In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
POSTED BY: SIGNYM
UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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Finished the work and got my stove back in place, so I can finally cook some real food tonight. 
I'm really glad I thought to make those platforms for the appliances out of the hardboard. At least for the stove, it works great. I was easily able to slide the stove back onto the base from the strips of hardboard my friends old man let me borrow on my own without any assistance and without any damage to the floor. I was also able to easily adjust the legs to the height I wanted the stove without damaging anything, which I can't even imagine how I'd do it if it were on the new flooring.
For now, I'm only going to be focusing on cutting the exact length of baseboard I'll need behind the fridge and making the fridge platform tomorrow so I have the appliances taken care of.
I'll worry about fixing and painting that door jamb another day when it's warmer so I can get the door trim installed on the entry door.
In the mean time, I have a coat closet and a pantry to get working on so I can put the new flooring in them.
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Quote:I always recommend Boost, never ensure. I say against ensure, unless it has some specific useful purpose.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
JSF: Was is you that posted about Boost/Ensure?
Thanks for the tip! I don't know why it took me so long to think about it, but I've had a hard time maintaining an adequate diet, and it finally occurred to me that it might help.
Boost for humans or pets who need nutrients. It's a delivery package for vitamins and minerals. Pet's who have had their teeth pulled and lost appetite, for toy dogs 1/3 of an 8oz bottle per day.
For people to repair, rebuild muscle, bone, tendons, ligaments, skin. If your muscles are expected to be sore tomorrow, a Boost before bed will reduce or erase that soreness. Boost supplies the vite & min, sleep at night is the time.
Boost is not really help for GI issues, flu, etc.
I say only get the "original" Boost, although Nestle recently abandoned the formula there had been for more than 50 years. Not protein, glucose, women's, or other nasty crap that Nestle has screwed up.
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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:Quote:aaarrrrrgh. When I typed cold, my new phone changed it to good. I corrected the original post now.
Originally posted by Brenda:Quote:
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:Quote:I also had a question mark in your exchange, but likely not the same reason as you.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:warm up to snow?
Originally posted by Brenda:
Temp sitting at -4C. Got to warm up a bit more if it is going to snow.
Brenda had said the temp was 10 degrees F. And that it was good. And you agreed. Before covid I usually said my fave temp was between -10F and 10F.
And now Brenda says it is 25F.
None of that sounds cold to me.
But yes, snow is more difficult when it gets too cold. Up at cloud level is colder than ground temps, so snow falls up to about 40F. Lower temps make it harder to encounter an even colder front which causes the precip.
Today I noticed the Fox River was frozen over in Green Bay, I hadn't been paying attention. Probably not enough to walk on. Fox is one of the largest rivers in WI, and historically was a critical and crucial navigable waterway - for transport and trade to the frontier west of the Mississippi.
But now I recall that yesterday 40 people got stranded on an ice shelf which detached and blew almost a mile away in the Bay of Green Bay. 5 agencies had to assist in the rescue.
I don't have a favourite temp JSF. But I am no fan of the cold now that I am getting older.
Those temps may not be cold for where you are but they are for Southern BC.
And the bit about warming up to snow was what my dad always told me and he was from cold, snowy Southern Alberta.
Too cold and the sky won't do anything, warms up and you get snow, warms up more and you get rain. Which is what we will be getting this week.
I heard about the people being rescued from the ice. Didn't say what they were doing on the ice. I guess they wanted to see if they could walk on it.
The folks on the ice were Ice Fishing. Spread out over the whole shelf. Those nearest the crack were able to jump across quick, abandoning their fishing gear. But those who ran from farther found a 10 foot gap, and were stranded.
Well, that a dumb thing for your phone to do.
Gotcha now about that story. Like I said the news didn't say what they were doing on the ice.
People ice fish up here as well. Vancouver and a couple of other cities had to put signs out around their lakes to try to keep people off of them because the ice wasn't really thick enough for walking or skating on.
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Hey Sigs... I've got some pictures for you.
WARNING!!!!! The first 4 pictures are when I first freed the stove from the confines of the tiles that had been glued down around the front stove legs... That hadn't probably been cleaned once in 25 years or more before I got to it, and you already know that I had mice problems at one point to boot.
As gross as they are, I think I really need to post them first just so you get an idea of what I started with and where I'm at today.
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Behind the stove...
It took me half a day to safely clean this up without getting a disease.
(And yes... That is a dead mouse)
I took down the horribly grease damaged half-wall to begin freeing the dishwasher. It was just as filthy on top as it was on the floor. I actually did bleach the hell out of it and get it sparkling before I decided whether or not to try to keep it.
Well... Not one single thing about the water supply, drainage or electric was up to code. Made that choice easy. I hate dishwashers anyhow.
Fast forward to today...
After completing everything back there, I cut out my hardboard panel for the stove to rest on and got everything aligned for the final push.
And there's my new nook for my garbage bins...
All I need to do from this angle now is get my friend's dad over here to help me resurface the countertop. I'm thinking very dark grey tiles, or maybe even black.
What do you think?
