In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)
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I meant the pictures.
Been having a relax rest of the afternoon. I am finishing up watching something else then I will sit down and enjoy "Killers of the Flower Moon."
I will let you know what I think. I want to be good and relaxed for it.Quote:Download free movies from https://yts.gg/home
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
One of these days we got to get you real comfortable with that computer. Maybe see if we can get Second to behave like a human being for long enough to get you sailing the high seas and watching movies you want to watch when you want to watch 'em instead of having to wait 2 or 3 years to finally see them.
For example: Killers of the Flower Moon 2023 at https://yts.gg/movies/killers-of-the-flower-moon-2023
A recent movie which is still playing in theaters can also be downloaded: Disclosure Day 2026 at https://yts.gg/movies/disclosure-day-2026
You will also need a free program called qBittorrent from https://www.qbittorrent.org/ to actually download the movies.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
SECOND, I do not want to do any of that. Downloading unknown programs makes me nervous.
To be completely fair here, I can vouch that he's not telling you anything that I wouldn't have told you myself if you were interested in doing any of this.
But given that you're in Canada, that could make things different. For decades here in the US they seem to have given up going after anybody for pirating music or movies or TV shows or games or really anything at all, and have directed their focus instead on taking down the people who provide the services.
That could change at any time, and I do suppose they have a record of everything we've ever downloaded somewhere, so if they ever get desperate enough for cash they might start going back through everyone's download history and stealing all their property away for them to pay for all that stuff they though that they were getting for free.
We really should get you a smart TV or an Amazon Fire Stick though.
There are a ton of free and legal programs on there that offer movies and TV shows without any worry of downloading any possibly sketchy programs or getting yourself put on a list. My aunt was in heaven when I set all that up for her and I couldn't believe how easy it was to get her to cancel the Cable TV subscription with all those programs.
The drawback of using these services instead of downloading specific movies and shows you want to watch now is that you're only able to watch what they've currently got up for you to watch, and it could be a long time until the movie you want to watch comes up as a freebie. But if you used something like this in tandem with your Library rentals I think you'd really enjoy it.
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So, SIX, I've been looking at the before and after pictures to unravel how you managed to turn a sow's ear into a silk purse. There are clues in there for me.
To me, the most obvious thing is changing the trim from the mingy 1950's contractor's trim to to wider, classy trim. And the CARE that you took to install it. I don't recall the details of how you got that trim on the stairs to fit so absolutely perfectly, but I'llbet you sweated blood.
If you mean the big white piece to the right of the steps with the quarter round on it, I can't actually take credit for that. The quarter round wasn't on the top of it and that was an addition I made, but the rest of it was already there. But it was all wood color, so the bitch of a time that I had there was staining and putting poly down on the steps while painting that trim and the faces of the steps white and not having any bleed-over from the two. To get that to happen as you see it now was actually two rounds of work that I did on those stairs, maybe 6 or 7 years apart.
And that trim...
Boy. What a steal that was. I only wish I'd bought more of it, because I bought enough to do every door and window in the house, including the basement, but I'd bought all of that a few years before fixing the gaping hole in the porch and even having any idea about how I was going to change the walls to keep water out and what sort of windows that would entail and how much extra trim I would have needed. I didn't even think about the porch when making that purchase. So now all I have left to do the doors in the basement is the old trim that's still up in the rafters of my garage. That trim was nicer than any of hte original trim in the rest of the house though, so if it wasn't too badly water damaged and it cleans up nice, it should be fine.
But yeah... That trim and the baseboard were all on clearance for some reason. And if memory serves, I bought all of that back before I started my last job, so until I used up the rest of it in the porch I was sitting on that stuff for about 7 years before it was all finally used. I was getting 8ft lenghts of the door/window trim for something crazy like .95 cents each, and the 10 or 12ft lengths of the baseboard were only like $1.25 each.
There were only 3 pieces that I had to pay full price for, and it's only because I didn't want to go to the trouble of joining two pieces in 3 different spots. One for the tops of both sides of the overlook, and a third for the top piece above the two stairwells. Those were something like $10 or $11 each. I really should have bought 4 of them to do the piece that goes under the sill for the large multi-pane living room window after tearing out the crap that was there before, but because there is likely always going to be a couch sitting right in front of that I just joined two cheap pieces there. But the work is so good you can't even tell I did that. I really didn't need to have one piece anywhere else because you wouldn't have noticed it when I was finished, but that extra $30 or so saved me a lot of time and hassle.
