In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Do you mean it blew out and shattered?
If you did, how did you get it out?
That recently happened to me, and I was able to find a pair of needle nosed pliers with a rubber coating on the handles to get it out. I still should have turned the electric off before doing the deed, but I've been shocked by 110v before. No big deal. You guys use 110 up on Canada, right? Not risking your life everyday with 220v like they do in Europe?
In the future, if you've got some potatoes laying around, they're good for getting the bulb out. I didn't have any though.
Nice job on the work, btw Brenda and Sigs. Nice to hear that everyone is making progress to their goals.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Sorry, I meant it just the bulb just died. And I stood on a chair almost on tip-toes to change it. Should have called the manager to do it. But sometimes I am just too stubborn for my own good.
Thanks. Still got more to go through and still more shredding to get at. And I will.
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Signy
Does THAT sound good!
I also like mixed greens (collard, turnip, mustard, kale) w/ bacon and onion, polenta (organic, pre-made from TJs) instead of grits or corn muffins, and slow-roasted pork shoulder. Some time I'm going to get tired of the plain pork shoulder and make it bbq or pulled pork. But now is not yet the time! 
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Originally posted by 1kiki:
Hey Jack - first off CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR HOARD !!! That is a major, major accomplishment, and maybe you can even see me smiling for you all the way out here !!!
Thanks.
It feels amazing. Then to be able to go back into things I've already done and get rid of more? I'm infected with the purge.
I really had no idea how good it is to get it all out. I've got 8 years in this house now, and a fairly good idea of what I use on a regular basis, what I use seldomly but still holds value, and what I never use at all. I have no idea why I furnished every room in this huge house when it was just me here. I have a feeling once I start going through my clothes I'm going to wonder why I still have some from 10 and 20 years ago that I never wear and I've got enough to fill two bedroom sets and two closets when I regularly only wear about 5 pairs of jeans and a dozen or so tops.
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Anyway, I figured out how to get so many hours worked in a day, and that was to recognize I don't have the strength, energy, or stamina I used to. So I limit what I try to do physically under bad conditions. You can only do what you can do ...
That's good to figure out. I don't have the same limitations, but I've got my own. I would joke with people at work toward the end there who only saw "beast mode" Jack that I'm the laziest mofo they've ever known. I do waste a lot of days, and I admire people who live busy lifestyles and never seem to just relax. I honestly don't believe I could have ever gotten rid of this hoard if I was working full time. As it is now, even on the days that I do a ton of work, it usually takes me about a half pot of coffee and a good deal of time putzing around here and other places online, and sometimes a few good hours after I wake up before I even begin. That gets me in trouble sometimes because when I really get on a roll it's not uncommon for me to be up until 4 or 5AM working on stuff and then the next day is all messed up too.
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THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU for sharing your list! It's not just me. THAT'S a RELIEF!!
You're welcome. That was my intention. I know most if not all of that I've talked about here before over the last 6 months or more, but I thought it might make you feel better if I was to condense everything I could remember into a list to show you that you're not the only person that luck has taken a bad turn on of late.
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Hope you're making a to-do list. It's the only way I keep my sanity.
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HA HA !! How MANY lists do you want to see?
However many you want to make. That's what the support group here is for, right?
I find it therapeutic to list it all out myself. Even though that list looks daunting several months later, a lot of that is reasonably quick fixes compared to what I've already gotten done. Let's just say that most of that stuff isn't going to take the 3 months it's taken to dehoard the house. Once we get that porch situation handled, I'd say half of the remaining list should only take a few days to get done.
Making lists is such a great practice. But honestly, I haven't been doing my own to-do list yet other than this little journal of sorts I've been writing in this thread. There has just been SOOOOOOOO much to do that I haven't really needed to, and since I knew that so much of it is reliant on having that porch fixed first I didn't want to really worry about a lot of it until I could do something about it.
I figure once we get that porch done I'll make a proper to-do list for myself.
(Oh, BTW... I should probably add installing that blower fan and making what would have otherwise been a pretty miserable summer for me much more agreeable to the work that needed to be done)
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If I'm not having dreams of my house falling down ...
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Quote:Huh, that sounds good! I'll try it next time. I make a good ... no, according to the family GREAT "bbq" pork, so between the ketchup (red) and the greens (green) I'll have the "colors" covered (I try to do a greenish veggie and a not greenish veggie every meal, plus a "eat all you want and it won't make you fat" side ... maybe cauliflower would fill the bill).
Originally posted by 1kiki:
Signy
Does THAT sound good!
I also like mixed greens (collard, turnip, mustard, kale) w/ bacon and onion, polenta (organic, pre-made from TJs) instead of grits or corn muffins, and slow-roasted pork shoulder. Some time I'm going to get tired of the plain pork shoulder and make it bbq or pulled pork. But now is not yet the time!
