In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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SAD ... I hope a haircut takes care of that! At least for a few weeks!!
I have posted to Brenda that getting a bright full-spectrum light might help, if that's what you have. 20 minutes a day works, or so "they" say!
I might have to look into it. Not having a job at the moment is alright, but if I'm going to mope around all day until mid-April, that's not doing me any good. I can't justify it if I'm not always making progress on my house issues.
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
I don't envy you your winters, Jack! It gets somewhat cold here - sometimes down to below freezing - but not like where you are! Have you considered an electric blanket? Sleeping cold is a real problem and for not much cash outlay or electricity cost you could be reasonably comfortable while you sleep.
Aside from being cold at night, I think what makes me most bugnuts about real winters like what you have is the driving. And though you pay for your beautiful green summer biome with winter snow, what makes me most bugnuts is the driving in snow. I could personally can put up with the cold, but the snow makes everything that much more ... difficult.
I get SAD. It's no bueno.
I'm warm enough when I sleep. Got a lot of blankets. The problem comes with not wanting to ever leave the bed because it's so cold in the house. I put the heat up a lot more last winter and had higher bills, but I was also making a decent buck at work. Hopefully the heat is going to perform better this year after messing with the ducts a few weeks back.
Yeah... snow sucks so bad. Lots of really bad driving to work and back last year. One more reason why I hope I can get a gig working overnights on weekends at a local grocery store. It's less than a mile away from me.
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So.... I had a strange experience with my car last week when I was changing the oil. The metal washer for the drain plug was disintegrated. I don't want to blame it on the SeaFoam that I had put in there, but in the 12 years I've had that car the washer was always fine.
Unfortunately, I didn't really realize the implications of that until after I had drained the oil. There wasn't enough washer left to put back, so I had to just put the plug up there without a washer (and not tighten it too much, because like I said before I have a tenancy of breaking things by over tightening them). It's been leaking all over my cardboard in the garage since.
Got a $2 plastic plug washer from autozone today. It seems to have done the trick. I really would like to know if the SeaFoam did that or not though. Kind of leery about using it very often if that's the case.
I forgot it was trash day today too. Got my cans out before I ran errands, but they haven't picked them up yet. I'm hoping I didn't miss the pickup. They usually don't come around until 1 to 3PM. Going to be pretty angry with myself if I missed a pickup with all the stuff I still have to salt out over the next few months.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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"I have posted to Brenda that getting a bright full-spectrum light might help, if that's what you have. 20 minutes a day works, or so "they" say!"
I had one many years ago but stopped using it because 1) it was fluorescent and 2) it didn't seem to help that much (though maybe I wasn't either using it enough or consistently enough). The fluorescent bulb kind used to be poorly coated on the inside with phosphor and a LOT of UV leaked out that could wreck your eyes! Check to see if they have LED versions now, or low UV emissions.
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/seasonal-affective-diso
rder/in-depth/seasonal-affective-disorder-treatment/art-20048298
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* Is it made specifically to treat SAD? If not, it may not help your depression. Some light therapy lamps are designed for skin disorders — not for SAD. Lamps used for skin disorders primarily emit ultraviolet (UV) light and could damage your eyes if used incorrectly. Light boxes used to treat SAD should filter out most or all UV light.
* How bright is it? Light boxes produce different intensities of light. Brighter boxes will require less time to use each day, compared with dimmer boxes, to achieve the same effect. Typically the recommended intensity of light is 10,000 lux.
How much UV light does it release? Light boxes for SAD should be designed to filter out most or all UV light. Contact the manufacturer for safety information if you have questions.
* Can it cause eye damage? Some light boxes include features designed to protect the eyes. Make sure the light box filters out most or all UV light to avoid damaging your eyes. Ask your eye doctor for advice on choosing a light box if you have eye problems such as glaucoma, cataracts or eye damage from diabetes.
* Is it the style you need? Light boxes come in different shapes and sizes, with varied features. Some look like upright lamps, while others are small and rectangular. The effectiveness of a light box depends on daily use, so buy one that's convenient for you.
