In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
POSTED BY: SIGNYM
UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
What is that?
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Who you talking to SIX?
I was talking to you. :)
But I see it was a music festival. Sorry you didn't have a good time. :(
Do Right, Be Right. :)
I thought maybe you were. :) Well, I'm not really a people person and especially when there was no one really there that I knew.
They always have entertainment at these things but usually there is some rock music being played. That might have helped some.
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Quote:Oh .... dear.
My friend was shocked to see what I was talking about. They built the damned windows inside the room, and these shitty slats/louvers that keep the sunlight out are where windows should be framed out.
I think I see what you mean. If it is what I picture then you're right: There's no fixing that. The only thing I can imagine is doing what you plan to do: stretch heavy-duty plastic across the opening - maybe make a light wood frame - and attach it to the wall.
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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:Oh .... dear.
My friend was shocked to see what I was talking about. They built the damned windows inside the room, and these shitty slats/louvers that keep the sunlight out are where windows should be framed out.
I think I see what you mean. If it is what I picture then you're right: There's no fixing that. The only thing I can imagine is doing what you plan to do: stretch heavy-duty plastic across the opening - maybe make a light wood frame - and attach it to the wall.
Not sure about where you live but out here windows are EXPENSIVE. Try pricing them out first, I hope you don't get a big shock like I did.
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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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Hey BRENDA, I know what you mean. Nothing is more dispriting than spending time with a bunch of random people trying to have fun. I'm not much of a people person either ... when occasions come up like retiree lunch, I'm always happy to have an excuse to stay home. ("I'm sorry I just had sinus surgery two weeks ago" or "I have to take dd to the doctor" or something.)
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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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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:Oh .... dear.
My friend was shocked to see what I was talking about. They built the damned windows inside the room, and these shitty slats/louvers that keep the sunlight out are where windows should be framed out.
I think I see what you mean. If it is what I picture then you're right: There's no fixing that. The only thing I can imagine is doing what you plan to do: stretch heavy-duty plastic across the opening - maybe make a light wood frame - and attach it to the wall.
Oh... the plastic is only a temporary solution until I get the floor in. Making that front water-tight, just temporary is going to be much easier now that I don't have fake leaky windows on the inside with a sill that grades back into them.
The louvers will be removed, but only after everything else is sealed up. The floor will be rock solid when it is put in. I just want to make sure that everything else is done and sealed and hidden before the windows are done. It will be obvious to anybody from the street that major work is being done once I take the louvers out, so if the city comes poking around I want everything else to look good and be solid. I'll probably do the back windows first and have that back wall perfect before I attempt the front.
I haven't yet removed the aluminum around a center casing, but I imagine there is quite a bit in the middle holding the wall up underneath the headers. Other than that, once the louvers are removed, there will be two very large openings in the front of the porch that are something like 88" wide by 55" tall. They're wider than I imagined they were when I finally measured them late last night.
At Menards, I found these windows:
They come in 60" wide by 48" tall for $184 when they're not on sale. So one of these new windows would replace two of the existing ones.
I'm going to shop around and see if I can find a better fit, but even if I built it out and put aluminum flashing around them it will look much better than those louvers and it will be water tight. I'd have to remove and frame out the fake louvers in front of the shed on the end too, and then put up plywood and Tyvek before re-siding that end of the house (Don't know why the hell they extended them all the way to the end when there is no window in the shed).
So between the lumber, aluminum and extra vinyl siding I'll have to buy, I imagine I could get the front looking great from the street for around $600.
The back side could also use one of them on one side of the new screen door, and the other side of the screen door would take one conventional up/down window. That side will be a bit more expensive because I need a new screen door, but I won't have to do any additional vinyl work there.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Yeah, SIG that is about the size of it. I just went for something to do that evening.
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Something happened on the roof of a local mall last night. I saw at least 3 cop cars up there and someone with a flashlight walking around. Wonder what happened?
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Teens messing around mistaken for an attempted break-in though a skylight?
It's one of those everyday mysteries.
A few months ago I heard what sounded like 2 shotgun blasts around 3AM. Next thing I knew there were red and blue flashing lights shining in through my window. The police were at the neighbor's house across the street and 2 down. They had arrived quietly, and left quietly without taking anyone in custody about 20 minutes later. I still casually wonder what that was all about. And it sure made my neighbors a mystery!
Decades ago and across the country I was strolling through my rather rough and scruffy neighborhood with my then boyfriend, early on a quiet spring Sunday. We passed a quonset hut that housed a small business and I heard (my hearing used to be phenomenal) a really, REALLY high-pitched continuous tone. My bf identified it as an ultrasonic security system. I don't remember now the reason why I hit the side of the hut with my hand, but within a couple of minutes a cop car came sliding around the street corner at some speed. (My hit must have triggered a silent alarm.) By then we'd walked a short block. They asked us if we saw anything suspicious and we said no, and they continued on I guess to check the perimeter, where they'd find nothing, of course. WE were they mystery at that point!
In my life I've only once been the mystery that I know of, but run across those everyday mysteries many times! They help make life interesting!
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KIKI, could be. They find needles and used condoms up on that roof. So security could have found something and called the cops to double check it. I'll watch the news and see if anything is mentioned on it.
I was terrible last night while that was going on. My head partially on the tv and what I was watching and looking out the window to see if I could get a handle on what was happening. 
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I think the most disturbed I ever was by one of those daily mysteries ... I was watching TV and thought I heard something. So I muted the TV and thought what I heard was coming from outside. (It was winter, everything was closed up.) So I went to the door and opened it and heard the tail end of what was being broadcast by a police copter circling overhead with the spotlight on "... armed and dangerous. Stay inside and lock your windows and doors. Do not let anyone in your house."
Boy did that have me jumpy for a while!
And then ... they went away as they always do. Did they get the person? Was the person still around but hiding? Was it a false alarm? One never finds out.
Except the time when the police were circling over a neighbor's house one block down the hill on the corner. I saw them take a resident of the home into custody, but what for, and why the helicopter, I never found out ... And THOSE people became a mystery!
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