In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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I'm going to take those metal shelves down today and get that stuff up on the 4 new shelving units I made yesterday. I still don't have enough shelves for eveyrthing though, so my main work bench will remain full of crap for the time being, and I won't be able to start organizing what I put on the existing shelves yet.
I've built 12 so far, but I want to build 6 more to go on top of the 2-high stacks I've already made, and then I want to build another 3 on end, so I still have 9 more to go when I can get the 2x4's.
If I stick with it today, I'd like to install some of the electric on the back wall. It's where I'm going to put my 2nd smaller work bench, and right now I have it pulled out about 3-4 feet from the wall so I can get back there. There's so little on that wall now though that I'm still able to pull my car deeper into the garage then I have in a decade even though that table is so far out from the wall. 
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:Surely there are other CPAs closer to home!
Originally posted by Brenda:
Back from supper and I survived the religion.
Not sure how much longer I'll be working. The lady I work for just gave up her accountant in Ontario and doesn't like paper work. Not that she liked it in the first place.
I used to hire people to watch our dear daughter after school, and I didn't think the paperwork was all THAT complicated. Maybe its different in Canada. But all I had to do was pay state taxes quarterly, and pay the Federal Household Help taxes with annual income taxes. Of course, being a doctor, if she has (had?) her own practice instead of being on staff with an institution she would have to handle the business end of her taxes too.
Anyway, here's hoping she figures it out in your favor.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
Accountant was getting to expensive and she's retired now from doctoring anyways. She also feels like she can handle all her cooking and baking herself now. So, it is just play it by ear. If she calls me to come and do something then I will go but I'm not really of a mind to phone her. She tried to fob the paperwork off on me and I said no.
From the website for Canada it does seem to involve a bit more. She pulled up the Government website while I was there and started looking at it. There is provincial stuff and federal stuff on it.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:Fair warning: I hated Season 6, especially how it ended. But most ppl LOVED it, so maybe you will, too.
Originally posted by Brenda:
Well, I can get Season 6 of "Shetland" on YouTube. My library doesn't have it. Interesting start to this round. Jimmy's mum is gone and his dad isnae in a good way.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
I've seen a couple of reviews on YouTube about it. Didn't watch the videos just read what was posted and yeah they say there are some problems. I'll just have to see. I just managed to watch the first episode yesterday.
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Out for my walk in the dry right now. Couple of things to do.
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i got the metal shelving all down and out on the curb for the light haulers. I decided to keep the posts and the top three metal shelves on the side wall where my large work bench is since it might be a while until I can build new ones and both the snow blower and power washer can still fit underneath them and I can put both of my huge trash cans in front of them and nothing sticks out in front of the overhead door anymore. I was also able to tightly wind up and secure the 37 or so extra feet of 4" corrugated pipe I used to extend my downspouts last year and get it on that top shelf and finally up off of the floor and out of my way too.
I didn't get around to doing any of the electric on the back wall, but it wasn't for lack of work. I did end up doing a ton of cleanup and re-org, and I loaded up the two cans with about as much weight as I'm comfortable with putting in them. Mostly wood that there's no sense in hanging on to... small pieces and such.
THERE'S SO MUCH ROOM IN MY GARAGE NOW!!!
No way around it though... I'm still going to need a lot more 2x4's so I can build more shelves. I was going to build 12 more, but I think I just need to build the 3rd units on top of the 12 that I already did and that should be plenty... and I think it will be nice to have the first 5 to 6 feet of space in front of the overhead door cleared up. Some of the shelves, particularly my auto stuff is super organized and clean looking, but as I head further toward the back of the garage there is just tons of stuff stacked on top of each other haphazardly. I really want those top shelves done so I can put things I'd rarely use like spare shingles and extra tarps up top as well as things I plan on using in the house like really nice light fixtures and a couple of faucets.
I also had a scare with my power steering. Since I just hauled over 9,000 lbs of rocks in the car, I thought maybe I'd screwed it up. Nope...
I checked the power steering levels and it was bone freakin' dry. I'm assuming that when you get your oil changed and they top off your fluids, the power steering is something they fill up??? I've only paid for one single oil change in the 14 years that I've owned the car, and I've never owned a car as long as this one. Truth be told, turning the car was always a minor struggle for as long as I can remember. Just something you get used to.
So I picked up some fluid along with a few other things I'm going to try to get the car to pass emissions, topped her off and also made sure my oil was topped off too.
Then I drove the car...
