In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
POSTED BY: SIGNYM
UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Hey guys, I'm going to be less present for the while. The weather is turning, and more needs to be done. I'll be reading and taking encouragment from your progress, it's awesome to see how everyone is making progress and will be chiming in from time to time but not as often as before. Carry on!
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If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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Good luck!
Weather "turned" here too, but extremely and unseasonably hot. Even with my blower on all night I woke up and it was already 75 and humid as hell in my house. One more day of this before it cools back down for the weekend. I don't think I'm doing much the next few days, so I hope it's nice and dry this weekend to help my friend on his house.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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So I had put the last bed frame out on the curb yesterday after they didn't take it. I thought I heard somebody knocking on my door while taking a nap, but by the time I got there nobody was outside. Later, I looked back at the street and the bed frame was gone. Since my neighbor told me before that she had knocked to ask permission for the dresser I put out on the curb, I wondered if that was her and she went and took the frame after her Christian outfit turned it down. She had given me numbers to a few other organizations, but I didn't want to deal with that anymore and just wanted it out.
Happy to see it was gone and I wasn't going to have to retrieve it for the night of rain, I wasn't going to give it any more thought.
I was making a pot of coffee this morning though and saw my neighbor across the street loading it into his car. lol
Going to have to ask him what they did with it when I see him walking his dog next time. Not that I don't appreciate the trouble they went to there, but I wasn't going to let it get ruined and I told them that.
It's a beautiful bed frame. Hope it finds a good home. 
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Good on you Brenda. :)
Make sure not to throw out any sentimental stuff till the end (of course linens with holes are acceptable). Just keep plowing through the easy stuff first. Once you've done that you can re-evaluate where you're at with the clutter and where you want to be before you go more in-depth during the next round.
It's one thing to kick yourself at a later date because you threw out something useful that you would absolutely have made use of now if you hadn't thrown it out, but it's another thing entirely to be sitting there looking at stuff that you decided to save during round one and chide yourself for choosing that junk over a box full of precious memories.
I think you're already doing that, but just wanted to offer that reminder based off of my experience. I'm already dealing with a twinge of regret on a few smaller items that are gone now. I think if I had to do it all over I wouldn't have started boxing up things for a future move while I had been doing this. There's definately pros to that method, but when I consider the two boxes of Christmas junk I still haven't gone back through to remove all non-sentimental items, I wish I had kept a few things I got rid of to fill in those boxes instead.
No real regrets though. In a year or two I'll probably never give it another thought, and I did keep most of the stuff with sentimental value.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Nah, I think I am okay on sentimental stuff. I'm keeping things that my dad bought me and I've had them for years. My dad's dresser while a little dinged up now once I've gone through the linens and dishtowels in it, I can still use for storage space. Of course my trunk which was my grandad's has family photos back in it and I still have 1 of my grandmother's cookbooks(my dad's mom). My grandmother's music books. I've got my dad's hammer and his old nail can if I find anything else I want to hang up.
Still taking little bits that I can carry over to the local thrift shop but they aren't anything important. Got some small dead electronics that I can take down to a store that takes that stuff in to be recycled. I'll do that a little bit at a time.
Still have some papers to sort through but I am almost finished with stuff from my mom and dad. Their important stuff is in an old metal box that my dad kept for such stuff, so I can lay my hands on it easily if I need it.
So, for now I think Jack, I am in pretty good shape.
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Sounds good, Brenda. It also sounds like you might be getting to the end of your own de-cluttering, am I right?
Today turned out to be pretty productive afterall. Still pretty miserably hot around these parts, and I didn't really get my ass in gear until nearly 3PM, but I spent about an hour picking up all of the sticks and debris from the last few storms before mowing everything. What a workout that was. I really need to get another physical job when I start working again. Office work isn't going to cut it. The lawn looks phenomenal though. The work so far this summer on curb appeal has paid dividends so far. I bet my neighbors are thrilled.
I'm hoping I can keep it up for a few more hours tonight and clean the floors and stage all of the furniture where I want it to go. I'm not going to put anything right up against the walls though. Might as well not do that until I buy all the trim I need for the bedrooms and finally put it up after my 6 year DIY hiatus. 
The master bedroom is huge though, so even though it might look a little odd in the mean time, there will still be enough room to have a small dance floor with only a full size bed in there.
My buddy had to go to the chiropractor yesterday after he hurt his back hoisting the joist all by himself. I'm hoping he has a speedy recovery. My shoulder issue is already fine after a few days of taking it easy.
So the lawn is out of the way, with one more hot day to go. If my friend is feeling better, tomorrow night was the last night he said he'd be available to work on my house this week. Fingers crossed. I'll be helping out at his rental at least one day this weekend. Hopefully I get crackin' again around here in the mean time and do the outside tuck pointing so I can finally put that tar on the foundation and fill in the trench. I've really got to finish all the windows too so I can make sure everything is water tight before putting a new floor down.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Sounds good, Brenda. It also sounds like you might be getting to the end of your own de-cluttering, am I right?
Do Right, Be Right. :)
I think I am. Feels good to get through all that stuff that was in boxes for years.
Sounds like you are doing good too.
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Flip side, I do not like September right now.
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Originally posted by Brenda:
I think I am. Feels good to get through all that stuff that was in boxes for years.
Great to hear. Tell me about it.
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Sounds like you are doing good too.
