In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
POSTED BY: SIGNYM
UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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Quote:Gonna have to pass that on!!!!
Originally posted by 1KIKI:
I have to share this joke about Alaska I just saw on TV -
It's so cold I saw my lawyer with his hands in his own pockets.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
Happy New Year, WISHY. I edited out your psychopathic screed!
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So at this end I did finally get to sell the car to our sometime gardener for real cheap. I hope it's useful to him, and our driveway is cleared out. Also finally sprayed the weeds with that concentrate that you suggested, SIX. Will have to check to see how effective it is over the next few days. But yanno, I'm getting a hankering to get one of those weed torch-type things. With the recent rains this would be the perfect time to use it.
You have to read some of the reviews. they're a hoot!!! Here's my favorite
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So I asked unto the shopping lord Amazon. "Alexa, please grant my wish to eradicate the unstoppable nemesis crabgrass in my 1/4 acre rock garden which has been a plague on my back and chemical supply for years". Alexa in all her glory bequethed onto my humble being the actual finger of death incarnate.
With whistling, hissing, flame throwing glee the finger vanquished all foes (along with a few pine shrubs who were accidental victims of the wrath) in a fiery blaze of glory. In what felt like an instant, hours upon hours of weed pulling work was eradicated as I laughed manically and my neighbors ran inside in fear.
Thank you my dear Alexa for granting me this wish and providing me with the funnest (and admitedly most frightening) tool in my arsenal of weed destroying troopers. I have roasted an entire bag of marshmellows in your honor, [and] even though it only took 5 seconds my sacrifice was genuine.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
Happy New Year, WISHY. I edited out your psychopathic screed!
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Wow, that door trim looks great! I think that those three doors all together would be tricky, and (if I'm interpreting the picture properly) especially where two trims meet.
Nice work!!
Thanks!
It's a pretty hard configuration to try to explain with just a picture. I've edited them to try though. :)
It was tricky as hell. None of the single things that I did themselves were tough, but putting them all together was a chore. Was trying to cut, place, alter and eventually affix 5 different awkward pieces together in a way that wasn't going to look like garbage when it was done.
I can't believe that was the door configuration that I didn't ruin any pieces on. I got cocky after that though and didn't take the time I needed to for the entry into the big bedroom that only required altering the top casing to fit the two side pieces I needed to narrow down and I cut that one too short.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
So at this end I did finally get to sell the car to our sometime gardener for real cheap. I hope it's useful to him, and our driveway is cleared out. Also finally sprayed the weeds with that concentrate that you suggested, SIX. Will have to check to see how effective it is over the next few days.
Give it a few days. It worked really quick for me, but being the terrible cook that I am I'm not one for measuring stuff. That concentrate was so cheap there is no way in hell I'm getting as many gallons out of it that the bottle states. I may have used quite a bit more in a gallon of water than you did if you actually followed the instructions.
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But yanno, I'm getting a hankering to get one of those weed torch-type things. With the recent rains this would be the perfect time to use it.
Ye gads! Be careful! California and fire doesn't mix, don'tcha know?
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You have to read some of the reviews. they're a hoot!!! Here's my favoriteQuote:
So I asked unto the shopping lord Amazon. "Alexa, please grant my wish to eradicate the unstoppable nemesis crabgrass in my 1/4 acre rock garden which has been a plague on my back and chemical supply for years". Alexa in all her glory bequethed onto my humble being the actual finger of death incarnate.
With whistling, hissing, flame throwing glee the finger vanquished all foes (along with a few pine shrubs who were accidental victims of the wrath) in a fiery blaze of glory. In what felt like an instant, hours upon hours of weed pulling work was eradicated as I laughed manically and my neighbors ran inside in fear.
Thank you my dear Alexa for granting me this wish and providing me with the funnest (and admitedly most frightening) tool in my arsenal of weed destroying troopers. I have roasted an entire bag of marshmellows in your honor, [and] even though it only took 5 seconds my sacrifice was genuine.
lol. Love the silly Amazon reviews. That was a good one.