ETA: Oh yeah... I still have to build and paint the two drawers that were non-existent and just fake panels. Shouldn't take too long once I can get one more suitable drawer for the task. I've got one that is the perfect size box. When I get another, all I'll have to do is fabricate the drawer face and then I'll put all of my drawer pulls on all 4 drawers.
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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:Quote:aaarrrrrgh. When I typed cold, my new phone changed it to good. I corrected the original post now.
Originally posted by Brenda:Quote:I don't have a favourite temp JSF. But I am no fan of the cold now that I am getting older.
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:Quote:I also had a question mark in your exchange, but likely not the same reason as you.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:warm up to snow?
Originally posted by Brenda:
Temp sitting at -4C. Got to warm up a bit more if it is going to snow.
Brenda had said the temp was 10 degrees F. And that it was good. And you agreed. Before covid I usually said my fave temp was between -10F and 10F.
And now Brenda says it is 25F.
None of that sounds cold to me.
But yes, snow is more difficult when it gets too cold. Up at cloud level is colder than ground temps, so snow falls up to about 40F. Lower temps make it harder to encounter an even colder front which causes the precip.
Today I noticed the Fox River was frozen over in Green Bay, I hadn't been paying attention. Probably not enough to walk on. Fox is one of the largest rivers in WI, and historically was a critical and crucial navigable waterway - for transport and trade to the frontier west of the Mississippi.
But now I recall that yesterday 40 people got stranded on an ice shelf which detached and blew almost a mile away in the Bay of Green Bay. 5 agencies had to assist in the rescue.
Those temps may not be cold for where you are but they are for Southern BC.
And the bit about warming up to snow was what my dad always told me and he was from cold, snowy Southern Alberta.
Too cold and the sky won't do anything, warms up and you get snow, warms up more and you get rain. Which is what we will be getting this week.
I heard about the people being rescued from the ice. Didn't say what they were doing on the ice. I guess they wanted to see if they could walk on it.
The folks on the ice were Ice Fishing. Spread out over the whole shelf. Those nearest the crack were able to jump across quick, abandoning their fishing gear. But those who ran from farther found a 10 foot gap, and were stranded.
After my second bout with covid, I don't feel warm much anymore. I used to be a furnace all the time. No gradual change of body thermostat for me, covid sucked the warmth right out of me. I used to wear shorts all winter, down to about -10F or else when fresh snow was taller than my socks. Now wearing long pants, jeans since at least mid-Nov or so. Now that days are growing longer, temps are dropping.
My problem is that I have a slow thyroid which is why I take meds for it now and have since a few years after the brain surgery. The tumour messed up a lot of body's internal systems and my thyroid was one that never worked right again.
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
That's nice Brenda. Nothing but ice everywhere you look around here. -1 F tonight.
At least we'll have a few days this week that creep up just over freezing.
Pretty cold winter compared to the last one for sure. Hopefully it evens out and we don't have a nightmare February like how we wrapped it up last year though.
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That's cold and no thank you on the ice. Just got rid of all that nasty ice on the sidewalks around here.
Think there was snow for my area last winter but not as much and the storms weren't as bad either.
I hope you are right. I'm just glad that my area is warming up to more normal temps.
I'm glad to hear you don't have to walk on that ice anymore.
Yesterday, my aunt and I decided that she wouldn't be bringing my grandma with her when she came by to pick up some phones and a new laptop battery I got for them. It was a good thing too, because I had no idea my entire driveway had turned into an ice rink the night before. My grandma fell trying to leave my house the day after Christmas when it was totally dry, and had I not been right behind her to catch her and have her land on top of me it might have been a nightmare. She still managed to get bruised up from that one. We don't even know what happened. I think her legs just gave out.
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Me too.
Good thing about your aunt not bringing your grandmother over if there is that much ice around your place.
Your grandmother was very lucky you were walking behind when that happened. I suggest next time walk beside her and if she will allow it, take her elbow or hand then maybe you can prevent the fall before it happens. Had to do things like that with my mum once in a while.
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Nice job Six.
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My area over the next three days more or less is looking at 100mm of rain.
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Originally posted by Brenda:
Good thing about your aunt not bringing your grandmother over if there is that much ice around your place.
Your grandmother was very lucky you were walking behind when that happened. I suggest next time walk beside her and if she will allow it, take her elbow or hand then maybe you can prevent the fall before it happens. Had to do things like that with my mum once in a while.
She'll allow it. I think up until that point I didn't want to assist her, even though I'd hover closely around her anytime stairs were involved just in case. She needs to get exercise after that hip surgery a few years ago and she just won't do it. The doctor said she could have walked without a cane if she did, but she needs two of them to get around now.
But after that fall, I'm not taking any chances anymore. Until she starts exercising I've got to be supporting her from now on.
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Originally posted by Brenda:
Nice job Six.
Thanks!
Sorry about the gross pics, but I don't think anybody could truly believe how bad it was unless they saw them.
I've now got around 1,800 pics just of work in the kitchen. At least I have a cool journal of what I've been doing for a large part of the last year and 10 days.
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