In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
POSTED BY: SIGNYM
UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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Good luck Brenda. It's not close to you, is it?
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Good luck Brenda. It's not close to you, is it?
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No, the fires aren't. It's just the direction of the winds blowing it to where I am. We've had some really bad air quality in BC, especially in the Fraser Valley. Warnings have been out for people with lung conditions.
Drought bad enough that up the Sunshine coast a little place like Sechelt has just put in serious water restrictions for its citizens.
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35 degrees outside now. 56 degrees on the 2nd floor of my house. I lost 3 degrees since yesterday morning when I woke up.
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Nevermind. As I was writing this, my furnace went off. I thought I had it set to something stupid like 43 degrees, but apparently it was at 56. So who knows how often it went off last night. I guess I'll monitor how often it goes off at this temp. It's cold, but as long as I'm bundled up I'm not uncomfortable since I've acclimated to it. If its going off more then once every 4 or 5 hours I'll turn it down a few degrees since I already broke my no heat until November rule on accident.
It's not THAT cold out right now. Just too cold to be doing any of my outside work, and since the outside work isn't complete and tons of stuff is staged all over the work area of my basement, I can't really start on any of the inside work right now either.
Warm days are coming one more time though. Thursday should be 58 degrees while Friday through Tuesday are supposed to be in the high 60's to mid 70's for highs. Two of those days I'll be helping my friend, but the other three (if my friend's dad actually does make it over) should be enough to get my jambs and casings up and free up my basement to start painting trim I still have to put up in the 1st floor and maybe attempt to make my own drawers for the kitchen and finally wrap up that project.
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Out for my walk in a bit.
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Slowly but surely I've begun a project that won't get completed before I go back outside to work Thursday, but it will be resumed and it will keep me busy and keep me from being bored when it is cold.
I got that really cool bamboo entryway table that my neighbor was throwing out. I've already removed some screw-in wood nuts from the back of it with an allen wrench and used wood putty to fill them in. Now I'm using a dental pick to remove a ton of melted candle wax of various colors off of the top surface which is thin woven wood similar to what you'd make a woven basket out of. That's actually quite a bit more time consuming than I thought it would be.
Right now it's a sickly shade of ivory that if I didn't know better would lead me to believe it was inside a house where the occupants regularly smoked, and there is quite a bit of flake off of the paint, particularly on the wooden bands that hold it together.
Once I get the wax off and I vacuum out all of the nooks and crannies I'll be giving it a light sand down, priming it and then painting it with the same white enamel paint that I've used on my kitchen cabinets and the window and door casings.
This table will be perfect for right under my large mirror (that I also sanded down the frame and painted white before re-installing last year). It has a very shallow profile from the wall compared to the table that is there now, and it won't feel like it's encroaching into the room so far that you have to walk around it if you came in the front door and went directly upstairs from the door.
I wonder what I'm going to do with the old table though. It's a really nice metal framed "BBQ Table" that my rich uncle was going to throw out when he moved. I'm sure it's good for other things, but as an entryway table it's been a disaster for years. Not only does it stick out about 3 feet for the wall, but it's top is made of wooden slats that require containers to be placed on top of it if you're going to store anything there because stuff just falls through the 1.5" gaps of the slats. I'll probably put it out in the porch for now until I figure out if I want to keep it or not.
I'm getting bored of picking out wax right now though. I think I might have lunch and take a nap.
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I wish you guys had beenover for dinner. Last night I made Thai red curry with lotsa vegetbales and pork (toned down quite a bit for daughter's tatse) and the night before it was chicken Tikka Masala with chick peas and spinach.
But the weather will bit hot for three days starting today, so tonight its just gonna be burgers and salad. Good thing I put lettuce and cucumbers and red cabbage on last week's list!
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Back from walk and done for today including getting the garbage out.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I wish you guys had beenover for dinner. Last night I made Thai red curry with lotsa vegetbales and pork (toned down quite a bit for daughter's tatse) and the night before it was chicken Tikka Masala with chick peas and spinach.
But the weather will bit hot for three days starting today, so tonight its just gonna be burgers and salad. Good thing I put lettuce and cucumbers and red cabbage on last week's list!
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
It certainly sounds more adventurous than my normal meals around here.
I did get a big bowl of stew from my friends wife to take home with me Sunday night and I ate that the last two nights. Tasty.
Just the usual here tonight though.
It stayed 56 all day without the heat going on again. I know for sure because I turned it down to 53 after I made the earlier post.
Two more cold nights before the temps get warmer. Now that I'm all set up my goal is to have that entryway table primed tomorrow. Probably not going to do much else.
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Out for my walk in a bit.
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