I remember telling my grandma about this acquisition with pride. And the fact that I took out one of those promotional credit card deals that gave you an extra $250 on your signup bonus if you spent $1000 in the first 90 days, so when it was all said and done I told my grandma that the hardware store just paid me $75 to haul an entire house worth of trim from their store.
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The floors. Did you stain them? How did you get that high polish? They look absolutely fantastic.
Oh yeah. Just the stairs and the 2nd floor though, since the first floor living room wasn't bad. Upstairs was awful though, and that's why it was a great surprise to see it up there AFTER I bought the house when I tore up that awful carpet they hid it all with.
I made the mistake of renting out a floor sander from a local ma and pa shop and
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Heh... That reminds me...
Not that it's going to make any more floor space for me in the garage, but I'm pretty sure I have two bedrooms and a hallway full of old garbage trim that has about 12 coats of paint on it somewhere up in those rafters that I get to take down and cut into pieces and get out of my life once and for all.
In the back of my mind, I knew one way or another that stuff was never going back up in my house, but I never throw out stuff mid-job because you never know when you might need it. I learned that from my friend's dad too. Granted, he was a hoarder, but he wasn't wrong about this. Some of those final pieces I used to trim out the stair area after making my own new frames were the original small pieces I had removed 15 years ago and had sitting somewhere in my garage the entire time until 2 or 3 years ago when I was posting pictures about finishing that area off. Most of those pieces needed to be cut, coped and altered to fit, but they were the original trim that matched the rest of the living room and might have been difficult to find a suitable replacement for. If I hadn't saved those pieces all those years, that would have been another hassle and more money spent when it didn't need to be spent.
I remember helping my friend's dad fix his rental so he could sell it. His son would come after work and help out every night and on weekends and there were one or two other friends of his dad's that were all in and out of that place helping out. But somewhere along the line, somebody (I think it was my friend) threw out the old shitty looking rusty wall grates for the heat. It was those old-style ones where the heat ducts were on the wall, but right at the floor level. My grandma's house was ancient and had the same thing.
The only problem? Nobody made those things anymore. That was like throwing out a bar of gold. I actually can't remember what the ultimate solution was there, but my friend's dad knew how to fix anything and I'm sure it was alright. But do not throw out any piece of a job until the whole job is done. 
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Originally posted by Brenda:Quote:
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Originally posted by Brenda:
I meant the pictures.
Been having a relax rest of the afternoon. I am finishing up watching something else then I will sit down and enjoy "Killers of the Flower Moon."
I will let you know what I think. I want to be good and relaxed for it.Quote:Download free movies from https://yts.gg/home
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
One of these days we got to get you real comfortable with that computer. Maybe see if we can get Second to behave like a human being for long enough to get you sailing the high seas and watching movies you want to watch when you want to watch 'em instead of having to wait 2 or 3 years to finally see them.
For example: Killers of the Flower Moon 2023 at https://yts.gg/movies/killers-of-the-flower-moon-2023
A recent movie which is still playing in theaters can also be downloaded: Disclosure Day 2026 at https://yts.gg/movies/disclosure-day-2026
You will also need a free program called qBittorrent from https://www.qbittorrent.org/ to actually download the movies.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
SECOND, I do not want to do any of that. Downloading unknown programs makes me nervous.
To be completely fair here, I can vouch that he's not telling you anything that I wouldn't have told you myself if you were interested in doing any of this.
But given that you're in Canada, that could make things different. For decades here in the US they seem to have given up going after anybody for pirating music or movies or TV shows or games or really anything at all, and have directed their focus instead on taking down the people who provide the services.
That could change at any time, and I do suppose they have a record of everything we've ever downloaded somewhere, so if they ever get desperate enough for cash they might start going back through everyone's download history and stealing all their property away for them to pay for all that stuff they though that they were getting for free.
We really should get you a smart TV or an Amazon Fire Stick though.
There are a ton of free and legal programs on there that offer movies and TV shows without any worry of downloading any possibly sketchy programs or getting yourself put on a list. My aunt was in heaven when I set all that up for her and I couldn't believe how easy it was to get her to cancel the Cable TV subscription with all those programs.
The drawback of using these services instead of downloading specific movies and shows you want to watch now is that you're only able to watch what they've currently got up for you to watch, and it could be a long time until the movie you want to watch comes up as a freebie. But if you used something like this in tandem with your Library rentals I think you'd really enjoy it.
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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.
That is the other thing. What is offered down there in the way of streaming can be different up here.
My poor old tv is good enough for now as I spend enough money on replacing things and trying to get new things like a freaking couch.
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Welp, computer temp now reads 31C which is 92F and I am glad to be indoors.
