In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)
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UPDATED: Monday, September 7, 2026 11:50
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Picture time. 
I've got more coming, but for now I wanted to at least get that entryway table my neighbor threw in the trash a while back up here.
The before shots...
Lots of damage here. As you can see, candles of various colors were regularly used on top of this thing. Paint has chipped off in a lot of spots. Holes in the back of the unit actually had threaded nuts I had to remove with an allen wrench so I could fill them in with wood putty and sand them down before paint. I don't know what would have been attached in the rear that would have used them. They were pretty beefy. Perhaps a mirror of some kind?
This is what it looked like after primer. At first I was really concerned about the basketwoven netting for the top shelf and the ripple effect that happened after I really slopped it on and drove it in there, but that effect faded after it dried. It happened again to a lesser degree after I panted it, but it's gone now.
In between primer and paint I used about a half a tube of painter's caulk to fill in a lot of the gaps. I even used the caulk to simulate extra wraps in the binding material on the legs where there were huge gaps in between.
Looks like I didn't take any pictures from the side to show the gaps filled, particularly around the arches on both sides, both inside and out. But I think it's a fine addition to my living room, underneath the mirror I sanded down and painted a few summers back. Very low profile from the wall compared to the old table I had there that would collect a bunch of junk on it. It's already made me better at putting things away since the limited space up top means I can only use it for the things I need to be using it for now.
It really opens up the flow to the house now too. That old table stuck out about 2 1/2 feet, and when you came in the front door it blocked the flow to the stairs and the kitchen, forcing you to walk around it when you came in. Now it's a straight shot right past it.
To note, I actually decided to only put one coat of paint over it after primer and caulk. That wasn't me being lazy, although it did save about 4 1/2 hours of painting it with a brush a final time. (This takes a lot of time painting something so intricate and making sure there are no drip marks!!!!). But the reason I didn't is because instead of being solid bright high gloss white through and through you can see some differences in the color through the brush marks and it makes it look a little rustic, which I think is a better look for this piece.
I will be making two 12"x25" boards out of hardboard and painting them with the Victorian Pewter before putting some rubber feet on them to protect the surfaces.
By the by, on Picture 6 you can see parts of the Victorian Pewter wall next to one of the Elemental walls and how the colors contrast with each other. Don't mind any imperfections in the baseboard if you can notice any in the pics. I still have to do some repairs to hide the bad job they did installing it and I'm going to be cutting some of it off by the stairs to install casing around the staircase entrance before I put paint on the baseboard. (That's what I mean about being like 80 to 90% done with every room but nothing is 100% done yet!)
Oh... LOL...
You see that plug outlet in the center of the legs? That was the worst outlet in my house before I got to it! If you pushed a plug in it, it would sink about 1/2" in while you were pressing, and when you pulled a tight plug out out the whole damn thing wanted to come out of the wall, plate and all.
Some dummy put a hard pipe up from the basement for that outlet and there wasn't any stud around so they just let th
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Damn................
Just bringing up that outlet box made me think of something I could have done that would have been awesome but it would require wrecking one wall in my finished pantry.
There's no electric to the pantry (which is right behind the mirror), but I could have exposed the left wall of the pantry and gotten electric up from the outlet between the legs of the table and installed a small motion sensor light instead of using the cheap rechargeable one that I have to take out of the pantry and recharge every month or so.
Oh well.... Maybe down the road. I'm not going to be ruining any finished work until I get the rest of the house done. I've got enough on my plate right now!
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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
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Well, I managed to get first place at mah jong even though I couldn't go out at all. The only people who won today were people that I played with. I got first another lady got 2nd and the other lady got 3rd. Since there were only 8 of us playing this morning there was no booby prize.
Sweet!
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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
It was a surprise but all the other scores were in the 2,000 point range. Mine was the highest at over 3,000 points. I had one decent hand that got me 5 doubles which meant my score for it was over 1,000 points.
Well that's got to be like the time I opened up a game of Upwords with my Grams with a 7 letter word, but way better because I've only played about 10 games of it and you only get a bonus 20 points for a 7 letter word.
I ended up losing that game because I got stuck with a Q, two K's and 4 vowels after getting rid of all the good letters I had, and because you don't start scoring big until you stack letters on top of other letters you end up being super penalized for a 7 letter word on the first move because it's only worth a total of 27 points!
I think I like Mahjong point rules better.
