In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
POSTED BY: SIGNYM
UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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Good dose of fog sitting over me but I don't need to go out in it. Got an actual hand written letter to finish so I can get it into the post tomorrow along with an birthday card to go to Alberta.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Whatever you have I hope you get better soon, SIX. Sickness feeds into winter blahs, not a good combo!
Yeah. I don't know what I got. It's still hanging on.
Probably didn't do it any good by snowblowing today, but it actually stopped snowing completely around 4PM and I managed to shovel and get the driveway cleared right before it got dark.
Maybe I get lucky and the snow won't be as bad as they predicted through tomorrow and I can get away without having to do it again.
I also managed to clear out my pantry and get all the shelving out.
Unfortunately, I think I'm going to have to go shopping for some wood for new shelves. I thought I'd just be able to remove the contact paper, paint them all and put new paper on top, but some of those boards are in really bad shape and are warped as hell. I didn't notice that while they were in for 10 years, but I'm not about to put all this work into something using inferior products.
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More fog for my area tomorrow morning.
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Quote:Hmmm... gonna check the forecast for people downwind of you. See what might be heading their way. Doesn't sound good.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Blizzard out there right now.
Entire forecast for the week went to shit overnight. Looked like all next week was going to be above freezing, now we don't even get a day in the 30's until next Sunday after three days of snow ending tomorrow, with a low of -8 Tuesday night not including the wind chill.
I see my neighbor out there shoveling now. It looks light, so the blower shouldn't have a problem when I get to it. I'm not going to do it in the middle of the blizzard though. I don't have anything in particular I think I'd even need to do outside the house over the next week, but no reason to box myself in. If there isn't a break in the snow today, I'm sure there will be one tomorrow and I'll blow it then.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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Quote:Maybe you'll get lucky and your hard work won't be undone by falling//blowing/ drifting snow. Then you'll be able to get that wood that you need without having to clear stuff all over again
SIGNYM:
Whatever you have I hope you get better soon, SIX. Sickness feeds into winter blahs, not a good combo!
SIX: Yeah. I don't know what I got. It's still hanging on.
Probably didn't do it any good by snowblowing today, but it actually stopped snowing completely around 4PM and I managed to shovel and get the driveway cleared right before it got dark.
Maybe I get lucky and the snow won't be as bad as they predicted through tomorrow and I can get away without having to do it again.
I also managed to clear out my pantry and get all the shelving out.
Unfortunately, I think I'm going to have to go shopping for some wood for new shelves. I thought I'd just be able to remove the contact paper, paint them all and put new paper on top, but some of those boards are in really bad shape and are warped as hell. I didn't notice that while they were in for 10 years, but I'm not about to put all this work into something using inferior products.
But then, even if your driveway is clear, you can't go anywhere until the plows come thru. I hope you have good plow service!
What kind of wood would you get? If it were me, seeing how well they're holding up, I would get 3/4 Baltic birch plywood, especially if you're going to be putting heavy items into the pantry. But that's the high-priced stuff. So, if not that- what? Seems like sooner or later, unless you get good strong stuff it will sag and warp. I'd hate to see a lot of hard work go to waste! Your time is more important than that!
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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Quote:Fog means moderate-ish temps and no wind, correct? If so, at least it won't be cold and windy!
Originally posted by Brenda:
More fog for my area tomorrow morning.
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If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Hmmm... gonna check the forecast for people downwind of you. See what might be heading their way. Doesn't sound good.
Did you hear anything?
It probably isn't really that bad. We got around 7 to 8" yesterday, but that apparently was lake effect snow. It was also very powdery snow, so even though it stuck to my warmer house roof, the garage roof is bare after the wind apparently pushed it all off.
Our snow ended around 4PM so I had just enough time to clear it out before it got dark. When I called my old man last night he said they had to shovel in the morning yesterday, but the show had ended by them around 9AM and there wasn't any all day after that. We're all relatively close to the lake, but I'm a bit down-wind from it and if one of us is going to get lake-effect, it's usually me.
They're saying another 1-3" by 1PM today and I woke up to it snowing lightly. Looks like we already got 1" of that overnight.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:Maybe you'll get lucky and your hard work won't be undone by falling//blowing/ drifting snow. Then you'll be able to get that wood that you need without having to clear stuff all over again.
SIGNYM:
Whatever you have I hope you get better soon, SIX. Sickness feeds into winter blahs, not a good combo!
SIX: Yeah. I don't know what I got. It's still hanging on.
Probably didn't do it any good by snowblowing today, but it actually stopped snowing completely around 4PM and I managed to shovel and get the driveway cleared right before it got dark.
Maybe I get lucky and the snow won't be as bad as they predicted through tomorrow and I can get away without having to do it again.
I also managed to clear out my pantry and get all the shelving out.
Unfortunately, I think I'm going to have to go shopping for some wood for new shelves. I thought I'd just be able to remove the contact paper, paint them all and put new paper on top, but some of those boards are in really bad shape and are warped as hell. I didn't notice that while they were in for 10 years, but I'm not about to put all this work into something using inferior products.
So far, so good. A few inches isn't going to keep me from driving my car right over it. I'm only a bit more concerned about clearing snow than I used to be because I have those long plastic drain tubes off of 3 of my gutters. They were completely under snow yesterday and I had to dig them out. An unintended consequence of them appears to be putting a large sheet of ice on my driveway under fallen snow.
