In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
POSTED BY: SIGNYM
UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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Another 3 gallons of weed spray and 4 gallons of bug spray out today.
That should be the last of it for the weeds if we don't get much rain. It's likely this year since by far this is the hottest summer on record in about 6 years around these parts. Not a single day in the forecast until late August even dips below 80 degrees for a high. I could probably count on my fingers and toes the days that were over 80 degrees last year.
Got my vinyl. Going to do a few Windex treatments and get to cutting and fitting all of it. 
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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By all of it, I meant only 2 of 8 panes...
Unlike the windows upstairs, it turns out every one of these is just a slightly different measurement, seemingly both dimensions... Another Uncle Bob Job, I'm sure. Nothing you'd ever notice with the naked eye for sure, but it matters when cutting this stuff.
I didn't take account how much more work this new pattern would be either. The one I used before had tiny iridescent squares that do a cool light effect both with the sun and with lights outside at night. This one has larger opaque squares around 2 1/2 inches that are broken up into a grid with about 2-3mm lines that are just clear plastic... no effect. It gives me somewhat of a base to work with when making my marks, but not nearly as easy as it was when I was working with squares that were about 8mm on the other pattern.
That being said, I would highly recommend that you do not purchase a straight opaque vinyl sheet with no squares on it if you want to do this, Sigs. That would probably be extremely difficult to get a good cut, especially if you had to cut both length and width, and without any squares to draw your attention away from any parts that aren't perfectly cut to the end of the window I don't think you'd be happy with the result.
The two that I did look great so far though. Went out with a flashlight and left it out there pointing in and came inside and shut off the lights and it looks awesome. It should be cool to see what these things look like when the sun is out. I shouldn't have any problems getting the other 6 done tomorrow and having time to do some other stuff I need to take care of before tomorrow night.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
I've had to do that too!! Someimes I've had to make them fall and catch them on the way down - fortunately it's usually something like paper towels (100% recycled!) so that if(when) I fail to catch them getting bonked on the head don't hurt.
That is basically I had to do with the cereal. Got it close enough to the edge that I could tip it over and catch it.
Even had it happen on a different occasion in the freezer with the ice cream. Stuff I like always, always on the top shelf. So, I either climb the shelving or use my umbrella handle to edge it over. Though I have been known to knock other boxes of ice cream down.
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Originally posted by Brenda:
Don't you just hate when grocery stores put stuff you want on the highest shelf. That happened to me twice today. Good thing I had my umbrella with me to get a box of cereal down. The other item was close enough to the edge that standing on my tip-toes I was able to get it.
I buy on the bottom shelf. That's where all the real bargains are.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
The cereal was on sale which is why I wanted and I happen to like it as well. Spoon-size shredded wheat.
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At just a little after 9pm, I saw part of a rainbow out of my balcony window.
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Occasionally I have to hunt up and down the aisles of a grocery store looking for a ladle or chopsticks or anything long enough so that I can slide the item I'm looking for off the shelf and grab it as it falls. That, or find a helpful tall person to get it down for me!
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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Busy, busy, busy. I HOPE it lets up soon, in the famous words of Sam Gerard (Tommy Lee Jones) I need a rest
Been walking the dog and KP duty and putting in an hour or more of yardwork every morning (just correcting past neglect) then doing something project-oriented in the afternoon, then making dinner for the family. And today for some reason, everyone wanted pancakes for breakfast whihc kinda set my day back.
Today dd and I finally planted the pollinator garden. It's very late in the season for planting, but we did sow some reliable seeds like cosmos and evening primrose and nastutrium so a least SOMEthing will come up!
Tomorrow I believe rewiring part of the garage is in the works.
Also, in trying to get our tax papers together I discovered something hinky in hubby's retirement investments which I need to correct on Monday. Plus I'm STILL trying to sort out something that they screwed up late last year so there's that.