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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
Mah jong rules aren't too complicated what gets you is counting of your points. If you have 3 tiles that are all the same down where they can be seen and they are circles or characters of bamboos then they are worth 2 points. Anything that is a wind like that is worth 4 points. All flowers are 4 points and dragons if you have 3 of the same tile are worth 4 points. And various things like that. If you have nothing showing but manage to go out you get 100 bonus points. If you go out regular then it is 30 points. It's the doubles that can get confusing.
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Nice work on that table SIX. Looks really good.
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Out in a minute. Late start at work for me so that means I can look for something that I forgot about yesterday and stop and grab a sandwich as I don't know how long I will be at work. Don't have to be at the house till around 1pm.
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Originally posted by Brenda:
Mah jong rules aren't too complicated what gets you is counting of your points. If you have 3 tiles that are all the same down where they can be seen and they are circles or characters of bamboos then they are worth 2 points. Anything that is a wind like that is worth 4 points. All flowers are 4 points and dragons if you have 3 of the same tile are worth 4 points. And various things like that. If you have nothing showing but manage to go out you get 100 bonus points. If you go out regular then it is 30 points. It's the doubles that can get confusing.
Reading instructions or rules don't sink in for me, so I'm going to have to take your word for it. I'm good at learning by doing, and then only going back to the instructions or rules after I have a good idea about what I've gotten myself into.
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Nice work on that table SIX. Looks really good.
Thank you, Brenda.
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Picture Time - Part 2! :smile
This time it's my attached shed. Unfortunately, I'm not posting any pictures of the new door that my friend's dad's friend installed for me because... reasons. But the new door is sweet. It got me on a roll to finally do something with this dump.
My buddy came by one night with a 2nd bottle jack and we jacked up the whole structure just enough to get the wood rotten and ant damaged sill plates out to replace with green treated 2x4's.
Here's what that wood looked like once it came out. Wowzers...
And the new plates put in, toenailed together and shimmed up wherever they needed to be because of the uneven slab.
This was on the right side of the door when you were in the shed. It wasn't even doing anything anymore.
Now we've got some support with treated wood. Made those special cuts on the table saw, and it was so tight you needed a hammer to get them in place before I nailed everything in place. The other side wasn't as bad but it was all replaced too. All sill plates are now sturdy treated wood.
Time to fix that crack... I pulled about 40lbs worth of dirt, sand and rocks out of it before cleaning up the crack and the cement all around it with wire brushes on my drill.
45lbs worth of vinyl concrete patch later and it was filled up and smoothed out. I also hit any parts of the slab that had divots in it.
These three pics are what the room looked like after I got all the dust and cobwebs off of everything. I still had yet to pull down all the stray wires and remove any nails and screws. On the outer wall I also cut down a lot of the roofing nails they'd used to install the siding outside.
On the first one you can see where I added 6 boards between two studs up high on the left side because thats where I can mount a TV without having to worry about missing the studs now.
In the 2nd pic on the right bottom you can see where I added green 2x6 boards and sealed them in with watertite. After removing the crap insulation up top it turned out I had to put more 2x6 green boards up top to seal everything in, which you can see exposed in the 3rd pic.
And we're done.
Insulation on the wall next to the porch, and done in a way where every square inch is covered. It took a lot of time to cut out the inside of the bats to fit around the electrical so they all looked nice on the outside when it was finsed.
I used 4 1/2 gallons of primer and paint out there, just on the white for the walls and the ceilings.
The two shelves in the back got one coat of primer, 2 coats of paint on the sides and bottoms and 3 coats of paint on the top of the shelves. I was able to use paint that I'd bought on sale back in 2019 that I thought I was going to use in my livingroom but hadn't found any use for after I used different colors in the house.
The electric didn't get painted because that's all going to be torn out and done right. That's a job for next spring though.
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Wow, that's awesome work SIX!
Busy today, more later.
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If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
Mah jong rules aren't too complicated what gets you is counting of your points. If you have 3 tiles that are all the same down where they can be seen and they are circles or characters of bamboos then they are worth 2 points. Anything that is a wind like that is worth 4 points. All flowers are 4 points and dragons if you have 3 of the same tile are worth 4 points. And various things like that. If you have nothing showing but manage to go out you get 100 bonus points. If you go out regular then it is 30 points. It's the doubles that can get confusing.
Reading instructions or rules don't sink in for me, so I'm going to have to take your word for it. I'm good at learning by doing, and then only going back to the instructions or rules after I have a good idea about what I've gotten myself into.Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
Nice work on that table SIX. Looks really good.
Thank you, Brenda.
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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
The lady who runs the mah jong group also teaches and she taught me how to play with the tiles. I still get confused with the counting. So no worries SIX.
You're welcome.
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