In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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Today I did a dozen little things, starting with a very early morning watering of the back wall pines and moving the van out of the driveway so St Vincent de Paul could get at the donation items. Then I brought in my office plant (and had to vacuum the mat where I spilled some dirt), watered the veggie garden, bucket-watered a spot where no hoses can reach... the bee guy showed up, said we were bee-free and he removed his bee box and hauled the bees away to his apiary, so I paid him ... vacuumed the kitchen mats, raked up the pine needles before I put the van back... did a bunch of dishes and made chicken and veggie stir-fry... then I sacked out on the love seat bc I was knackered!
Still have a metric crap-ton of little things to do, but yesterday I sorted out the big headache I was having with Medicare denying coverage. It was weighing on my mind terribly, but all is good now, so now I can focus on other stuff and feel free to do what I need to do.
Still have a TERRIBLE case of the itches. Most likely a late side effect of one of my infusions, but I scratched my neck open in my sleep, it's so bad. I've tried triamcinilone Rx and coconut oil and Cerave and sulfur cream and cool showers and even permethrin cream (on the idea it was some sort of garden mite) but the only thing that seems to help is Benadryl gel. I'm telling you, if you've got a bad itch somewhere...mosquito bite, spider bite, sun itch, hives ... try that stuff. It might work for you bc it works for me.
Well, on with a cool shower and slather myself with Benadryl gel and maybe take some oral benadryl and see if I can get better sleep tonight.
Nighty-night.
Tomorrow its onward thru the fog!
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
Itches must be unbearable. I hope your rememdies work. I find a bit of phenerghan helps and it also puts you to sleep - double whammy. The other thing we used to use when I was a kid was calamine location. I have no idea what it is and whether you can get it - it was probably made from DDT or something awful.
Still cold and wet here but the days are getting longer and the wattle is fully out. My bulbs are starting to peak their heads above the soil.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:Isn't that great when someone notices?
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Got a huge compliment from a neighbor that lives a few blocks behind me on all the work I've done on my house while I was working and he was walking his dog. He said he remembered seeing me working on the driveway a few years back too.
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It must mean you've made huge improvements bc most people only notice the bad stuff.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
Yeah. I'm surprised I don't see that guy more often with all the outside work I do. As he was walking the dog back to his house he said "you'll see me again, I've got to walk the other dog too". And I did.
But it was pretty late though. Maybe about 7:00 PM. Not that I'm an early riser, but if I'm doing yard work it's usually done by 4:00PM even if it's sweltering hot outside.
He was raving about the porch windows. He mentioned that it is the first thing he sees when he turns down the block and he doesn't have to look at how bad it used to be with those crappy louvers anymore. I told him I had one neighbor call me up and thank me for raising the value of everybody's property on the block by $5k.
I wish I could show you the difference, but with hostiles around here like Second who has a diary of everything I've ever written, and Nilbog still coming around with her Magons handle, I'm not going to be posting any pictures of the outside of my house.
I think for me though, the coolest time a neighbor said anything was as I was putting up the siding after the windows were installed and some kid I see zipping by on this weird skateboard thing with a giant wheel in the middle of it yelled out "That looks awesome". It's hard impressing kids.
Off to the store. Ran out of watertite last night before I could finish the job and the instructions say you can't put anything over it for 72 hours. I want to be tarring that wall first thing in Monday morning.
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Out for my walk. Got a couple of things to do.
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Quote:Your weather sounds lovely. The winters there sound like winter in central CA, prolly cooler than here.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Today I did a dozen little things, starting with a very early morning watering of the back wall pines and moving the van out of the driveway so St Vincent de Paul could get at the donation items. Then I brought in my office plant (and had to vacuum the mat where I spilled some dirt), watered the veggie garden, bucket-watered a spot where no hoses can reach... the bee guy showed up, said we were bee-free and he removed his bee box and hauled the bees away to his apiary, so I paid him ... vacuumed the kitchen mats, raked up the pine needles before I put the van back... did a bunch of dishes and made chicken and veggie stir-fry... then I sacked out on the love seat bc I was knackered!
Still have a metric crap-ton of little things to do, but yesterday I sorted out the big headache I was having with Medicare denying coverage. It was weighing on my mind terribly, but all is good now, so now I can focus on other stuff and feel free to do what I need to do.
Still have a TERRIBLE case of the itches. Most likely a late side effect of one of my infusions, but I scratched my neck open in my sleep, it's so bad. I've tried triamcinilone Rx and coconut oil and Cerave and sulfur cream and cool showers and even permethrin cream (on the idea it was some sort of garden mite) but the only thing that seems to help is Benadryl gel. I'm telling you, if you've got a bad itch somewhere...mosquito bite, spider bite, sun itch, hives ... try that stuff. It might work for you bc it works for me.
Well, on with a cool shower and slather myself with Benadryl gel and maybe take some oral benadryl and see if I can get better sleep tonight.
Nighty-night.
Tomorrow its onward thru the fog!
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
Itches must be unbearable. I hope your rememdies work. I find a bit of phenerghan helps and it also puts you to sleep - double whammy. The other thing we used to use when I was a kid was calamine location. I have no idea what it is and whether you can get it - it was probably made from DDT or something awful.
Still cold and wet here but the days are getting longer and the wattle is fully out. My bulbs are starting to peak their heads above the soil.
I'm learning more about Australia watching Dr Blake (altho disappointed to read that the actor was in Rocky Horror. Why the heck? He's a good enough actor not to be in that shlock.)
