In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)
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UPDATED: Monday, September 7, 2026 11:50
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Laundry done and walk in. Nothing grabbed me at the grocery store so it is grilled cheese for supper tonight. I don't feel like cooking. Also got some paper down to the recycling bin too.
Still no rain which was nice but there is a cold breeze out.
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I gave myself a bit of a break this AM. I guess it was an early Sunday for me.
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No harm in that SIG. 
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I had a response to this but when I tried to post it the site had logged me out so it got lost in the ether. I really should do this in a text editor.
Oh, that's a bummer. I used to have that problem here years ago, but Firefox does a great job at saving any text I haven't sent.
Quote:Quote:AFAIK they're the only ones that go WHOO WHOO at night. (If you hear something similar during the day, it's either a mourning dove or the closely related pigeon) The WHOOO HOOO is when they're looking for, or trying to locate their mate.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I heard a great horned owl tonight, what a treat! They show up once or twice a year. It would be nice to have a permanent popuation: they would keep the rats and mice down.
SIX: I don't know what a great horned owl sounds like, but that might be the one I hear only once or twice a year around these parts since I was a kid too. Never seen one, but I was told by my parents it was an owl when I was a kid.
Owl sounds, various owls. We used to have a pair of great horned owls nesting on a window ledge a work.
I want to say that it's a Great Horned Owl call that I've heard, because out of all of those it's the closest sounding, but I always hear the same call they do and none of the hoot patterns I've heard on a few other videos for them matches what I've noticed.
It's like a Whoo! Whoo! Whooo-WHOOOOOO! Whoo-WHOOOOOOO! Whoo! Then it starts over again over time. The two "WHOOOOOOO! parts actually sound kind of "warbled" too.
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Great horned owl hooting duet.
https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Great_Horned_Owl/sounds#
Now that I've looked at the 2nd link, it could possibly be the "Duet" going on, but it still doesn't sound right to me. Maybe it's just different because I'm listening to a digital file with headphones?
Quote:Quote:You could have paid a month and a half of rent for what we paid this guy for a sloppy job. Decent handymen are as rare as hen's teeth around here! But I know I can't sell you on LA bc it's just nota vey nice place to live.
Yeterday and today was workin the house. We had a handyman come and patch walls under he sink from our drain line replacement. OMG SIX you could make a fortune here. Altho I know you wouldn't dream of living in LA!
SIX: I bet I would, but I'd spend it all right away on living expenses. My brother lived in LA for a short stint and even though he was making buckets full of cash, he was paying $2.5k per month for an attic apartment so he could live reasonably close to work. And that was years ago, way before Bidenflation.
At that time, just a little over 2 months of his rent was about what it cost for me to live.
It's a shame we don't live closer. I'd love to help you out.
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SIGNY: Sounds like you need a break, SIX. I hope you have a nice time relaxing.
SIX: Yeah... I've had what I would call more than a little bit of unintentional weight loss this winter. I'm hoping it's just living in the cold all winter and the recent stressors. I've been making an effort to eat better and eat more the last week. I'm feeling more energetic, since yesterday, but the week before was pretty rough.
I look fantastic though. I need to take advantage of this after I put on a few pounds and feel better. If I went back to doing crunchies for a month I'd be rocking an 8 pack that I haven't seen since I was 22 years old.
I just gotta make sure that I didn't get an ancient gypsy curse put on me like the guy in Thinner... or worse.
My old man says that if I'm not sick, I need to figure out how I did it and patent it and I'll be a millionaire.
It's probably the cold. I remember reading somewhere that the Innuit burn 20,000-30,000 calories per day ... more than ten times normal forNOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Dinner cooking now. Had a late night at my bud's building that social credit some more. His dad was there too, so we had a fun and productive day. I know my bud will pay it back when he has time. We just need to get him out from under that bad situation and get his life back. Poor guy barely has time to sleep he's over there working whenever he isn't doing his real job.
I can't wait to get the help working on my house some day. His dad really came through for me the last two falls.
We're not going to start super early tomorrow but I'm going back for round two sometime in the AM.
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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
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Just a Sunday around me. Not much happening.
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Quote:Seems like you (collectively) have been rehabbing that rental for quite a while. It must hve been really trashed. I guess a family of hoarders can really ruin things.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Dinner cooking now. Had a late night at my bud's building that social credit some more. His dad was there too, so we had a fun and productive day. I know my bud will pay it back when he has time. We just need to get him out from under that bad situation and get his life back. Poor guy barely has time to sleep he's over there working whenever he isn't doing his real job.
I can't wait to get the help working on my house some day. His dad really came through for me the last two falls.
We're not going to start super early tomorrow but I'm going back for round two sometime in the AM.
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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
Realistically, what else is there to do? IIRC the hoarders were booted out and the place de-junked. This was the house with the sinking front stoop, yes? That's been corrected. Last I remember, you were cleaning cat piss off the lower walls and baseboard. [HINT: Since the compounds responsible for the bad smell are basic (amines) , vinegar, being an acid, helps neutralize the odor.] What else? Windows? Painting? Door repair/replacement? wiring?
Just being nosy, but I'm always interested in the details of a rehab. I guess even if our progress is glacial, reading about someone else's progress makes me feel better.
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According to Climatestations.com for LA (which my backyard tracks closely) we're just shy of 28" of rain, which makes us just shy of twice normal 14.3". That's what I call a good rain year! I see 90F in our future. Not my favorite weather, I have to do outdoor work late in the day. It looks like we might be roller-coastering into summer.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
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Quote:I guess I had my Sunday yesterday, today is almost a regular "work" day for me excpet I ot out of bed late. Time to get back to it, my list of "things to do" gets longer and longer every time I think about it. Have a nice one. Do something fun!
Originally posted by Brenda:
Just a Sunday around me. Not much happening.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:Seems like you (collectively) have been rehabbing that rental for quite a while. It must hve been really trashed. I guess a family of hoarders can really ruin things.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Dinner cooking now. Had a late night at my bud's building that social credit some more. His dad was there too, so we had a fun and productive day. I know my bud will pay it back when he has time. We just need to get him out from under that bad situation and get his life back. Poor guy barely has time to sleep he's over there working whenever he isn't doing his real job.
I can't wait to get the help working on my house some day. His dad really came through for me the last two falls.
We're not going to start super early tomorrow but I'm going back for round two sometime in the AM.
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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
Realistically, what else is there to do? IIRC the hoarders were booted out and the place de-junked. This was the house with the sinking front stoop, yes? That's been corrected. Last I remember, you were cleaning cat piss off the lower walls and baseboard. [HINT: Since the compounds responsible for the bad smell are basic (amines) , vinegar, being an acid, helps neutralize the odor.] What else? Windows? Painting? Door repair/replacement? wiring?
Just being nosy, but I'm always interested in the details of a rehab. I guess even if our progress is glacial, reading about someone else's progress makes me feel better.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
Yeah. Those Democrat pigs really trashed the house. And after Covid came out and the put the eviction moratorium on him, he couldn't even get them out even though the city was on his ass to fix code violations that they created. They wouldn't even let him in the house to do work on it for a full year.
All the cat piss is gone along with the mouse crap I removed from the basement last summer. You can't smell anything bad in there anymore. I'm really proud of how much he's been able to get done in the house over the winter months in between working a full time job.
We were painting doors and trim this weekend. He's got more doorways in the main hall than I've got in my whole house if you don't include my closet doors.
It's really starting to look like a home again. I just hope we can wrap it up soon and he can get something for it on the market. I'd hate to think he'd have to hold onto it any longer and rent it out again.
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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
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