In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)
POSTED BY: SIGNYM
UPDATED: Monday, September 7, 2026 11:50
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
You need to find that shirt, Brenda.
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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.
Not really things just need to be sorted out is all. One of these days I will. When I feel like it.
Oh, at some point last night my icons on taskbar decided to go for a walk. Everything is working though.
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Out soon on a smokey day. Looks like the smoke from the lower Interior and Washington state have reached my area.
Going to try not to stay out too long but things to do.
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Taskbar is still bad?
Time to do that restart. See what happens.
If you can't do it with the Start Button now, do the CTRL+ALT+DEL and hit the power button icon at the lower right for the Restart option.
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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Taskbar is still bad?
Time to do that restart. See what happens.
If you can't do it with the Start Button now, do the CTRL+ALT+DEL and hit the power button icon at the lower right for the Restart option.
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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.
Yeah, I will tonight before I go to bed. That's the best time for me. I don't have to think about it. *sigh*
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I know you've mentioned the weather on your computer before. Do you need to see it there?
If not, there are certain "widgets" we can turn off on your task bar such as "News & Weather" among other things that may be running that can cause the task bar to glitch up like this.
I'm just trying to come up with easy ways to keep this from happening to you. A brand new Windows install or just a "Reset This PC", which would allow you to keep all of your files but would require you to reinstall Word and your internet browser and other things I'd be too afraid to have you try without me being able to walk you through it. Until you got a laptop that we know can connect you here, that's not an option for us.
Just try the Restart in the CTRL+ALT+DEL menu tonight and let's see how it goes this week.
Worst case, for now, is that you will know how to restart the computer when it happens again and if you have to restart more often going forward so be it.
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Looks like I still have 14 boxes in the attic after last night.
3 of them are the stereo equipment that's going to be set up in the garage. 2 of them are Christmas stuff (1 box I have to keep since it's all of the ornaments given to me when I was a kid from family members, but the other one is things like mechanical Santas that all look pretty expensive but mean nothing to me). One box is books. 2 boxes of knicknacks. 1 box of pure nostalgia that I'm never getting rid of. 1 box of stuff I have for building computers (and I haven't built a computer since 2015). 2 huge totes of those old black and white photos of ancestors I know nothing about. 1 box with my old VCR and 5 or 6 tapes as well as my really nice marble chess board (I don't know where the pieces are yet, or if I even still have them). And the last box is a very old computer that I needed linux on so I could do stuff with some of that old tech (I will be throwing that out after I'm done going through what's left of the old tech).
Going to do more work on getting that stuff down and ready for sorting today in between working on my Aunt's chest.
I've got to see if I still have a roll of wax paper in my kitchen. Even though we're close to 24 hours drying time since the last coat of poly, I'm really worried about even having it upside down on towels on the horses while I'm working on finishing the face of the body, sanding the inside of the box one final time, staining the lips and getting a few coats of poly on them before I do one final coat on the lips and the inside of the box.
If I have wax paper, I'll be pulling out my boards to make table tops on the horses again so I can spread the surface area out and not worry about my box sticking to the towel or getting marred by it.
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About the stain ...
You didn't do anything wrong, SIX. The chest is made of very dense fine- grained wood that just doesn't soak up stain, is all. The legs that I tried to stain to match the furniture were made from bits of the old silver maple, and I had the same problem. I was using a gel mahogany stain, and like I said, I had to use it like a glaze and leave a lot on to get the color to match. In fact, I kind of had to "paint on" a grain pattern. Fortunately, being legs tucked under a chest of drawers, nobody looks at them very closely!
Maybe a water or alcohol based dye or a tung oil/ solvent based stain would have penetrated better.
If I ever find the answer I'll let you know!
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
About the stain ...
You didn't do anything wrong, SIX. The chest is made of very dense fine- grained wood that just doesn't soak up stain, is all. The legs that I tried to stain to match the furniture were made from bits of the old silver maple, and I had the same problem. I was using a gel mahogany stain, and like I said, I had to use it like a glaze and leave a lot on to get the color to match. In fact, I kind of had to "paint on" a grain pattern. Fortunately, being legs tucked under a chest of drawers, nobody looks at them very closely!
Maybe a water or alcohol based dye or a tung oil/ solvent based stain would have penetrated better.
If I ever find the answer I'll let you know!
Appreciate ya, Sigs.
I remember being initially disappointed with my hardwood floors because I wanted them basically dark brown and they didn't turn out that way at all. What bothers me about both my floors and this piece is that they are both significantly lighter than they were before I sanded them. Must have been much different products that they were using back then compared to what we've got now, huh?
I'll have some nice pics later. Not going to be ready for hinges until tomorrow night if everything goes right tonight, but I got my 5th and final coat on the front board of the box, and everything else was good with 4 coats. So I just finished getting the handles on the box before I tipped it 90 degrees on the base after giving the face 2 hours to dry. All that's left is staining and poly on the lips now, since I decided against sanding the inside and doing another coat. It's beautiful now and I don't want to screw anything up accidentally at the last moment since I'm pretty much out of time and I'm also very low on poly too.
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Not done, but really getting close now...
My god, she's beautiful...
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Had to repost the originals just to look at them side by side again. Too bad I didn't take nice angles of the before pics like I did while I was working on it.
I've got to go out to my garage and see if I have any foam brushes out there. I don't have any inside. I'm not even going to attempt to put the poly on the lips with a regular brush. If I can't find a foam brush, I'm going to cut up a fresh kitchen sponge and just give it very light coats.
It turns out that I have until Monday now for this to be finished since my aunt will be busy on retirement day partying with people she worked with and she's actually quite busy already this weekend. Whether it's at her place or mine, I don't want this to just be a quick hand off. So I'm just going to go thin with a foam brush or sponge and use as many coats as I feel I need to finish off the job without leaking poly all over either side onto those beautiful finishes.
In lieu of having any 300-400 grit sand paper, I'm going to just use the face of a clean cardboard box to "sand" in between coats. The fibers on the cardboard are more than enough to scuff it so the next coat will hold.
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