In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
POSTED BY: SIGNYM
UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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So... I've got kind of a weird situation with the baseboard in the hallway...
I know I mentioned that everything is extremely tight up there and I've had to actually rip the sides of several of the casings just to get them to fit. I've known about the problem I'm going to have for a while, and I know that I'll figure out a solution to this on my own, maybe with the coping saw and the files, but I was wondering if anybody has their own ideas about it too.
Probably 1/3rd of my door casings are in a position on their respective walls/corners where I'm going to actually have to butt the baseboard cuts directly on the front of them, which is not the way these casings/baseboard sets are designed to be installed. They're supposed to be installed with the baseboards butting against the sides of the casings where they are the thickest.
So in with the full casings I didn't have to rip, the baseboard will be butting up against the widest part in the corner, but that will go in at a pretty tricky angle as the widest part of the baseboard from the wall will not touch the casing anymore because of its angle/curve. with the ripped casings, that will probably be even more tricky to do.
Like I said, I think a bit of coping/filing will do the trick, and as long as it's reasonably close the caulk will join it all together and make it look great. Just wondering if anybody had any ideas that might be easier.
EDIT:
It seems my YouTube-Fu is failing me on this one. That's twice in 24 hours actually. I've got a very oddly shaped closet in the Master Bedroom that I'm trying to figure out how to maximize the space in. It's deeper on the right side than the left side by quite a bit because it was built around all of the piping that goes to the roof.
If I just hang a pole in the back part, there will be less space to hang clothes in the Master Bedroom than the smaller one, and a lot of wasted space in the front, where I could install some shelving on the left side. I'm considering possibly installing two racks in the back, with the bottom one easily removable. I'm just hanging shirts and pants in there, but if a woman has a lot of dresses the two poles aren't going to work for her.
I was also thinking of a way to put a shelf in the back with a single pole underneath it, and another shelf adjoining that going to the front of the door, and then hanging another smaller poll from that one for more additional hanging space... but that would mean that you're kind of burying the 22" of clothes you hung on the pole in the back if you fill it all up.
I know I made a mock up of this layout with the exact dimensions. If I can find it I will post it and see what you all think.
I don't want to build this closet just to suit my needs. I'd rather have some female opinions on this one. 
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Nice.
Did all the snow melt yet?
Woke up to snow this morning here. Wasn't expecting to see that. But then again, it is winter. Figures that the year that I'm not driving 35 miles round trip to work is the year where we barely get any. I'm probably jinxing myself, but we've probably only had about 5% of the snow we had last year, and the majority of that was on Halloween.
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With all the rain Sunday and into Sunday night it looks like a good portion of it has melted. I'll know more once I get out to do things and over the week when I head to work.
I would imagine so. That storm is going to be as bad as the first one for up here. Army has gone into Newfoundland to help with repairs and digging them out.
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My nightmare was telling me about not being able to breathe, an immediate problem. All of that effort moving air in and out, past the swelling and past the goo, and all of that noisy wheezing, popping, and gurgling was intruding into my dreams. But all of that woke me up and forced me to take action.
BTW, I did eventually use my rescue inhaler. I think I just kind of slid from a flu reaction to an asthma attack without noticing.
*****
OMG those dreams about your teeth, they're truly the stuff of nightmares! Obviously they reflect your deep concerns about your teeth, but quite often recurring dreams tap into deeper concerns and constructs as well. So, ASIDE from your teeth, which you consider foundational to yourself (your survival as "you", the person you see yourself as ....) is there anything else that you feel is essential for survival that you may not be attending to?
Dreams .... funny things! Mostly, they're pretty random and so I'm not much into dream interpretation ... when I remember them I can uusually track back to some weird thing that caught my attention that day, on TV or whatever. But there ARE some that do repeat, and they mean something, if you can figure out what.
Let me give you some examples of my archetypal dreams ... I have four dreams that repeat, in various guises, over the years. One is the "flying" dream, where I escape by levitating. One is a "swimming" dream, where I sink into water. One is a "skiiing" dream, involving ... skiing! And one is where I have to inspect some portion of our house (attic, crawlspace) and find it totally deficient - flimsy, shoddy costruction, termite-eaten, or whatever. They're all more-or-less related to a basic emotional reponse. The "attic" dream is my worry about not being able to provide a home ... a REAL home, not just a place to purchase a live, but a place to stay ... for the family.
But the "skiiing" dream is a little more interesting because it involved a specific event a number of years ago, when I was just learning to ski. (Still a beginning skier, btw!). Despite having climbed many tall stacks, I do have an inherent fear of falling, and it's triggered (among other things) by facing a steep slope with no protective barrier. Yanno ... like a ski slope. When I was learning to ski, I wasn't doing well because I kept wanting to lean back ... but do that, and you lose control of your skis. In a flash, it came to me that I could only ski if I ignored my instinctive reponse and actually leaned INTO my skis. It became an emotional paradigm: lean in to, and control your fears.
*****
So, these tooth dreams ... that they keep recurring means that they probably won't go away, even when your mouth is entirely taken care of. Not knowing your history, I might say that it might have something to do with a deep-seated concern about your ability to fundamentally take care of yourself, perhaps into old age? But as I discovered, these are all tied to specific events and personal moments, things only the individual would know about, so only you would be able to understand the deeper meaning (if any) behind these recurring dreams/nightmares.
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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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Oddly enough Signy, last night was my worst as well. I had a horrible dream I was wrapped up in all sorts of blankets and sheets and I was struggling to get free because I couldn't breathe. And I woke up not being able to breathe. Yeah, the wheezing, bubbling, popping, gurgling coming out of my lungs was pretty bad. But mine was more situational ... I just needed to reposition myself and do pursed-lip breathing and wheeze-to-cough airway clearing. Though it did take some discipline to not go into 'panic gasping' mode. Also I'm not 'gasping' - much - like I do with a typical asthma attack where I feel I can't get air. Overall, I'm managing.
