In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
POSTED BY: SIGNYM
UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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Quote:I don't know about you but I find random demands on my time to be very frustrating.
Originally posted by Brenda:
Well, the lady that I work for has made up here mind as I got a message on Thursday when I got back from mah jong. I gave her a call and so I am off to work tomorrow morning.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
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Quote:I hope you get everything done that you're hoping to do, SIX!
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Ugggggggghhhhhhh.....
Freakin weathermen.
Woke up to find there's now a coin flip today that we could get a stray thunder storm that drops a 1/4 of an inch of rain, when there was no rain in the prediciton until Wednesday.
Here's hoping it misses me. In any event, I probably won't be washing the walls and putting any tar up today. Tar needs 24 hours without any rain, and the splash from the mud is going to dirty up the walls anyhow.
I can still get the rest of the crud out of the porch slab, clean it up and get tar on that though. Maybe I'll still find some time to take down the old light and see if I can rig up the new one in between rain showers.
It would be cool to finish up the garage today. Hopefully, my aunt and grandma are coming over tomorrow. It's getting a lot harder for my aunt to get her around though, and she still works full time and work's been hard because of the hot weather.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
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Managed to rescue-water my potted plants, do some veggie-garden weeding, check the (former) beehive and walk the dog before it got too hot.
Didn't see any bees, but the yard - which had dozens of bees foraging on the matcheeed (lippia, turkey tanglefoot) - looks kind of lonely now.
Tomatoes are two days away from being ripe.
Well, need to do more stuff indoors. Catch you later.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
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Originally posted by SignyM:
I hope you get everything done that you're hoping to do, SIX!
Oh... It WILL get done.
Had an AWESOME day today. Finished cleaning out the crap behind the porch slab. All that's left to do is a TSP wash and we're ready to do the whole wall on Monday. I also found the crack in the foundation that I knew would be behind the slab to match the one I patched a few years ago in the back. If I really want to fix these things, I'm going to have to do some injection molding from inside the house, but once I'm done in the front there is no way any rain water is going to get in there. Just the ground water.
Now I know where 3 of the 4 cracks are. No way I can find the 4th one from outside since the cinder block wall of the porch is right on the other side of it. I'll have to guesstimate where it is from the opposite crack I fixed to find it. Chances are I'll have to take the visqueen down from two walls to get to both cracks anyhow though.
So, knowing that there is a VERY good chance of thundershowers tonight, I wasn't going to wash the walls or put any tar up.
So out to the garage I went to install the new garage security light.
First I had to take the old one down, and though it was bolted in with three heavy duty bolts under the siding, I was able to manage to get it off with my mechanics wrenches without damaging any siding.
I went in the garage and immediately before I opened the security light it dawned on me why it was only $22.88. Even though the store didn't advertise it as a return, it was obviously a return. There's no way a lamp made by GE wasn't going to be shrunk wrapped. I opened the box and everything seemed clean and good though.
But then I took the lamp out...
The bottom panel of the motion sensor where all the setting switches are that houses the computer board was broken off. There were two screws holding it in, but somehow some idiot must have either dropped the thing or tried prying off the bottom for god knows what reason. Then they returned it to the store, and either the store didn't check to see if it was good or they knew it wasn't and didn't mark it as damaged.
But I had an idea. First I took photographs of the damage, then I put the hot and neutral wires into an outlet and verified that the lights still turned on. Then I got out a 4pack of super glue that I got free after rebate and glued it up nice and tight, and got to running my electric to get it installed.
The best part about the whole process was how everything was lined up perfect that I didn't have to drill any new holes or marry some stray 2x4's to the sides of the existing ones to mount the outdoor-safe junction box. Not anything the idiots before me planned for, of course, but every once in a while things just work out better than you could have hoped.
Got the light up there and I'll tell you right now it's so much better than it has any damn right to be for only 23 bucks!
