In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
POSTED BY: SIGNYM
UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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Rain right now.
Could be wet for my walk over to play mah jong in the morning.
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:Quote:That was some good work you posted!
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Getting the fridge back on the temporary boards was a bit tricky, but I managed it without doing any damage. I pulled it far enough away to install and caulk/paint the baseboard trim behind it, and I'm getting ready to roll it out onto the 2nd set of temporary boards so I can cut out and lay the permanant protective platform for the fridge and get it rolled back onto it.
Thanks.
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Have you thought of permanently putting any heavy appliances onto locking rollers? (Obviously with the locks in front, where you can reach them! And maybe you won't need locks, but here is SoCal I don't want things dancing around in an earthquakes.) That's something I'll be doing when I eventually gut and remodel my kitchen.
I have thought about it, although with the solution I came up with I don't think I need them anymore. I was able to manage to move everything in place on my own and tell my old man he didn't have to come out and help me after he offered. With the boards I'm even able to shimmy the fridge from side to side without damaging the floor and the way they're cut nobody is ever even going to see that they're under the appliances.
Since you've done some research, do you have any links for any products that you've been considering? It's still something I might consider in the future once I've completely finished the kitchen and resurfaced the countertop.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Hubby has his drill press, table saw and bandsaw on locking/rolling platforms. They allow him to reconfigure his (small) shop to accommodate various sized projects and they work great.
Don't frigs comes with wheels already, tho?
Yeah. The fridge has wheels. But this new flooring, although very easy to lay, is more of a floating floor and it has about 8mm of insulation-foam type backing. It's actually quite comfortable to walk on in bare feet because of this.
But my friend's dad helped him install one in his kitchen a little over a year ago and forgot to bring his boards. My friend was too impatient to wait for is dad to go get them and tried using cardboard to move the fridge back into place and he ended up ripping a "V" shape tear in the brand new floor that hadn't even been down for 15 minutes.
Also, without anything under the fridge (like my boards or a rolling setup), I think with some prolonged time sitting in place the wheels would end up creating ruts in the floor. It was there about 10 days and hadn't done that (to my surprise), but I think with months or years in the same spot it would flatten out around the fridge wheels and the stove's legs.
Moving everything will be easy now, but I'm still strong and relatively young-ish. I think because of the fridge wheels I wouldn't ever have any trouble moving that out again unless I was trying to move it to the side, but moving that stove on my own probably wouldn't be so easy a decade or three from now.
I basically finished the closet before I went to my brothers, but I have a few touchups I still want to make. I'll have some before/after pics when I get those done, then it's onto the pantry.
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Well, I manged to do the dusting today. It wasn't a "dust the tops of the door frames" kind of dusting (I did that last time) but I did the big stuff, and it's good enuf.
Also spent quite a bit if time trimming a particularly difficult chuck roast for beef + vegetable soup. Out of 2.7 lbs I managed to trim 1.5 pounds of meat and about 0.2 pounds of scrapings for the dog. There was a lot of fat and gristle on that piece! I try to get dear daughter to pick meatier cuts, but she's not very good at finding them.
Didn't get to plant my herbs today, hopefully tomorrow, along with the sweeping and vacuuming
Dear daughter is helping hubby with the yardwork but there's still a lot to go. But nw that hubby has had to deal with the continual mess that the palm trees make, he's given me the go-ahead to have them taken down. I'll double check with him tho to make sure he hasn't changed his mind.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
If only the west coast through the mountains could just get a few more inches of rain.
Climatestations says their LA location got 11 inches so far this year. WOW!
Looking at https://dpw.lacounty.gov/wrd/rainfall/ yearly total, that's actually pretty reflective of central LA northward, and more in the foothills (less towards Long Beach). So the catchment areas were pretty full I'm sure and the aquifer got recharged to some extent.
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If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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Sounds like you've been quite a bit more active since I was gone. Good to hear Sigs.
