In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
POSTED BY: SIGNYM
UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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Walk in and homemade applesauce cooking away. Already baked the tart shells it will go into.
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They make pre-fabbed shelving in a large assortment of colors so you should be able to get something at least close to what you're looking for if that even means anything to you. But you're still going to have to cut them down to size and around any plumbing with a radial saw and probably a jig saw if you don't want that cut to look lousy.
I don't suppose you've got those tools tucked away somewhere or know somebody who can make a few quick cuts for you if you mark the boards for them?
As for attaching them, I'd look into some small brackets that you can screw into the wall at the heights you want them. No reason to get super fancy with it.
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Got a promise for help on the back of the porch tomorrow. Not sure what time, but hopefully at least somewhat early this time instead of starting when it's too late to finish because it gets dark out.
Not especially warm tomorrow, but sunny and dry, which is good because it's super wet the following two days again.
I built myself 3 more benches / stackable shelves out in my garage today, using up the last 6 pieces of cheap green board I bought and didn't use on the stairs and a whole lot of the scrap 2x4's I had out there. They'll fit perfect in my closet in the unfinished room in the basement, and now that I have 9 shelves down there I will be able to put all of my tools in a organized space and finally clear out that pantry so I can remodel it this winter.
Even managed to mow the front lawn before it got too miserably cold to bother with the back.
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Dammit....
I tweaked my back a little last night moving an ancient air conditioner from my basement to the garage. Not severe or anything, but my buddy's dad is coming to help wrap up the back porch today and I can't be hemming and hawing about my back to a guy that's 30 years older than I am.
The A/C was on the floor in the closet on a few bricks where the shelving I built ended up going. I can't believe that thing was only 5,000BTU's. It weighed about as much as a 36" screen tube TV! My new 12,000BTU unit in the window was half that weight.
The pantry is empty except for my big pail of rice, a broom, and a fire extinguisher I have attached to the wall. It's all clear and ready to be worked on whenever I get to it now.
I think I'm going to spring for some good 1"x X" wood boards that I can sand down, router a bevel, stain and coat with poly like I did with the closet's upstairs.
Then again, maybe not. I know I'm not putting things on them that would ruin the finish, but unless I put contact paper on the top I can't imagine the finish would last very long in a closet for that purpose.
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Out for my walk soon. Got a correction on the name of kitty treats, so will look for that. Need to get some photocopying done and look for a movie at my local library. So far dry today but will take umbrella anyways.
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Trying to rain again.
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Buddy's dad came by and we fixed the window. Also took down all the existing siding and put tar paper up covering everything. After he left I got all the J-channel up except for the top and the windows and got it re-sided up to the windows. Used that as an opportunity to replace some bad pieces too. I had to take two more rows off the back of the garage for now, but I'll have enough to put all good pieces up without having to salvage from either side of the garage.
A side note about my water issues...
Sump pump is still going off fairly frequently even though it hasn't rained for a day and a half now.
I think that's my "normal" whenever we get a good deal of rain.
The reason I say that is the foreclosure behind me broke up and removed the driveway. Even though we've had two completely sunny days, the first 6 feet of that mud is still waterlogged with several inches of standing water before the curb/street.
There's also a MASSIVE hole by the garage there where they removed one of the posts for the fence, about 20 feet in from the curb, and it's got a ton of water in it still.
We're just the low point here.
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Off to mah jong tomorrow morning.
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Good luck. :)
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I guess you (BRENDA, SIX) pay for all that green with a lot of gloom and rain.
And snow!
Well, I hope you both stay snuggly warm and dry this year. I think the gloom and shorter days don't do either of you good, so maybe invest in a bright full-spectrum bulb for seasonal affective disorder (SAD). Price as low as $30
https://reviews.chicagotribune.com/reviews/best-light-therapy-lamps
It might help?
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In the meantime, I put away the light summer comforter and put the heavy one on the bed bc I was freezing my bits off a few nights ago! We have one hot day ahead of us - tomorrow- but then it starts to drop right back down again.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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