In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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I got scaffolding and a big monster of a ladder from a neighbor. Tomorrow another neighbor is going to help hold the ladder and they'll just keep tabs on me until I'm ready to come back down.
I think first I'll take my tablet to photograph what I see and check out the condition of the roof. Fingers crossed it's still a roof and I'm only going to need to do some patch work and replace a few seals on stacks.
I've got a gutter guy coming next week for measurements and a quote and he said he'd take a look at my roof too, but I'm hoping that I've already gotten that all taken care of before he gets here. I'm going to have to fix some of the sub-facia in front and put up new facia on it before he can hang the gutters.
I got the last of the dirty ass horizontal blinds out of my house. I even managed to install the screen for the window I was never able to open before, so I can actually open it during the spring and the fall now, and where it's located it will really up the airflow of the house during nice weather.
Two more windows cleaned and scrubbed with the vinyl applied. Only one more standard window to go in the livingroom. Now I just have to decide if I want to cover the entire large 4x5 window that doesn't move in the center of the large window system in the living room. I'll have to order one more roll if that's the case.
Everything looks so nice and clean and bright now. 
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:Oh dear. Thats crypic but negative. "Not in a good place" like feeling low? or "not in a good place" like impending seizures? (Always a concern when you lower meds!)
Originally posted by Brenda:
Been out for my walk and back.
Got some vacuuming done when I got home as well as a couple of other things.
2nd of July and it is heading for another rain and my head is not in a good place.
I hope you feel better very soon, hon.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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I seem to be doing okay with the lower meds SIG. I'm just feeling a little low. Feeling a little abandoned. Things I would like to do but can't.
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
Been out for my walk and back.
Got some vacuuming done when I got home as well as a couple of other things.
2nd of July and it is heading for another rain and my head is not in a good place.
SAD???
Hope you're doing well Brenda. The sun's bound to finally come out sometime.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
More like I got hit with a bout of depression. Just feeling blah and wishing I could get some physical help to get a couch or a futon or something like that. Don't mind me.
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Quote:I can imagine how I'd feel if I didn't have any help for the big things. Little things too, for that matter.
BRENDA: Been out for my walk and back.
Got some vacuuming done when I got home as well as a couple of other things.
2nd of July and it is heading for another rain and my head is not in a good place.
SIX: SAD???
Hope you're doing well Brenda. The sun's bound to finally come out sometime.
BRENDA: More like I got hit with a bout of depression. Just feeling blah and wishing I could get some physical help to get a couch or a futon or something like that. Don't mind me.
I can get quite a few things done if it doesn't involve too much muscle-power. It's not that my muscles are weak (well, at this point they prolly are) but my joints are so unstable and painful that I can get things done but only if it's something that I can chip away at. Literally. Like digging up a gaden or weeding.
BTW, just to give you an idea of how disabled I am, just writing with a pen causes my thumb and finger joints to pop and hurt. Sometimes I can't open ordinary jars, and occasionally things will slip from my hands. And that happens in my wrists, elbows, shoulders, hips, knees, ankles, and feet, depending on how much I stress my tendons and ligaments! So I can only do a little at a time, and be careful not to overdo.
But then, I do have help. Sometimes I dragoon dd into yardwork, and altho her hands are smaller than mine they're mightier, so she can always open jars for me! And hubby will come out and help with the big stuff I can't manage on my own, like cutting thru some very hard camellia wood to take down/cut up a major limb that had died from borers.
Plus, hubby is the driver of all major repairs and improvements here. Since he's done everything from computer design and programming to plumbing, wiring, masonry and engine repair, he's a wealth of "how to" knowledge. And despite his own major aches and pains, he's still much stronger than I am, so when really heavy things need to be shifted he and dd put their backs into it. Plus, he's way taller than I am, so stepladder not necessary!
In many ways, I'm very fortunate to have my hubby and dear daughter (dd) because we help each other achieve our goals and I'm aware of that and thankful every day, even when they piss me off no end sometimes. If they weren't around, I would definitely move to an apartment or a condo which would be maintenance-free (at least I wouldn't have to do it personally) but I'd have to pay for help with major things.
So I keep that all in mind as we plow our way thru the backlog of "things to do" that have been accumulating thru all the years that we've been working. One of these centuries we will get all of them done. By then, hubby will be too old and decrepit to enjoy the space and I won't be too far behind, but then the house will be in more saleable condition and then we can all move to a smaller and more manageable space.
As hubby likes to remind me We are ALL only temporarily able-bodied.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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Feeling any better today, Brenda?
I was going to do more today than I've done, but I'm wiped out.
Finally got up on the roof after borrowing the right ladder from a neighbor. The roof itself and the venting are more or less fine. I don't see any evidence of problems.
The stacks were another story though. One had never been sealed at all, and the larger one was sealed at some point but it had deteriorated. I had to scrape off all the old crud, then I caulked a tube of tar sealant and brushed it all in. The boots still looked good on the crap-tubes, but I dusted them off and threw a bead of sealant around them for good measure too. Won't know how I did until it rains again.
Can't remember the last time I actually wanted it to rain...
Wouldn't you know it? We're not supposed to have rain now until late next week. Go figure.
I still might try cleaning at least one more window in the living room and getting the vinyl up on it. I've got to see how I feel after resting a bit. 92 degrees makes for an extremely hot roof.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Soggy 3rd of July.
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Feeling any better today, Brenda?
Do Right, Be Right. :)
I'm so-so today. Takes a bit before I beat it back. But I will.
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Brenda, I'm glad to hear you're going to be on the mend.
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As I'm thinking about it Brenda, you've accomplished a lot. You got a good place (YAY!!!), moved, and have-settled and are-settling in, with a lot of tasks behind you: sorting, organizing, repair, replacement, and even new things you need and want.
Those to me are serious, life-changing accomplishments and no small feats!
If you're like me, after a major accomplishment, there's a kind of let-down.
And if you're like me, also the build up of stacked requirements without a possible way forward - before I do this I need to so that but before I do that I need to do that other thing but I can't do that other thing ... - is demoralizing. And if you're like me you don't have the physical capability to get a lot of things done on your own. I'd even call the whole scenario depressing. You have no idea how stuck I at least can become due to that. It's hard for me anyway to get past.
Anyway, one way or another, I have sympathy.
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
As I'm thinking about it Brenda, you've accomplished a lot. You got a good place (YAY!!!), moved, and have-settled and are-settling in, with a lot of tasks behind you: sorting, organizing, repair, replacement, and even new things you need and want.
Those to me are serious, life-changing accomplishments and no small feats!
If you're like me, after a major accomplishment, there's a kind of let-down.
And if you're like me, also the build up of stacked requirements without a possible way forward - before I do this I need to so that but before I do that I need to do that other thing but I can't do that other thing ... - is demoralizing. And if you're like me you don't have the physical capability to get a lot of things done on your own. I'd even call the whole scenario depressing. You have no idea how stuck I at least can become due to that. It's hard for me anyway to get past.
Anyway, one way or another, I have sympathy.
Thanks Kiki and I know that I have.
But yeah just feeling a bit stuck and I will get out of this feeling. And I know it will happen every so often.
I will survive.
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