In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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I seem to have misplaced a notebook that had a couple of Firefly stories in. Must be around the kitchen somewhere.
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Originally posted by 1kiki:
Top loading? If you're mterested in finishing, put something else in that sucks up a lot of water, like a couple of bath towels you don't care about. When it starts to spin and bonks out, open the washer and rearrange the bath mat on one side and the towels on the other for balance.
Quote:I have to do that with my kitty's bed, which soaks up water like crazy! So the towel that goes on the chair for him goes on the other side. HA HA!
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Great idea!
I just happen to have a whole pile of towels that I don't care about suited just for things like this.
Loading it up with water again for the 3rd attempt. Probably not a bad idea to rinse it this many times either since it's super nappy and I bet it's still got a lot of detergent to get out.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Good luck!
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It worked. 
What a mess. The rug looks fine, but so much crap in the washing machine left behind from it.
Supposed to "line dry". I don't think I've seen anybody line dry anything in a decade or two.
Got it hanging on my weight bench in the basement for now. I think I can do better than a smelly basement for drying though. Once I get put together to pick up the materials I need for the next two days I'll hang it out in the garage. Got a perfect spot for it out there.
My bud used this great wood putty stuff on his house that his old man gave him a few gallons of. Comes in a paint gallon bucket with a black label. I didn't pay attention to the name and wish I had because it seems nobody else did either. Even called his dad to ask him what it was and he said what I already knew. "It comes in a black gallon paint bucket and the name has initials".
JB Weld? Not coming up with anything under that name. Bummer. He says it's at Home Depot, but I'm not driving 12 miles round trip on a hope and prayer that not only is that the correct big box store, but that I can find it and that it's even in stock there.
Oh well... DAP it is then. Can get a 32oz bucket of it for about $9.00. That's probably more than I'll need, at least for the time being.
Gotta get my ass in gear. I have some basic tools that I shouldn't have to purchase for the tuck pointing/tarring job on the cinder blocks. I need to do an inventory and figure out how much this is going to set me back.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Also found some arcade games for sale. They had Space Invaders and Pac Man and one other. I didn't catch the name. I played the Space Invaders one for a couple of minutes. That was fun.
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Legit arcade machines? Always wanted to get one of those.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Cloudy, wet, depressing day here.
I'm trying to stay motivated to work, but it's not going very well. I'm going to have to at least do some mortar fill on the inside since I already chipped away at the worst spots. As much as I'd love to make those walls look brand new, it occurs to me I don't know the first thing about what I'm doing here. But I have played Jenga before...
Those cinder blocks aren't going to do me the favor of magically hovering in place until I get around to putting concrete in there if I took out all of the bad stuff.
So... I'm just hitting really bad spots. And just like Jenga, I'm only messing with stuff that I could move with my fingers. At this point, there's no way the thing is ever going to be water tight, at least from the inside. I think that would require a complete knockdown and rebuild from scratch. My focus here is strictly on stabilization and solidification, particularly where we were able to knock the wall back out under the worst spot beneath the screen door.
I hope to get at least that done, and possibly the mortar fill on the ouside where I have the ground trenched out. I don't think I want to rush into putting on the tar, so that'll wait until tomorrow. I probably won't mess with the windows at all today.
Tomorrow is supposed to be at least somewhat sunny. Hoping my mood is better then.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Legit arcade machines? Always wanted to get one of those.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
They are but they aren't regular size. These sit on a table. They had one a little bigger than what I was playing with. They seem to be running at around $300 Canadian. I've seen them in my local Walmart as well. They had bigger ones there though.
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Hey Jack
So here's a story about ants under pavers, and a possible solution.
One of the big problems here are Argentinian ants which can make supercolonies that cover thousands of miles with many, many queens.
https://ants.com/5-ant-supercolonies-worlds-largest-ant-colonies/
5 Ant Supercolonies: All About the World’s Largest Ant Colonies
There's even a supercolony on the CA coast (not here, which is near the foothills). But here near the foothills, they are, nevertheless, a nasty, year-round, and sometimes overwhelming, problem.
Anyway, I initially had 'landing strips' (3 really wide paths from curb to sidewalk) in my parkway made of a lovely dark brown, smooth, flashed brick, set in sand with sand in between. But I found out much to my dismay that it made a perfect Argentinian ant home. The bricks up top were good mechanical protection AND a heat moderator for the ant tunnels and chambers in the sand underneath. I took the walkways out and gave the brick away.
ANYWAY - polymeric sand to use in between the bricks may be the answer.
https://www.bahlerbrothers.com/blog/bid/107030/what-is-polymer-sand-fo
r-pavers
https://www.techniseal.com/en-US/professional/content/polymeric-jointi
ng-sand-faq
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Yeah... I dunno. Sounds pretty specialized as far as ease of installation. It also basically bonds with the bricks to be pretty watertight, and is intended to be used as an entire graded surface to wick the water away from the main structures.
Sounds great, but water is probably a bigger enemy of mine than even the ants here. With moles also being a huge problem around here, I bet it wouldn't be long until my graded surface isn't graded properly anymore and I'm stuck with areas that now grade toward the home. As shitty as everything back there looks right now, at least it's allowing water to penetrate and isn't pooling up anywhere by the house.
I actually imagine that underneath my slab in front, a small slab in the back and under each and every single paver stone in the back there are thousands, if not millions of ants combined. I don't even want to know how deep they go too, but they LOVE being directly under the surface of these things and I've never pulled anything up that didn't have a ton of them right under the surface.
Not exactly sure what the solution is, but I think when I pull up the pavers and poison everything that I'm not going to be putting any sort of pavers back down at all.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Legit arcade machines? Always wanted to get one of those.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
They are but they aren't regular size. These sit on a table. They had one a little bigger than what I was playing with. They seem to be running at around $300 Canadian. I've seen them in my local Walmart as well. They had bigger ones there though.
Oh yeah. I've seen those.
I've got the ability to play about 10,000 games on my XBox, including most arcades from the late 70's up through the early 2,000 and most console and handheld systems. Always wanted to either build my own cabinet or mod one of these newer systems to play all of them, but never got around to doing it and don't see that in the pipeline anytime soon. Plays great with a regular controller on a regular TV right now though (although purists would argue that now it isn't the same since I got rid of all of my old tube TVs, but I don't notice any difference).
I'd really love to have an original arcade in my home someday. I think if I had my pick, it would be Rolling Thunder. Probably my favorite arcade of all time when I was a kid... and I played a lot of them.
The music was just fantastic. Burned into my brain forever.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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