In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)
POSTED BY: SIGNYM
UPDATED: Monday, September 7, 2026 11:50
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Back from my walk and all done for today. Not too cold out but the computer icon is now calling for rain. So have to see if it arrives.
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oh yeah. According to wunderground you're right in the middle of a blob of cold northern air. But I'm sure you knew that.
Well... Not exactly frigid yet or anything. High 50's tomorrow, 60+ on Wednesday and 71 on Thursday. But then it drops and doesn't look like were going to get a warm comeback after that.
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Er, cold air prolly inhibits caulk and paint drying. You might need to wait for that warmer weather tomorrow to get it to dryness.
It sure does. I've just about run out of time. If I don't sand down the spackle, vacuum and clean it and caulk all of the windows, jambs and casings tomorrow then I won't be able to paint on Wednesday. That just leaves me Thursday morning before my Dad comes over. You're not supposed to paint anything if it's getting under 35 degrees within 24 hours.
I'd better be on point after I vote tomorrow morning, or this is the end of the line until spring.
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Dress warm, SIX!
Will do.
Have to, with my thermostat set for 53 degrees.
Somebody is paying more for heat this winter, but it ain't me.
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Well... That's a good mess I've gotten myself into.
I decided to start painting the first coat of high-gloss on the bamboo table. I'm about an hour into it and progress slow.
I'm going to be up a little late tonight. It's looking good though so far. And half of the tricky part is done. Once I get the other half out of the way the rest should be smooth sailing.
I guess this won't be one of my winter projects.
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Two hard(est) parts done... and a little bit more.
I'm quite surprised at how much this paint is cooperating with me tonight. I might have accidentally picked the perfect day(s) to work on it. It's rather temperamental and it behaves vastly different in differing levels of heat and humidity. I mean, all paint I've used does to a degree, but this "Ultra" line of Pittsburgh paint when using their High-Gloss finish is the most temperamental I've ever used.
This piece is by far the most intricate thing I've ever painted by hand before, so I'm really appreciating how the paint is behaving when it's about 58 degrees with moderate humidity since the furnace isn't sucking all the humidity out of the air. I also took a hot shower earlier which added a little extra humidity.
I've found that I haven't had to "fight" with it at all when overlapping a part I'd painted just minutes earlier and came back to, in which case I have to kind of load up some extra paint to work it in with the old stuff and then thin it out.
The second coat is usually more temperamental than the first, so hopefully tomorrow or Wednesday night will go as smooth when I put the final coat on, but so far so good. The rest of what I have to do should go pretty quickly now.
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It sounds like it worked out well for you, SIX. Good deal!
Over at this end I was busy sorting mail when the power went out. No particular reason, it wasn't stormy or windy or anything. We must be on an old circuit bc our section (all 1600+ accounts) goes out 3 times a year, but the lights across the street stay on - they're on a newer circuit, I think. And it doesn't take long, relatively speaking, to fix- usually just a couple of hours. So I think it must be an old relay or switch or something simple that they could have replaced any time in the past 20 years, they just haven't.
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It sounds like it worked out well for you, SIX. Good deal!
About 3.5 hours. That's quicker than I figured a coat would take.
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Over at this end I was busy sorting mail when the power went out. No particular reason, it wasn't stormy or windy or anything. We must be on an old circuit bc our section (all 1600+ accounts) goes out 3 times a year, but the lights across the street stay on - they're on a newer circuit, I think. And it doesn't take long, relatively speaking, to fix- usually just a couple of hours. So I think it must be an old relay or switch or something simple that they could have replaced any time in the past 20 years, they just haven't.
I'm on what the neighbors refer to as the "old circuit" here myself. When me and the neighbors across the street lose power, most of the rest of the block doesn't. It's probably vice/versa too, but who notices when other people's power is out when yours isn't, right?
It used to be a pretty big problem around here. I remember for years I just didn't bother resetting the times on the clocks because brownouts would just knock 'em out long enough for the blinking 12:00 and no matter how many times I called about it they didn't do anything. I'm thinking one of the times when it went out something busted though and they finally accidentally fixed it because we're good now.
Maybe you get lucky and something really breaks on you so they'll finally fix the problem on your end too. Good luck!
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If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
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Voted early. In this house that means before noon on Election Day. 
Changing in the work clothes and I'm going to get that spackle sanded and cleaned so I can caulk before the sun goes down. I got 7 hours.
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Got snow where I am last night. Not much but the roofs around me still have it on them.
Last bit of dental work for this year and a couple of other things to do for my walk.
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Sounds like a busy day. I hope everything goes smoothly for you!
AFA snow on roofs... where I came from, that means that your roofs are well- insulated. Those that aren't leak heat and melt the snow. You must have good building codes.
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If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
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Over here we got about an inch of rain overnight and we're due another rain band some time in the afternoon. I'll put the rain gage out again, but I wanted to measure now bc it almost got nailed by a falling palm frond last night, and I wanted to catch the measurement before it might get knocked over.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
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