In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
POSTED BY: SIGNYM
UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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Originally posted by SignyM:Quote:we are fortunate not to have had any megafires during the longest hottest heat wave on record..I snarkily told sis maybe bc everything has burned up already.
Originally posted by Brenda:
Got smoke where I am today. Winds blowing it in from fires burning down in Washington state.
I am out for my walk in a bit. Couple of small things to do.
Anyway, the heat wave has BROKEN! We got a negligible but unseasonal 1/4" of rain. This storm huffed and puffed and then fizzled! But at least it's 85 out, not 95 or 105.
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You were lucky and fantastic on the little bit of rain and cool down.
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Still smoky around me but I didn't find it overly warm out even though the temp is sitting around 86F.
All done for today along with a little garbage and recycling taken out. Having a nice long sit down now.
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12 hours today spent clearing out a hoard straight into a dumpster and sweeping up and vacuuming up roughly 40 pounds of mouse crap.
My friends are lucky friends.
I going to eat dinner now. At 2:00AM. Then I'm going to burn my clothes.
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Quote:This was the buddy you were helping out?
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
12 hours today spent clearing out a hoard straight into a dumpster and sweeping up and vacuuming up roughly 40 pounds of mouse crap.
My friends are lucky friends.
I going to eat dinner now. At 2:00AM. Then I'm going to burn my clothes.
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Just OOC ...you don't have to tell me if you don't want to ... WHERE was the hoard???
Your friend is lucky to have you help out!
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
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Just a Sunday in the smoke which at times I can smell in my apartment even with all the windows closed. Sun is trying to come through it all.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:This was the buddy you were helping out?
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
12 hours today spent clearing out a hoard straight into a dumpster and sweeping up and vacuuming up roughly 40 pounds of mouse crap.
My friends are lucky friends.
I going to eat dinner now. At 2:00AM. Then I'm going to burn my clothes.
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Yeah. Not sure if you remember, but I know I must have mentioned the pigs living in his house that he was renting out and their hoarding behavior. After TWO FREAKIN' YEARS he finally got them out of the house last night. (The timing of the Covid BS really screwed him).
I was there again all day long today and we still haven't cleaned it all out. Filled up the biggest dumpster on the market and used every square inch of space in it and he's still going to have to get a smaller dumpster to take care of the rest they left behind.
Poor guy has so much work ahead of him bringing that house back up to code let alone making it ready for a sale.
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Just OOC ...you don't have to tell me if you don't want to ... WHERE was the hoard???
Every square inch of the house, but at least they cleaned out most of it on the main two floors before they left. Still took us about an hour just to get the stuff on the main floors out today, and got almost all of it out of the basement.
I also ripped up the rest of the carpet he hadn't gotten to because I said the smell is never going to go away no matter how many fans he has on or how long he keeps the windows open until all that bad crap is out.
Then I told him we had to get both of the refrigerators out of there while he had me there since I don't think he could have done it on his own and I didn't want his dad helping him with it before they lost the dumpster. There had to be $800 worth of food we threw out. Both fridges were absolutely stuffed to the gills. It killed me to throw away a full freezer full of stuff that was probably good, but there were tons of dead gnats and flies and mouse crap even in the fridge. The stuff in the fridge part was gross and moldy though.
Twice I told him he'd need about 20 traps too, and by the next day he'd have 20 dead mice and he'd need to re-set all of them until they stop catching anything. He didn't believe me since we hadn't seen a mouse the whole time and figured after we get all the stuff out they'd just leave. I told him it doesn't work that way. Later in the day I said "is that a bird outside or a mouse?". He said it was a bird... hopefully. Later I heard it again and told him nah dude, you got mice that fled upstairs because of all the activity.
As we were leaving, I was outside and he was finishing locking up and I heard him yell. I thought he'd hurt himself and ran inside and he said he saw a mouse.
So good... Mouse traps are on his shopping list now.
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Your friend is lucky to have you help out!
Yeah... Second most disgusting thing I've ever done after gutting all the mold out of my basement.
And it's not even done yet...
I don't even understand how people can live like that. There's mouse shit on their kitchen table too.
And the nerve of people to destroy a house that doesn't even belong to them too.
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Out for my walk in a bit. Couple of things to do.
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Back from my walk and because of all the smoke sitting over my area it is a little warmer today than Saturday.
The lady that I work for is going to end up going back to an accountant to get the employer part of the taxes sorted out. She's called me twice now and twice I've basically told her the same thing.
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Got my scuttle hole finished in the porch. Now we can finish putting up drywall and I'll still have an access panel to get underneath if I ever have to.
It was my opportunity to get down there for the first time in nearly 3 years since my friend came over and we fixed the floor. Aside from one little part at a corner that is giving me some minor concern, everything looks just as good as the day we finished the work if you don't count the spiders and spider webs. No smell down there either.
I'm beat, so I was happy when my friend's dad said he wasn't feeling it today either. Hopefully he's here tomorrow and we get the rest of the drywall up and start mudding everything. I'll be doing that myself if he can't make it tomorrow though.
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Hopefully I hear about my car today. The guy does good work at much cheaper shop rates than other places, and I hate bothering him while he's working since he mans the phones too. I'll probably have to call him later today if I don't hear anything though.
Since I can't put up any drywall until my friend's dad is here and he takes a look and gives me his opinion on whether or not we should double up on the joists at the end while they're still easy to get to, I think I'll get out in my garage and start putting a bunch of tools and other stuff back in their place. It's a mess out there with all the projects I've been doing. If we need to get to a table saw today it would be a chore just to move things out of the way to get to it.
I've got to call my aunt and let her know I can't come out to help at Grandma's next weekend either since I've got to go out and help my friend get the rest of that filth out of his house first. Once I know that the bulk of the dangerous stuff is out of there and that his dad isn't going to take it upon himself to go clean it up since it's still there I can get out to grams.
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