I'm sure I'd never be able to find it now, but my favorite Amazon review was about a gallon of milk, back in the late 2000's. Maybe it would actually get to your door and be safe to drink now that Amazon has their own delivery trucks and distribution centers all over the planet, but really... who's going to order a gallon of milk in the mail?
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Soggy, soggy Sunday here. Good thing I don't have to go outside today.
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Hey Jack
I too have doors and windows with placements (like right next to interior walls) that make fitting trim and baseboards tricky! So I've seen people have to fudge the fitting, sometimes better sometimes not so well. Your work looks terrific! If you think you might enjoy it, maybe you could do work as an interior trim carpenter?
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Hey Brenda - I might have mentioned one of my favorite scifi authors (LeGuinn) here and there. She lived in Portland, Oregon and once wrote about having to get used to being more or less continuously damp. I always wondered about that. It seems like if one's place is warm enough, one might actually dry off at home. That's why I keep mentioning how toasty your new place seems like it is, especially compared to your old one that seemed both damp AND chilly.
Are you able to get dry at home?
Anyway, I hope you stay warm and dry!
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Hey Signy
I think I'm going to go for either a stir fry or a shrimp curry.
As for my cat ... he's not the friendliest cat in the world. Despite the fact that I adopted him at quite an early age, there are still things about him that are kind of feral. He can't stand to be picked up and held, for example, and he knows when I'm 'hunting' him to do that. He's really avoidant of strangers. It was YEARS before I was able to coax a purr out of him. That makes caring for him - administering medicine for example - tedious and frustrating.
But he's an indoor-only cat so it's easy for me to keep track of him. And he comes to me for comfort and warmth when he's not feeling well.
I've been feeding him high calorie nutritional supplement so he hasn't lost weight. The trick will be to keep his guts clear even though they're not working, while I'm waiting for the medicine to come in. That may mean another trip or two to the dreaded vet in the next week.
We'll see. I'm going to make sure he gets his best shot at a long and healthy life.
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
Hey Brenda - I might have mentioned one of my favorite scifi authors (LeGuinn) here and there. She lived in Portland, Oregon and once wrote about having to get used to being more or less continuously damp. I always wondered about that. It seems like if one's place is warm enough, one might actually dry off at home. That's why I keep mentioning how toasty your new place seems like it is, especially compared to your old one that seemed both damp AND chilly.
Are you able to get dry at home?
Anyway, I hope you stay warm and dry!
She is quite correct. If you live on the West coast starting from the Lower Mainland of BC down to Northern California, yup it is a soggy old time.
I am able to stay nice and toasty and dry in my new home.
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
Hey Jack
I too have doors and windows with placements (like right next to interior walls) that make fitting trim and baseboards tricky! So I've seen people have to fudge the fitting, sometimes better sometimes not so well. Your work looks terrific! If you think you might enjoy it, maybe you could do work as an interior trim carpenter?
Thanks. :)
I wonder what kind of money is in it. Without rebates or the CC discount, even at an insane price on clearanced out trim it's costing me around $420 for everything I still needed in my house. (Everything but three doors that were already done on the first floor and the baseboard in the living room, and rubber/vinyl baseboard I will eventually buy for the basement). Had I paid full price for everything, that would have been more along the lines of $1,100-$1,300 just for the wood, and that doesn't included primer, paint and other supplies or any doors.
I'm sure I'd get quicker at it over time if I did it frequently, and I'd definately buy a shiny new miter saw that would make easier adjustments and have it mounted properly on something so I wasn't kneeling on a cold concrete floor... But in the mean time I'd have to be making at least as much as I could make working at the local grocery store overnight. I'm not sure how fesable that would be at the speed I do this now. I haven't exactly been logging my hours here, but with all the sanding and painting with the door restorations I'm a good 9 days work into this now and once I build the windows and finish the baseboards I still have to caulk everything and spackle and sand down the nail holes before a final coat of paint goes on it all.
It would look great if I was doing something like this for somebody else, but that would be an extremely pricey job for somebody with the amount of hours I'd be racking up, even if I were only charging them around $10/hr.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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