In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)
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UPDATED: Monday, September 7, 2026 11:50
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I heard a great horned owl tonight, what a treat! They show up once or twice a year. It would be nice to have a permanent popuation: they would keep the rats and mice down.
Yeterday and today was workin the house. We had a handyman come and patch walls under he sink from our drain line replacement. OMG SIX you could make a fortune here. Altho I know you wouldn't dream of living in LA!
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I heard a great horned owl tonight, what a treat! They show up once or twice a year. It would be nice to have a permanent popuation: they would keep the rats and mice down.
I don't know what a great horned owl sounds like, but that might be the one I hear only once or twice a year around these parts since I was a kid too. Never seen one, but I was told by my parents it was an owl when I was a kid.
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Yeterday and today was workin the house. We had a handyman come and patch walls under he sink from our drain line replacement. OMG SIX you could make a fortune here. Altho I know you wouldn't dream of living in LA!
I bet I would, but I'd spend it all right away on living expenses. My brother lived in LA for a short stint and even though he was making buckets full of cash, he was paying $2.5k per month for an attic apartment so he could live reasonably close to work. And that was years ago, way before Bidenflation.
At that time, just a little over 2 months of his rent was about what it cost for me to live.
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Sounds like you need a break, SIX. I hope you have a nice time relaxing.
Yeah... I've had what I would call more than a little bit of unintentional weight loss this winter. I'm hoping it's just living in the cold all winter and the recent stressors. I've been making an effort to eat better and eat more the last week. I'm feeling more energetic, since yesterday, but the week before was pretty rough.
I look fantastic though. I need to take advantage of this after I put on a few pounds and feel better. If I went back to doing crunchies for a month I'd be rocking an 8 pack that I haven't seen since I was 22 years old.
I just gotta make sure that I didn't get an ancient gypsy curse put on me like the guy in Thinner... or worse.
My old man says that if I'm not sick, I need to figure out how I did it and patent it and I'll be a millionaire.
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Lovely... Severe thunderstorm this evening with a side of tornadoes.
Better get prepared.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:I trust the power was on by the time you got back and you didn't have to walk UP 10 flights of stairs??? If I thought I was facing that on the way home, I wouldn't leave in the first place.
Originally posted by Brenda:
Back from mah jong and grocery shopping. No luck at mah jong.
This day started off real good with the power going out in my building and all around the area someone in the building told me. So, I ate a cold breakfast to take my meds and walked down 10 flights of stairs to get out to go to mah jong. I was going to get my garbage out but I am tired and will do it tomorrow.
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No, I didn't SIG. In fact the power came back on as I was going down the stairs but since I didn't want to get caught in the elevator I just kept on walking down.
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Got rain for my area today and over the weekend. At least we had a taste of Spring for a couple of days.
Out for my walk soon.
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Back from my walk and there is some rain around today. Couldn't be bothered to take my umbrella with me.
Legs sore after walking down all those stairs yesterday morning to get out.
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First wave of TStorms weathered. Not too bad. Gutters all look good, well is operational and power is still on.
Worse one coming though. Looks like we might get 1.25 inches of rain in an hour, starting about an hour from now.
Fingers crossed about the power. :(
And then it will be freaking snowing tomorrow while I go out to help my friend after the high today reached 70 degrees.
Excellent.
I hate spring.
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I think we survived. I had a little damage to the siding on the side of the garage, but eventually that garage is going to be resided anyhow. Nothing was lost, but I'll just have to re-affix it for the time being.
Rain is mostly past and will be negligible for the next hour or so.
Sump well is going off every 5 minutes or so, but everything is operational and I haven't gotten any water in the basement where it shouldn't be coming in. It wouldn't even be coming in that fast, but we have had quite a bit of rain over time and no days of sun and heat for any of it to dry up in between. We only look to have had 1.50 inches of rain in the last 72 hours, with about 1.25 inches of that in the last 24 hours. This was about double what they were predicting this morning, and about half of what they upped it to later in the day. Looking at that nasty radar, I think my area got EXTREMELY lucky. Most of the yellow and red stuff missed us tonight.
All I've got to worry about now is the power going out with the wind gusts that are supposed to be pretty bad until early afternoon tomorrow.
I think I'll go help my friend anyhow. By the time I'd leave here there's only about 4 or so more hours of gusts, so if the power doesn't go out tonight I'm not going to lose a day of helping him just because I'm scared of a little wind.
Sucks that it will be cold again though. :(
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Off to laundry and walk. Weather people called for rain today but they are wrong. Bright and sunny out right now.
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I had a response to this but when I tried to post it the site had logged me out so it got lost in the ether. I really should do this in a text editor.
Quote:AFAIK they're the only ones that go WHOO WHOO at night. (If you hear something similar during the day, it's either a mourning dove or the closely related pigeon) The WHOOO HOOO is when they're looking for, or trying to locate their mate.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I heard a great horned owl tonight, what a treat! They show up once or twice a year. It would be nice to have a permanent popuation: they would keep the rats and mice down.
SIX: I don't know what a great horned owl sounds like, but that might be the one I hear only once or twice a year around these parts since I was a kid too. Never seen one, but I was told by my parents it was an owl when I was a kid.
Owl sounds, various owls. We used to have a pair of great horned owls nesting on a window ledge a work.
Great horned owl hooting duet.
https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Great_Horned_Owl/sounds#
Quote:You could have paid a month and a half of rent for what we paid this guy for a sloppy job. Decent handymen are as rare as hen's teeth around here! But I know I can't sell you on LA bc it's just nota vey nice place to live.
Yeterday and today was workin the house. We had a handyman come and patch walls under he sink from our drain line replacement. OMG SIX you could make a fortune here. Altho I know you wouldn't dream of living in LA!
SIX: I bet I would, but I'd spend it all right away on living expenses. My brother lived in LA for a short stint and even though he was making buckets full of cash, he was paying $2.5k per month for an attic apartment so he could live reasonably close to work. And that was years ago, way before Bidenflation.
At that time, just a little over 2 months of his rent was about what it cost for me to live.
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SIGNY: Sounds like you need a break, SIX. I hope you have a nice time relaxing.
SIX: Yeah... I've had what I would call more than a little bit of unintentional weight loss this winter. I'm hoping it's just living in the cold all winter and the recent stressors. I've been making an effort to eat better and eat more the last week. I'm feeling more energetic, since yesterday, but the week before was pretty rough.
I look fantastic though. I need to take advantage of this after I put on a few pounds and feel better. If I went back to doing crunchies for a month I'd be rocking an 8 pack that I haven't seen since I was 22 years old.
I just gotta make sure that I didn't get an ancient gypsy curse put on me like the guy in Thinner... or worse.
My old man says that if I'm not sick, I need to figure out how I did it and patent it and I'll be a millionaire.
It's probably the cold. I remember reading somewhere that the Innuit burn 20,000-30,000 calories per day ... more than ten times normal for most people... just generating enuf body heat to survive. There was an engineer who need to lose weight, and after reading all about diet and exercise he decided to immerse himself in cold water for a number of hours every evening, and it worked. Personally, I'd rather go the "diet and exercise" route. I hope you put some healthy weight on this summer, tho.
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Haven't had time to catch up with the news, even. Been real busy playing catch-up on all fronts. Front yard has been beaten into not being such a mess and back yard it getting the same once-over. That, plus contractors.
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