In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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And you'll be settled in, all warm, cozy, and dry, in a peaceful, private place. 
What a great start to 2020.
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Out and about, running errands and in general observing the aftermath of the cold storm that came thru a couple of days ago. The river that I was driving by was full, some rainwater escaped the various impoundments and fled to the ocean,
More impressively, the mountains are covered with snow, from their peaks ( about 10,000 feet at the highest) to about 6,500 feet. I hadn't realized it but both passes thru the mountains (the Tejon pass to the northwest, the Cajon pass to the northeast) were closed for over a day because of the snow. But you just can't believe what it looks like. With drifts so far down, they look like a forbidding wall of snow. Unbelievable. Every now and again, nature reminds me how fierce she is.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
I'd nuke a BILLION PEOPLE if it would save the other 7 billion from living under Putin. Hell, I might go all the way to the last 100 people on Earth to keep this planet from being under fascist rule.- WISHIMAY
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
And you'll be settled in, all warm, cozy, and dry, in a peaceful, private place.
Yes, I am and that is a good feeling. But I still have to go out and do a couple of things on this slightly soggy Saturday.
Need some lamb chops for my New Years dinner. Gotta see if I can find any.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Out and about, running errands and in general observing the aftermath of the cold storm that came thru a couple of days ago. The river that I was driving by was full, some rainwater escaped the various impoundments and fled to the ocean,
More impressively, the mountains are covered with snow, from their peaks ( about 10,000 feet at the highest) to about 6,500 feet. I hadn't realized it but both passes thru the mountains (the Tejon pass to the northwest, the Cajon pass to the northeast) were closed for over a day because of the snow. But you just can't believe what it looks like. With drifts so far down, they look like a forbidding wall of snow. Unbelievable. Every now and again, nature reminds me how fierce she is.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
I'd nuke a BILLION PEOPLE if it would save the other 7 billion from living under Putin. Hell, I might go all the way to the last 100 people on Earth to keep this planet from being under fascist rule.- WISHIMAY
See sights like that up here in the mountains every winter pretty well. Sometimes the passes between Alberta and BC are closed because of the snow and the risk of avalanches.
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Just found out another member of the Official Firefly Board (OB) had died. I will miss Admiral Digby.
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My brother was visiting, so I wasn't online much the last few days. It was fun getting to hang out with him again for our yearly thing here.
I've gotten about 2/3rds of the window/door casings and 4/5ths of the baseboard that I bought painted with a coat of white gloss enamel and ready to go up. I actually can't paint any more until I start getting some of this stuff up since I ran out of room to stage it.
I ended up buying a brad nailer to do the job, and boy was that a good $35 investment. I can't imagine how much time and frustration I saved with that purchase. Kind of a pain lugging my compressor in and out of the house since I only have one hose and I can't exactly have windows open to feed them through during the winter anyhow, but if I plan this all out right I should be able to keep the double work down to a minimum.
I was able to install a few of the door casings in the master bedroom while my brother was here, but there wasn't much time to do that since the thing was on order and didn't show up until late yesterday.
I'm also going to have a bit of a problem with the old miter saw that my stepdad gave me since the bevel function requires making precise adjustments every time with a square and is not by any means easy to set up. 45's for the casings are going to be easy, but cutting the 45's for the baseboard is going to be a real bitch. I'd love to just cut everything to the exact measurements I'll need first and then just do all of them with a perfect 45 set up, but I'm not that skilled and if I try doing that I know I'm bound to make incorrect cuts.
The windows are going to be a project all by themselves too. I had to rip out everything when I did them since it was all crap. They didn't even have any window sills on the 2nd floor, so I'm going to have to create those from scratch. There's a pretty good rebate sale on 8 foot lengths of 1x4 pine by me this week though, so I should be able to buy those and make them. I'll have to dig out my router and find the bits too, because I want to make fancy edges for them.
I'm going to re-use all of the doors that were up there. Both the closet doors and the bedroom/bathroom entry doors. Some of them have holes in them, but I'll just patch them and sand them down because I'm going to be painting them white to match the trim and they'll all look the same when it's done. Unfortunately, the small bedroom didn't have a door for the closet, so I'll have to see if I can find one that closely matches the same style that is used on the master bedroom closet and the linen closet in the hall. It shouldn't be too difficult since they're just flat and seem rather generic.
Going to do an inventory today and see what I still need to pick up tomorrow. Probably won't need anything except for some more nails for the new gun and the wood I'm going to use for the window framing. Unless they just happen to have a closet door that will work for me on sale now, I'll probably put that off until I find a good price on it.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
My brother was visiting, so I wasn't online much the last few days. It was fun getting to hang out with him again for our yearly thing here.
I've gotten about 2/3rds of the window/door casings and 4/5ths of the baseboard that I bought painted with a coat of white gloss enamel and ready to go up. I actually can't paint any more until I start getting some of this stuff up since I ran out of room to stage it.
I ended up buying a brad nailer to do the job, and boy was that a good $35 investment. I can't imagine how much time and frustration I saved with that purchase. Kind of a pain lugging my compressor in and out of the house since I only have one hose and I can't exactly have windows open to feed them through during the winter anyhow, but if I plan this all out right I should be able to keep the double work down to a minimum.
I was able to install a few of the door casings in the master bedroom while my brother was here, but there wasn't much time to do that since the thing was on order and didn't show up until late yesterday.
I'm also going to have a bit of a problem with the old miter saw that my stepdad gave me since the bevel function requires making precise adjustments every time with a square and is not by any means easy to set up. 45's for the casings are going to be easy, but cutting the 45's for the baseboard is going to be a real bitch. I'd love to just cut everything to the exact measurements I'll need first and then just do all of them with a perfect 45 set up, but I'm not that skilled and if I try doing that I know I'm bound to make incorrect cuts.
