6ixString's Home Improvement and Mindless Ramblings Thread....
POSTED BY: 6ixStringJack
UPDATED: Monday, May 9, 2016 00:48
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Originally posted by JO753:
My cargo hauling suggestion wuz a kinda sorta a joke. Firefly, hauling cargo? Get it? HAHA? ha. I gess you had to be there.
I used to sleep walk wen I wuz a kid. Last wun I remember wuz wen I wuz about 20. Woke up naked in the gangway next to the house! A lame end to a plezently x-rated dream.
Now I just take callz without waking up. I've reportedly had detailed coherent haf owr conversationz and I remember NOTHING wen wake up later.
Herez a pik uv my back yard:
Tryd to get the mower running, but it woud only go for about 2 minits and konk out. Gave it back to Tony.
Heh... First thing I thought of was Mal, lol. I thought you were serious though
That sleepwalking shit is SCARY man. When you've gone 32 years and never done it before, it's like WTF????? My friend took Ambien to sleep and stopped immediately one night when he woke up and had a full fridge of grocieries he didn't remember buying and his sister called him the next day asking what the late night phone call and weird conversation was about.
There's a lawnmower in that pic man????? It's like "Where's Waldo" lolz...
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Originally posted by Wishimay:
Oh and Jack? Hormones have a great deal to do with things like nightmares and sleepwalking. When I was a kid I used to have sleepwalking episodes about "that time o the month"...Maybe your body is telling you it's time to get laidOr at the very least, to relax a bit. Not easy to do on a job search. Have you checked out the temp places? Not great jobs I know, but a distraction from your savings going down the drain??....
Come to think of it, I've been having quite a few nightmares and otherwise VERY vivid dreams too. Some of my dreams are so real that I find myself later questioning if things that have happened recently with my friends and family really even happened or if they were in a dream. A lot of that isn't even bad stuff... it's just not real.
At least I've been waking up where I was supposed to since the incident.
I need to find a temp job that specializes in office work around here. The 2nd best job I ever had started through a temp agency. After about 10 days the boss said, how would you like a full time job kid? I got really lucky there. Temp places really stick it to you and take at least 30% off the top, but you may land a job where they really like you and make it worth your while after you are no longer on the temp dole.
Got a part time security/surveillance job interview tomorrow. Pay should be pretty decent if the hours are over 30 a week. Wish me luck :)
Oh... and here's the pictures I said I'd post of the lawn mess....
UGGGGGGGHHHHHH The WEEDS!!!!!!
The area that's discolored on the top right isn't so bad now. I removed 95% of the weeds by hand while trying to baby the new grass, the discolored stuff is the lawn repair kit (seed/mulch/grass accelerator). Actually, about 70% of the pool was done today, so it looks way better than this pic already. Just hope the new grass takes hold.
And the easement...
Wow... two days ago it really wasn't looking that bad. Not today, no ma'am....
With everything else on my plate, I've all but written off the easement this season. There is no way I'm hand picking another 910 sq feet of weeds and buying another 70 bucks of weed repair. I just don't have the time or desire to work on the lawn anymore. It's too late in the year to do anything about it now anyway. The next 10 days call for 7 out of 10 days in the 80's and only a 30% chance of rain one day. I just hope that when I put down weed and feed next week that it kills off the weeds growing now and prevents most weeds from popping up until the fall and
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Haha!
This was the BEST interview yet!!!!
I got there about 20 minutes early, so I bought a sprinkler while killing down time. Show up to the customer service desk and tell them that I'm here for my interview. After about 10 minutes of waiting a guy comes out to apologize to me and tell me that they already hired somebody for the job last week.
Bah... whatever. Not going to get worked up about it. Got my sprinkler and it was close to where I buy groceries and make my weekly booze cruise anyways, so I used that as an excuse to stock up on that stuff early.
Tomorrow I'll get the rest of the weeds out of the pool and the rest of the lawn patch in, and I'll go pay my property taxes. I'll probably just take that 24hr/wk job overnight stocking for now until something better comes up. I can probably make it about 2 more years here without a better job on that meager pay.
Getting back to my calm center here. I've woken up in my bed every night since the incident, and tonight won't be any different
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Well... didn't get a lot of that stuff done today, but there REALLY is only one day of weed pulling left now, if I stick with it for 8 hours in the heat.
