In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
POSTED BY: SIGNYM
UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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Quote:Better luck next time.
Originally posted by Brenda:
Back from mah jong and was beat by another lady at the table I was playing at. She finished the morning with over 10,000 points. I had half that at over 5,000 points. One of those days.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
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Quote:I'm glad you had a good time, SIX. But concerts sure can be expensive!
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
All of my buds who were coming out except for one made it.
I'm glad I cleaned the house, although it was just the guys tonight. The families are coming out tomorrow night, so the house will still be clean if they gather here first again. (In fact, if somebody doesn't peek too deep into the basement, this might just be the cleanest the house has ever been).
Good concert. I'm sure the food was amazing. It sure smelled amazing. But Jack doesn't pay $12.00 for cheese fries or a Funnel Cake or $10.00 for a chili dog.
I don't even want to know what they were paying for those little beers, so I didn't ask.
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Originally posted by SignyM:Quote:Better luck next time.
Originally posted by Brenda:
Back from mah jong and was beat by another lady at the table I was playing at. She finished the morning with over 10,000 points. I had half that at over 5,000 points. One of those days.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
You never know.
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Walk in and movie returned to the library along with a bit of grocery shopping. Suppose to cool down where I am for the weekend. Have to wait and see.
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Originally posted by SignyM:
I'm glad you had a good time, SIX. But concerts sure can be expensive!
It was free. Local thing. I think my friends probably spent $200 on beer and food though.
I can't even imagine what food and drinks are at the Taste of Chicago is these days if it's that much around here.
I got a freebie today. Nobody called me while I was working, so I just pushed on through since the plan turned into a major project with cleaning the crap out of the earth and meticulously grading everything with my garden tools and level before putting any rocks down. I had to pull out my lights for the last half hour to even finish the job.
I've got 2 bags of rocks left. Out of 190.
I was able to get everything set up to where my drain pipe extender from the porch goes out to the driveway, so I was able to finally get that thing back up for hopefully the last time. The rocks actually went a little further than I thought they would, although I'm sure it would be beneficial at some point to "top them off".
Before I even buy any more rock, I'm going to have to remove a lot of that sand in the pit. With no other options for grading since the driveway is higher than the shed slab, I have to grade away from the house the shed/porch and the garage, to a low valley in the center of the sand pit. Once most of the sand is out, I'll put a bunch of pea gravel in the valley and then top off the rocks above that. I guess if that's still an issue down the road I could build a well in the center and have a sump pump put out there to pull out the water.
Honestly, it's such a STUPID design that I'm forced to work with.
I'm going to have to figure out walkways too, and I'll be buying much nicer stones for that than the ugly cinder block patio they used to have in here.
I think that's going to be a project for next year though. I'll get the foundation work all around the sand pit finished and graded, which will just leave the back of the house and the garage, and my plan for the sand pit outlined above for next year.
I'm really happy with how it's turning out.
EDIT: Just realized now I didn't follow up about the friends. I DID end up calling them after I finished after 8. Only one of them was still thinking of going with his wife and their daughter, but when he heard that I wasn't feeling like going and the other two had already bailed he wasn't going to go either.
It was still cool seeing them last night. I was always the guy that got the group together back in the day. I know it's tougher because everybody's got their own thing now, but maybe I can slip back into that role again. We're not all exactly in close proximity these days, but it's nice that we're not super far apart either.
I bet that if I hadn't been so busy and I got on all of their asses early in the day we'd all be listening to a good band right now.
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Off to do my laundry in a bit. Lots of clouds, so will need jacket when I get my walk in. Suppose to rain tomorrow.
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Quote:Rainy and cool? Sounds GREAT!!!
Originally posted by Brenda:
Off to do my laundry in a bit. Lots of clouds, so will need jacket when I get my walk in. Suppose to rain tomorrow.
Yesterday it was 102F, tomorrow it's back up to 102F, and it will stay between 93F and 103F until next Saturday. We've set our AC to 77-78, and even then it's working overtime. I guess that's what makes SoCal what it is: scrublands.
