In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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Well went to the September birthday party at the centre and was bored for 2hours. Not doing that again.
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What is that?
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Oh SIX, so sorry to hear about your poison ivy/oak reaction. I had a neighbor wgo fell into some while biking, it only touched his forearm but wound up blistering most of his arm. I never knew it could spread like that!
I've had very good experience with 5% lidocaine ointment. Unfortunately it's Rx not OTC I guess thye worry about people using too much and it being absorbed thru the skin, apparently it has pretty consequential effect on cardiac output, but maybe the clinic will Rx you some. They also make lidocaine cream, same 5% but not as effective (IMHO) but you can buy it from a drugstore. Dear daughter swears by benadryl gel.
I hope you don't go too crazy. Steroids can kinda pep you up and make you feel pretty good until you wean offa them. Let us know how you're doing day-to-day.
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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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SIX, does your friend have a smart phone? Do you?
I've found it very useful for those "You just have to see it" questions to take pictures and send them. Or maybe camera and email?
Another thing you could try is just going to youtube and checking out "window flashing" or "window waterproofing" or even window installation. I learned a lot from them, and even if your situation doesn't match entirely you might get some useful tips. The best tips that I got were from people who did stucco repair ... I know that might sound stupid but they had info on how to preserve whatever waterproofing envelope was there before and mate your repair to the old stuff.
or heck, just post photo links here, closeups, so we can't ID your house. I'd do my very best to come up with a good solution to your problem. But I believe that you can figure it out knowing that they're so ghetto to begin with and that you might be replacing them anyway, the only thing you need to worry about is coming up with something that works because they'll never be up to "code" anyway.
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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 SIGNYM:
Oh SIX, so sorry to hear about your poison ivy/oak reaction. I had a neighbor wgo fell into some while biking, it only touched his forearm but wound up blistering most of his arm. I never knew it could spread like that!
I've had very good experience with 5% lidocaine ointment. Unfortunately it's Rx not OTC I guess thye worry about people using too much and it being absorbed thru the skin, apparently it has pretty consequential effect on cardiac output, but maybe the clinic will Rx you some. They also make lidocaine cream, same 5% but not as effective (IMHO) but you can buy it from a drugstore. Dear daughter swears by benadryl gel.
I hope you don't go too crazy. Steroids can kinda pep you up and make you feel pretty good until you wean offa them. Let us know how you're doing day-to-day.
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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
Well... reading online, they say it won't spread. That is, the rash and broken blisters are not contagious (wish I knew that when I self quarantined the last month of summer because I thought anybody I touched would get it).
However, I have read that having the oil under your fingernails will easily spread the oil. After I read that, I quickly clipped my nails real good and did another thorough wash of my hands last night (I was, after all, doing this yard work without gloves and did a lot of digging around that stump with my bare hands. Woke up this morning and so far so good (no more new bumps).
Now I did read on one website that if you get the oil in your bloodstream that your blood will work against you and carry it all over your body. I don't know how much credence to give that though because why don't all the websites say that?
But when I was a kid, I really couldn't tell you what happened. I was at a forest party and it was the third time I drank. Between having no actual recollection of that night other than the lie I told my parents about scratching my back while taking a tumble off the path in the forest preserve while rollerblading, I honestly couldn't tell you how I got a deep gouge on my back where the blisters originated before I got them literally everywhere. Maybe I was making out with a poisonous oak tree or something.
The welts I have right now are seriously bad itchy, but nothing I can't deal with if this is all I have to look forward to. I was really worried about it spreading to my face yesterday. When I was 16 or 17 it all healed nicely. Seems if I pop a zit these days I get a scar. I really didn't want to find out what the aftermath of a facefull of poison ivy was going to do to my good looks. :)
Fingers crossed. It's been over 12 hours since I noticed anything new pop up.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
What is that?
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Who you talking to SIX?
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OH, btw Brenda. I don't know if you're a people-person. I'm not. I think if I as at that party - which I imagine as a get-together of mostly strangers trying to relate to each other - it would have been boring at best, but probably excruciating. I hope there were no speeches.
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
OH, btw Brenda. I don't know if you're a people-person. I'm not. I think if I as at that party - which I imagine as a get-together of mostly strangers trying to relate to each other - it would have been boring at best, but probably excruciating. I hope there were no speeches.
No, I'm not a people-person. I went because I wanted something different to do. There was one table full of people who knew each other and few others who knew other people there. Me, I think I ran into 1 person I knew but she didn't speak to me all evening. The music was nothing interesting and there was just a bit of speechifying and I couldn't win any of the prizes being given away.
So, a complete waste of 2hours. Coulda stayed home and watched repeats of M*A*S*H.
Like I said not doing it again.
And on the subject of not people, I have a hard time dealing sometimes with the people I play mah jong with.
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Originally posted by Brenda:Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
What is that?
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Who you talking to SIX?
I was talking to you. :)
But I see it was a music festival. Sorry you didn't have a good time. :(
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
SIX, does your friend have a smart phone? Do you?
I've found it very useful for those "You just have to see it" questions to take pictures and send them. Or maybe camera and email?
I don't. But I have a tablet. He does.
Funny you should mention it. Not only did I use it today, but I took down the entire wall of fake windows and the paneling. There was another layer of plywood underneath it that I have yet to take off to expose the studs underneath and see if they have maintained their integrity.
My friend was shocked to see what I was talking about. They built the damned windows inside the room, and these shitty slats/louvers that keep the sunlight out are where windows should be framed out.
Now there's no guesswork. There's no fake windows. I'm going to seal that up with heavy plastic and make it watertight until it's time to frame out legit windows and have them installed. I can probably put real windows including a new screen door in for around $1,200 to $1,400 bucks and instantly raise the value of my home by $5,000 on curb appeal alone.
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Another thing you could try is just going to youtube and checking out "window flashing" or "window waterproofing" or even window installation. I learned a lot from them, and even if your situation doesn't match entirely you might get some useful tips. The best tips that I got were from people who did stucco repair ... I know that might sound stupid but they had info on how to preserve whatever waterproofing envelope was there before and mate your repair to the old stuff.
There is no situation in the world that matches mine here lol. This porch was built by idiots for idiots. It becomes more and more obvious that somebody did some major "repair" work to all of it at some point and they just made the situation even worse.
I'm going to rip all the shit out at some point and it's going to be built right and watertight. I'm done dicking around and wasting time thinking. I know what I'm going to do now.
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or heck, just post photo links here, closeups, so we can't ID your house. I'd do my very best to come up with a good solution to your problem. But I believe that you can figure it out knowing that they're so ghetto to begin with and that you might be replacing them anyway, the only thing you need to worry about is coming up with something that works because they'll never be up to "code" anyway.
I think I might try to start getting pictures up somewhere that I can't be doxxed tomorrow. It's supposed to thunderstorm all day long, so other than removing that plywood inside to reveal the wall framing under the louvers, all I'm really going to be doing is monitoring the work I've done for any leaks while the storms are going on.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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