In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
POSTED BY: SIGNYM
UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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Quote:Since you haul around tons of rocks and do other heavy duty work I'm surprised that tarring a slab side and finishing a crack repair would tire you out. Was it bc it's the kind of work that you have to do bending down? Or am I missing something?
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SIX
Ew... That's hot. At least it's dry though.
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SIX: Got the side of the slab trenched, cleaned and tarred and I put the final-ish coat of concrete repair on the crack. It went further than I thought it would at the end there. I've got about 5lbs of it left. I'm going to clean it up in a day or two after it dries and get the high spots down, mix up the rest and give it as smooth of a final skim coat as I can. I'm not as good at this as my friend's dad is, but it doesn't look bad right now.
I'm beat. There was other things I could have been doing outside to kill time, but I'm just going to shower and maybe clean a little inside now.
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I think being on my knees or my ass is getting to be harder on me than it used to be. I'm much better hauling around heavy loads standing up or using my upper body to do things than I am kneeling or sitting cross legged for too long a time at once.
I've got to do something about building my cardio back up. I haven't really gotten any decent cardio workouts since the last layoff.
I've also felt a little "off" the last week or so. It's been a while since I worked until 9 or 10PM and I'm usually wrapping it up quite a bit earlier. It appears I have an ear infection right now... I woke up with it this morning. We'll see how that's doing tomorrow morning.
Talked to my friend's dad and he's going to come over next week to do the door. I'll have everything I need wrapped up by then with time to go over to my grandma's for a few days and get some work done there over there.
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Out for my walk on a bright sunny day. Couple of things to do.
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Back from my walk and all done for today. Did one of the exercises recommended by the physio and now a little sore.
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I was really set on not doing anything today...
I was thinking about possibly doing electric in my shed and up in the attic above the shed and porch, but after re-assessing it and remembering that because of the way the idiots did the work I'm going to have to pull wires so I can take down conduit to cut it shorter and add additional boxes and wire to add slack to the existing lines instead of just installing a light and a switch in 5 minutes, I quickly decided against opening that can of worms right now with everything else going on. Let's not forget it would be over 100 degrees in that attic right now too.
So I sat there outside figuring I'd just go back inside and relax. But then I didn't do that...
I sanded down the slab crack patch and the patch I had over any of the divots in the surface, cleaned everything up really good, and mixed up the last of my patch to give it one final skim coat. Looks freakin' great.
Then I decided that even though the tar will take more time to cure I was going to add that new piece of J-channel and get my bottom two pieces of siding up over the wall repair that I did, but that turned into a much bigger project...
That is the wall that I probably mentioned before had three pieces of siding that were warped. For years I didn't know why it was warped, but my aunt saw it one time and knew it was because somebody was using the grill right next to it and it melted. DUH!
So I looked up high at the back of the garage where I'd cannibalized all the siding I needed to use to wrap up the porch after the new windows and door was installed and I had 3 perfect pieces up there for the job (when does that ever happen???)
Putting up siding from scratch is a one man job. Taking pieces out and putting new pieces back in halfway up a wall is a two man job. So is installing new J-channel underneath a wall that is already sided. I managed to do it all on my own while pushing through a lot of frustration and difficulty.
Except for a 2ft length of J-channel that needs to be replaced on the left side of the shed door, all of the siding on the house is complete now. And I didn't even have to start taking any siding off the side of the garage.
At least there is a layer of siding under the vinyl siding on the back of the garage, so I never had to wrap it up with anything. It's also roughly the same color as the vinyl, so it's not even a major eyesore for the neighbors until I get around to fixing it.
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So much for not doing anything, SIX!
A lot of chores today and watering the veggies and avocados bc the heat is just wilting them! But I harvested the very first okra pods today. I also rescued a baby skink (long-tailed lizard) from the bathroom.
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If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
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Off to mah jong in the morning then a couple of errands.
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With friends coming into town to see a concert the next few days, I decided against any more project work today and to do some chores. It hasn't been said that anybody will be meeting up at my place since it's close to me, but that probably will be a thing that happens.
Lawn is mowed, and all of my floor mats were already out to get the sand from the pit beaten out of them so I can properly sweep and vac the floors before putting them back in. Probably got around 6 1/2 hours to get the place presentable and clean myself up.
I do intend to put my anti-mole nets in the trenched out slab and back fill it tomorrow though, along with some other final touches to the shed before we get the new door installed.
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Back from mah jong and was beat by another lady at the table I was playing at. She finished the morning with over 10,000 points. I had half that at over 5,000 points. One of those days.
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All of my buds who were coming out except for one made it.
I'm glad I cleaned the house, although it was just the guys tonight. The families are coming out tomorrow night, so the house will still be clean if they gather here first again. (In fact, if somebody doesn't peek too deep into the basement, this might just be the cleanest the house has ever been).
Good concert. I'm sure the food was amazing. It sure smelled amazing. But Jack doesn't pay $12.00 for cheese fries or a Funnel Cake or $10.00 for a chili dog.
I don't even want to know what they were paying for those little beers, so I didn't ask.
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