In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
POSTED BY: SIGNYM
UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I can sympathise! Tomorrow, grab a cuppa and put your feet up! when nature dumps on you, you gotta pace yourself (altho, honestly, with blowing drifting snow, I would wait until all the drifting was over, otherwise you might shovel the same area multiple times)
Would you say you caught up with your yearly snowfall, then?
Yanno... I don't even know what our yearly snowfall is. It's so erratic around these parts. I know we've had years since I've lived in this house were we only ended up with like 5" of snow, but last year we had about 60".
But yeah, I think we've probably at least hit average now. We had like 15" over the course of a week or two a while back and now nearly double that. We didn't get the 4" yesterday into this morning that we were supposed to get, but we got about another 1" and it's still snowing right now.
The drifting seems to have stopped, but that's probably because there's no snow on anybody's roofs anymore.
Hey... I'm fine with that. Better on the ground and shoveling twice than weighing down the roof for the next month until it melts.
I have to keep up with the shoveling on the front walkway though. I didn't do that earlier this winter and it was an ice rink under the snow that I had to cover back up because I didn't want the post men and women slipping and cracking their heads open. I'll probably go out there and clean up whatever little came down last night sometime today between paint coats.
I really need to start working out again and stop thinking about it. It's not bad most of the year, but during winter when I'm more likely to not be doing anything for a few days at a time, it really kicks my ass when I have to put my back into the shoveling while I'm also doing rehab work. At least I haven't tweaked my back (yet).
That pantry has really been kicking my ass since it's so tight in there and I have to avoid touching anything I've painted with my clothes while also spending a lot of time on my knees and in lousy positions doing detail work once I get to the bottom half of it.
Wall paint going up today!
Give me a few. I'm going to post a couple of pictures soon.
How's things by you, Sigs?
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Pantry Preview...
At this point, I'd already put a little bit of mud up in here on bad parts toward the front of it. The pantry was still crammed full of stuff at that point, so with leftover mud I had for the coat closet I'd just use it up there and out on my back porch rather than throwing it out.
You can see from this first pic how the baseboards are turned upside down and were designed to hold the shelving. You can also see that aside from how badly beat up they were, number 2 and number 3 from the top down were broke on the bottom-front, and instead of coping them to the interior door frame like they did the actual baseboard, they just made straight cuts that look like hell. There were also some sizable gaps on the bottom of a few of them, none of them as bad as that one you can see on the top board.
Up close and personal, you can see the worse broken board of the two. I believe these were split by nails when they were installed. That hole in the wall you can see right next to the door frame was because of a nail that I think split the board and was just painted over. Taking that nail out damaged the wall a bit.
I used a brad nailer to put a scrap piece of wood as a template for my putty after making it level. At first when I saw the damage this caused, I regretted that decision, but nothing I couldn't easily fill in. It's probably the way I'd do it again in the future if I ever have to.
First coat of wood putty.
Sanded down after 2nd coat of wood putty. As you can see, I had decided at that point to fill in the straight cuts of the boards, so while doing the 2nd coat on the two broken boards I also filled in all 10 boards tight to the door frame, and filled them in on the back wall where caulk alone wouldn't do the job.
I used excess wood putty that existed when I did some preliminary shaping about an hour after application to fill in the brad nail/template damage.
Primer, Caulk and two coats of enamel later. Looks like those pieces of wood grew together.
I never did put a 3rd coat of wood putty on there, even though the pictures made it look like it was warranted. I've gotten pretty good with shaping caulk too, so while I was caulking everything up proper I squirted some extra wherever it needed some, rubbed it in with my fingers and then shaped it with a damp sponge.
No sanding, no mess.
You can also see that the gaps from the door frame to the wall are filled. Those were fairly sizable and existed on about 60% of the interior door frame. I probably could have gotten away without backer rod, and it was fairly difficult to jam it in there with a flat head screwdriver, but with the rod back there the caulk won't shrink and crack and look like hell a year from now.
Looks like new now. 
Here's my idea...
I'm considering just building straight up shelves for the top two tracks.