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
You idiots have been oppressing the entire sexual spectrum as long as you have existed. I can't wait for the day your kind is dead - WISHIMAY
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OMG, lists ... I have lists of lists of "things to do". MY personal home-related nightmare is about the framing coming apart. Must be from the townhouse that we used to live in that was real "flexible" ... If we slammed the front door the front window would shake. Well, I've poked my head up into the attic crawl-space of THIS house, and I'm none to thrilled about what I see up there, either.
So I have a "XXX's random list of things to do" where I jot down some of the things that I see that I'm likely to forget, but ... as I have said to hubby ... everywhere I look I see a DOZEN things to do, and I mean that literally.
Right now I'm working on several tracks:
Health for myself and family
Dr appointments,
Eye exams,
Surgery for dear daughter,
Formal therapy for dear daughter
Ending my never-ending sinus problem (have S aureus in my sinuses again, but will tackle it with oral antibiotic and specially-compounded antibiotic rinse solution)
House
Finish up after the consequences of the renovation (doorway moving and window replacment and complete replacement of all waste pipes) means finishing painting, clean up bathroom and get dear daughter moved back into her bedroom, stuccoing the holes that the plumbers left etc
Fix the fascia behind the gutters and either remove them or replace them with good stuff ... SIX, don't get the cheap Homx Depox plastic gutters, they sag, they leak, the seams trap leaves and debris and then they overflow ... sometimes towards the fascia side where they trap water and rot the wood. :-(
Declutter (given dear daughter's hoarding tendencies this is going to be an item-by-item struggle)
Renovate our laundry area and all four bathrooms. (Originally we were going to leave one of them alone, but dear daughter's compulsive picking impelled her to peel paint from the walls, door, and cabinetry in a random pattern. Plus the pumbing under the sink needs to be replaced and given the custom-sized sink and cabinet, plus the discovery of lead paint on the cabinet we'll just go with replacement)
Complete landscaping front yard and revise irrigation system all the way around.
Financial/legal
Get our family trust and wills updated, get a special needs trust written, limited conservatorship, durable power of atty between hubby and myself, also medical proxy and ... oh, whatever that thing is called that the hospital asks you about whenever you go in for a procedure
Xfer a credit union account from one FCU to another one closer to home. (They have been bouncing me back and forth, one doesn't work with "shared" institutions and the other one is giving me a hard time about wire xfers)
Get my Medicare application on-track
Get my Medigap insurance application started
Close out/ consolidate some of our accounts so they're easier to keep track of
Disaster-prep
Finish preparing for The Big One. It's coming. I know it is, I just don't know when.
Plus a few things I don't want to get into online.
I feel like a dog in a forest of fire-hydrants! But right now, my IMMEDIATE goal is completing the painting in dear daughter's room to her specifications so she and her major furniture can be moved back. (her hoard is going to be gone over, item by item)
Yep! Well, given all that.. time to get to work!
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
You idiots have been oppressing the entire sexual spectrum as long as you have existed. I can't wait for the day your kind is dead - WISHIMAY
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Quote:I'm glad it's just that!
have S aureus in my sinuses again, but will tackle it with oral antibiotic and specially-compounded antibiotic rinse solution
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When it comes to lists - I kinda combine you two. Like Signy, everywhere I look I see many, many things to do. At the moment I'm not working off of any lists (except trying to keep up with the disasters like my meds and my phone and the critters / siding, as they come up). Because if I get bored with one thing I can always shift to another without having to even think at all. Every bit of stuff I do is all good.
But then ... my memory ... oy vey ...
When I think of something and it's especially vital and I can't get to it right away ... I write it down. I *have* to. Otherwise, I forget. So I have lists. And lists. And lists. AAAAaaaaaaand lists! FORTUNATELY they're all in one appointment book. Yeah, they're disorganized. And I have to thumb through the book to find them. But they're there. And I know where they are. And that's what I need.
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Well it seems that we can all make each other feel better by posting all of the shit we're collectively dealing with.
That's a joke, but it's also serious too. Drinking issue aside with my friend, I look at all the stuff he has on his plate on top of his full time job and it's a wonder he can even function at all. Seeing the struggles of others and empathizing with them puts your own situation into perspective. Well... at least I think it does.
Yeah Sigs. Thanks for the tip on the gutters. I already have a place I'm going to get them from that will roll out the exact lenghts I need in full lengths so there are no breaks to seal. On top of that, it's much higher quality construction, much wider gutters and it's cheaper to boot.
I'm not sure if that's the same all over the country, but I'd recommend anybody that is going to DIY gutters to price it out first at a legit place vs the hardware stores. I'm guessing the only reason that Menards and the other big box stores make any money off of the shit gutters that they push on people is because most people would just go into the job assuming that it would be cheaper that way and they end up screwing themselves 3 different ways.
Got another carload over to Goodwill today and put a cooler I haven't used in 10 years out on the street.
Going to centralize all of my clothes and linens in one room and start going through them, washing whatever needs to be washed, bagging whatever I'm not keeping and prepping for what is hopefully one of my last Goodwill drop off trips in my life.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Managed to get grocery shopping done, vacuuming and paper recycling done today.
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