In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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Another blast of hot weather for a few days. When I got in the car to run some errands yesteray, the thermometer showed 99.
Yeah, IMHO So Cal summer weather sucks. And "summer" lasts from June thru September. When the Epilepsy Foundation used to have a family camp (weekend event) in the third week of September is was reliably hot ... like 90+. We've even had some toasty Halloweens where kids were roasting in their costumes.
Hubby got the stucco patched. So for now that means indoor work for me. Spent a large part of Thursday doing financial and legal planning for our eventual demise. Yesterday was lunch with dear daughter and running errands, so this weekend I plan on finishing that deep cleaning of her bathroom (I'm using a drill with a scrubbing brush to clean the shower. Did I mention that I still HATE grout??) and am going to wash literally everything down.
Also a local lumbermill has a sale going, so I think we're going to head out there to look at and pick out some wood for some of the projects on the list of things to do; at the top is a woodworking bench without which the other projects can't get 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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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I'm looking forward to hearing about how much nicer this winter is for you Brenda. I felt so bad about what you were going through before and helpless to do anything about it. So happy for you that you were able to finally get into a nice place.
Out to meet my friend and help on his house. Have a good one.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
It should be just fine Jack.
Have a good day with your friend. For me as it is Saturday it is laundry day unless all the machines are in use then I will flip it and do my errands for then my laundry.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I wonder BRENDA, how long were you living in that hell-hole? Because living in a dark cold unfriendly place for any length of time would be enough to make anybody sad!
But I'm so happy to think of you now in a place that can be warm and cozy and with enough room for your things so you can be reminded of who you are and can live a full life and enjoy yourself!
I know you play mahjong. Could you host some games yourself? Wouldn't THAT be fun?
I love Christmas! I especially love Xmas lights; not the big fancy overdone 100,000 light bulb display but the string of lights around the livingroom window that tells passersby that you think enough of Xmas, and of them, to put in some effort to spread Xmas cheer. I hope you put up a few lights, for yourself and for everyone else. Some day when this board is a safer place I'll tell you what that meant to me and how important it was.
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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
Sig, it was almost 6years I was living in that place.
Well, I first have to get a Christmas tree and a few decorations. Not a lot as I won't be getting a big tree. I have my Santa Claus nesting dolls, that I will put out.
My kitchen table is currently occupied with some of my writing. *L* I'm tidying up some stuff again. I usually do a little of that over supper.
But maybe in the new year. I want to get a futon for a couch.
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As I said to Jack. Laundry day today as long as there is a machine free. So I am off to see in a minute. Later peeps.
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For myself, I'm plodding along - doing stuff even though not finishing a whole lot. Because to do this I have to do that, but to do that other thing I need to do ... so every task is layers deep, it seems.
Speaking of which - it's time for me to have some motivation in a mug (coffee!) and get going.
Yesterday I picked up a window screen I had repaired / upgraded. My big, motivated cat had torn the existing screen to shreds, and I had it replaced with supposedly cat-and-dog proof screening. So I'm going to be cleaning the widow, window tracks etc and install the screen with the window locked to open only partially, and let my cat test it out at his convenience. If the new screen holds up, it'l be nice to be able to open up the window again in the eves, to help breeze the house out.
If it holds up that'll be 2 cat-proof screen doors installed and 1 cat-proof window-screen-upgrade to help the house be more livable in summer. YAY!!
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I do hope Brenda finds that being in a cozy secure and dry place, with personal amenities around, and without the stressful abusive landlady, makes this upcoming winter an enjoyable one.
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
I do hope Brenda finds that being in a cozy secure and dry place, with personal amenities around, and without the stressful abusive landlady, makes this upcoming winter an enjoyable one.
I hope so too Kiki.
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Originally posted by Brenda:
I want to get a futon for a couch.
I've got two of them now, and they're my only couches. Never going back to a regular couch again. It's SO easy to clean under and around.
If you plan on sleeping on it though, spring some extra cash for a good one. I thought I'd made a horrible mistake throwing out the L-shaped couch along with both of my other couches before giving my first futon a good week of sleep, and I was really hurting in between work shifts. My brother had an excellent one that he'd been trying to get me to take for over a year though and he brought it over and I sleep like a baby on it.
Going to keep the old one too for now though. It's the only thing in my small bedroom and it will be nice to put out in the porch when it's finished.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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For myself, I'm plodding along - doing stuff even though not finishing a whole lot. Because to do this I have to do that, but to do that other thing I need to do ... so every task is layers deep, it seems.
I'm telling you Kiki, once you de-clutter and organize that starts becoming a thing of the past.
I'm still not quite there yet, but it's only a matter of time. In the mean time though, I can't stress enough how nice it is to be able to find nearly everything I need and know exactly where it is in my mind without having to look all over for it. Once I get the garage squared away and I have all of my tools organized I'll hopefully never have to get one thing done before I can get to other things again.
Well... of course there's the porch too. Still some big things that need doing like jacking up the front porch overhang and putting gutters up... possibly putting brand new windows on the porch too. But I can't do any of that until the foundation looks good from the outside and the floor is installed. Now that the hoard is gone and the house is clean, I could care less if the city wants to take a peek at things once the porch is buttoned up.
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Yesterday I picked up a window screen I had repaired / upgraded. My big, motivated cat had torn the existing screen to shreds, and I had it replaced with supposedly cat-and-dog proof screening. So I'm going to be cleaning the widow, window tracks etc and install the screen with the window locked to open only partially, and let my cat test it out at his convenience. If the new screen holds up, it'l be nice to be able to open up the window again in the eves, to help breeze the house out.
If it holds up that'll be 2 cat-proof screen doors installed and 1 cat-proof window-screen-upgrade to help the house be more livable in summer. YAY!!
Hope it works out for you. Must be nice to have problems created by animals that you love. All I've got around here making hell in my life are racoons, moles and an army of ants.
Got a bit of a window conundrum to solve myself. The crap windows on my porch can hardly be called windows. They're basically those old '70's/'80's aluminum tracks and single pane glass that were just screwed into the framing. Now that I'm repairing the huge amount of neglegence damage I allowed to happen over the years to try to get everything water tight, I noticed that one window to the right of my porch door is lower than the other two. To compensate for this, the sill had been built up in an attempt to grade it away from the house by one of the previous owners. That's all fine and dandy... at least until it snows and it builds up in there.
This porch structure has been taking in water from day one after it was built, at least in that spot. I'm sure once I go around the whole thing I'll find other problems too. I'm thinking of just caulking the entire valley behind the sill and grading that out as well. It will seal the window permanently in place, but I can't think of any other way to do this.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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We had an awesome day at my buds house. His son came with us in the morning and later on even his old man was working with us too. It has been at least a decade since I worked with him, and I thought it was really cool to be working with 3 generations of his family together.
We got all of his windows painted on the outside that hadn't been done yet. The terracotta is all finished as well. My friend ended up bailing on a B-day party for another friend of his that I thought was really going to cut our day short and we ended up working till sun down.
And I learned something new that I'm going to be doing to my house, hopefully before the first snowfall. It's WAY cheaper than I thought it would be too. We re-surfaced the blacktop of the driveway. It's only 10 bucks for a 5 gallon bucket, and maybe 10 bucks for the squeegee tool. I could probably do two coats on mine for about 80 bucks after patching a few really bad spots and make the place look awesome from the street. It will be nice not to ever have to be the only asshole on the block who has to weed his driveway anymore too.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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