Yup. Just when I thought I was going to have another lazy day because of the weather, my friend came out of nowhere late in the day and we kicked so much ass.
The structural work on the back porch is done! We finished all the sills, outside joists and inside joists that needed to be replaced. These babies are solid!
More homework for me. I still have to tuck point the outside of the cinder blocks and finish the windows and make sure nothing leaks in before I even think of putting the new flooring in. Now I have to also use remaining lumber and possibly buy some more if I run out to tie all the joists to each other. None of this rinky-dink metal cris-cross straps they used last time. This thing is going to be built like a tank. I have some old Green 4"x4"s that I'm also considering making pylons out of by using a post hole digger, filling with concrete and using the 4x4's to further support the floor in the middle of the room.
I'm also going to see if my brother would mind picking up the plywood using his truck-like vehicle. My bud says there's no way that his car would support the weight. If my bro can't do it I'll have to rent a truck from Mendards to get all of that.
But for the bad news.... :(
The 11% rebate thing is over right now. I just thought it was all the time and you needed a new slip every week. When I bought 50 bucks worth of stuff today though there was no rebate receipt. It looks like I missed out for the rest of the stuff. No way I'm buying any more stuff now until that new credit card comes in so I can at least get the 20% off plus the rewards points.
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Originally posted by Brenda:
Flip side, I do not like September right now.
No? How come?
Not sure why for you, but I haven't been enjoying it much this week either. Way too hot for this time of year.
Three miserably hot days in a row and to add insult to injury even though the high isn't much above 80 tomorrow, the low tonight isn't much cooler so I can't even really cool off the house until tomorrow night when the low is 59 degrees. :(
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Oh... I will eventually have before and after pics of all of this stuff. I just need to do some research and figure out the best way to do it. I'm not going to share my google albums, which would be the easiest way by far to do it, because of the hostility around these parts these days. I've shared them with family and friends who have made comments and I'm not looking to needlessly doxx myself or anyone else for that matter.
TinyPic used to be a great way to share images virtually anonymously without needing to sign up for an account, but they just shut down. I'll have to see if there are any other free image hosting services that don't require an account, or figure out which one that requires an account that I want to use for this purpose before posting.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
I think I am. Feels good to get through all that stuff that was in boxes for years.
Great to hear. Tell me about it.Quote:
Sounds like you are doing good too.
Yup. Just when I thought I was going to have another lazy day because of the weather, my friend came out of nowhere late in the day and we kicked so much ass.
The structural work on the back porch is done! We finished all the sills, outside joists and inside joists that needed to be replaced. These babies are solid!
More homework for me. I still have to tuck point the outside of the cinder blocks and finish the windows and make sure nothing leaks in before I even think of putting the new flooring in. Now I have to also use remaining lumber and possibly buy some more if I run out to tie all the joists to each other. None of this rinky-dink metal cris-cross straps they used last time. This thing is going to be built like a tank. I have some old Green 4"x4"s that I'm also considering making pylons out of by using a post hole digger, filling with concrete and using the 4x4's to further support the floor in the middle of the room.
I'm also going to see if my brother would mind picking up the plywood using his truck-like vehicle. My bud says there's no way that his car would support the weight. If my bro can't do it I'll have to rent a truck from Mendards to get all of that.
But for the bad news.... :(
The 11% rebate thing is over right now. I just thought it was all the time and you needed a new slip every week. When I bought 50 bucks worth of stuff today though there was no rebate receipt. It looks like I missed out for the rest of the stuff. No way I'm buying any more stuff now until that new credit card comes in so I can at least get the 20% off plus the rewards points.
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Originally posted by Brenda:
Flip side, I do not like September right now.
No? How come?
Not sure why for you, but I haven't been enjoying it much this week either. Way too hot for this time of year.
Three miserably hot days in a row and to add insult to injury even though the high isn't much above 80 tomorrow, the low tonight isn't much cooler so I can't even really cool off the house until tomorrow night when the low is 59 degrees. :(
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Sorry about the rebates Jack. That's always a drag when those things are timed.
My reasons not liking September for they are plural are all emotional.
As I said I just marked the 8th anniversary of my Blair's death on Sunday.
He went three weeks before my birthday which is fast approaching.
And there is a good chance that I will be spending the day alone.
People have family and by that I mean grown children and grandchildren that they talk about and all of that is pretty hard for me to listen too.
I always wanted children but a "normal" life wasn't meant for me. And as I get a little older its a bitter pill to try and swallow.
So, yeah. I just feel in small ways that people don't always want me around. My boss and her husband have their son and daughter -in-law staying with them and so they don't invite me to stay for supper when I'm done working.
I also feel that people who have children don't appreciate that fact.
Don't mind me. I can get a little maudlin at this time of the year. Weather is changing, summer is making room for fall.
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No worries, Brenda.
I can empathize. :(
My mom is pretty excited that I've rekindled the friendship I have, but there's one friend in particular that she's known since we were both in Kindergarten that she hopes I will get back with.
I told her that it's hard. Most of my friends are married with a few kids and he's one of them. The last time we all partied together was a New Years eve maybe 6 or so years ago. Most depressing night of my life. All the married couples and soon to be married couples, even some of the kids there. I was the only single one there. Awkward as hell. They made me feel welcome for sure, but I'd never been so self conscious around people who were my friends in my entire life. I've spent every New Years Eve alone since then.
I love being single 99% of the time, but that 1% of the time really sucks.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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