Silly me went to the library to take back "Brokenwood" only to discover it wasn't in my backpack. I could have sworn I put it in but got back and there it was on the kitchen table right where I had put it last night. Ugh!
Though while I was rooting for the DVDs in my backpack, I did find a hole in the bottom of it. Something else to replace. *sigh*
I don't know if I should blame stuff like that on my memory or just say eff it and ignore it.
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Originally posted by Brenda:
That is the other thing. What is offered down there in the way of streaming can be different up here.
My poor old tv is good enough for now as I spend enough money on replacing things and trying to get new things like a freaking couch.
When you say old though, how old are we talking?
It's a flat screen and not one of those old heavy Tube TVs, right?
If it's got the same HDMI port on the side or the back somewhere, you wouldn't need a new TV.
That's what the fire sick is for. Think of it like attaching a VCR or DVD player to your TV and switching the inputs to be able to use them to watch your movies.
But instead of a large box that you put discs or tapes into, it's just a little device that's about twice the size of those thumb drives we had you backing up your book to that's just sticking out of your HDMI port, and plugged into your wall for power. That's it.
Basically, for the price of $20 to $40 USD depending on if you buy it on sale or not, you turn your old TV into a smart TV, but only when you switch the input to the device like you would switch to your DVD player or your VCR in your TV options.
Now you connect that thing to your wireless internet you're already paying for, and you can watch practically any basic cable station in real time on an app called "Pluto TV". Or watch YouTube videos on your TV. And there are some other streaming apps you can easily put on the stick for free that will allow you to stream any movies and shows they have on hand, with the only catch being they're going to interrupt the movie or show with commercials of their own. But it's usually quite a bit less commercials than if you were watching a movie on regular TV. And I'm pretty sure they even have some music apps on there that may have different genres playing on a loop and maybe you find a station or two you like that you could just have playing in the background while doing chores or whatever.
Something to think about. A $40 investment could be a HUGE upgrade to your television experience, and since you're already paying for the cable internet connection, there would be zero additional monthly payments for anything after you're all hooked up.
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I think I need to go picture hunting again...
I didn't feel like working on any doors today, but I haven't been able to really stop the momentum either, and haven't found any reason to.
I gave the master bedroom the 4-Star treatment it should have gotten before my dad went on vacation. It's ready now.
Microfiber dust top to bottom and a wipedown on the baseboards and the floor along the walls and the furniture legs with the fiber cloth before using my seldom-used 2nd-floor Shark vac. This thing is so awesome. Stick vac with near limitless maneuverability. If anything, I do want to move my large dresser right about 3 inches just so I can get the thing all the way in the corner back there in the future, but there's not a speck of dust on any furniture, shelving in the closet or the floor now.
Everything is out of the closet now except for shoe boxes on the very tippy top shelf, my backpack and gym bag on the other shelf, and only hung clothing that had a hanger. What wasn't thrown out already now or I hadn't thought of a better home yet that isn't going back in there is in the small bedroom now with the rest of the stuff I need to go through before getting more down from the attic.
I would like to get rid of everything in the two garbage bags or get rid of one thing to replace any one thing that I keep from those bags. And then on top of it I would like to get rid of at least 20% of the stuff that has a home. I'm tired of having just enough room for everything until it's bursting at the seams. I'm sure half of those clothes I haven't worn in at least 10 years. Maybe 1/3rd of them haven't even been worn in 2 decades. If I haven't gotten an office job by now, I don't need 7 days worth of work slacks and dress shirts. I don't need 4 suits. I don't need 8 ties. I don't need 3 pairs of dress shoes. I don't need 20 shirts that have holes in them or paint on them.
That kind of thing...
This is the best part about doing all the work the way I do it. I don't deep clean often, and the layer of dust on everything in that room was pretty awful, but when I clean it up everything looks as good as it did the day that I finished painting it all who knows how many years ago. Except for a brief few years around high school when my step dad was running the house and did a lot of fixups himself, I haven't ever lived in a house where you could spend an entire week deep cleaning everything and it still didn't look like shit.
It was also cool not seeing any spider webs or the like up on the ceilings, even in the closet above the shelving I put up there. That stuff mostly keeps to the basement and crawl space, even in a very wide open planned house like this, fortunately. The highest thing I really ever have to dust for cobwebs and spider webs outside of a rare one in the living room is the overlook at the bottom of the kitchen.
I get a little bit by the dresser next to the A/C unit, but that's only because I didn't go all out making a perfect seal when I put this tiny one in to replace that really nice one I had that died on me.
If I find some of the before pics of that master bedroom closet, I'll have some good before/after pics of that as well later tonight hopefully. It's cool that it's the only closet on this floor that was done and I didn't have to do any work on, only needed to have all the crap that doesn't belong there removed and about 10 minutes of cleanup it looks like I just finished it all over again.