Holy crap. Does it handle nice now! It feels like a brand new car. I don't remember ever turning the car so easily. I bet the power steering fluid was already lower than it should have been back when I first bought the darn thing!
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Originally posted by Brenda:Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:Surely there are other CPAs closer to home!
Originally posted by Brenda:
Back from supper and I survived the religion.
Not sure how much longer I'll be working. The lady I work for just gave up her accountant in Ontario and doesn't like paper work. Not that she liked it in the first place.
I used to hire people to watch our dear daughter after school, and I didn't think the paperwork was all THAT complicated. Maybe its different in Canada. But all I had to do was pay state taxes quarterly, and pay the Federal Household Help taxes with annual income taxes. Of course, being a doctor, if she has (had?) her own practice instead of being on staff with an institution she would have to handle the business end of her taxes too.
Anyway, here's hoping she figures it out in your favor.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
Accountant was getting to expensive and she's retired now from doctoring anyways. She also feels like she can handle all her cooking and baking herself now. So, it is just play it by ear. If she calls me to come and do something then I will go but I'm not really of a mind to phone her. She tried to fob the paperwork off on me and I said no.
From the website for Canada it does seem to involve a bit more. She pulled up the Government website while I was there and started looking at it. There is provincial stuff and federal stuff on it.
Too bad we live so far away, Brenda. Unless you've got some more involved things that I'm not privy to, your taxes probably aren't super complex. I'd say that in the 20 or so years I've done my own that there were probably only 3 years that were complex, especially when I bought the house and moved a lot of money around to do it.
I used to really enjoy doing taxes, but I think as the years go by I've gotten bored of doing them. But I enjoyed helping my Aunt get hers done this year. It was the first time I'd done somebody else's since my brother got married. I did his for years before that, but I told him that they'd need to get an accountant because I didn't want to know how much his wife made once they started filing jointly.
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Originally posted by Brenda:Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:Surely there are other CPAs closer to home!
Originally posted by Brenda:
Back from supper and I survived the religion.
Not sure how much longer I'll be working. The lady I work for just gave up her accountant in Ontario and doesn't like paper work. Not that she liked it in the first place.
I used to hire people to watch our dear daughter after school, and I didn't think the paperwork was all THAT complicated. Maybe its different in Canada. But all I had to do was pay state taxes quarterly, and pay the Federal Household Help taxes with annual income taxes. Of course, being a doctor, if she has (had?) her own practice instead of being on staff with an institution she would have to handle the business end of her taxes too.
Anyway, here's hoping she figures it out in your favor.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
Accountant was getting to expensive and she's retired now from doctoring anyways. She also feels like she can handle all her cooking and baking herself now. So, it is just play it by ear. If she calls me to come and do something then I will go but I'm not really of a mind to phone her. She tried to fob the paperwork off on me and I said no.
From the website for Canada it does seem to involve a bit more. She pulled up the Government website while I was there and started looking at it. There is provincial stuff and federal stuff on it.
Too bad we live so far away, Brenda. Unless you've got some more involved things that I'm not privy to, your taxes probably aren't super complex. I'd say that in the 20 or so years I've done my own that there were probably only 3 years that were complex, especially when I bought the house and moved a lot of money around to do it.
I used to really enjoy doing taxes, but I think as the years go by I've gotten bored of doing them. But I enjoyed helping my Aunt get hers done this year. It was the first time I'd done somebody else's since my brother got married. I did his for years before that, but I told him that they'd need to get an accountant because I didn't want to know how much his wife made once they started filing jointly.
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Me: "Remember Covid?"
Useless Idiots: "What's Covid, durr? Russia, Ukraine, Putin, NATO *drool*. DURRRR!!!!"
What I do for me is super simple but I have no head for numbers and also things have changed on the forms since I learned waaaay back in high school to do them. That's a personal return.
And besides my boss is employing me and that makes her responsible for this government paperwork. She's just lazy and figured I would help her out of the goodness of my heart. But like I said. I am not.
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Going out early tomorrow in the hopes of getting back early to do some vacuuming. I've put it off for too long and I swallowed some dust this afternoon then coughed it back up.
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Back and I got my vacuuming done. Which is good.
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Got the electric I wanted to do done today and the back of the garage in order.
I discovered I had two circuits ran out to the garage, which saying was a pleasant surprise is an understatement. I will be incorporating that into my new setup as I start tying things together.
I did it with my step-dad 11 or 12 years ago, probably the first week I moved in here. Lots of drinking back in those days and tons more years after must have erased that from my brain.
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