In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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Brenda
I feel like you're settling in to your home.
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"Anyway, I'm looking forward to the day when I can sit down, look around and think to myself ... this room is DONE, and easier to keep clean!"
My motto completely - for fixing up / cleaning up the house, for landscaping, even for my wardrobe. 
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https://www.amazon.com/PD422MHI005-Running-Starting-Portable-Generator
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Hey Sigs...
I think this would be the "new" equivalent to the generator I've got. It may be a little more powerful than mine, and has a few extra plugs on it than mine does. I'm not sure if it is actually more powerful or it's because it's just a newer model. Mine is probably a decade old or even older. Everything under the doodad panel looks pretty much identical to what I'm working with.
PRICEY. I had no idea what a great generator my step dad gave me. I'm going to have to make that up to him when money allows.
Got all of my leaves to the curb today, and I hadn't planned on even doing that. They're not all down yet, but it should be at least half of them gone when they pick them up tomorrow. I don't think I've ever been this proactive with that since I've lived here.
Before I did that though, I removed all the old and cracked caulk from those shitty louvers on the front of the porch that was letting the melting snow get into the walls and floor on Halloween. Used a few blades, then sanded it all down and washed it good and got the new caulk up there.
Probably didn't need to do that once I have the visqueen up since I plan on ripping all that shit out and putting legit windows in front next year, but can't be too safe. 
Hopefully tomorrow is the day we get the screen door installed. I think I know the one I'm going to get. It's 270 bucks. Just need my friend to make sure that it's good for our needs and we'll pick it up and get her installed.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:
Originally posted by 1KIKI:
Brenda
I feel like you're settling in to your home.
Kiki,
I am. And it feels so good.
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For whatever reason, my efforts have been just creeping along the last few weeks, even though the weather has cooled down about 15F. I FEEL busy, but when I look at how much I've gotten done, it's not much.
Maybe my 'busy-ness' feeling is because I have to deal with a lot of details with the things I'm doing? Still, I need to kick it up into a higher gear.
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I hope what I've gotten done recently isn't making you feel that way in comparison, Kiki.
I've had plenty of time where I've done next to nothing for days at a time since I've been unemployed. But the clock is ticking on a few fronts at once right now, particularly the weather, and I've also had to face a few near emergency situations that forced me to work that much harder.
Been in a bit of a manic state recently, fueled by a lot of cheap coffee.
It will be nice to just have a normal job and a normal life like everybody else does one day and work half as hard as I'm doing now.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Not you Jack - everyone! is getting more done than I am. But I'm also on a few timetables I have to meet, so I really do need to speed up.
I have a dental question for you ... how do you know if you have an abscessed tooth? I have a tooth that's very mildly sensitive to chewing pressure. It's not anywhere near bad, but it's not entirely normal either.
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Quote:I blow thru things but only to about the 80% level. Nothing is ever fully done; and sooner or later it needs to be re-done and/or completed. I keep thinking ... when I get more time I can get this truly finished ... but that time never seems to come. This house is too big for us. When mom lived with us it made sense, but when she passed away it got to be one or two rooms too big. But by then the prices had gone up ... hubby wanted to know if we could finda smaller place quite a few years ago, so I dipped my toes into the RE market and told him the sad truth ... that we could find one smaller, but not cheaper! So here we are, until we commit to a BIG move ... like, out of county of even out of state.
Originally posted by 1KIKI:
For whatever reason, my efforts have been just creeping along the last few weeks, even though the weather has cooled down about 15F. I FEEL busy, but when I look at how much I've gotten done, it's not much.
Maybe my 'busy-ness' feeling is because I have to deal with a lot of details with the things I'm doing? Still, I need to kick it up into a higher gear.
What I would LIKE to do is to be able to check off a bunch of things that won't have to be re-addressed later. What that means, I think, it getting rid of a bunch of big useless items and also re-organizing.
I looked around the house and realized that it looks like the house is being "worked on" but it isn't "working for" us. The furniture, the setup, doesn't promote the things we want or need to do; it's just what accumulated over the years and how we managed to fit in-between things. So I need to put my thinking cap on and re-imagine what this place could do for us, and also (like I said) shut off a room or two so that it's not so hard to keep clean... this is an incredibly dusty neighborhood!
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Speaking of which... SIX, you truly do seem energized by crisis. Still, the emotional highs and lows must be tiring!
I have a question, sort of inspired by my revelation about our house .... when your home repairs and maintenance are no longer an urgent urgency, how do you plan to re-configure your home to work for you? The related question, which I already asked, was: What would you LIKE to do with your time? I think you have a game-related software project to work on, but do you have any other projects/ plans/ hobbies?
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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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Re home remodeling / reorganizing ... everything I've read said ... think about what you do day to day ...
BUT - what if, for example, you don't have a kitchen that lends itself to cooking. So you don't cook, day to day. But you would cook, if you could.
Why remodel and reproduce all the same limitations of your current space by reproducing what you now do day to day?
I've read a few really good organizing tips however and come up with a few myself:
a place for everything
store it where you used it
keep everything you use daily out in plain sight
pull-out drawers below waist level, cupboards above
wide drawers to avoid having to open a lot of them to find something
open shelves are freaking dust-catchers
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/03/t-magazine/kitchen-organization.htm
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kitchens "Bennett believes that all cookware falls under the four pillars of “prep, cook, serve, store” “PREP” includes tools like mixing bowls, her mortar and pestle, a scale and a measuring glass, while the “COOK” drawer is full of pots and pans. Items for serving — plates, bowls and glasses — are in the cupboard, her resealable containers are all stacked in a drawer of their own, and never shall the four ever meet.
keep bedrooms spare
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