In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)
POSTED BY: SIGNYM
UPDATED: Monday, September 7, 2026 11:50
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I was going to do a lot today but i fell asleep instead. But I did manage to scrub the kitchen floor yesterday, finally!
I do have to pat myself on the back for frugal use of leftovers. I bought some cross rib roasts on sale a while back (turns out they don't stew as well as chuck and don't roast as well as tri tip, but they do make an ok stir fry or philly cheese steak). The roasts were a bit big so I froze the leftover trimmed meat until there was enough for a meal. At the same time, I was freezing the juices from the roast beef that I made. Along with some shrooms that I bought on sale and leftover cream cheese, it made a damn fine stroganoff!
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
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Well, I got another corner of the kitchen counter cleaned off which is good.
Out for my walk in a bit. Need to get cards in the mail and do some grocery shopping.
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Back and in and it wants to rain. I got all my stuff done for today which is good.
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Quote:Indeed!
Originally posted by Brenda:
Back and in and it wants to rain. I got all my stuff done for today which is good.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
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Yep, snow on the mountains. The highest peak visible from my home on a clear day is Mt Baldy, at 10,000 ft. Judging by how far down the snow fell, it looks like the snow level might be about 8,000 feet. It sure is pretty!
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
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Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:Indeed!
Originally posted by Brenda:
Back and in and it wants to rain. I got all my stuff done for today which is good.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
It finally did rain as of this evening. Got 2 cards into the post and hoping to get a couple more in the next day or so.
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Out for my walk in a bit on a nice sunny but apparently cold day. Temp on computer is reading -1C.
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Back from my walk.
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Off to mah jong in the morning then Christmas lunch at the senior centre where I play.
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So....
I get back from my brother's place and get in the car to do some long needed grocery shopping (after my old man already left) and the car won't start.
It's trying. The battery is fine. The starter is doing it's thing. But the car ain't even attempting to turn over.
Sure I'd already flooded the engine, I decided it was a problem I was going to deal with tomorrow and just got something to eat and was going to call it an extremely early night since I didn't get much sleep last night.
I woke up at about 8:15 and decided I'd give it another attempt. That's when I opened up the engine compartment and found mouse shit and nesting materials all over my F*()*#ING engine compartment. I guess that's what happens when you're car is sitting outside for 7 weeks before your mechanic works on it.
Holy shit.
So I clean all of that up, then I thought it might be a good idea to open up the air filter compartment and make sure that's clean.
Well... The air filter was, but the bottom of the compartment looked like the bedding for a gerbil that hadn't been cleaned in a month!
WTF?
By this time, my battery was basically dead, so after I cleaned everything out and put it back together, I set my industrial grade charger to 200 amps for jumping a car and got to work. I flooded the shit out of that engine, but finally on about the 40th attempt for the day I got her to turn over and stay running.
I'm glad I put HEET in there earlier because there's obviously water in my gas tank too. It was all over the ground out the back of the tailpipe. And the exhaust was a dark gray that you only see coming out of diesel trucks for about 15 minutes straight.
I let it run for about 30 minutes and by that time the exhaust looked like normal. The car was idling smooth the whole time and wasn't making any funny noises.
I've been able to start it immediately 5 times since then. In fact, I'd say that at least right now it seems to start faster than it did before I got the fuel line replaced.
Hopefully everything will be okay now and it will start tomorrow. I'll just have to start the car at least once or twice a day until I burn up the half tank of crap gas I have in there and I'll make sure at least the first tank I put back in is primo gas with some fuel stabilizer to help flush whatever crap out that might be in there.
Still got no milk though. Stores were closed by the time all of this happened.
Boy...
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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
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