But on the bottom, I'm considering buying 3 sets of soft-close drawer slide systems, screwing them into the wall above the tracks with good drywall anchors, and just having pull out shelving for the bottom three.
Also, NOTE TO SELF: I need to use some of my ORB black spray paint to paint those gold screw tips on the hinges. The screws that came with the hinges were about the shortest things ever and in many cases on these old door jambs weren't enough to get the job done.
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
It's so weird that Die Hard is considered a Christmas movie today. I must have seen that half a dozen times when I was a kid. I don't think I ever heard somebody calling it a Christmas movie until a few years ago on the internet, and now almost everyone says it's a Christmas movie.
$6. Yeah... when I play games I don't play for much money either.
But if there's nothing on the line at all it seems kind of pointless.
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Yeah, I know. I think I've seen it a couple of times over the years. I've seen all of them but the best are the first and the 3rd which has Graham Greene in it. Tried watching the last one and it sucked.
That's why they award winnings and something sometimes goes back to the Senior Centre for use of the room. But not yesterday with so few playing. I don't think.
Well, I think I would play without any winnings. It gets me out of my place and interacting with people.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
Back from mah jong and my walk. I got first place today with a finish of over 5,000points.
But we got rain today though now at 2pm the sun is trying to break through the fog.
Congrats on the win!
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Thanks SIG.
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True, that, about the walkways. Gotta keep them clear for the postal service!
Have you thought of salt for the ice? I've heard there's some sort of urea formula that doesn't burn your grass.
Oh, busy at this end. I do as much as I can each day. Yesterday I dug up some beets for dinner and did a little weeding out front.
Did one smart thing last year: I had an old tarp originally for the woodpile, but I spread it over the cleared part of the veggie patch and used it to solarize that part: kill weed seeds with heat.
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Out for my walk in a bit in the rain. Need to get to the pharmacy again as I forgot the get a refill on my seizure meds the last time I was there.
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Back and all done for today. It had stopped raining as it was dry when I was coming home but it is after 2pm and raining again.
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Originally posted by Brenda:
Yeah, I know. I think I've seen it a couple of times over the years. I've seen all of them but the best are the first and the 3rd which has Graham Greene in it. Tried watching the last one and it sucked.
Agreed. Die Hard: With a Vengeance is my all time favorite in the series.
I only saw the 4th one after that and didn't care for it at all. I don't know how many there were after the 4th one, but I never saw any of them.
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That's why they award winnings and something sometimes goes back to the Senior Centre for use of the room. But not yesterday with so few playing. I don't think.
Well, I think I would play without any winnings. It gets me out of my place and interacting with people.
It's good to get out. Congrats again on the win.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
True, that, about the walkways. Gotta keep them clear for the postal service!
Have you thought of salt for the ice? I've heard there's some sort of urea formula that doesn't burn your grass.
Yeah. I thought I'd have to shovel a tiny bit today with the snow, but even though it never got above freezing the sun was out and it all melted.
Good thing too, because I didn't have any down time between coats drying today. I managed to do everything more efficiently than I've ever done it before and only cleaned my brush and roller at the end of the day one time.
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Oh, busy at this end. I do as much as I can each day. Yesterday I dug up some beets for dinner and did a little weeding out front.
Did one smart thing last year: I had an old tarp originally for the woodpile, but I spread it over the cleared part of the veggie patch and used it to solarize that part: kill weed seeds with heat.
Glad to hear you're still up and about. You've been feeling good then?
I did all three cut-ins with the brush and two coats with the roller in the pantry today, so it's all done as far as repairs and paint go.
Tomorrow I should get the flooring in.
Not sure when I'm going to do the shelving though. It will require me to cut down wood out in my garage, and the next few weeks are all in the 20's and I don't feel like doing it when it's that cold. I don't want to feel rushed because it's so cold and end up making a bad cut because I was in a hurry.
Maybe I'll take a day or two off after the floor is in and figure out what I'm going to do next. I might finally extend those two window sills in the living room so I can get the new window trim up.
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