BULBS! What kind? Not that I expect to know; they're probably some Australian kind I'll have to look up.
Phenergan here is Rx not OTC, usually used for nausea and allergies. Curiously, another medication - here called Zantac, used for acid stomach - also works for allergies. There's a connection between stomach and histamine which I would know if I were a biochemist. I tried oral benadryl (diphenhydramine) too, but I had to take a whopping dose to get any effect. Triamcinilone layered over benadryl gel seems to work.
Good to hear from you, MAGONS.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
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Back from my walk and temp is higher now than it was this morning.
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Finished all of the repairs and got the crud out of just over half of the gap between the foundation and the front porch slab. That turned out to be a massive job. No huge hurry on that now though since I can't tar the rest of the front until Monday morning when the watertite sets.
Got me a motion sensor LED spotlight for the garage. I'll be installing that next week too if I haven't done it over the weekend. That's the last thing I needed to do on the garage.
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Well, the lady that I work for has made up here mind as I got a message on Thursday when I got back from mah jong. I gave her a call and so I am off to work tomorrow morning.
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Quote:Your weather sounds lovely. The winters there sound like winter in central CA, prolly cooler than here.
Itches must be unbearable. I hope your rememdies work. I find a bit of phenerghan helps and it also puts you to sleep - double whammy. The other thing we used to use when I was a kid was calamine location. I have no idea what it is and whether you can get it - it was probably made from DDT or something awful.
Still cold and wet here but the days are getting longer and the wattle is fully out. My bulbs are starting to peak their heads above the soil.
I'm learning more about Australia watching Dr Blake (altho disappointed to read that the actor was in Rocky Horror. Why the heck? He's a good enough actor not to be in that shlock.)
BULBS! What kind? Not that I expect to know; they're probably some Australian kind I'll have to look up.
Phenergan here is Rx not OTC, usually used for nausea and allergies. Curiously, another medication - here called Zantac, used for acid stomach - also works for allergies. There's a connection between stomach and histamine which I would know if I were a biochemist. I tried oral benadryl (diphenhydramine) too, but I had to take a whopping dose to get any effect. Triamcinilone layered over benadryl gel seems to work.
Good to hear from you, MAGONS.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
Craig (Dr Blake) has been involved in some pretty dodgy stuff, sorry to say. Not sure how his career will be going. If you like crime drama, I can recommend Mystery Road, set at the other end of the country in the Kimberleys - amazing scenery, interesting story line, Aboriginal detective. I enjoyed it.
Ive planted exotic bulbs - not even sure whether Australian natives come with vulbs. Jonquils, bluebells and some tulips. I'm hoping the hungry possums don't eat them all, they've been pretty brutal this winter on the plants.
Everyone hates Melbourne weather - it's not an easy climate. Coldish winters (by Aus standards) but can be like a furnace in Summer. And lots of extremes - big winds, rains, gets very dangerous for bushfires in Summer. Unpredictable. The saying goes - if you don't like the weather, wait an hour.
It's funny how countries vary what you can and can't buy OTC. Im pissed off that codeine is now on prescription. It's the best for a cough. Bloody meth cookers.
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Ugggggggghhhhhhh.....
Freakin weathermen.
Woke up to find there's now a coin flip today that we could get a stray thunder storm that drops a 1/4 of an inch of rain, when there was no rain in the prediciton until Wednesday.
Here's hoping it misses me. In any event, I probably won't be washing the walls and putting any tar up today. Tar needs 24 hours without any rain, and the splash from the mud is going to dirty up the walls anyhow.
I can still get the rest of the crud out of the porch slab, clean it up and get tar on that though. Maybe I'll still find some time to take down the old light and see if I can rig up the new one in between rain showers.
It would be cool to finish up the garage today. Hopefully, my aunt and grandma are coming over tomorrow. It's getting a lot harder for my aunt to get her around though, and she still works full time and work's been hard because of the hot weather.
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Quote:Thanks! I'll look for it on our service.
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Craig (Dr Blake) has been involved in some pretty dodgy stuff, sorry to say. Not sure how his career will be going. If you like crime drama, I can recommend Mystery Road, set at the other end of the country in the Kimberleys - amazing scenery, interesting story line, Aboriginal detective. I enjoyed it.
Quote:Australia has possums too?
Ive planted exotic bulbs - not even sure whether Australian natives come with vulbs. Jonquils, bluebells and some tulips. I'm hoping the hungry possums don't eat them all, they've been pretty brutal this winter on the plants.
Jonquils (native to Spain and Portugal), bluebells (originating various parts of the globe depending on variety) and tulips (originally from Turkey) ... exotic to many places of the world but would be very at-home in the USA wherever there is snow on the ground in winter. I love those flowers but the winters here are far too warm. The only bulbs that have naturalized in my garden are paperwhite narcissus and Sternbergia (yellow autumn crocus).
Quote:I didn't realize it was so extreme. I learn more every day.
Everyone hates Melbourne weather - it's not an easy climate. Coldish winters (by Aus standards) but can be like a furnace in Summer. And lots of extremes - big winds, rains, gets very dangerous for bushfires in Summer. Unpredictable. The saying goes - if you don't like the weather, wait an hour.
Quote:Here they're very careful about ANY of the opiates- codeine, morphine, oxycodone, tramadol etc. They all latch onto the opiate receptors in the brain and potential for addiction is high. That makes legitimate pain control difficult. How do meth cookers fit in?
It's funny how countries vary what you can and can't buy OTC. Im pissed off that codeine is now on prescription. It's the best for a cough. Bloody meth cookers.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
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