The sprinkler I bought is AWESOME. Only 7 bucks. Sure, it's made in China and it's all plastic, but you can "program" how hit spreads the water both ways with ease with two dials. Even though it hit 87 degrees here today, the mulch was still damp at 2PM after giving 3 areas a 30 minute watering. If I were spraying by hose in this weather, I'd need to give it a recoat 5 times a day.
It's been about 6 days now since I put the initial lawn patch down. Hope to see the new grass filling in the bald spots in the next coulple of days now. It will take a lot of water and a lot of dilligance over the next 3 or so weeks, but I think I can still salvage the pool and make it all green by summer time.
I'm just going to weed 'n feed the easement on Friday though. Hopefully it kills off the weeds growing now and keeps new ones from growing until the weather is cooler in fall and I'll finish her up then.
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Tony got the mower running & refuzed to accept payment!
I mowed the frunt lawn fairly eazily. It iznt very big and the house shadez it, so it wuz only about 18 inchez at the tallest.
The bak yard (in the pik) iz much worse. I went at it for about 45 minits and only did about 1/4 uv it. Its about 4 feet in sum areaz.
A guy on a 4 weeler stopped to laff at me.
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Joe, that would be scary, waking up naked outside.
Jack a chara, It sounds like that sleep walking incident was unsettling for you. I'm glad it hasn't happened again, here's hoping it was a total fluke. I only sleep walked once or twice when I was a little girl, a long time ago. I talked in my sleep until my early womanhood, haven't done it in a while, when Mary stays over she always says she didn't hear me, whereas Jennifer always used to tell me what I would say.
I assume you're my pal until you let me know otherwise.
"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya.
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Originally posted by JO753:
Tony got the mower running & refuzed to accept payment!
I mowed the frunt lawn fairly eazily. It iznt very big and the house shadez it, so it wuz only about 18 inchez at the tallest.
The bak yard (in the pik) iz much worse. I went at it for about 45 minits and only did about 1/4 uv it. Its about 4 feet in sum areaz.
A guy on a 4 weeler stopped to laff at me.
18" - 4'!!!!! Yikes!!!!!
I sure hope you're bagging and not mulching. I don't envy your shoes....
Glad you got your mower fixed for free.
Good luck man!!!!
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Originally posted by RionaEire:
Joe, that would be scary, waking up naked outside.
Jack a chara, It sounds like that sleep walking incident was unsettling for you. I'm glad it hasn't happened again, here's hoping it was a total fluke. I only sleep walked once or twice when I was a little girl, a long time ago. I talked in my sleep until my early womanhood, haven't done it in a while, when Mary stays over she always says she didn't hear me, whereas Jennifer always used to tell me what I would say.
I assume you're my pal until you let me know otherwise.
"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya.
No joke Riona, it was VERY unsettling. I don't think I've ever talked in my sleep before, but that would be scary enough to me. The only time I can think that I may have done that is when I'm on my way out of a dream and I realize that I'm talking to myself. It's been ages since I shared a bedroom with my two bros, but they never said anything to me about sleep talking.
But to wake up in my dirty crawlspace where the sump pump is, not to mention, where all the water that infested the basement with mold was drained from when the power was turned back on?????? Let's just say the first thing I did was take a scalding hot shower and I ended up burning the boxers I was wearing. I have no idea how long I was down there before I woke up. The worst part of it all is, if I'm capable of doing that without being aware of it, what else have I done in my sleep? Hell... have I gone to my computer and posted in the RWED while sleeping or called up married Ex Girlfriends?
Your imagination is the limit for what you "might have done" after a night of waking up on "bedding" you meticulously put together in a dirty crawl space.
I get shivers just thinking about it........
In home improvement news... like everything else, the last relatively small area of weeds in the pool is going to take at least 2 days to do. I knew that was the worst part and that's why I saved it for last. It was probably only 100sq/ft, but the weedage there is so insane and you have to take every precaution to not rip out healthy new grass.
In an interesting turn of events.....
Now I know why the rabbits were digging a hole in the pool and why I had the fun of witnissing them eating and chasing each other for about 3 hours yesterday just feet away from where I was working.
I thought that they dug the hole to get at the roots of a certain kind of weed I've noticed they love to eat.
Nope....
I worked the weeds around that hole and when I finally got to it I pulled out a bunch of dead grass and rabbit fur came up with it. My first thought was Gorram it!!!! Thanks for killing some of the grass I actually had growing.... but when I saw what was underneath, I was mortified......