Made up a new recipe yesterday, it was a variation of my zucchini Parmesan. I guess this would be turkey-cottage cheese-zucchini lasagna. I had one of those "I didn't see it intil now" zucchinis to cook, so I cut it into 1/4" slices, softened them in the mwave and then use them as a base for a layer of cottage cheese, ground turkey cooked with Alfredo sauce mix and fresh basil, topped with a sprinkling of Italian blend shredded cheese and baked for 20 minutes. The family loved it, so now I have an easy healthful recipe to add to my rotation.
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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:Quote:Rainy and cool? Sounds GREAT!!!
Originally posted by Brenda:
Off to do my laundry in a bit. Lots of clouds, so will need jacket when I get my walk in. Suppose to rain tomorrow.
Yesterday it was 102F, tomorrow it's back up to 102F, and it will stay between 93F and 103F until next Saturday. We've set our AC to 77-78, and even then it's working overtime. I guess that's what makes SoCal what it is: scrublands.
Made up a new recipe yesterday, it was a variation of my zucchini Parmesan. I guess this would be turkey-cottage cheese-zucchini lasagna. I had one of those "I didn't see it intil now" zucchinis to cook, so I cut it into 1/4" slices, softened them in the mwave and then use them as a base for a layer of cottage cheese, ground turkey cooked with Alfredo sauce mix and fresh basil, topped with a sprinkling of Italian blend shredded cheese and baked for 20 minutes. The family loved it, so now I have an easy healthful recipe to add to my rotation.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
Cooler today anyways. Sunday is suppose to be rain day unless some arrives tonight.
That sounds good. I haven't eaten a zucchini in years.
My supper tonight will be rice with broccoli mixed into it and a chicken leg.
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I didn't end up going to grams to help either...
I'm trying to be more positive about things that usually would annoy me, so I told myself that I've been presented with a new opportunity today.
Had another issue with my car. This time it's been overheating. Of course, I didn't realize it at first, since all of my trips have been local for the last 4 or 5 weeks. But when I'd pull into the garage I'd smell "burning". I mean, the car leaks oil right on to the tailpipe from the top of the engine, so it's always got a scent to it. The other day I checked all my fluids and saw my coolant was low... I'd just filled that to the top about 2 months ago.
I'm glad I thought about it last night and watched some videos and did some research. I learned a lot about the wiring, the fuses, the relays and what not.
Long story short, I went from one Serious Problem to one (hopefully) inconsequential problem. Instead of both of my radiator fans NEVER coming on, now they're ALWAYS on. Fortunately, I've lucked into a well engineered model car that shuts them off when the car is turned off. Some cars will run the fans until the battery dies. I drive so infrequently and so few miles per year, I'm not worried about them. Most people with average driving will use their fans far more in a year than I do even though they're not on until the temp gets over 234 degrees.
In the process, my car codes were reset. Since a faulty temperature sensor is the likely culpret now, this could impact my next emissions, but that's not for another 1.5 years and I'll cross that bridge when I get to it.
My aunt and grandma are going to come here for lunch tomorrow now. It was nearing the end of my aunt's vacation and she was kind of relieved that I wasn't coming to do the help this weekend because she's enjoying relaxing before going back anyhow.
So I took a break from pretty much everything else except for errands after that.
And tomorrow except for some extremely light cleaning before they get here, I don't intend to do anything tomorrow either. First full weekend I've had off it what seems like ages.
I did have a good score at Goodwill today with the sale. Got a new pair of Levis and 4 tee shirts for $21. Although black really isn't my color of choice for jeans, I'm not going to pass up a pair of Levis that fit me this well for $6.50. Especially not when it's so hard to luck into 30" length and I usually have to settle for 32".
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If my area saw any rain it was over night and not much. Things do look a little damp out.
Just a Sunday and my shoulder right now is driving me nuts. Going to soak it under a hot shower. Maybe that will help.
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