In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)
POSTED BY: SIGNYM
UPDATED: Friday, September 11, 2026 15:29
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"A little late to be cooking onions", says the guy who will be painting shelves at 3AM.
Don't mind me... 
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If I don't talk myself out of it, I do believe I'll be hanging that shelf today. Got my anchors and screws ready. Already cut out the contact paper for the surface once it's installed. Put contact paper on the 2 solid shelves on the over-toilet cab and will put the last piece on that for the floating shelf once I go out into my 200 degree garage and get the pegs for the height of the shelf off my work bench.
While I've got that contact paper out, I really should do the insides of the vanity and all the drawers in there too.
When I was going through my big tote of various things I pre-bought for the house when they were on sale, I found an entirely new roll of that white contact paper I'd used for the kitchen cabs and drawers and my curio cabinet and some other things. I didn't remember still having a full one, and knowing me I would usually have returned it. I appreciate the fact that Jack from 3 or 4 years ago knew I'd have further need for it eventually and kept it on hand. There wasn't much left of my old scrap that was useful from the looks of it, and this roll will be plenty for anything I do in here. I'll probably have enough leftover for whatever I eventually do in the bathroom downstairs since there won't be a vanity and it's just a pedestal sink.
That'll be nice. If I get all this done tonight, I can clean up a LOT of stuff and start reorganizing things I no longer need upstairs. Maybe until the heat dies down I'll just focus on doing a little dehoarding after that. Not that I'm going to have any real space for new trash until after pickup day next week, but no reason not to start making piles of stuff to get rid of. Most of that would be going to goodwill anyhow.
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I think you're under a heat done, SIX. AFAIK it extends all the way to DC.
Welcome to global climate change!
I think it was way back in late April we had summer for three weeks. Now, we're having spring. AM temperatures are very comfortable so I've been getting out before noon to do yardwork in the front yard, which is usually sunny that time of day, and yesterday eas DO cloudy and cool I managed to clock in over 2 hours, and fill up one of those ginormous greenwaste bins with weeds and grasses. Too bad I forgot to take "before" puctures!
Today shifting the yardwork to the afternoon just bc I got tired of yardwork first thing in the AM. My mission today: pruning. Gonna try out my new pole saw! And this time I won't forget to take pix.
Tomorrow, all being well, gonna round up dear daughter for some afternoon backyard work. She'll be weed whacking while I start prepping the yard for a professional cleanup and tree trimming/ removal.
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Hey hey, SIX!
PIX or it hasn't happened!
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I think you're under a heat done, SIX. AFAIK it extends all the way to DC.
Welcome to global climate change!
I think it was way back in late April we had summer for three weeks. Now, we're having spring. AM temperatures are very comfortable so I've been getting out before noon to do yardwork in the front yard, which is usually sunny that time of day, and yesterday eas DO cloudy and cool I managed to clock in over 2 hours, and fill up one of those ginormous greenwaste bins with weeds and grasses. Too bad I forgot to take "before" puctures!
Today shifting the yardwork to the afternoon just bc I got tired of yardwork first thing in the AM. My mission today: pruning. Gonna try out my new pole saw! And this time I won't forget to take pix.
Tomorrow, all being well, gonna round up dear daughter for some afternoon backyard work. She'll be weed whacking while I start prepping the yard for a professional cleanup and tree trimming/ removal.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
Yeah... I don't know what it is around here right now. This is the 3rd time in 15 summers here that we've had these abnormally high temps stick around for any more than a day or two. I think this one just feels really bad because of how much rain we've gotten so late and are still getting this late into the summer and you can cut the humidity with a knife. My 10 day doesn't look much better than right now, and there's a lot of rain and the possibility of a few thunderstorms again in the mix too.
Glad to hear it at least cooled down by you. How much could possibly be left for the professionals after what you've gotten out of there?
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Hey hey, SIX!
PIX or it hasn't happened!
You know me. If it's done, I'll have 'em.
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Well it is done, so I do have them.
Not just yet though. I forgot the last thing I did was put spackle on that trimed out side of the cabinet and never sanded it down or touched it up. I'll do that too and get pics of that since that should be quick and easy and it can dry while I'm doing other things like getting the trash out and staging all the stuff that needs to be ready for next week. So I should have a few pics of that too.
Probably won't have much pics of anything regardless of what I'm doing for a while. Not much that's really picture worthy, until I get to the bathroom floor or painting up those two remaining bi-folds so I can finally have all the closet doors up in the house. The bannister, eventually...
Got that 2nd sump well and electric and that generator switch I want to be working on before fall's done, so that's nothing to really make any pictures about. I'll still be taking them, but just kind of boring behind the scenes stuff that most people get to take completely for granted is all.
Maybe one day I'll make a video of that generator plug in action. That would be cool, especially if I can still have internet and TV along with the well and the fridge going during the next long power outage. If it works like I plan it to, I'll be blowing my dad's mind when I show him what it is and what it's capable of. He'll probably be asking me to come over and do it for him.
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All the contact paper is up on the shelving and cabinets except for the vanity. I think if I do that tonight it will be after I use the daylight remaining to do some more cleanup and reorg. All the trash is out with other stuff staged to immediately fill the bins back up after they're dumped.
Touchups done. Waiting on that to dry before I take any pictures. I noticed I've got some little paint spatter on the basin, and I'll have to clean that up with a razor since I'm keeping it. Probably do that before I take the pictures too, although I doubt it would matter with the lower quality stuff I've been snapping recently.
I was thinking about going out to get some more food, but I'll probably just wait on that until maybe tomorrow now. I was out there getting dirty for only about 20 minutes and I was head to toe sweating and my shirt was soaked. It's really gross out there right now. 82 on the 2nd floor of my house where the A/C is, so that ought to tell you all you need to know.
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If you don't count the contact paper in the vanity and a little bit of clear silicone around the basin, and a new faucet and drain, bathroom is now done except for the floor and toilet.
Three shots of the vanity with the trim painted the dark gray:
Shelf with towel rack finally installed. The painters tape pieces that I took down after this photo show where the tank of the toilet I want will sit, several inches higher than the current one.
And I don't know how you handle your business, but this here is a Three Seashell house.
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Nice...
When I was looking for shells, it looks like at some point I got rid of all the ugly, malformed and broken ones I had, and was only left with about 6 of them. Those were all shells my mom got from the ocean on the west coast while she was on some sort of 2 week job training two lifetimes ago. I knew I also had some that one of my uncles had collected when he was at my grandma's house. Inside of that batch though, there was quite a few different really nice polished rocks of all various colors too.
So while I was at the dollar store just now, I was looking around for anything that might look good with that stuff and I got two small glasses that have a rainbow effect to them... they look like they might be designed to be candle holders. They were perfect for this, and now it's just one less thing that's been sitting in a box for years.
Got all that plastic up off the ground once I was able to move some things around in the basement, so that should all be drying out right now.
Getting late. Might not do any of the contact paper tonight. If I do anything else it might be cleaning up more of the crap in the small bedroom. I already see more floor in there now than I have for about 2 months.
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Damn... I probably didn't mention but I got a slight upgrade on my photo taking capabilities and didn't realize just how large those were. I was having a hard time bringing the full images up on my own crap computer.
Sorry about that, if you couldn't see them before. I cut the sizes down 50% and reuploaded them. You should be able to see them now if you couldn't before.
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