In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
POSTED BY: SIGNYM
UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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Out for a walk in the rain soon. 8C right now and last night had a good dose of fog roll in.
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Started working on the closet today. Took the quarter round up off the floor and scraped as much of the caulk off the trim as I could. At least that yellow discoloration down there wasn't remnants of the mouse problem like I'd thought. It's a sick amount of dollar store caulk that the idiots put on and apparently wiped everywhere. Took me hours to scrape it all off. It was all over the face of the baseboards and even 2 to 3" up the walls in some places.
I know it's just a closet, but seriously... how drunk were you Bob?
I got most of the vinyl tile up off the floor. The front two have so much adhesive on them that I don't know how I'm going to get them off other than spending a few more hours slowly chipping away at them with a razor scraper. I think I'm done doing that today. I'm so glad they didn't do that to the floor in the pantry. I wish I could have just put the new flooring over the old vinyl tile, but there were parts of the tile that had peeled up before I bought the place and that would be noticeable under the new flooring if I didn't shim it up. In retrospect, that's probably what I should have done. Oh well.
I sanded down the walls and vacuumed the ceiling.
I'll probably cut down the rest of that hardboard to make my moving platforms and get that mess cleaned up in the basement and call it a day. I'm not really feeling it today.
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Back from a soggy walk and will be soggy the rest of the day.
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Quote:One of my Canadian friends is originally from Rainy River. Is that nearby?
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:Brrrr!!!!
Brenda:
Temp sitting at -4C. Got to warm up a bit more if it is going to snow.
SIGNY: warm up to snow?
JSF: I also had a question mark in your exchange, but likely not the same reason as you.
Brenda had said the temp was 10 degrees F. And that it was good. And you agreed. Before covid I usually said my fave temp was between -10F and 10F.
And now Brenda says it is 25F.
None of that sounds cold to me.Quote:That was kind of my explanation to myself: pptn occurs at fronts, where two air masses collide and one forces the other up vertically. But if you're smack-dab in the middle of a cold air mass, you're unlikely to encounter another air mass of ANY kind ... either colder OR warmer... so no pptn occurs. Correct?
JSF: But yes, snow is more difficult when it gets too cold. Up at cloud level is colder than ground temps, so snow falls up to about 40F. Lower temps make it harder to encounter an even colder front which causes the precip.Quote:
JSF: Today I noticed the Fox River was frozen over in Green Bay, I hadn't been paying attention. Probably not enough to walk on. Fox is one of the largest rivers in WI, and historically was a critical and crucial navigable waterway - for transport and trade to the frontier west of the Mississippi.
But now I recall that yesterday 40 people got stranded on an ice shelf which detached and blew almost a mile away in the Bay of Green Bay. 5 agencies had to assist in the rescue.
I'm familiar with most of WI. Rainy River not ringing a bell.
Maybe MN or Canada.
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Quote:Well, gee. I was feeling low energy yesterday, and was plannning to drink a bottle of Boost. Then I fell asleep without. Because I was too tired.
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:Quote:I always recommend Boost, never ensure. I say against ensure, unless it has some specific useful purpose.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
JSF: Was is you that posted about Boost/Ensure?
Thanks for the tip! I don't know why it took me so long to think about it, but I've had a hard time maintaining an adequate diet, and it finally occurred to me that it might help.
Boost for humans or pets who need nutrients. It's a delivery package for vitamins and minerals. Pet's who have had their teeth pulled and lost appetite, for toy dogs 1/3 of an 8oz bottle per day.
For people to repair, rebuild muscle, bone, tendons, ligaments, skin. If your muscles are expected to be sore tomorrow, a Boost before bed will reduce or erase that soreness. Boost supplies the vite & min, sleep at night is the time.
Boost is not really help for GI issues, flu, etc.
I say only get the "original" Boost, although Nestle recently abandoned the formula there had been for more than 50 years. Not protein, glucose, women's, or other nasty crap that Nestle has screwed up.
Today temp forecast was 28F. But everything was melting, so I went out and ice scraped and shoveled snow and ice which was left over on the sidewalk and driveway. Without the Boost, muscles were really sore/tired. What a drag.
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I cut down that hardboard and sanded the edges down. Got me a few really nice platforms for moving the appliances when I need to, and the two smaller pieces from the "L" shapes I had left over will probably be large enough to make the drawer bottoms for the kitchen drawers if I choose to just build my own drawers and give up hope of finding two that are the same size and suitable for the job.
Got everything about as clean as I can make it for now. Still a bit in disarray because the coat closet is taken apart, and I've got a ton of crap in the pantry again. I still have to go through all of that and decide what I'm not going to keep since half of it was in the curio cabinet before and won't be going back inside of it. My days of keeping anything I don't need are over.
Eventually I'm going to have to go into the attic and do another purge. Of all of those boxes I stored up there a few years ago, I've only ever opened 3 of them to grab things I was looking for. Most of it I don't even remember what was up there. So much for "needing" that stuff, huh?
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It was 40 here today, but you can't tell with all the snow we've still got everywhere. Unfortunately, we finally get a day above freezing and the sun didn't come out once.
35 tomorrow, but more snow. Then at least 9 more days after that it's predicted not to get above freezing again.
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Still looking at rain for my morning walk to mah jong and it might dry up some by the afternoon.
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It's been a hot couple of days. House seems to remain cool enough without aircon so long as I leave the blinds down and ceiling fans on and then open up in the evening. Went for a forest walk yesterday evening and saw two swamp wallabies - not together. They are the cutest little things..like this
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OK. Gotta admit that thing is cute.
Look at it's tiny little head. Your head is way to small for that big body buddy.
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