In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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Er... Maybe move the trim from the basement to the porch? Just in case?
Glad to read you're feeling better. Most ppl feel worse in the evening if they're sick with something - has to do with biorythms and cortisol production and whatnot. So if you really have something and it's not just exhaustion and/or exposure to dust and mouse droppings you might feel worse again in the evening. Only time will tell. I like the idea of you doing something easy today, bc you'll know by this evening if feeling sick was just temporary or the real deal.
Sorry to read about your friend's dad. If he's still in hospital it must be serious. Just pass along my hopes that he'll be on the mend soon. And your friend... oy. Between his cars and his dad he's having a rough time. At least his car troubles are prollyonly temporary. The big positive step was getting that rental vacated, and you played a big part in getting it cleared out so much. At least there's that!
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Quote:Oh gosh. They don't make things like they used to! Mom used to have a hot water bottle made of natural rubber. It lasted for decades!
Originally posted by Brenda:
Out for my walk soon. Need to replace the hot water bottle I have been using on my shoulder. It sprung a leak last night.
How's the shoulder?
Mine still hurts, that torn rotator cuff is still torn. Torn tendons take a LONG time to heal. If there's a way of making it go faster, let me know!
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Originally posted by SignyM:Quote:Oh gosh. They don't make things like they used to! Mom used to have a hot water bottle made of natural rubber. It lasted for decades!
Originally posted by Brenda:
Out for my walk soon. Need to replace the hot water bottle I have been using on my shoulder. It sprung a leak last night.
How's the shoulder?
Mine still hurts, that torn rotator cuff is still torn. Torn tendons take a LONG time to heal. If there's a way of making it go faster, let me know!
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
No, they don't make things as good as they used to. That's cool for your mom. I've never seen anything like that.
Shoulder is still sore. Doing the exercises a bit and taking it as easy as I can on it.
That area does take a long time to heal and this is like the fourth time I've injured it. So yeah going to take a while.
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Call from my boss yesterday about taking me out for an early birthday lunch. Said she would call me back with all the details, didn't hear back from her last night. So, I guess that means I am calling her this evening for the details. Suppose to be going into Vancouver to hook up with someone else. Oh, we are suppose to do this tomorrow.
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Originally posted by SignyM:
Er... Maybe move the trim from the basement to the porch? Just in case?
Oh yeah. Yanno, I'm sure I would have thought of that when the time came, but since I haven't even sanded the mud and gotten any primer up, I couldn't put them in there because there's work to do out there. Maybe instead of being hyper focused on finishing the shed and the insulation I should throw finishing the porch walls and ceiling in the mix this week. I know more mud needs to go up after a primer coat, but it's hard to tell where until I get that far. So with drying times in between I could be getting the shed and insulation done at a slower pace. Really no reason I couldn't have all of that done by Friday as long as I'm feeling good, and then I could just protect the finished paint where I'm leaning casings once it's had time to cure. No rain of note in the forecast for two weeks at least right now.
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Glad to read you're feeling better. Most ppl feel worse in the evening if they're sick with something - has to do with biorythms and cortisol production and whatnot. So if you really have something and it's not just exhaustion and/or exposure to dust and mouse droppings you might feel worse again in the evening. Only time will tell. I like the idea of you doing something easy today, bc you'll know by this evening if feeling sick was just temporary or the real deal.
Well I haven't done anything yet today. After that post I made a few phone calls and then I went to sleep again. I was up every 30 to 45 minutes or so, but it's after 3PM right now. I must have needed it.
My body aches a bit... mostly my back probably from sleeping so long. But the rest of the problems seem to be gone now. Just got that cobwebs in the head feeling after getting too much sleep right now.
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Sorry to read about your friend's dad. If he's still in hospital it must be serious. Just pass along my hopes that he'll be on the mend soon. And your friend... oy. Between his cars and his dad he's having a rough time. At least his car troubles are prollyonly temporary. The big positive step was getting that rental vacated, and you played a big part in getting it cleared out so much. At least there's that!
They discharged him late Friday night, but that's only because they dropped the ball on a test that they still wanted to do and are going to have him come back to do it. At this point we still don't know what the heart solution is going to be... Bypass surgery or rodding out the clogged artery. The one bit of good news is that they think the spots on his lung *could* be an infection. He's on some antibiotics right now and nobody should be freaking out about the worst case scenario until he gets re-checked. They've got him on some sort of life vest 24/7 right now. I think if times were better he'd still be in the hospital right now. But there's too many people and insurance doesn't want to pay for it anymore.
At least my friend's house should be smelling better soon. We didn't get to power washing the basement now that everything is out yet, but that should take the funk out of the basement after a few days of fan drying with the windows open. I could tell he's done a lot upstairs because the smell of ammonia from the cats that ruined the hardwood floors is gone.
He's got so much work ahead of him.
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I'll check my email and if there is nothing there from my boss, I guess I can do what I intended tomorrow.
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Feeling better-ish. Didn't have any problems sleeping last night even though I slept until late afternoon, so I obviously needed it.
I think I'll start today by sanding the mud on the walls and getting primer on the walls. We did some minor repairs to some of the ceiling tile that I'll hit with the brush while I have the primer out.
I doubt the one gallon of ceiling paint I have is going to be enough to finish that ceiling. Those tiles tend to suck the paint right up. And since I used all of my flat paint that was intended for ceilings on the shed I'll probably have to go out and buy more before that gets finished. As long as I get it done before painting the walls it's fine. I have some returns to the store now that I have my car back anyhow, and even though the paint isn't on sale right now the returns will cover it.
After primer and before I re-mud I'll either cut and install those boards up high on the far wall in the shed or try finishing the insulation on the inner wall in the shed. I hope to have all the insulation on the wall and ceiling done, the 7 boards cut and installed up high in between the studs on the far wall (and painted), and finish paint on the walls and ceiling in the porch done by the end of the week. All that will be left then is the jambs, casings and the eventual crown molding that will need to go up to cover the bad job they did on the ends of the ceiling tiles. I never sprang for any crown molding in the house because I'm good at cutting in and don't need it, but it's necessary out here.
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Well... It appears that my horribly energy inefficient furnace still works. That's nice.
Figured I'd better get her fired up for a test when I saw that the high on Wednesday is only 57 degrees. :(
We've still got a lot of mid-60's and low 70's in the next two weeks though, so we're not going to actually be using the furnace any time soon. My hard rule is no furnace until November 1st. It's a rule that is rarely broken.
Hopefully it gets broken this year though. I want the rest of the plebs to see how expensive heating is going to be this year in the weeks leading up to the election.
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Out for my walk in a bit. Call from my boss this morning about lunch. It will be happening at 1pm. Will meet her at the restaurant with another person. At least I will be able to get my chores done for today.
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