In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)
POSTED BY: SIGNYM
UPDATED: Friday, September 11, 2026 15:29
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I spent the whole day goofing off and finalizing the plant list for the front yard. Of course, I can't actually DO anything about it for at least the next 10 days bc, if the forecast holds, the lowest high temp is expected to be 87, well above my safe limit. But I'm happy with the list, gonna stroll the front and mark the sizes of the mature plants and make sure I have those plants in the right place.
Wish I could get out and do something in the back, too. Yesterday I counted a dozen butterflies in the back yard. A dozen! And with all of the flowers there, none are accessible to butterflies. I have some yarrow in pots just waiting to be planted, but that would involve too much digging up Bermuda grass and laying in root barrier, and that's no bueno for me in this heat.
Spring! Come back! We miss you!
Still, I'm very happy with the list. BTW here is a picture of my favorite landscape and weather
Front yard can't possibly look like that, but I really like it. It's just inviting a stroll, isn't it?
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That looks nice.
It's all dead around here still. 
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Ah! You need some sort of adapter!
Simple fix!
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If you can believe it, my sis in WNY just got an inch of snow, and it's 19°F! Meanwhile .... here in the flatlands of Los Angeles it's been late summer for a couple of weeks now, and today is a sweltering 98°F!
Jeez, I wish the weather could average out some!
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Exactly and I've got a couple of places to look. Lady at the seniors centre called one place for me and they have the part. Will get it on Friday as I have too much to do before then.
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by BRENDA:
Sounds really good to hear you talking about working again.
Yeah... Feels good to be working again too.
I might show some pictures since it's not outside work. The stuff that I've done so far this week is in the general area of the overlook that I posted a few years ago. Nothing too intense, but just putting some long-awaited final touches on things like thresholds for the coat closet, pantry and the door leading up to the attic, as well as putting some nice L-shaped corner pieces to really make the transitions between the paint colors pop with that nice high-gloss white trim.
Had a few "problems" with that last bit though that are going to require quite a bit of finish work. First problem is I wish I had my youngest brother's math skills, because figuring out angles really isn't my thing beyond 90 degree angles (if I show pictures, you'll see what I mean). For the most part I was able to cobble together what I wanted, but I ended up doing a lot of the cuts on the trim by hand with a coping saw instead of using the mitre saw. To add to the troubles, the "finished" product of the walls/ceilings were nowhere near perfect angles in the first place, so I had to take a few shortcuts that will need to be fixed later. It's going to require a bit of wood filler along with the standard caulking I'd do, and I have quite a few brad nail holes that need to be filled in before a final paint job.
Right now it's like a Monet painting. Looks great from far, but it's far from great.
It will be damn near perfect when I'm finished with it though.
So your computer didn't have an HDMI then? Was it a "Display Port" then? I wasn't even aware of that type of connection until I got those cheap computers a few years ago from a hospital, and all those HP computers/laptops had Display Port out. I needed to buy adapters for all of them.
If you use that cable to carry the sound to the monitor, you'll have to make sure the adapters that you buy carry the sound too. Hopefully the computer store guy steered you in the right direction there. No worries if he didn't though... If you hook everything up and you have no sound, at least you'll have a working computer. Let me know if this happens and I can direct you to the proper adapter that will carry the sound signals as well.
Sigs... Geez... 98 degrees!!!
It's 26 degrees here right now.
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I am still figuring out what all the ports and such are called. All I know is I need GVA or VGA adapter. One has the blue screw on end and the other will fit onto the HMDI cord for the monitor.
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Well, the old pineapple express is dumping a ton of rain on my area. There are minor flood watches here and into Washington state. As long as the Nooksack river doesn't go over it's banks the Sumas prairie should be okay.
Sumas is all reclaimed land. Bout 100 years ago it was a lake. Some people think it should go back to that. Except there are businesses and farmers in the area.
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Quote:Oh BTW I forgot to ask ... how did the appointment go with the lung doctor, SIX?
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
That looks nice.
It's all dead around here still.
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No news = good news?
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Doing things today that I have been forgetting about. Very nerve wracking. Need one more thing tomorrow then Friday it is off to get this adapter. Fingers crossed it will sort it out.
Out for lunch soon then veg shopping and one other thing. Then into the dry.
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BRENDA
VGA = Video Graphics Array.
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VGA stands for Video Graphics Array, which is a standard for video display and a type of connector used to transmit analog video signals from a computer to a display device. It was introduced by IBM in 1987 and has been widely used in various applications since then
So what you need is a VGA+AUDIO to HDMI adapter...
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/search?Ntt=hdmi%20vga%20adapter&N=0
&InitialSearch=yes&msclkid=d2795ed7aaf91ebd73bd376cab01cfec
It must be VGA+AUDIO
There are simpler VGA to HDMI adapters but you won't get sound
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:Oh BTW I forgot to ask ... how did the appointment go with the lung doctor, SIX?
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
That looks nice.
It's all dead around here still.
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No news = good news?
Yeah. No news. Kind of what I figured. I'm sure the doctor got paid $750 for the 10 minutes I saw him.
He wants the CT scan pushed out 2 months from the first scan instead of only 1 month and then I go back to see him after that.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
BRENDA
VGA = Video Graphics Array.Quote:
VGA stands for Video Graphics Array, which is a standard for video display and a type of connector used to transmit analog video signals from a computer to a display device. It was introduced by IBM in 1987 and has been widely used in various applications since then
So what you need is a VGA+AUDIO to HDMI adapter...
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/search?Ntt=hdmi%20vga%20adapter&N=0
&InitialSearch=yes&msclkid=d2795ed7aaf91ebd73bd376cab01cfec
It must be VGA+AUDIO
There are simpler VGA to HDMI adapters but you won't get sound
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
Wow. That is an OLD computer.
You should really think about getting a new desktop Brenda. If it's got nothing but VGA, that's got to be a video card and the motherboard doesn't even have on-board video. That thing is probably from like 2010 or older then, huh?
Even my video cards from back then had VGA and DVI outputs on them.
I don't think she needs the VGA + Audio adapter. (I didn't even know they made them until I just looked now, to be honest). VGA is strictly a video signal. A VGA+Audio adapter has an additional 3.5mm jack that you plug into the audio output, or a USB jack that I assume you would plug into one of the standard USB outputs (and burn a valuable one up since Brenda probably doesn't have more than 2 or 3 of them).
I'm assuming now that Brenda has separate computer speakers and she plugged those into the audio jack already and wasn't using the audio through her monitor.
I'm using a regular VGA to HDMI on my dual monitor setup because one of my monitors is a very old flat screen TV that didn't have any HDMI inputs, and my video card has two HDMI outs on it.
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