In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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Why do you feel the need to constantly lie, THUGGER?
The insane never-Trumpers will be driven even more insane in the wash/rinse/spin/repeat/ cycle they mistake for reality.
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Originally posted by rue:
Moving. What a chore! I can't think of any handy good way to do it.
But I think you need boxes for the stuff you have to unpack first which are things you use every day: boxed food you eat often like cereal; 1 set of everday pots, pans, dishes, silverware, dish terg and sponges; a change of clothes, bathroom supplies, a few towels and washclothes, and one set of linens. And some things automatically sort themselves like clothes in a closet and clothes in a dresser.
OTOH you may or may not have a linen closet/ pantry/ built-in bookshelves/ desk/ in your new/ old place, so it makes no sense to me to be carefully organizing everything by one set of organization. Just put it all in boxes and sort it when you get there according to the rooms, closets and storage spaces in the new place. One family I know used the extra clothes and linens to pack the fragile stuff. :)
Rue, that's your sock puppet isn't it kiki. Oh no, nothing about gardens here. Oh well..
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Originally posted by 1kiki:
I know that when it's cold I crave thick, hearty soups. I make a phenomenal, rich, tasty minestrone if I say so myself!
Not about anything, but my cat ... sigh. He got out AGAIN today. Fortunately I was able to round him up pretty quickly across the street before he scampered up the hill into the undeveloped wild part. I shook a bag of treats and he came sidling over. The last time he did this, I looked and looked. That wasn't the first time he got out, but every time before that I was able to retrieve him after an hour or 2. The last time I looked for 5 hours. I thought he was gone for good, irretrievably lost, or maybe quietly eaten, or hurt ... Then finally around 2AM I went to the internet and looked up 'how to find a lost cat' and that's where I found the 'bag of treats' tip. Yanno, go around with that bag of treats shaking it so they can hear the treats rattling inside. Which is how I got him back in the house at 2:30AM.
This neighborhood is NOT friendly to indoor / outdoor cats. Out of the 5 I had previous to Einstein (he's a ridiculously smart cat, he can open every single interior door in the house), 2 were eaten by coyotes, and one was run over by a car. As much as he wants to go o.u.t. it's not going to happen if I can help it.
He is HUGE. I'm 5'7" and when he stretches up to reach for my attention, his front paws come just below my chest. He sleeps in a dog bed and fills it. And he's STRONG. I mention this because he recently tore out a window screen. THIS time around, he pushed the damn window open before he hopped out through the previously torn screen. So now I have to keep it completely closed - AND LOCKED.
Also, I had $$ecurity $$creen doors put in because I knew for a fact he would just rip through a regular one.
I hope he appreciates all I go through for him! (Just kidding. He's a cat. But despite being feral with pretty much everyone else, he's deeply attached to me. So somewhere along the line, what I do counts for something with him.)
Shit, I can't get help but trip over posts by you that have nothing to do with gardens. Get the point yet comrade?
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Do not feed the troll in this thread. He does a fine enough job derailing everything else.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Do not feed the troll in this thread. He does a fine enough job derailing everything else.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
6IXSTRINGJACK
Do not feed the troll in this thread. He does a fine enough job derailing everything else.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Finally got down into the crawl to clean it up today after doing nothing but sleeping yesterday. Kind of reversed which days I wanted to do it because of the weather, but it really didn't get that cold in my house despite it getting into the low 30's last night.
That being said, I only did half of it today. I think there's a limit these days to how much gross I can handle. I'm not using bleach either, so it's taking a lot longer to clean everything, although I didn't set my lungs on fire this time.
When I'm done, I'm going to spray that ortho safe-for-indoors stuff everywhere around the perimeter. Between that and all the spraying I've been doing outside, hopefully this will keep about 95% of any bugs that get into my house from that crawlspace, the bane of my assistance. That should also keep the visqueen down their cleaner for a much longer time. From across the place, it looks as though it got "dirty" with dirt, but upon closer inspection it would seem that it was just the spiders keeping the rif-raff out, and the debris that follows after around 4 or 5 years.
It's not sparkly white this time, but what I have finished still looks 1000% better than it did.
In the mean time, I've been checking the peremiter wood and nothing looks to be "munched" on by anything. There's also zero mold down there except for on the back of some insulation that was up against the drain pipe going out of the house. Not exactly sure what caused that, but I do know a few years after I cleaned it up down there last time the pump fell out of position and was spraying water everywhere. I'm going to have to cut that insulation out, replace it and monitor the situation going forward to see if it happens again.
Tomorrow and Monday still in the 50's. Tuesday in the mid 60's. After that it's a mix of mid 50's to damn near 70 for about a week then back into the 50's. Going to put my to-do list together for what I want done outside before it really gets cold. Hopefully my friend comes on Monday night and we can at least start putting the porch floor back in as well as a new screen door. Once we get that done I'm going to get serious about putting out my job apps and hopefully work out a deal somewhere to work weekends so I can keep working on my house full time too.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Never thought I'd say it, but I think the raccoons did me a favor...
It's too early for me to put my heat on around here, but I figured I'd better at least test that everything is working right today. I was in mid cycle where the blower starts going off when I came in from getting the mail, and I realize while going through it that I'm getting a LARGE amount of hot air being forced down directly on my head. The ceiling vent above the front door was putting out air about 50 times more powerful than it ever has since I've lived here.
So I went around and realized that this is the only vent doing so, and the other 5 are hardly putting out anything by comparison (which is the output that it usually put out).
I'm not sure if I mentioned the discovery I made when I had the racoon problem, but the reason I heard them against the vents so often, doing whatever it was they were doing, is because I don't actually have any legit duct work for that ceiling system. It's just one length of actual ducts, and from there are attached 6 insulated "snakes" that make their way to the various ceiling vents.
So without a way of blowing them out, I just went upstairs and wherever I could I knocked them around a bunch. I also took off all of the vent covers from the ceiling and made sure they were open fully inside and banged them around from there as well, careful not to get the dust all over myself.
Whatja know? I've actually got some legit heat coming out of those vents for the first time in 8 years. 
And it smells... I'm going to try going without heat for the next few days and turn the blower on all day when it's back up in the 60's with all of my windows open to get the shit out now that it's not blocked up anymore.
I'm thinking part of this is the design of those vent covers as well as something just blocking the snakes. They are made to diffuse the heat to the sides, rather than shoot it straight down. Kinda dumb when heat rises. Also kind of dumb to willingly block up the heat so it doesn't all come out of the registers during a cycle and melts the snow off of my roof instead.
I'm going to have to see if I can find better circular vent covers for my system, but in the mean time I'm leaving them off. It's amazing being able to put my hand a foot from the floor on the lower level and feel the heat hit it from above. It's actually too hot in my bathroom now. I'm going to have to close that vent off a bit.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Well, got a couple more frames ready to be donated and cleaned out one sewing box that will be donated as well. Also finally shifted what was left in my jewellery box into my mom's. So a good afternoon after getting the laundry done as well and a bit of shopping done.
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Rain again here.
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
How does THUGGER spell Saudia (sic) Araba (sic)?
Syria.
The insane never-Trumpers will be driven even more insane in the wash/rinse/spin/repeat/ cycle they mistake for reality.
ETA: I looked though the article and EVERY SINGLE SUPPOSED SOURCE IS ANONYMOUS. And there are no links to sources. Not one.
I'd need to see something better than the NYTimes' say-so.
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