FUN!
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But then, even if your driveway is clear, you can't go anywhere until the plows come thru. I hope you have good plow service!
Oh... They're great around here. Second time this year that I had to be really careful using my blower once I got by the street because I didn't want to be "that guy" who blows his driveway snow all over the freshly plowed streets.
I'm actually glad that they started plowing further away from the curbs over the last few years. We have VERY wide streets around here and I'd get so annoyed that two years in a row they destroyed my frontage just over the curb (the city did come by and fix it both times in the spring). Now it looks like they're playing it safe and staying at least 1 foot away from the curb. My snowblower is a beast though, and even though it was all slush and ice down there it was no match for the blower.
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What kind of wood would you get?
I don't know yet...
I'm not doing what I did in the closets... yanno, the routing, staining and 5 coats of poly. They're going to be painted with the white enamel I used on the kitchen cabinets and the curio cabinet in and out, and then I'm going to use the same white contact paper for the tops of them.
When I did my coat closet, I just reused the piece of MDF that had a white veneer on it that I bought 1.5 years ago when my brother was in town during the summer. But I did have to install a shelf bracket for the center of that because it bowed in heavy in the middle even though there was only around 15 lbs up there, and not all in the center. Granted, that's a very wide coat closet and the shelf was 47" long.
The pantry is right next to the coat closet, but you enter in from the other side of it, so instead of being a very wide closet, it's a very deep closet. The shelves will only be 26.5" wide. My old man mentioned maybe just getting those cheap MDF boards, but I told him about my problem in the coat closet.
I'm still trying to figure out if I want to do anything else with the pantry other than putting the shelves back up. Taking them down or re-doing things will require some demo since they're held up with small baseboard upside down that runs all the way to the inside door trim at varying heights. But it does seem like quite a
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Before/After Coat Closet Pics:
First, I should probably mention that mirror to the right of the closet. That thing has been with me forever since I got it for a steal at $6 from Goodwill. I loved where I've had it hanging since I got this place and didn't want to see it go, but the dark brown stain wasn't going to match the new look, so I had taken it outside on some horses to sand down during the summer and painted it the same white enamel I've been painting everything else. I don't think I ever showed any pictures of the living room or that mirror before.
Just a basic coat closet here, and I didn't really do any upgrades except for beautifying it and installing a shelf bracket in the center so the shelf doesn't bow anymore.
Filthy, filthy, filthy. Yes... this was ground zero for mouse activity back when I had the problem and probably many years before that as well. Although I did deep scrub everything in my house a few years back after the de-hoard, this just stayed yellow at the baseboard trim and above it. It was only now that I realized it was because of the horrible caulk job they had done. There was half wiped up caulk residue all over the baseboard and quarter round and at some points up the walls 2 or 3 inches. Gross.
LOTS of prep went into filling holes and fixing damage on the walls and the baseboard as well as sanding off all that bad caulk. I also removed the quarter round while doing my best to not damage it in case I wanted to put it back up. Or... needed to more accurately. I never want to use it. I think everything looks so much better without it.
That damaged tile ended up causing me a lot more grief than I thought it would. In retrospect, I probably should have just bought a tile at the store and cut out a rectangle on the floor and with the new tile and just stuck it down there to go under the new flooring. At least my friend's dad told me to try using a hair dryer to get the front two pieces up since it would have taken me hours to get them up without gouging the hell out of the hard wood.
You can also see a lot more of the yellowing around the baseboard in this pic, as well as all of the gaps. So much caulk everywhere, but they didn't caulk the baseboard to the wall???? What they did caulk the hell out of was the floor in between the tiles and the quarter round.
Why on earth would you do that!!!!! Quarter round is there to hide your amateur work, not accentuate it!!!!
Here's a pic of the inside after I used wood putty on the various holes and damage on the baseboard used to hold the shelf and the pole. I even caulked around the pole fixture so you won't see any gaps or shadows where you don't want to see them. The board up there is just that cheap piece of veneered MDF I was talking about.
Rather than just use flat ceiling paint all over like most people do, I used my white enamel on the trim both up high and down low, and then I cut in some color using one of the gallons of paint I had bought back in 2019 but decided I didn't want to use in the kitchen and living room. It's got an eggshell finish, so along with the high-gloss trim, it will be really easy to wash if I ever need to.
That flooring is awesome. I'm so lucky I got that remnant with two extra feet on it so I can do the floors in both of these closets.
NOW THAT'S HOW YOU DO FLOORS, UNCLE BOB!!!!!
No quarter-round necessary to hide anything. 
I left a little extra outside that I'll cut to size once I figure out a threshold solution after I decide if I'm going to resurface the livingroom floor or not.
Much better.
I even took down the pole, sanded the crap out of it, stained it and put about 5 coats of wipe on poly before putting it back in. It's a little bowed and still nicked up because of heavy coats with metal hanger damage,
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:Fog means moderate-ish temps and no wind, correct? If so, at least it won't be cold and windy!
Originally posted by Brenda:
More fog for my area tomorrow morning.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
Fog does and if it burns off I might get to see some sun on my walk. This is Monday and there is more fog sitting on top of me.
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