In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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Quote:Boy, if you can replicate that, that would be great! Does the furniture showroom have assembled models you can try out? (Not sure about IKEA since we don't have any nearby) That way you can test it for for both sitting and sleeping comfort.
Meanwhike
BRENDA, Im not sure about the configuration of most futons, but based on my experience with our sofa, it will be hard to find a futon )or any furniture) that will do double-duty as both a "sitting" place (for visitors) and a "sleeping" place. Our sofas for example, they're wonderful to sleep in, but they're so deep (front to back) and may legs are relatively so short that my knees can't reach the front of the couch at the same time that my back rests on the backrest, so either my legs stick out uncomfortably or my back suffers. Plus the sofas are too tall, so my feet can't reach the floor. I usualy solve that problem by lying down on the loveseat. Dear daughter tuck her legs up, only hubby is comfortable sitting. The answer to that is to make sure that the futon is both low enough and narrow enough for comfortable seating, or to get footrests for all potential visitors, as well as for yourself. Or put pillows at the backrest so that people can rest their backs against it and still have their knees able to reach the edge.- SIGNY
SIG, the futon my mom had was great for sleeping and sitting on for me and her. So, I am hoping to replicate that in a lower cost model. I'll keep the trash can for putting my feet up on as I have a coffee table for remotes and such.
I am going to be soggy today.
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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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Quote:Boy, if you can replicate that, that would be great! Does the furniture showroom have assembled models you can try out? (Not sure about IKEA since we don't have any nearby) That way you can test it for for both sitting and sleeping comfort.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:
Meanwhike
BRENDA, Im not sure about the configuration of most futons, but based on my experience with our sofa, it will be hard to find a futon )or any furniture) that will do double-duty as both a "sitting" place (for visitors) and a "sleeping" place. Our sofas for example, they're wonderful to sleep in, but they're so deep (front to back) and may legs are relatively so short that my knees can't reach the front of the couch at the same time that my back rests on the backrest, so either my legs stick out uncomfortably or my back suffers. Plus the sofas are too tall, so my feet can't reach the floor. I usualy solve that problem by lying down on the loveseat. Dear daughter tuck her legs up, only hubby is comfortable sitting. The answer to that is to make sure that the futon is both low enough and narrow enough for comfortable seating, or to get footrests for all potential visitors, as well as for yourself. Or put pillows at the backrest so that people can rest their backs against it and still have their knees able to reach the edge.- SIGNY
SIG, the futon my mom had was great for sleeping and sitting on for me and her. So, I am hoping to replicate that in a lower cost model. I'll keep the trash can for putting my feet up on as I have a coffee table for remotes and such.
I am going to be soggy today.
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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
As I recall from the last time I was in an IKEA store, they do have models up that you can sit on and such.
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Not a bad day today except for the wet. Managed to get a bag of things up to the Thrift store before the rain began AGAIN. Also got a duvet and a couple of pillow cases washed as well. The duvet is off my bed and the pillow cases, I found in my dad's dresser which are fine just needed a wash.
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Another great day of work. 
I started by attaching a 2"x4" to the bottom of the of all of the exposed new joists we put up, dead center. Monster job for one person, at least until I stopped being a dumbass and realized that's what my 12 ton jack is for. 
With the jack, I was able to ensure that they were all flush as well. This is now a permanent fixture, because I took the time to do everything right. Two 3" screws up through the 2x4 into each joist.
After that, I made 2"x12" cutouts to join the joists together on top of this 2x4, taking time to ensure that I got the "warp" out of them and they are straight with my torpedo level.
Three 16 penny nails into each cutout from the sides of each joist, then another two coming up from the 2x4 into each cutout. All installed at an angle.
Gorram thing is the most solid thing I've ever walked on. I can trapeze down the middle of it and bounce all around and it doesn't move a millimeter or creak at all. :)
Also, it will be extremely easy to tie a 4"x4" post or two along the center now the way that I did it.
