In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
POSTED BY: SIGNYM
UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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Bright sunny day here today.
But winter has arrived in Southern Alberta. Snow, snow and more snow which has now moved on to Saskatchewan.
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I think that snow is super early - kind of a freak storm. I'm curious to see, but I wouldn't be surprised if autumn came back for a while.
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Quote:Try to be careful, Jack! It's my experience that any damage you take on past the bloom of youth tends to hang around.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Minus the backflip, I did this today on a joist...
Quote:And I bet you'll celebrate that, at least a little bit, at least in your mind !!!
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Hopefully I'll still have the floor in by next week.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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I'm icing it now, Kiki.
Huge amount of pain. I had a board in front of the door because I was moving some of the patio pavers down below earlier in the day. Did the same damn thing where I had it hanging over too far to one side again, and I was in a hurry to get out since I saw my neighbor across the street walking his dog and I wanted to talk to him about the flood the other night and see if he even was aware of it.
I see-sawed it again, only this time with absolutely no other boards around it I had nowhere to fall but straight down a few feet and I racked myself. I got up and thought "this is how I die"... bleeding out internally...
Seems my right inner thigh took the brunt of it. If this ice doesn't do the trick I imagine I'm going to have a monster bruise down there in a day or two.
I hate this house. I've got to get out of this place.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
I think that snow is super early - kind of a freak storm. I'm curious to see, but I wouldn't be surprised if autumn came back for a while.
That snow is super early even for the prairies. So, we shall see. Friends up Edmonton said they saw a couple of flakes but nothing stayed.
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Did some reorganizing and got a toaster oven on sale. Last one of its kind on the shelves. I thought it was $39 but when I checked the tag, it came up $25. So I picked that up right away. I can bake now and do a little roasting with it.
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Minus the backflip, I did this today on a joist...
Crikey!!
Quote:Of course. It has a lot of bad memories associated with it.
I'm icing it now, Kiki.
Huge amount of pain. I had a board in front of the door because I was moving some of the patio pavers down below earlier in the day. Did the same damn thing where I had it hanging over too far to one side again, and I was in a hurry to get out since I saw my neighbor across the street walking his dog and I wanted to talk to him about the flood the other night and see if he even was aware of it.
I see-sawed it again, only this time with absolutely no other boards around it I had nowhere to fall but straight down a few feet and I racked myself. I got up and thought "this is how I die"... bleeding out internally...
Seems my right inner thigh took the brunt of it. If this ice doesn't do the trick I imagine I'm going to have a monster bruise down there in a day or two.
I hate this house. I've got to get out of this place.
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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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Better day today. No injuries. 
Looks like I may have successfully blocked the mole from getting in between the porch and the shed with the trench work I did. Everything looks undisturbed. I seriously doubt the racoon is ever going to find its way back in there either after this cleaner and more permanent fix.
Cut away the existing plywood flooring smooth up to the existing walls with a new tool, so no jagged crappy edges from the sawzall. Threw out all the garbage that was underneath from the bad wood to 40 year old beer cans and other crap Uncle Bob left down there when he did this crap job. Vaccumed up all debris.
Now I'm in the process of grading the dirt and rocks in the crawl properly so I can start getting the patio pavers on top of them and get it all ready for the visqueen. I still have structural work to do down below, but it was so gross down there I don't want to even think about doing that until I have a more or less clean and dry concrete floor beneath my feet. Hopefully I can at least start back up on that before the end of the day tomorrow.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:What tool would that be? I thought a sawzall was THE go-to tool for awkward construction cuts!
Cut away the existing plywood flooring smooth up to the existing walls with a new tool
At this end ... I think this would qualify as the beginning of the big cleanup. dd and I are going thru her stuff, finally. I hired my occasional guy for front yard clean-up, and I worked with him for a few hours to push the cleanup along.
In the meantime, hubby and I are working on fixing up the front bathroom, which used to be the nicest until dd compulsively started peeling paint from the door, walls, and cabinetry. (TBH, the paint was peeling already.) So he pulled down the door and we scraped off the remaining paint, sanded the door and oiled it with tung oil. Now it looks better than new.
Also, when we had our emergency waste-line replacement (because our iron waste line for the kitchen rusted shut one weekend, and the rest of the lines were 75% on their way there) the plumbers cracked one of the copper pipes leading up into the faucet handle. The crack was inside the fitting, and the only way to fix it was to replace the fitting, but the only way to get to it was to pull the sink, which hubby did with a few heavy-duty tugs. The threaded pipe was dented (how did THAT happen?!?) and the nut was so corroded that, after using a cold chisel to spin the nut partway up, we had to get the oscillating saw and cut the nut in half. Anyway, sink is removed, fittings are out, door is fixed. Now all we need to do is get/install a replacement faucet/drain/sink/ a few tiles, spackle, paint and clean. But I think my very next item of business is to continue the decluttering.
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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:What tool would that be? I thought a sawzall was THE go-to tool for awkward construction cuts!
Cut away the existing plywood flooring smooth up to the existing walls with a new tool
Don't get me wrong, the sawzall is an awesome tool, especially for demolition, but this thing is amazing. It's a Makita angle grinder, which is a cool tool on its own, but I've got two blades for it that resemble the blade of a chainsaw.
The amount of cleanup after using these compared to a sawzall is rediculous. This doesn't cut wood. It obliterates it. With a steady hand and some patience, I was able to get an amazingly clean cut right up against the existing wall frame.
My step dad let me borrow it months ago. He bought it before they were going to stay with me and all of that bullshit happened. I've had it for a while, but I didn't use it until the other day.
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At this end ... I think this would qualify as the beginning of the big cleanup. dd and I are going thru her stuff, finally. I hired my occasional guy for front yard clean-up, and I worked with him for a few hours to push the cleanup along.
In the meantime, hubby and I are working on fixing up the front bathroom, which used to be the nicest until dd compulsively started peeling paint from the door, walls, and cabinetry. (TBH, the paint was peeling already.) So he pulled down the door and we scraped off the remaining paint, sanded the door and oiled it with tung oil. Now it looks better than new.
Also, when we had our emergency waste-line replacement (because our iron waste line for the kitchen rusted shut one weekend, and the rest of the lines were 75% on their way there) the plumbers cracked one of the copper pipes leading up into the faucet handle. The crack was inside the fitting, and the only way to fix it was to replace the fitting, but the only way to get to it was to pull the sink, which hubby did with a few heavy-duty tugs. The threaded pipe was dented (how did THAT happen?!?) and the nut was so corroded that, after using a cold chisel to spin the nut partway up, we had to get the oscillating saw and cut the nut in half. Anyway, sink is removed, fittings are out, door is fixed. Now all we need to do is get/install a replacement faucet/drain/sink/ a few tiles, spackle, paint and clean. But I think my very next item of business is to continue the decluttering.
I'll bet your daughter is thrilled now. I think she'd go insane in my house the way that I've left everything half finished for years. I know that I generally get pretty OCD about stuff unless I can find a way to shut it off. The drinking was good for that... I didn't think about any of these problems that are plaguing my sleep right now.
Plumbing..... eech. Glad it's more or less going well and hopefully there aren't any major issues getting the new stuff put in. I hate plumbing. I feel for you.
Good for you still working on the decluttering too. That's taken a back seat around here with all the stuff that needs doing, once my friend got the ball rolling on that floor. It's good enough though that I can more or less find everything. I can't wait to be done with the major construction stuff and I can park my car in my garage again. There will be so much room in there this season that even though my shed is more or less unusable until I replace the door that I shouldn't have any problems getting my snowblower out like I have had the last 2 years.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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