In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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Quote:My workpace has, sadly, slowed to a crawl of late.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
KIKI, I'm amazed that you manage to stay functional and cogent with the weather the way it's been. Mid 90s here, there it's 10 degrees or more warmer, and WE have central AC!!!
Jeezuz it's been hot.
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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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Originally posted by 1kiki:
Hey Brenda
I hope the new guy is young and strong and can tolerate the awful living conditions better.
Lady did say he looked young.
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Wow, yeah, good luck to the new tennant! Maybe he can help them shovel the sidewalk!
How's the jwelery box coming?
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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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Still having problems with my hearing aides. 
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Wow, yeah, good luck to the new tennant! Maybe he can help them shovel the sidewalk!
How's the jwelery box coming?
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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
I'm not sure if I wish him luck or not. Maybe.
Screws are too wide on the end. Won't go into the hole. Gotta trek out to the hardware store tomorrow. Think I can get one screw out of the box to take with me to show and hope they can help me.
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Quote:Well, if it makes you feel any better, so has mine. Once the room was (mostly) painted I kind of collapsed for three or four days I was so achy and tired. All I could manage was the necessities of family life - cooking, grocery shopping, bill-paying, VERY short walks with puppy-wuppy. I just got back to working on it yesterday with dear daughter, and it was just touch-ups and cleaning some equipment and pulling the cardboard off the floor and sweeping. I think one of my new meds is creating problems but I'll tough it out until my doctor's visit in a couple of weeks, by then I should know definitively what's going on.
SIGNYM:
KIKI, I'm amazed that you manage to stay functional and cogent with the weather the way it's been. Mid 90s here, there it's 10 degrees or more warmer, and WE have central AC!!! Jeezuz it's been hot.
KIKI: My workpace has sadly slowed to a crawl oflate
There's supposed to be a big cooldown this Sat/Sun in my area. I hope you get some relief as well.
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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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Hope it cools down for everybody soon. Take a break and catch up on some Netflix and just chillax until it does. No sense in pushing yourself and getting yourself hurt or sick right before the cool down so you can't do right when the weather is more agreeable. 
Had a great time with my dad and brother. My dad, who is now a Dave Chappelle fan, had us watch his new Netflix comedy "Sticks and Stones" and let me tell you I don't think I've laughed so hard and consistently at something in the last decade. I've been a huge Chappelle fan since before even the days of the Chappelle Show on Comedy Central, and I couldn't get my dad to watch him in all that time. The "woke" left has gone so crazy that they turned my old man into a DC fan. Crazy times we live in today.
If anybody is curious, the Rotten Tomatoes scores of this comedy special are a 30% critic rating vs a 99% audience score. The first week that it was out, the critic score was ZERO percent. I think this is a good barometer for how out of touch with the public the woke-left elitists are in 2019.
Anyway...
My friend is busy all week and we won't be working on either of our houses, but he's coming here next week after work to pick back up where we left off. I'm going to use that time to get even more of the stuff done that I can do while he's not here before we seal the floor up. I'm considering pulling up all of the patio pavers and building a 2nd support wall with them inside the hole where it had begun to cave in before we did the work. I'm also going to use that opportunity to dig out some of the sand to fill the hole as well. This will preclude the need for me to rent a dumpster at a later time when I pulled all of that crap up. Hopefully all of this structural work is done by springtime, I've got poison down to eliminate all of the ants, and I can do my research on how to lay a nice new bed down properly and maybe fill everything back there with some nice river rock or something when the snow melts.
I was going to get rid of the two "surplus" antique bed frames that I've had in my garage since my parents moved since I can't find anybody who wants them. I was in the process of putting them out on the street when a neighbor was walking his dog and asked if he knew anybody who would be interested in them. His wife volunteers for some Christian outfit that places things like furniture and food with people who need them. She came by and checked it out and will likely have somebody picking them up on Tuesday now. If I can get my brother out here by then, hopefully I'll have the 2nd bedroom set out in the garage and they'll take all of it off my hands. :)
I had to laugh when she said that she had actually been the one to take a dresser that I had put out on the street previously and that she felt bad about doing it. She said she had knocked on my door to ask permission first but I wasn't home. I said "are you kidding? I'm always thrilled to see that stuff that I put out there is taken before the trash men pick them up." I let her know that there's not much more going out on the curb at this point, but if she ever sees anything they can use to please feel free to take it. I also said there was no way I'm letting those bed frames go out to the trash either and if nobody had picked them up tonight I was going to pull them back in the garage and try again next week.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Looks like I need 2 screws for that box I want to repair.
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https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2019-09-05/second-blob-may-b
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News from this side of the US ...
Quote:If I recall correctly, it was also associated in time with dissolving sea stars.
A giant mass of warm water off the Pacific Coast could rival ‘the blob’ of 2014-15
By Deborah NetburnStaff Writer
Sep. 5, 2019
6:53 PM
A large and unusually warm mass of water is threatening to disturb the marine ecosystem along the Pacific Coast from Southern California to Alaska, scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Thursday.
They call it the Northeast Pacific Marine Heatwave of 2019, and if it doesn’t dissipate soon, researchers said it could be as destructive as the infamous “blob” of warm water that caused massive toxic algae blooms along the coast and wreaked havoc on whales, salmon, baby sea lions and other marine life in 2014 and 2015.
Quote:'The blob' was thought to have been caused by the multi-year 'ridiculously resistant ridge' in the atmosphere, that kept a high pressure ridge of hot dry air over the west coast of North America. And those caused both the record multi-year drought and stagnant wind conditions over the west coast that led to 'the blob'. And the RRR in turn is thought to be related to global warming.
“Really, only time will tell if this feature will persist and if it will rival the past event in duration and impact,” said Andrew Leising, a research oceanographer at NOAA’s Southwest Fisheries Science Center in La Jolla.
Marine heat waves are defined as oceanic events in which the surface temperature of the water is warmer than 90% of past measurements for at least five days in a row.
The Northeast Pacific Marine Heatwave of 2019 currently covers about 4 million square miles of ocean surface. The affected area is roughly the shape of a triangle, with Hawaii, Alaska and Southern California as its vertices.
At its peak, the blob was just a bit bigger, covering a similar area that stretched for roughly 4.8 million square miles.
That makes the current event the second largest marine heat wave since scientists started tracking the phenomenon in 1981, NOAA researchers said.
This event appears to be related to a stationary low pressure not related to global warming.
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Scientists first noticed the Northeast Pacific Marine Heatwave in June. It appears to be caused by a persistent area of low pressure in the atmosphere directly above the warm water. That low pressure led to a general weakening of the ocean winds that normally cool the water’s surface and mix that top layer with cooler water from the deep, researchers said.
However, scientists are still unsure what caused the low-pressure system to stay put for so long.
“Usually it intensifies and weakens day to day. It doesn’t sit there for months at a time,” said Nate Mantua, a research scientist at NOAA’s Southwest Fisheries Science Center in Santa Cruz. “It may not have a cause other than the chaotic motion of the atmosphere.”
Scientists said there is no evidence that climate change is responsible for the current marine heat wave, although it might have exacerbated it.
“Human- caused climate change has contributed something like 1 degree Celsius of warming across much of the North Pacific,” Mantua said. “This event is much bigger — at least 3 degrees Celsius in the last three months.”
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