In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)
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UPDATED: Monday, September 7, 2026 11:50
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I envy your ability to do it at all. Like REALLY envy you.
I've had ideas for stories floating around in my mind from time to time, but I find it impossible to
write anything resembling good dialogue. It's truly a gift. It's nice that you're using it.
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Thank you.
This first book all came about by accident. I sat down years ago with a pad of paper and just started writing. One character came first then that character brought a long all the others and the setting which includes what he and the other characters do.
Accidents are how a lot of great works of art begin.
Maybe one day I will be able to write something. I haven't tried since I was around my mid-20's and didn't really have much life experience yet. And unlike your style, characters were always an afterthought for me... basically window dressing for a concept. And how are you supposed to write good dialogue between 2 people if you don't really have interesting people talking to each other in the first place?
I think maybe my concepts would be better in somebody else's hands who knows how to write, and maybe has a more outgoing personality and has had a lot more real life dialogue with other people. My writing is more analytical and better suited for office missives than for short stories or novels that anybody would pay to read.
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You never know until you try. I hated writing in high school.
But this started easy enough. Once I had the general premise as I said everything just seemed to flow.
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Out for my walk. Decided I need some veg.
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Got back from my walk after one with the veg I wanted. Dishes done then sat down to do more book work. Ch. 20 finished and Ch. 21 as well. Started on Ch. 22.
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I'm beat!
Me and my friend were going to get some supplies to fix a few things around his house and maybe shoot some pool and watch a movie when we were done getting the fridge to my house, but when I realized that his wife and her step-sister were clearing out the house we stayed to help.
First off, the fridge is AMAZING. Huge upgrade to my kitchen once I swap them out and tap a copper line into it for the ice maker. 
But I ended up getting a LOT of other stuff. So much I don't even remember what I got at this point. I don't think I'll keep it all and I'll be going to goodwill, but there are some really good finds there.
Top of the list that I do remember is a brand new hiking backpack (one of the PRICEY ones that I'd never actually buy for myself). A SONY cube alarm clock that looks to have a ton of bells and whistles on it. A beautiful end table. Lots of food and some paper towel and toilet paper. A few unopened gallons of Clorox bleach. A printer/copier/fax machine with extra ink cartridges. Sharpie markers unopened, both fat and fine. 6 filters for my furnace. A giant spool of blank CDs and a small spool of blank DVDs. Two unopened bags of "rich people" coffee beans and a grinder. A marble paper towel holder.
And probably my favorite thing that's going to need some work... One of those really nice wooden caddies with 4 folding tables so people can have something to put their food on. I'm going to sand down the tops, match the stain and throw about 3 coats of poly and they'll be brand new.
Once I've got all the stuff here, I'm going to do an inventory of everything, decide what I'm giving away to Goodwill and let my buddy know that I've got some more work to do for them in trade for this unexpected bounty.
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Wow! Six. You had quite the day for sure.
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Wow! Six. You had quite the day for sure.
Oh boy, was it.
Her step-sister apologized to me too and said she forgot to think of me earlier to come by and see what I wanted before some other non-family came out and grabbed stuff. I told her don't sweat it since all I thought I was going there for was to help bring the fridge back to my place. But I can only imagine what types of things were there before if the stuff I got was what was left after all the vultures took what they wanted. I heard he had a 90" TV that one of their friends took! I don't think that would reasonably fit anywhere in my house.
This was a HUGE house. One of those McMansions that must cost about $500 a month right now for heat and electricity. It was funny though because there wasn't as much "room" space as you would imagine there would be from outside because the ceiling from the first floor on 3/4 of the house was about 20 feet high with a cool staircase going up to only 3 rooms and a bathroom upstairs. Super wide open and really interesting layout, but as much as I love painting I would never try painting a house like that. I'm afraid of heights. If god wanted me to paint 20 foot ceilings he would have given me 12 foot legs.
That set of folding tables is going to be really nice when my aunt and Grams come by for lunch. I'm always bringing down these two high back wooden chairs for them to eat off of since I've yet to put together a proper dining area in my small kitchen.
The only bad part of the day? Both me and my buddy jacked up our backs. And as the night goes on I'm a little concerned that this could turn into one of the BAD ones. I'm hoping it feels better tomorrow when I wake up.
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Originally posted by Brenda:
Wow! Six. You had quite the day for sure.
Oh boy, was it.
Her step-sister apologized to me too and said she forgot to think of me earlier to come by and see what I wanted before some other non-family came out and grabbed stuff. I told her don't sweat it since all I thought I was going there for was to help bring the fridge back to my place. But I can only imagine what types of things were there before if the stuff I got was what was left after all the vultures took what they wanted. I heard he had a 90" TV that one of their friends took! I don't think that would reasonably fit anywhere in my house.
This was a HUGE house. One of those McMansions that must cost about $500 a month right now for heat and electricity. It was funny though because there wasn't as much "room" space as you would imagine there would be from outside because the ceiling from the first floor on 3/4 of the house was about 20 feet high with a cool staircase going up to only 3 rooms and a bathroom upstairs. Super wide open and really interesting layout, but as much as I love painting I would never try painting a house like that. I'm afraid of heights. If god wanted me to paint 20 foot ceilings he would have given me 12 foot legs.
That set of folding tables is going to be really nice when my aunt and Grams come by for lunch. I'm always bringing down these two high back wooden chairs for them to eat off of since I've yet to put together a proper dining area in my small kitchen.
The only bad part of the day? Both me and my buddy jacked up our backs. And as the night goes on I'm a little concerned that this could turn into one of the BAD ones. I'm hoping it feels better tomorrow when I wake up.
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You've gotta be more careful when you are doing heavy stuff like that. That's how I wrenched my right shoulder last year. The first time I did that was over 10 years ago when I was looking after my mom.
I am hoping to make it to a thrift store tomorrow and see if they have an actual cloth tablecloth for my kitchen table. Got a plastic thing on it right now and in certain areas it is starting to stick to the table inspite of the flannel backing on it.
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More book work for me once I get up and do a couple of other things.
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A little music and Ch.22 finished as well as Ch.23. I also started Ch.24.
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You're on a roll Brenda!
Have you ever tried making something work that for the life of you, you couldn't get working, only to have it accidentally start working for you after messing around with it for hours and you have no explanation why it did?
That's where I'm at right now, regarding something I'm making for my friend and his daughter with an old, crappy laptop that I got from the old man now that he has a speedy new one that was gifted to him for Christmas.
We're in this in-between time with old and new tech again, and for whatever reason I could not get this ancient BIOS on the right settings to read a Linux distro from the internal hard drive (Somewhat similar to a problem I was talking about YEARS ago when I tried installing an SSD to an old all in one PC that wouldn't read any OS from the newer tech).
I was just about to resign myself to buying a USB nub drive and running it from that (which would be slower, but should still have worked for the purpose), but then all of the sudden on a reboot it worked just fine.
What the heck did I do right this time? It's not as if that old BIOS had a lot of options to try out.
Oh well. I won't look a gift horse in the mouth. I'm just going to make sure I lock it down so they can't screw it up and press on with the stuff I thought I might actually have finished before I went to bed tonight. I think I have one more hurdle to jump through because I'm not super familiar with Linux, but I should be able to figure it out from here, and it's always good learning new things.
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