In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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Quote:It's nice to see you making progress Brenda! in your Brenda way - steadily, day by day.
Originally posted by 1KIKI:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
I have one door off that is going down into the garbage tomorrow then probably the rest of it this week.
And I hope everyone else is at least continuing to improve to good health!
I've got a small metal grocery cart that I will be using as it is full of paper recycling. So it will be killing two birds with one stone. Then I will use the grocery cart again to take the rest of it down once it is broken down more.
The brackets and screws will be donated to a thrift shop so someone else can get some use out of them.
Have to do it a bit at a time as I can't move it while it is in one piece and since I am doing it by myself. If I want it done that is what I have to do.
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Got another dresser drawer cleared out and found some shirts to donate. Have to try on the pants to see if they still fit me.
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Well, it looks like including the forecast, the first 3 weeks of February are going to be a bust for rain.
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
Well, it looks like including the forecast, the first 3 weeks of February are going to be a bust for rain.
Wish I could help as we are heading into more rain up here.
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One door and another piece of the video cabinet in the garbage as well as the paper recycling done. Also took off the other door as well.
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Well, here's a couple of things I completed!
I have a hallway where things get tracked through a lot, and end up around the house. I did put down one of those cheap entry mats you can buy at Lowe's that was 5' long and covered the hallway edge to edge, but oddly enough, it wasn't long enough, and stuff got tracked right off the end ... and still ended up around the house. So I went to Lowe's and bought similar stuff except it was a runner that they cut to length (12' in my case), and I installed it. So I THINK it'll work!
I had saved a lot of heavy duty cardboard for use as a Bermuda grass killer. That grass has so little green on it, it doesn't really have any surface for Roundup to penetrate, so I've been looking for alternate ways to do it in. And using cardboard to kill off weeds and grass is common i-net advice. But a while ago I did some research and found out that cardboard is a great! home and tempting meal both for termites! In fact, one of the ways they monitor for termites it to put heavy cardboard pieces out and check them from time to time for new infestation. So I prepared and recycled all of that cardboard. I also read that really deep sawdust is a great way to kill Bermuda grass, so that's what I'll be doing next when I work on my yard.
And I'm ALMOST dug out of the hole the flu put me in for nearly 4 weeks, in terms of regular household doings. Two or 3 days should do it.
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Quote:
Originally posted by 1KIKI:
Well, it looks like including the forecast, the first 3 weeks of February are going to be a bust for rain.
Quote:Do you have any pull with any of the gods/ spirits/ whatevers that might arrange a transfer of your rain to here? I seem to be persona non grata with it/ them at the moment.
Originally posted by Brenda:
Wish I could help as we are heading into more rain up here.
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Good to hear, both of you.
But... you're willingly housing and feeding termites, Kiki? Not sure I understand the plan here.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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No, I actually had no termites in the cardboard. I was saving it to kill grass. The idea is you lay the cardboard down in a thick layer on whatever plants you want to kill (grass, weeds ...), and let the darkness starve the plants of their food (sunlight). That's what I was GOING to do, until I read cardboard's a wonderful termite hotel with room service!
So I got rid of the cardboard and found a plan B.
What termite-killing businesses sometimes do is use cardboard pieces as bait, to check on whether or not there's termites in the area. Apparently it is that attractive to them, like Krispy Kreme is to us, that they'll be there before they'll be anywhere else.
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Oh... Okay. I misread what you said then. I got the part where you figured that out, but then I thought you were eagerly going forward with the cardboard solution and couldn't figure out exactly why that was.
Glad to hear that you don't have them. I've got enough of a problem dealing with carpenter ants and the damage they caused. If I had termites around here instead I don't think I'd even have a house anymore.
EDIT:
But wait... I did read that right....
You're going to use sawdust instead???? Termites love that shit, don't they?
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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