It's a piece of art.
It would have drove my friend nuts how long I took to do it. It was about 7 hours of work.
I also picked up another box of 16 penny nails along with two boxes of 1 1/2" stainless steel joist nails and three dozen joist angles (bent solid metal pieces with two holes to tie the joists in to the outside joists).
Total overkill, but it only set me back another $34 bucks and I want this porch to be built so solid it outlasts the house proper when I'm done.
Should be able to get all of them in pretty quick tomorrow. After that, I've really got to tuck-point the outside cinder blocks and start working on finishing the windows and making sure they're water tight.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Hoping to take a backgammon game up to the thrift store tomorrow and some shopping.
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Only washing the floor left to finish cleaning bathroom, and then start moving furniture in to dear daughter's bedroom. In the process I hope to be able to separate out items to give away from items to keep.
We need to set up a "punch list" of things left to do ... but I hope to start the move-in process tomorrow.
Also doing yardwork now that the weather is cooperating. I hired someone to put in a weed barrier between our front yard and the neighbor's. and now that I have a prayer of eradicating the Bermuda grass I've been digging it up square foot by square foot, also digging up the annuals (cosmos, CA poppies) along with it because there's no way to keep the annuals and dig up the grass. Also putting weed suppressant (corn gluten) into the soil which is supposed to suppress weed seeds from developing roots when they sprout, and the parts I can't dig up I'm going to spray. I have some low spots so I'm going to hire someone to help me drag dirt over from the neighbor's yard (he's offered free dirt) and then to bring in a truck bed full of mulch. And then I have to decide what to plant! My visualization skills are so poor ... every planting is a surprise howit turns out. Sometimes it's a happy surprise and sometimes not so much! I do best when I don't try to imagine too much and just go by plant characteristics and a utilitarian planting plan (narrow evergreen trees for shade along property lines, spreading trees for shade center of lawn; rocks, bunch grasses and low forbs/groundcover for the rest of the yard)
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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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For me - I'm still whacking through layers of details of layers of details. And I was trying to keep track of all the things that need doing, that I was going past on my way to doing something else, but I ended up with, no joke, lists of lists ... of lists. But it sounds like you're close enough to the end where you could profitably write it down. Do you have a clipboard? Or a pad of paper with a sturdy back? Or a spare whiteboard? It might be helpful to write things down in one place as you see them / think of them.
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Man... I'm in some pain today. Half the day gone and I haven't gotten anything done.
I took a real bad fall yesterday. When my friend left after we got the joists up, he had set up a bunch of board cutouts across them by the screen door to span across to the back door of the house. At one point, I needed a 2x12 that was about 4 feet long and in the middle of those boards, so I had re-arranged things.
I neglected to carefully place it, and by the screen door, the new board I had in the middle wasn't extended to a joist right in front of it, but it was hanging just short of it by about 2".
Gravity decided to team up with my stupidity as I walked on it, it see-sawed on me, and I did my best not to get injured but it was pretty much a lost cause. My left leg fell through, and my body kind of twisted. I hurt my right knee pretty bad and fell hard on my left arm right in between my shoulder and my elbow.
It hurt yesterday, but I was able to power through it and finish the task at hand. I knew I was going to be hurting today. I wasn't wrong.
Oh well. I'm not dying or anything. Hopefully I can get focused and salvage the rest of the day.
I'd really love it if I could get motivated to at least do the tuck-pointing on the outside of the cinder blocks. That trench has been unfilled far longer than I can really justify. I just hate masonry work.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Jack
Oh dear. I hope you feel better soon!
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Hey SIX do you think the damage is limited to bruising, or do you feel like something got twisted along the way? Any big swelling?
Anyway a bag of frozen vegetables can be helpful in keeping the bruising and/or swelling down. I sure hope it's nothing more complicated than bruising tho! Twisted, wrenched joints can take a while to get better!
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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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