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Back from mah jong and no luck. Got my walk and a bit of grocery shopping done. Haven't checked my email yet to see if I am working tomorrow. I will.
Have to drum up the will to vacuum. I will.
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Quote:I know the feeling!
Originally posted by Brenda:
Back from mah jong and no luck. Got my walk and a bit of grocery shopping done. Haven't checked my email yet to see if I am working tomorrow. I will.
Have to drum up the will to vacuum. I will.
Early in the day, when everyone was asleep. made that pulled pork from leftover frozen roast, and cole slaw for hubby, and found some leftover frozen stir fry pork and cooked rice and made S/F pork and "fried rice" for daughter. Also managed a kitchen cleanup which seems to happen every other day, but that's 6 meals and who-know how many snacks (three people X 2 days) so it tends to pile up. Took puppy-wuppy out for two SHORT walks - to the corner and back is all I could manage, and made up a grocery list for their shopping.
So they went shopping. and I thougt I might have 2 hours of free time to get other stuff done.
But dear daughter texts me, I swear to god, every 5 minutes when shopping ... they don't have this, they don't have that ... when I have CLEARLY gone over the list with her and given her options (if they don't have XXX try the other store, and if not available THEN let me know bc it's on the menu! Or- skip it bc it's not necessary) so its impossible to do ANYthing if I have to drop it every few minutes to answer her texts!! Can't she decide ANYthing on her own, or at least follow instructions?
Then sis, who generously watches daughter while hubby also generously stays with me during treatment, got an ear infection and needed a pickup bc when she gets those infections she gets unpredictable, intense bouts of vertigo which literally send her reeling and would be NO BUENO! to get while driving! Since daughter went with hubby to read street signs I thought I had about 1.5 hours of free time but, once again, daughter was texting me every five minutes.
WTF????
I finally told her i would be reading but NOT ANSWERING her texts bc it takes too long to tap out answers every five minutes!
Anyway, I did manage to plant those herbs which was on my to-do list, and do a quick-sweep around the edges of a couple of rooms where dust really builds up.
But today is treatment day which is an all-day thing, and side effects will kick in in a couple of days once the steroids wear off, and then I'm down for the count for two weeks. so I have two days to get stuff done. Such has been my life lately which is why the extended, frustrated gripe. Not frustrated with them so much as the situation.
At least this is the last one.
Well, better use this wakefulness to get my "go bag" ready so I can grab it and go in the early AM.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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Meh, I did more kitchen cleanup instead, putting away the dry dishes and rinse-scrubbing and stacking the dirty ones so sis wouldn't be greeted with two full drying racks and a countertop of filthy dishes.
I have to say the kitchen looks lot better!
Also tossed out peanuts hoping to attract the scrub jays back, altho what I'm seeing are squirrels. I try not to put out too many, bc I want them gone b4 night time and the tree rats, possums, skunks, and raccoons come out!
Hubby did a manly job of pruning the cape honeysuckle, feijoa, and Canary Island pine from overhanging the driveway, and dear daughter helped him cut up/ bin up the trimmings. The driveway is so much more useful now! But still so much more to do weeding, sweeping, and re-landscaping.
He hates gardening, I love it (when I'm not in pain or sick) so I'm really looking forward to recovering. In the meantime, I'm going to try to learn GIMP (Gnu image processor). Bc I have SUCH a hard time imagining how things will look I took a landscape series of photos and hope to manipulate them into a single "plain Jane" image, with many of the plants edited out and the yard leveled, and overlay a series of properly-scaled plant images on top. I hope to make a plan from that.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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*Hugs* SIG and I am glad you are almost finished with your treatments. I remember sitting there with my mom as she went through them. They were hard on her too.
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Off for my walk in a bit and since no email or phone call last night from my boss, today is for doing my own stuff. Have to remember to pick up sugar and maybe coffee. Will see about anything else. At least it is dry and sitting at around 5C right now which is 40F.
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