I think I'm going to do the hallway now. Floor is clean, but those baseboards could use a good wipe down among other things. I'll probably do that anywhere I can get to it in the small bedroom too. I vacced anything I could get to just the other night, but I didn't wipe down any walls or boards or nothing in there yet just because I can't get to about 60% of the walls and ceiling without a hassle at the moment.
:smokin
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Yeah...
No actual Work work done today, but when you get results like these after cleaning it almost feels as if some did.
First I remembered to take another shot of the bathroom from the proper angle where you can see how the access-panel to the shower worked out. That shot is from today, and once I put that in and painted it with the rest of the wall, I've not had to use it to get back in there, so I can't say with certainty the claims that you can do it without screwing up the paint job are legit or not. Hopefully I'll never have to know. 
Also... That feeling you get when you realize that two of the four shoe boxes you had hoarded away weren't a lie.
Yup... GarishMaxxing.... TO THE EXTREME!!!
I totally forgot they did that to the accent wall in the master bedroom.
How about that classy trim, huh? At least 12 coats of paint on that. I can't wait to throw it all out now.
Yuck...
So much better now...
(And if you look at the bottom left corner where the door meets the wall, you can see how I ended the trim on both sides of where the bifold door sits when they're closed. I did that by cutting a 45 angle, then putting another small 45 degree triangle the other way to get the thin/top part of the trim running vertically down into the floor, parallel to both the front and back of the door. I did this in the small bedroom for the closet as well).
And I lied about the cobwebs, apparently. The camera sees all...
"He's got Diabetes eyes...."
Guess I'm not done with the step ladder today. 
And I double checked... just in case anybody is playing hide and seek in the closet, the door was painted inside too. We'll just pretend we didn't see how sloppy I got with the paint on the back though. I never noticed that until today either.
And a preview of what's to come...
My god...
Not just the clown colors... but I forgot until just now that 2/3rds of the windows in this house didn't have any jambs or trim at all and were just plastered in. I ripped every window sill out of the 2nd floor windows and made my own before putting the new jambs and trim around around all of them. Had to do that for 2 windows on the 1st floor too.
Down on the 1st floor though, I took a shortcut and just made blocks to attach to the ends of the existing window sill, rounded them all down to match the original sill with my belt sander in the garage, then brad nailed and glued the hell out of them before giving them the wood putty treatment and you can't even tell they all weren't one solid piece now. Might have actually been just as much work to do it that way, but you never know things like that until you try them out.
I'm so glad I took all of these pictures.
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OOPS... I think maybe I broke the page with the pictures. I hope it's just a hiccup. Sorry about that if I did.
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No... it's fine for me. Looks like it just needs to all be downloaded and it's staying in your cache so when you reload the page after all the images are finally up they all pop super quick on my end. I had to reload the page once or twice when it stalled until that happened though. I'll try to remember to downsize all of them going forward.
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Hey Second...
I know you're creep stalking in here and seeing all of this. One might even think that your quick willingness to help Brenda out in getting her fit for her Pirate hat could even have been a passive-aggressive threat, right?
"I'm watching you, Jack..."
I know you are, buddy. I know you are.
Hey man...
You can tell me I do good work and that you're envious of my talent. It's okay, dude. Nobody would hold it against you, except for maybe Ted Bundy Clone, but we both know he's got absolutely nothing to bring to any table and is worth just ignoring about 99% of the time anyhow, don't we?
And besides... It would be the first time you've ever told the truth on this website.
What could it hurt?
Oh... and trust me dude. I've already thought this well out in advance man. When I even get an inkling to put this house on the market I for damn sure ain't ever going to mention that I'm doing it here on this website. That becomes a completely compartmentalized part of my life with distinct lines between us, just like a lot of things ended up being over the years after you and Ted Bundy Clone's abhorrent behaviors.
One day I'll just run out of major projects to do around here I'll do a little celebratory jig with Sigs and Brenda, and then barring any catastrophe in the future, I'll never mention my house again. And 10 years later I might still be here or I might be living in a different state.
It's cute that you are on the other side of that screen saving every photo I put up here to that special folder you've got of me on your hard drive. Flattering, really.
I wonder... do you keep copies as well. Oh tell me you do, lover. Tell me that I mean that much to you, my darling.
I know that in your mind and in your heart that Donald J. Trump will always be your number one and there's no coming between that. But I couldn't live another day knowing that I wasn't at least worth backing up all my photos to that special thumb drive of yours.
You know the one I'm talking about.
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