In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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I hope you get to all your projects next week SIX. 
My week will be slow for sure.
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Just a musical Sunday around me.
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Looks like I haven't visited this thread since 13 March.
And this past Tuesday my mom was in the hospital for the final time. A blood clot blocking both lungs, so her O2 absorption is 18%. After stabilizing on high oxygen, Doc and my evil brother expected her to last a few hours without the high O2. Evil brother turned off the oxygen Tuesday night, without my other brother or his son able to visit.
She surprised the Doc and my brother, but not me.
Now they're planning on hospice for comfort Care. Her hand was warmer than a long time, and pulse very strong, which surprised me.
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Quote:This is from Feb 2016.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I heard and excellent idea- instead of building an oil pipeline from Canada to the USA, how about a WATER pipeline?
Imagine, the person who told me this said, what a kind of "damage" a pipeline leak would create: GREEN GROWING PLANTS.
I love it!
Oh, don't believe that groundhog, BRENDA!
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You can't build a nation with bombs. You can't create a society with guns.
What a dumb idea. CA would steal all of the water supply, and then divert it all directly to the ocean - just like they do with their own water.
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Sorry to hear about your mom JSF. But it sounds like maybe she's doing better then?
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Finished dismantling all of the drawers and putting everything inside of them on the new shelves. It won't be the final resting place for the stuff up there, but I've now managed to put all of the stuff that was in the dressers as well as a mountain of stuff that had been piled up on my 2nd work bench on just the first two rows of shelves and I haven't even built the third that will go on top of them yet.
I also pulled apart a cabinet that I was thinking about hanging too. I decided that the wood on the top, bottom and sides would serve me better as more shelving surfaces.
Tons of space in my garage that wasn't there two weeks ago and I've hardly even thrown anything out yet except for garbage wood and some small cut offs from the project so far.
Nice to have a day where I could still get so much done without straining myself.
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Quote:Hospice comfort Care means end of life waiting. The blood clot is expected to remain, or worsen, she is expected to never be the same again.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Sorry to hear about your mom JSF. But it sounds like maybe she's doing better then?
They were expecting hours. It may be days or weeks.
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Quote:Im sorry too, JSF.
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:Quote:Hospice comfort Care means end of life waiting. The blood clot is expected to remain, or worsen, she is expected to never be the same again.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Sorry to hear about your mom JSF. But it sounds like maybe she's doing better then?
They were expecting hours. It may be days or weeks.
Was she on a ventilator, or just O2 by nose?
I'm surprised they didn't try a clot-busting drug. They use it for heart attacks and strokes, why not for her?
In any case, when you visit, talk to her. Read to her. Hold her hand. Bring her perfume that you know she likes, if any. She won't feel so alone, and even when sight fails sound, touch, and smell remain. If there really is no hope, you want her to be as peaceful as possible, so comfort her in whatever way you can. The worst things to feel after someone dies are guilt and regret. I've felt both nd it's something you never escape.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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Quote:
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:Quote:Hospice comfort Care means end of life waiting. The blood clot is expected to remain, or worsen, she is expected to never be the same again.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Sorry to hear about your mom JSF. But it sounds like maybe she's doing better then?
They were expecting hours. It may be days or weeks.
Your other brother and his son are going to see her now?
You should urge them to do so ASAP.
I didn't see my Grandma in time. I was lost in my drinking back then, and I've never dealt with death well even when I've had my shit together. The morning my brother was going to come and drag me out of my house, by my hair if he needed to, to go see her is when she passed.
I was very close to her. Not seeing her before she went is something I have to live with for the rest of my life. They don't want to live with that burden.
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I think I'm in even worse shape today. LOL
Nothing I can't work out with a little movement, but I wont' be getting up on a ladder and painting any gutters in the cold today. SNOW COVERING ON THE ROOFS AGAIN ON APRIL 18TH!!!! And it's supposed to rain at some point anyhow.
I'm going to put myself together and get out there and build some more shelving.
For lack of 2x4 lumber, and a desire to get shelving done from end to end done first, I will be just building them 2 high for now, and then I'll re-evaluate my wood situation and begin building the 3rd row. I'm making these quite a bit taller than the ones in my basement were, with legs that are 21" instead of 16". They can all house a large 6 gallon bucket under the front plate without struggle. Also, because of the supports on the sides that tie the two legs together, I can fabricate smaller boards that can sit on these supports and make additional shelves for smaller things like boxes and jars of nails and hardware where I need to.
I'd really like to get enough built today so that I can start taking down those huge rusty metal shelving units I put together my first year here. My step dad gave me a bunch of stuff and I remember they didn't hold themselves up and had to be screwed into the framing of the garage. I don't want anything attached to walls anymore. I want the ability to insulate and put drywall up at some point down the road whenever I get the house done. That shelving is a huge waste of space in the front corner of the 1/2 side and it will be a great place to put my snowblower and power washer as well as a place to stand up some rather large lumber that I have and I no longer want to waste an entire wall by laying them down on the floor. I might possibly be able to put my two large garbage cans over there too. I certainly will be able to if I decide to get rid of my 300 lb table saw. It was a dumb thing I bought from some dude who's dad had passed away. It's been used maybe 3 times in 10 years, and now that I have a small light-weight one it's just taking up a ton of space in there. It belongs in a legit woodworking shop. Not my garage.
I think I will build a very tall shelf along the side wall next to my large work bench in that corner. Similar to the ones that I'm building now, but with legs on the bottom tall enough to easily park the blower and washer up to the wall and under it. I imagine I could build a smaller one on top of that too, but I wouldn't know until I get into it. I wont' have the lumber for that now, so it will have to wait until 2x4's come back down to a reasonable price.
I want my auto stuff on the shelving closest to the garage door (which doesn't exist yet), with my ramps and oil pan being on the floor underneath them.
I'd rather not be doing all of this in the cold, but I've got to get this all put together so I can start working on that car.
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