In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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Originally posted by Brenda:Quote:Very nice.
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Well after a little more heat on lower back and right hip, I was able to stretch my back and legs this morning while lying in bed. Think I am on the mend from what I did to myself on Wednesday.
It is and because of that and a nice hot shower, I am able to get and down from my computer chair without too much grunting and groaning. Also no cussing.
I know the feeling!!!!
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Funny story, SIX! Just remember, when all else fails ... ammonia!
Yup. Ammonia works. I wish I had used it much sooner than I did last year. There's obvious structural damage under that side of the roof where I let them live for too long. The attic was finished, and the drywall is cracking everywhere now. I think that was from a combination of the blower motor I had installed on the overhang and whatever nightmare lies behind that drywall. Fortunately, at least for now, it doesn't seem to be making anything below the attic level break,and the roof itself seems fine since I've never seen any evidence of water making it in anywhere. But it is sad because despite all the other work I've been doing this is just one more major project that I'm going to have to eventually get around to tackling.
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Apparently we have a growing population of skunks in the neighborhood. The one I've seen around looks like a juvenile. not quite as big as an adult, with a fair bit of white. I saw either it or one of its littermates squashed on the road, apparently not streetwise. But last night the dog was whining to go out on the backyard, so I let her out and she raised such a ruckus I had to go out with a flashlight and see what was going on. THIS skunk was quite a but larger, mostly black. I had to call the dog off. There are only three things I worry about: coyotes, raccoons, and skunks. (Not that I can smell them, but she'd be so unwelcome in the house!)
Skunks suck, but I'll trade you. You don't even want to know how paranoid I've been the last few days about my house after learning that raccoons have no problems climbing trees like that, and then learning on the internet that they can survive falls of 8 stories... so literally any one of the limbs on any of my trees that aren't pointing completely away from my house would be a way for them to get back on my roof if they wanted to. I'm also now certain that the hole in my roof that I repaired was from a raccoon and not from a squirrel. Maybe one of the babies from the last litter remembered what a nice place it was until I Ammonia bombed it and wanted back in there so bad that she ate a hole in the roof to get to it. I'm just lucky I caught it early and scared her out this time before she had time to make it her home and have the babies.
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So we picked up the four pieces of 3/4" 2'X8' Baltic birch plywood, and laminated them into two 2'X8' 1 1/2" countertops. The plywood wall patch and back wall looked so ugly I primered the lower half of the back wall. (I figured I wasn't going to smooth the wall but I may as well make them a consistent color even tho hubby said it was entirely unnecessary. But I think it looks way better this way.) We oiled both sides of the countertops with tung oil, now all we have to do is wait for the paint and oil to dry so we can install thebenchtop on the brackets, and hubby will have a 16' workbench and (at this point) ten 8' shelves. If he can't figure out where to put his stuff, he has too much stuff!
Sounds nice. Hope it gets rid of the overflow.
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I think after that it's all cleaning and organizing, then bring the bandsaw back into operation and he'll be all set.
So I'll be working on paperwork and legal stuff, and the pollinator garden again soon, I hope.
Good luck.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:I know the feeling!!!!
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:Quote:Very nice.
Originally posted by 1KIKI:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
Well after a little more heat on lower back and right hip, I was able to stretch my back and legs this morning while lying in bed. Think I am on the mend from what I did to myself on Wednesday.
It is and because of that and a nice hot shower, I am able to get and down from my computer chair without too much grunting and groaning. Also no cussing.
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If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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Yeah, everything seems to be working again. Thank goodness. That hurt.
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So KIKI, how's your back?
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Oh, it's reverted to being merely stiff in the AM, like usual, so it takes a few hours for me to get doing anything physical, and stand up straight. And the arthritis in the SA joint is aching, which it hasn't done for a few years. But it's all WNL for me. So, all has gone to being pretty much like always.
I wish it was better b/c it really is an overall drag on me getting things done. But if wishes were horses, we'd all be eating steak!
HA HA!
It sounds like you're doing OK, which I'm glad to hear! 
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Rained out pretty well for June. Hopefully with Canada being next week, we will get some proper sun for July.
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Oh, it's reverted to being merely stiff in the AM, like usual, so it takes a few hours for me to get doing anything physical, and stand up straight. And the arthritis in the SA joint is aching, which it hasn't done for a few years. But it's all WNL for me. So, all has gone to being pretty much like always.
I wish it was better b/c it really is an overall drag on me getting things done. But if wishes were horses, we'd all be eating steak!
HA HA!
It sounds like you're doing OK, which I'm glad to hear!
I go thru days where "everything hurts" and days where NOT everything hurts, just a few things. I wish there was some fix for your back. Regular appliction of heat, maybe? Antiinflammatory like aspirin?
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Oh, I get it!
WNL= within normal limits
Once upon a time I was communicating with dd's neurologist and she used the abbr "hx".
Hx?
Well, if Rx = meds and dx= diagnosis, then hx= history. I guess it's doctor shorthand.
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Sorry, yes, WNL = within normal limits 
and along the
rx = prescription
lines, there's also
tx = therapy/ treatment
ddx = differential diagnosis
I had hoped you'd gotten past your 'everything hurts' episodes by getting off the statins. I'm truly sorry to hear that you haven't. 
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