have a car to leave it in until you find somebody who will for sure help you out. But really, even if you can't find somebody to help you, they should have a pretty vast hardware section where you could thumb through stuff yourself until you find one that fit.
Speaking of big box stores, I was just in the largest one I've ever seen in my life. I had to make that long trip to a Menard's for the jack I needed since the one a mile away didn't have it in stock. I'm glad I did. I've never seen a two story home improvement store before. It literally dwarfs the one by me.
Speaking of jacks, I'm so glad I sprung for the 12 ton instead of the 4 ton. Mine is WAY beefier than his was, and was the right tool for the job. His, sadly, wasn't. Gave us a good scare there when it actually failed on us at one point. Fortunately, we already had the new wood we were putting in for it to land on and we just hadn't jacked it down yet. I just shit my pants when I heard my house fall like that.
Had the same thing happened on the other side of the door where my 12 foot jack was put before we had a much larger section of new wood put in, that could have been catastrophic.
That being said, we had another amazing night otherwise. While he was making some cuts, I dug a trench around the back part of the house where the cinder-blocks were creeping their way inward, and while we had everything jacked up we were able to get them all straight again. Going to do some research on how to tuck point and what materials to use, and also how to give everything a good seal down there to keep as much moisture as possible out.
It's SO nice to have a solid frame around the door again. There was literally nothing under the threshold for over a year now since the wood was rotted out and crumbling. We also got new sills and outside joists on the north end of the house as well to replace the bad stuff. :)
We didn't rush into putting up new joists yet though. We want to make sure we're putting up everything right so the floor is level when we're done. He's going to go work out at his house tomorrow, but he wants me to stay here and get some stuff done this weekend before he comes back. I've got a few windows to seal up good so the new wood doesn't get damaged, as well as figuring out how to get those cinderblocks taken care of. He also wants me to do a double dose of ant poison since we did upturn another swarm of them while I dug that trench out.
What is kind of hilarious, and makes me feel much better about this situation, is that it's apparent that this is not the first time that somebody repaired this floor before. We discovered two things I hadn't noticed before while I was underneath today. The first is that in the worst area, there were already two joists that were married together, which is blatant evidence that somebody had "fixed" this problem before. Also, the three joists closest to the house where the wood is healthy and there haven't ever been any problems are only 2x8's that go flush across from end to end. All the rest of them are 2x10's that were notched out to fit on the sills and under the wall frames.
When we're done it's going to be built like a tank. Not like the shoddy work those amatures did.
And to think, I was worried that I'd only be doing a temporary fix and sticking the next owner with a potential mess. Our work is going to be fine when it's done. It was the jagoffs that lived here before me that stuck me with the bad porch that was waiting to fall down.
Oh yeah... we're also going to build in an access point somewhere in the room so I can get back down there if I ever need to without having to tear up part of the floor again.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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