In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)
POSTED BY: SIGNYM
UPDATED: Friday, September 11, 2026 15:29
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Hope it's all good, Brenda. 
We got one more warm and rainy day, then it cools off and should be dry for a few days so I can finally get my lawn mowed. It really needs it.
Although I don't feel too bad. They want to raise my property taxes to ridiculous levels, they can send the teachers over here to mow my lawn if they don't like it.
Got everything I needed at the hardware store. Turns out that even though I have about 30 buckets of paint and maybe 15 of those haven't even been opened yet, I didn't leave myself with a lot of primer when I checked out of doing work on the house a few years ago. I'm glad I thought to check that and didn't just assume that buried under more than a dozen buckets in either of the 2 spots that I keep the paint there was a fresh primer bucket waiting for me.
Nope. Just a bunch of paint that claims that it's "paint and primer in one", but if you believe that one I've got these 50 year shingles I can put up for ya and I'll be long dead before they start leaking on you in only 25.
Don't even ask my driveway how that 8 year blacktop is holding up.
And boy... am I glad I just took a chance and bought the 1/4"x1/4" pre-primed pine quarter round. I was obviously wrong about what I thought I saw on the webpage. If there was any 3/8" oak in that building, I didn't find it. Wasted a good 20 minutes looking for it too. Almost walked out without anything but figured I'd at least give the 1/2" stuff a shot. Boy am I happy I did that. There won't be as pronounced of a double-bevel effect with this stuff, but it didn't stick out as far as I thought it would. The thing it is going up against on the 90 degree to the wall is a thin, hollow vinyl "plate" that is not very thick at all, and it's rounded on both the right and left edge. I was worried that anything over 3/8" would be too wide and the flat back of the piece would stick out further than where the vinyl plate starts to curve in to the wall, and even with caulk that would just look almost as bad as the horrible caulk job I'm fixing with this stuff.
Unfortunately, I didn't pull the lights down yet or really try to get a good look behind the scenes, so I couldn't buy any electric today. I'm going to have to do some research on toilet heights anyhow before I figure that out. Everything as far as height going over the toilet needs to be based on me buying a LARGE toilet and still having enough room for the hand towels to hang above it.
So I need to figure out exactly how high that box needs to go before I can figure out where I want to put my electrical outlet inside of it.
I'm fairly certain that the only piece I would need to buy for any electric that I know I wouldn't have is a box that attaches to the drywall when there is no stud available. But I might luck out and have a stud right where I want to go with it too.
Maybe I'll give her a look tomorrow. I think for sure I'll get a coat of primer up if nothing else. Walls are all washed down and I already repaired the holes in the walls from various things that were screwed into them. And if I do that, I probably would put the first coat of paint up too for the hell of it. I've got a ton of that color and it's such a small room I'm not worried about running out of it.
Really though... I've got to get that electric figured out soon if for no reason other than to have a medicine cabinet with a mirror up there again. Until I get contact paper in those drawers, I don't want to be keeping things in there and I'm running back in and out of the small bedroom with half my stuff right now. I've got a little hand mirror balanced in the opening in the wall where the old cabinet used to be. And once I pull those lights down and put a pigtail up there, I'm not going to have much light in there until the job is done.
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So do I SIX.
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Out soon with meds to get and a couple of other things.
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Originally posted by Brenda:
So do I SIX.
When will you know?
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Heya SIX, a zillion years ago, when I was replacing our toilets with low-flow, I got ADA compliant height, and I'm glad I did! Unless a bathroom is intended for children, higher toilets are so much easier on the knees!
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Originally posted by Brenda:
So do I SIX.
When will you know?
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
I think I'll have to call them on Friday.
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Back and done for today. Warm out almost was sorry I was wearing my jacket out.
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Heya SIX, a zillion years ago, when I was replacing our toilets with low-flow, I got ADA compliant height, and I'm glad I did! Unless a bathroom is intended for children, higher toilets are so much easier on the knees!
Good tip.
I figured there were certain standards out there, I just hadn't looked into them yet. From the little bit I've read, it looks like the top of my toilet tank would be between 28" and 30". I'm going to look at some toilets specifically before I go with that.
If the cabinet height won't be an issue with the shelf/towel hanger under it to 30", that'll be great.
I haven't yet decided if I'm going to attach the two pieces at the bottom, which would give the cabinet a decorative look all around the bottom with the towel rod under it... or if I'm going to try hanging the toilet cab high enough so that the shelf could be used too.
I don't need the shelf really, since under the two cabinet doors there is already a decent sized opening with a shelf right above it, but it is such a small bathroom for a main bathroom that every little extra space to put stuff is probably more than welcome.
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Off to mah jong tomorrow then other stuff.
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Still plugging away at the data dehoard. It's going to get faster when I finally get everything over to the huge backup drive and it's all in one place. I've been trying to compare large things as I've been moving like stuff with like and getting them all closer together before doing the real purge, but that's pretty slow-going if I mess with it because I've got so many things moving around that the computer speed is simply too slow to keep up with what I'm trying to do.
All of those weird folder things disappeared when I had a moment to reboot everything. I knew all of them would except for that weird invisible folder that only showed up in one place and said I needed "permission from Everyone" to delete the folder. Turns out after a reboot that folder was just gone. That must have been what the strange error was about. Something so out of the ordinary that Windows threw out an incorrect error. Maybe it's something that was even buried in the code and not something anybody would regularly see unless the system got glitched?
I keep thinking that I'm deleting a lot, but 20GB here or there doesn't really put a dent in the free-space on a 15TB drive.
I know there's a ton I can still get rid of once it's all organized. Just have to be patient. My streaming drive which was almost full has about 3TB free, as it should be, now that I've removed everything that doesn't belong there. If I did all of this cleanup years ago I never would have needed to use that space... not that it harmed anything.
A lot of that free space was made by clogging up my work drive to the point where it's only got 800GB free again. I think I can get rid of a lot of that, and what remains is stuff I'm going to want to have backed up anyhow. But eventually I'll get that backed up a second time on the spare large drives and I should have a few TB free on the work drive too.
If I can do that and get down to about 4TB free on the huge drive, I'll be a pretty happy dude.
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