* Can you put it in the right location? Think about where you'll want to place your light box and what you might do during its use, such as reading. Check the manufacturer's instructions, so you receive the right amount of light at the proper distance.
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Here they give you bins for trash, but since they use trucks with "arms" to pick up the bins, anything else (requiring hand loading) requires a call to the trash pickup company and ... my oh my ... they seem to have a lot of requirements on what theywill and wont pick up! So I'm always holding my breath a little bit when I call in a special request until I see the stuff disappear.
I feel ya, SIX!
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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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So, I thought I smelled wood smoke and of course I ran to my computer and the CalFire website and google - but nothing in the area that I can see. Phew!
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Enjoy the dry you've got coming Brenda!
I will Kiki.
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Well, I told my boss that I bought myself a small Christmas tree and got almost the same sort of reaction that I got from my brother on FB. Only she didn't verbalize the "Why?" that I am sure she wanted to ask me.
People don't understand that this is the FIRST time in 10years that I have been able to do something for me.
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The place where I got my hearing aides is moving their office into another city. Seems the company is consolidating all their offices into 2 offices. One in a city across the river from me and the other office in Vancouver. What a pain!
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Quote:Oh my gosh! It's been way too long!
Originally posted by Brenda:
Well, I told my boss that I bought myself a small Christmas tree and got almost the same sort of reaction that I got from my brother on FB. Only she didn't verbalize the "Why?" that I am sure she wanted to ask me.
People don't understand that this is the FIRST time in 10years that I have been able to do something for me.
I hope your Christmas tree adds to what becomes a heartful of holiday happiness.
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Quote:Oh my gosh! It's been way too long!
Originally posted by 1KIKI:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
Well, I told my boss that I bought myself a small Christmas tree and got almost the same sort of reaction that I got from my brother on FB. Only she didn't verbalize the "Why?" that I am sure she wanted to ask me.
People don't understand that this is the FIRST time in 10years that I have been able to do something for me.
I hope your Christmas tree adds to what becomes a heartful of holiday happiness.
It has Kiki.
It will definitely make me feel better for the holidays. Something pretty to look at. I don't want any lights on it but I got some decorations and that is good.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Here they give you bins for trash, but since they use trucks with "arms" to pick up the bins, anything else (requiring hand loading) requires a call to the trash pickup company and ... my oh my ... they seem to have a lot of requirements on what theywill and wont pick up! So I'm always holding my breath a little bit when I call in a special request until I see the stuff disappear.
I feel ya, SIX!
I got it out there in time. :)
All the stuff I have these days is either small enough to fit or I can cut it down to fit. The problem right now is the weight of it all. Those patio pavers aren't light, and even beyond the two layers I put in the porch and all the ones I'm keeping for putting underneath where the gutters will eventually go to keep the divoting from happening anymore in the bare dirt, there were a ton of broken ones and ones that had bad ends or other defects that I'm throwing out. I really can only put in about 7 or 8 of them on top of whatever else I'm throwing out. I have a huge lawn, so they give me two cans, but it's still taking a very long time. Maybe 3 or 4 weeks and it will all be gone.
I also cleaned up the sticks from 2/3rds of my lawn this afternoon and filled an entire can today, so I was only able to put about 4 pavers on top of it. I didn't want to risk making it too top heavy.
Going to get the rest of the sticks from the wind storm from hell tomorrow...
But that's not exciting.
Want to know what's exciting?
I FINALLY GOT THE PORCH FLOOR IN WITH MY FRIEND TONIGHT!!!
Got some tweaks and other things to do for the two cutouts on the end that shares a wall with the shed, so those are only tacked down for now, but the floor is in and rock solid and looks totally professional. We even got the flooring for the doorway looking great.
We know what sized storm door I need now, so I have to figure out how expensive I want to go with it, and hopefully we can get that framed out and installed and get a proper threshold down there this time so this crap never happens again. :)
Other than that, just have to put my visqueen up on the louvers to keep the snow out until I install windows in the spring and get the gutters up.
Going to be re-doubling my efforts to find a job as soon as those two things are done. :)
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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