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Gasping for air, that's what woke me up. Breathing steam calmed that down but it took a long time and finally Albuterol did the trick.
Hubby is cycling hot/ cold need to bolo secondary infection. Going to get a pulse oximeter to add to my stash of useful items. Should also get another otoscope to replace the one that dd broke. Overall I've found these items (thermometer, oximeter, otoscope, strong flashlight, sinus rinse bottle, rubbing and drinking alcohol, perx, distilled water, glycerin, ibuprofen, cough syrup, sugar free lozenges and of course Albuterol) to be very useful in my home pharmacy.
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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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I didn't want to dwell on that, but fwiw I find that scary when it happens to me. You must have nerves of steel to go through such a protracted routine just to stop gasping.
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I have a weird sleep disorder that I've been unable to diagnose online at all. I've only ever been able to put in one single search term that found a forum where somebody else mentioned having the exact same thing, but it was well over a decade ago that post was made and nobody ever answered him when he asked if anybody knew what it was.
I'll get right on the verge of sleeping, to the point that I might have already missed 15 to 20 minutes of whatever was auto playing on YouTube, and suddenly I'll get a strange and sometimes even violent sensation in my chest that makes me sit straight up. It never hurts at all afterward, but it just freaks me out. Even though it's happened for 20 years now, my body automatically does it and my mind can't stop it from happening.
When it first happened, it was always after I smoked some weed and tried sleeping, so I thought it was just the weed. Not every time I smoked, but only when I smoked. Later in life, I discovered, that any night I drank it never happened. (Not a good lesson to learn there).
But in the last few years it seems to happen even more often, and it's been even longer than I've smoked weed than I last drank. I think it's a nerves/stress issue, actually. It's probably happened at least once 80% of the nights since I got laid off. Some nights it won't stop for hours, and it could happen a dozen times over the course of about 4 or 5 hours before I can finally fall asleep without that happening.
Anybody have any clue what that might be???
BTW... I really hope you all feel better soon.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
My nightmare was telling me about not being able to breathe, an immediate problem. All of that effort moving air in and out, past the swelling and past the goo, and all of that noisy wheezing, popping, and gurgling was intruding into my dreams. But all of that woke me up and forced me to take action.
BTW, I did eventually use my rescue inhaler. I think I just kind of slid from a flu reaction to an asthma attack without noticing.
*****
OMG those dreams about your teeth, they're truly the stuff of nightmares! Obviously they reflect your deep concerns about your teeth, but quite often recurring dreams tap into deeper concerns and constructs as well. So, ASIDE from your teeth, which you consider foundational to yourself (your survival as "you", the person you see yourself as ....) is there anything else that you feel is essential for survival that you may not be attending to?
Dreams .... funny things! Mostly, they're pretty random and so I'm not much into dream interpretation ... when I remember them I can uusually track back to some weird thing that caught my attention that day, on TV or whatever. But there ARE some that do repeat, and they mean something, if you can figure out what.
Let me give you some examples of my archetypal dreams ... I have four dreams that repeat, in various guises, over the years. One is the "flying" dream, where I escape by levitating. One is a "swimming" dream, where I sink into water. One is a "skiiing" dream, involving ... skiing! And one is where I have to inspect some portion of our house (attic, crawlspace) and find it totally deficient - flimsy, shoddy costruction, termite-eaten, or whatever. They're all more-or-less related to a basic emotional reponse. The "attic" dream is my worry about not being able to provide a home ... a REAL home, not just a place to purchase a live, but a place to stay ... for the family.
But the "skiiing" dream is a little more interesting because it involved a specific event a number of years ago, when I was just learning to ski. (Still a beginning skier, btw!). Despite having climbed many tall stacks, I do have an inherent fear of falling, and it's triggered (among other things) by facing a steep slope with no protective barrier. Yanno ... like a ski slope. When I was learning to ski, I wasn't doing well because I kept wanting to lean back ... but do that, and you lose control of your skis. In a flash, it came to me that I could only ski if I ignored my instinctive reponse and actually leaned INTO my skis. It became an emotional paradigm: lean in to, and control your fears.
*****
So, these tooth dreams ... that they keep recurring means that they probably won't go away, even when your mouth is entirely taken care of. Not knowing your history, I might say that it might have something to do with a deep-seated concern about your ability to fundamentally take care of yourself, perhaps into old age? But as I discovered, these are all tied to specific events and personal moments, things only the individual would know about, so only you would be able to understand the deeper meaning (if any) behind these recurring dreams/nightmares.
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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!
Yeah... the spider dream was especially bad because of my ridiculous fear of spiders and strange insects in general. I woke up laughing about the other one though after I realized it was just a dream. I thought it was pretty funny. I've had tooth dreams so much by now that they really don't effect me anymore.
I'll have to let you know if they go away after I get my teeth taken care of. I've heard that a lot of people have them, and like you said it usually signifies some sort of stress or fear of the unknown. But in my case since they actually are literally falling out, I can't help but wo
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Oh... and any ideas about how I'm going to do those baseboards or for a female opinion about how I might build that strange-shaped closet? Since I'm intending on selling this house at some point in the relatively near future, I'd love to build it with a female in mind since the most likely future buyers are going to be a married couple with a kid or two. Everything is going to look so fantastic upstairs, and that bedroom is 15'x 15' and easily fits a huge bed with big furniture. Short of having a walk-in closet which is impossible in my house layout, I'd love to also have a closet built that will really impress the wife. 
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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