In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
POSTED BY: SIGNYM
UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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Got the 2nd batch of 8 casings painted yesterday. First thing on the agenda is staging them inside so I can get all the baseboard and the last 2 casings I need for the porch out there to clean off and paint.
Then it's back in the shed for me today.
I was painting until 10PM last night. Finally got everything scraped and clean out there and used up 2 full gallons of flat white paint/primer I got really cheap a year or two ago. Those plywood and OSB boards really suck up that first coat. I'm going to be figuring out what paint I want to use in there now with the colors I have on hand. If I plan it right I shouldn't have to buy any more paint for either the porch or the shed and I can use up about 2/3rds of the paint that has been sitting in my coat closet and on a shelf in the basement for a few years.
And probably tomorrow I can really clear out some space by getting insulation up on the wall between the porch and the shed. The rest of it is going to go in the attic above the porch, but that's got to be on a cool day when I feel like going up in that mess.
Too hot to be doing all that sanding of the mud in the porch just yet. I don't want to be doing that while I'm going to be sweating since it will stick all over me. I can't have the fan on or the windows open when I'm doing it or it's going to get everywhere. We should have a few cooler days this week for me to get that done so I can get primer on the walls.
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Out for my walk in a bit. Just a couple of small things to do today like pick up a Christmas present for a kitty.
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Back from my walk and even remembered to renew my membership at my senior's centre.
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I found an OLD can of enamel finish I bought back in 2012 that was somehow still good, so I was able to use that to give everything in the shed a 2nd coat. After the wood swallowed up that first coat the 2nd coat is holding much better. After seeing the enamel on it, I've decided that I want an enamel finish out there, so I'm just going to use one of the pricey gallons that I've already got to do the finish coat and buy more as needed. I should have enough left to do the rest of the trim I wanted to do and the shed for now and hopefully I can catch it on sale before i need it again.
It was 95 degrees today!!!! Hot day to be working in a shed with no airflow, especially when i was up on the ladder.
I was sweating too much to even attempt putting the 2nd/final coat of paint on the 4 baseboards and the remaining two casings. I'll do that tomorrow morning when it's cool.
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Well... Hopefully I get my car back today. My rides have dried up, so I'll have to walk to get it. I don't want to waste an obligation on a neighbor for something that trivial, although I likely will be in the middle of painting something when the call comes in.
I had to kind of tear the guy a new one on Monday. By that time he'd had it 10 days. I knew he must have been on his own because only one vehicle was being worked on since the Friday 2 weeks prior, and only even got my car up on the racks last Friday because he worked until 9PM that night.
But it was up there... So I assumed mine was going to be worked on next, right?
Well after getting the runaround with the bad communication skills of a mechanic with a heavy work load, his other mechanic not in town and no hired staff to man the phones, I had to give him the shit when it was getting clear I wasn't going to even have my quote by Monday afternoon.
You see, everything is rusted on the bottom of my car. I know this first hand, because I've been under there. So we've already decided I was replacing both brake lines on that side in fear that when the lines were bled after only doing one the other one was just going to burst. (Internet research tracks with this). But the fuel line is also right there on that side and is jenk too. (Which also tracks online, and typically all three are replaced together on old cars). So the problem was that for him to get me a quote on the fuel line as well, he had to take the back seat out of my car and see if/how he could get the line off of the pump.
So... He was working on another car in the mean time on Monday because he had to order extra brake line and fittings for my car. But by the time I'd called him the third time on Monday to find out what the hell was going on, I got him to tell me the lines were in. Well.... GET BACK TO MY CAR THEN. Do you even have fuel line on hand to fix my fuel line after you get me that quote? "Maybe? I don't know. I have to see it first.". WTF man? Get to it.
So he did. And he called me a half hour later at 3:30 to let me know getting that seat out was a bitch and he'd call me back when he got it out. Never got another call on Monday.
I wait until 10:30 to call yesterday. His other guy came back and was working on getting my seat out and they'd call me back. 1:30 I call back and he tells me they got the seat out but he's dealing with a customer and he'll call me back in 20 minutes.
2:50 I call him back to let him know that 20 minutes was an hour ago. Then it's back to the excuses that he just had 8 calls and had to run out to pick up a part. NOT my problem. It's been 11 days and I don't even have a quote. "That truck took a week to do". Yeah, it did. It's called time management man. It's called picking and choosing which cars to work on to satisfy as many customers as possible and not just hyperfocusing on the huge problem car while leaving everyone else without a car for over a week. I'm sure I'm far from the only car that still isn't drivable. "I'm the only guy here". Not today you're not. You already told me he's back. "Yeah. He's back today."
So... very calmly I proceeded...
Look man. When I called you over an hour ago I was just going to tell you to screw the fuel line and get my brake lines done. I got no gas for my mower. I got things I need to pick up at the hardware store. Soon, I'll be running out of food (that one was a lie). Look... I don't like being a Karen. But it's been 11 days now and I still haven't even gotten a full quote. I get your problems. I'm very familiar with jobs taking longer than you expected them to. But I don't live with anybody else. That's my only car. My friends and family live out of state. I just need my f*#(ing car back man.
And for once, I felt like I finally got the gruff old man on a defensive platform.
The good
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Out for my walk. Couple of things to do before I play a pick up game of mah jong this afternoon.
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Got back from my pick up game and no luck. Maybe tomorrow at my usual mah jong game.
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May we both have good luck today.
You win your Mahjong game, and I get my car back.
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Indeed. Good luck to you both!
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
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I just noticed: happy first official day of autumn!
We've got a 1-week hot spell in the forecast, and for sure there's at least one more waiting for us, but at least it's we're on a cooling trend from now on.
I know you guys aren't big fans of winter, and with good reason, but for me in So Cal it's a giant relief.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
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