Hairless, wriggling and writhing living creatures using each others body heat for warmth. I didn't know what the hell to do, so I just covered it back up. Knowing what I know about the human scent on a baby bird's nest, I figured I just executed these baby rabbits.
Fortunately, rabbits aren't the same. As long as the mother doesn't get run over by a car or chewed up like the two other rabbits I've had around here, she will come back every night and morning to
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Mama rabbit came by today!
I was worried this morning when the X I made with twigs hadn't been moved....
While I was working on the weeds, about 2 feet from the nest, she was scoping out the area for about an hour. I'd look over at her occasionally and look away. I was trying to let her know that it was cool that she came by and I wouldn't hurt her.
Finally, I got to a point that was just beyond the hole from where she was waiting and I could work for 20 or so minutes with my back to her and the hole. Sure enough, she creeped in and started feeding. Without turning quickly and staring right at her, I could see in my perephrial vision that she was tending the nest. Only about 18" away from me!
I know that had to be hella-stressful for her, but mother's instinct trumps all that.
I felt bad that I had to scare her out of the easement area later though when I saw her feeding there. I had just put down fertilizer to try to kill off the weeds growing before they overtake the grass I had planted. I sure hope she just feeds in the pool area near the nest while I'm not around for the next 24 hours until I can water the easement again. The fertilizer probably won't kill her, but I can't imagine that it would be good when she's feeding the babies.
As a side, I thought it was cool that it looks as though she used my two "X" twigs to reinforce her nest. I was just going to remove them after she left now that I know she's coming back, but they're now wrapped in the dead grass and fur she's left as almost a support bridge over the hole.
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The weeds in the pool are gone.... FINALLY!!!!!!
Well, a bulk of them at least. I have noticed some popping up again in the areas I started with over a week ago. Finally got that lawn patch down everywhere now... just in time for the 97 degree weather tomorrow. Yay! I'll be watering all day long probably.
The good news is, now that I'm using a sprinkler, the original grass seems much more lush and it looks as if it's really starting to fill in the bald areas in the parts I de-weeded a week ago. The worst area of the pool is the stuff I just de-weeded in the last two days, and that's a good thing. That means that even though I don't really notice new growth from day to day, The overall picture is filling in like I want.
By god, I think I might be able to save this pool yet before summer is in full swing if I remain diligent about watering for the next 3 weeks!
The babies are still healthy and kicking. I hope I didn't make them too nervous camped out right next to their hole all day pulling the last of the weeds. No sign of Mama Rabbit today. Maybe she knows that I'm cool now. If anything, I'm a deterrent for any predators getting to them while I'm there. I just hope that some stray dog or cat doesn't get to them now that the hole is out in the open. She originally picked the spot that had weeds over a foot tall to hide it. Now all that's hiding them is the dead grass she put over them.
Sorry rabbits... I can't allow those weeds to seed and spread. At least I didn't put the Lawn Patch close to your hole. I have no idea if that would be deadly or make you sick, so I will just fill that area with patch in the fall after you've grown up. Looking forward to seeing you tailing Mama around the yard in a few months.
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Glad youre wun uv the good guyz, Jack! Too many people think nothing uv killing defensles animalz.
No, wuznt scary for me, Rionaire, just a little chilly. Then I wuz wondering if maybe I wuz on my way back frum sumwer and the cops woud be hammering on the door.
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DUZ XaT SEM RiT TQ YQ? - Jubal Early
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Yeah, thanks JO. I need to build my Karma back up for killing 4 mice in the house over the winter. If they were outside my house I wouldn't hurt them, but there's gotta be somewhere when you draw the line. I've also killed quite a few tiny ants in the last few days too. Little bastards.... why do they make me do things that make me sad?????
I gotta get some new pics up of the pool and the easement. The pool is starting to look pretty good now. I'm hoping that it really fills in before the weather gets consistently hot. Today was 98 degrees here at 2:45PM, and tomorrow is a high of 91 degrees, but thankfully there are a lot of high 60's low 70's coming in the 10 day forecast. No rain, unfortunately for the rest of my lawn. The area on the side of the garage that gets 100% of the sun all day long with no shade, and also a part I didn't fertilize yet, is damn near looking dead now since we've had nearly zero rain in a month. It's funny, because even during the very mild winter we had the lawn never got that brown.
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