The windows are going to be a project all by themselves too. I had to rip out everything when I did them since it was all crap. They didn't even have any window sills on the 2nd floor, so I'm going to have to create those from scratch. There's a pretty good rebate sale on 8 foot lengths of 1x4 pine by me this week though, so I should be able to buy those and make them. I'll have to dig out my router and find the bits too, because I want to make fancy edges for them.
I'm going to re-use all of the doors that were up there. Both the closet doors and the bedroom/bathroom entry doors. Some of them have holes in them, but I'll just patch them and sand them down because I'm going to be painting them white to match the trim and they'll all look the same when it's done. Unfortunately, the small bedroom didn't have a door for the closet, so I'll have to see if I can find one that closely matches the same style that is used on the master bedroom closet and the linen closet in the hall. It shouldn't be too difficult since they're just flat and seem rather generic.
Going to do an inventory today and see what I still need to pick up tomorrow. Probably won't need anything except for some more nails for the new gun and the wood I'm going to use for the window framing. Unless they just happen to have a closet door that will work for me on sale now, I'll probably put that off until I find a good price on it.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Glad you got to see your brother Jack.
I have to see if I can find some shelving for some small things. I bought something over the summer but I see it is starting to fall apart and if it falls. Well, some of things on it are breakable. So I need to see if I can find anything around here or in the next city over.
Also have to try and replace my video cabinet as I just realized how broke that is.
If its not one thing its another.
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Hey SIX, welcome back! Glad that you got a chance to see your brother; it's nice seeing family for Christmas!
Jiminy, you're sure managing to keep busy! Are you SURE you don't want to come over, enjoy our weather and do some interior trim??? I think you're a perfectionist, and I'll be willing to bet a rather large sum of money that anything that you did would be vastly superior to the bozos who last worked on this house (no, not hubby. He's a perfectionist too.)
In less than 10 days I have got 190 miles out of 200 required for a free smog recheck and for sure I'll clock that in once I see the dentist tomorrow. So, mail out bill payments and one LAST gift(!), dentist, smog check (fingers crossed that it passes) and general recycling (dear daughter's project) and film recycling, and some sprinkler system parts. And with that cleared away I can get to a couple of the more irritating problems that came in the mail just before Xmas ... misbilling by three different doctor's offices and a Medicare problem. I think I hate dealing with hospital and insurance bureaucracies about as much I hate doing my own taxes. It's all pretty nonsensical and ridiculously complicated!
I'll be posting another general Happy New Year, but I wanted to wish you all personally the very best of the upcoming year. May you all have a healthy, prosperous and happy New Year filled with friendship and love. 
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
I'd nuke a BILLION PEOPLE if it would save the other 7 billion from living under Putin. Hell, I might go all the way to the last 100 people on Earth to keep this planet from being under fascist rule.- WISHIMAY
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I'd love to be in warm weather right now and help you out, but I gotta keep working on the house and find a job around here.
As for the perfectionism, I'm going to do what I can here. Unfortunately, I have to work with the tools that I've got, so my ancient Craftsman miter saw is going to be the weak link in the chain. The first door that I did probably shouldn't have been the interior of the entry door to the master bedroom, because the angles aren't perfect. My brother kept saying "who gives a shit? nobody is going to notice that.", and I showed him the job that somebody did before me in the bathroom which is 10 times as bad, but it's still not perfect and I'm not a master at caulking either so I can only hope that I can do a good caulk job before a second coat of paint and it's not noticible.
I watched another video last night where a guy showed a new way he does it that is pretty amazing. It actually requires zero measuring, and just scribing the stuff to where it needs to fit after you make your top piece and install it. It will require me to use a scrap piece to change the angle slightly from a 45 for the tops of the side pieces, but if it's done right it will be the perfect height from the floor (like mine were), but it will also have a perfect 45 to both ends of the top piece too (which mine weren't).
This method will require a lot more traveling down to the basement from the 2nd floor and back, but if I get it right it will be well worth the extra effort.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Oh, hey... If you're husband's going to do some trim work in the future, he should check out these videos:
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NOTES:
VIDEO 1: This one gave me the great idea of using a 1/4" rip of plywood to make your pencil marks for the reveal on the jambs. It's a great little tool to use, and a lot easier than trying to pull out a tape and make your marks.
The guy in the second video did not use anything but his eyes to do this. It's really not all that important because in truth nobody is really going to notice if this is off a bit, but I prefer making these marks, and my point is that I'm taking what I feel is the best from two separate videos made by people that do this professionally.
VIDEO 2: This one brought up a great point that most people try to line everything up perfectly with their marks on the saw and do the cut once. He says that this is going to just be cut off anyhow, so just get close and make your first cut and then cut a few more times until you get right to your mark for the perfect cut.
One thing he did that I didn't like is he installs the top piece of the door flush with the jamb, and only has the reveals on the sides of the doors (he mentions earlier in the video that these are necessary for hinges and the doorknob catch, and that's where he eyeballs them). As perfect as his lengths and 45's are, I don't like the way this looks as much as having the reveal on the top as well. I feel that the reveal adds a layer of depth and makes the entryway look more intricate and by just covering that up on top you're losing a bit of that nice touch.
One of these days I'll try getting my photos up somewhere at a place that doesn't require registering and is also easy to upload and share with. I've got some online albums I share with family and friends, but I really don't want to give those links out. I've even got some good videos of things that I've done all summer long as well as all the stuff that I did with my generator and sump pump up there as well.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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