ONE good thing happened tho: we are innundated with zucchini, so today I made a stir-fry with red pepper, ginger, leftover snow peas, leftover cabbage (shredded) and zoodles (zucchini noodles) which the faily really liked. I made the zoodles with a vegetable peeler that doesn't work well as a peeler because it peels too thick, but I kept it around as a spare and discovered its perfect for zoodles.
So, one more zucchini recipe under my belt!
Anyone want any zucchini??
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If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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No zucchini for me - sadly, they don't freeze well.
But I did create a good recipe from this and that - refried beans with cooked ground meat. The tricks, I discovered are to cook/ brown the meat separately from everything else (beans, onions, tomato juice, jalapeño, cilantro) so it doesn't end up as a tan mush with the beans ... AND ... you need to add lots and lots of fresh cilantro and fresh cut jalapeño at the end (sliced thin with a mandolin) so that it tastes like pico de gallo. All those 'white' beans that I cooked for taste-testing went into it, which I intended.
I've been too lazy to finish my next batch recipe, which is sweet and sour cabbage with onions and apples, and herbed (lots of fresh thyme and parsley, and some fresh rosemary) meatballs.
AND ... after that I need to do another batch of something. Maybe I'll go back to a reliable standby, perhaps my Greek-style frittata, with potatoes, herbs, kale, and feta.
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The vinyl looks GREAT in the sun.
It's also up there as if it was a part of the window. I can't imagine that anything is going to make this peel for years to come. The trick is to prep the windows correctly. Not only did I use the dollar store all-purpose cleaner on the panes while I cleaned the rest of the windows and casings, but then I used two applications of Windex. And a little tip I learned from my grandpa years back is to use newspaper to wipe them down after you clean them to make them completely streak free.
Then take time to get the air bubbles out with a credit card. It's hard to explain the best way to do it, but after you've done one or two you will develop a good system to make it as easy and efficient as possible.
Can't wait to get the rest of them up in the basement today. I am going to see what happens about the heat though. The blinds I had didn't black everything out, but it was a lot darker down there. We're having a pretty consistently hot summer around here and with only the single window unit, trying to ask that to cool a now heated basement on top of two above ground floors and an attic is a pretty tall order.
Bezos is on the ball right now. Despite the constant hard sell to get prime whenever you checkout, I'm getting the bulk of my shipped free order today, which is the day I would have gotten it if I had Prime, despite the fact that it was said at checkout I wouldn't get any of this until the 2nd week of July. Only one other item on the list after today's delivery, and that was one that was sent by a third party seller that doesn't take part in any Prime offers anyhow and it wouldn't have gotten here right away.
Side note... I don't know how I lived without A/C all these years. I'd be lying if I said that I'm not enjoying it. I've got to do a bit of work generally later at night using a high powered fan to blow cool dry air up into the attic to get it down to a cool temp and then send it down to the 1st floor for a while before I turn it off and go to bed.
It hasn't been under 73 in my house for days, with the high being around 76, but the key is that it's dry air and feels extremely comfortable. Our summers have been so cool around here for so long I forgot what a hot one felt like. If I didn't have my A/C right now it would be over 90 degrees in my house with a huge amount of humidity and I'd be dripping sweat on the floor even just in my boxers.
That being said, my one negative I'd give the A/C unit is that the evaporator system is all but useless. This thing dumps buckets of water on the side of my house in an 8 hour cycle. I've got a large pan you'd use for baking propped under that just to get it a little further away, but I really need to devise something that will make it drip outside of the barrier to the hasta bed.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Occasionally I have to hunt up and down the aisles of a grocery store looking for a ladle or chopsticks or anything long enough so that I can slide the item I'm looking for off the shelf and grab it as it falls. That, or find a helpful tall person to get it down for me!
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
#WEARAMASK
Been there and done that too Sig. Once got a broom to get something down off a high shelf. That was when my mom was still alive. It was something she wanted.
I have asked grocery store staff when they are around too to get things down for me.
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