Right now I have it set in "Night" mode at 30% with a sensor distance of 60 feet for 15 seconds. That means that as soon as it senses that it's night time it turns on 30%, but if anything comes within 60 feet of the sensor it turns from 30% to 100% for 15 seconds. I'm not sure if I'll keep it at that setting, but I already verified that it works as I intended and I'm absolutely thrilled.
And it's so BRIGHT!
The electric in the garage is officially done now.
The only thing I intend to do out there still is to seal up any small gaps in the walls and get a better rubber seal for the bottom of the overhead door to keep any mice and insects out.
Right now there is a cricket somewhere inside behind my shelving units and it was driving me nuts while I was working today.
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Originally posted by Magonsdaughter:
Quote:Your weather sounds lovely. The winters there sound like winter in central CA, prolly cooler than here.
Itches must be unbearable. I hope your rememdies work. I find a bit of phenerghan helps and it also puts you to sleep - double whammy. The other thing we used to use when I was a kid was calamine location. I have no idea what it is and whether you can get it - it was probably made from DDT or something awful.
Still cold and wet here but the days are getting longer and the wattle is fully out. My bulbs are starting to peak their heads above the soil.
I'm learning more about Australia watching Dr Blake (altho disappointed to read that the actor was in Rocky Horror. Why the heck? He's a good enough actor not to be in that shlock.)
BULBS! What kind? Not that I expect to know; they're probably some Australian kind I'll have to look up.
Phenergan here is Rx not OTC, usually used for nausea and allergies. Curiously, another medication - here called Zantac, used for acid stomach - also works for allergies. There's a connection between stomach and histamine which I would know if I were a biochemist. I tried oral benadryl (diphenhydramine) too, but I had to take a whopping dose to get any effect. Triamcinilone layered over benadryl gel seems to work.
Good to hear from you, MAGONS.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
Craig (Dr Blake) has been involved in some pretty dodgy stuff, sorry to say. Not sure how his career will be going. If you like crime drama, I can recommend Mystery Road, set at the other end of the country in the Kimberleys - amazing scenery, interesting story line, Aboriginal detective. I enjoyed it.
Ive planted exotic bulbs - not even sure whether Australian natives come with vulbs. Jonquils, bluebells and some tulips. I'm hoping the hungry possums don't eat them all, they've been pretty brutal this winter on the plants.
Everyone hates Melbourne weather - it's not an easy climate. Coldish winters (by Aus standards) but can be like a furnace in Summer. And lots of extremes - big winds, rains, gets very dangerous for bushfires in Summer. Unpredictable. The saying goes - if you don't like the weather, wait an hour.
It's funny how countries vary what you can and can't buy OTC. Im pissed off that codeine is now on prescription. It's the best for a cough. Bloody meth cookers.
I've been watching "Mystery Road". It's an interesting little show. Like the characters.
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Originally posted by SignyM:Quote:I don't know about you but I find random demands on my time to be very frustrating.
Originally posted by Brenda:
Well, the lady that I work for has made up here mind as I got a message on Thursday when I got back from mah jong. I gave her a call and so I am off to work tomorrow morning.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
I can use the extra money. So, I went and dealt with her for about 4 hours. Got attacked by a rose bush. She had me do some pruning on 3 different flowers for the winter or fall. The only plant I could identify was the rose.
Anyways they are off camping again on Monday, hence the call. And they've only been back 2 weeks from the Yukon.
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Actually got a bit of rain in my area this morning on my way to work. Walked out of my apartment building and realized that I was getting wet. Had to come back in for my umbrella. Dry now and suppose to warm up again for next week.
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Just a lazy Sunday around me.
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We looked up Mystery Road and it's available but, alas, it's not free.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
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Originally posted by SignyM:
We looked up Mystery Road and it's available but, alas, it's not free.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
That's a bummer. I found it at my local library. That's where I get a lot of British and other shows. My library had series 1-5 of Shetland. They get Dr. Who in to.
I even found a stray Bruce Lee movie the other day. "Fists of Fury."
I got it out and watched it over the weekend. It's going back tomorrow.
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