In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)
POSTED BY: SIGNYM
UPDATED: Monday, September 7, 2026 11:50
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Just got back from my buddy's house. Worked until 1:00AM painting his basement after starting at 5:30.
Boy that's a bigger project than I had anticipated. We're already 2.5 gallons into it and he's got to buy 2 more tomorrow. Those concrete walls are just sucking up the paint, and cutting them in is a bear.
It looks fantastic though. And his daughter came to the door to show her dad something about a half hour before we wrapped up and said "oh my god". When she got the grand tour, she LOVED the Victorian Pewter. I just smiled and said "what did I tell ya bud?"
We're probably going to start around 11:00AM tomorrow and I'll work until 1:30AM again if we need to to get it done. I told him we're going to have that room painted and all the stuff moved off the carpet so he could clean it and I'm going to make sure it happens.
If he can get it in his vehicle, I'm going to be getting a fridge that is only one year old now too. It was his wife's father's who just recently passed away. Man I hope it fits and he can get it here. I think mine was made when I was in high school.
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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
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Laundry day for me then a soggy walk. Got rain.
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You're right, SIX, that table is a PERFECT fit. And it looks so classy the way you fixed it up. I love it!
I'm impressed with your repair work on the shed. The sill plate? Eewww. Good thing you replaced it. And how in hell does someone put in studs that don't even reach all the way to the sill plate?? Great job on filling in that gap. Good measurement there!
And the conduit looks so professional.
Crack repair and patch looks great too! The only thing that would make it complete would be a no-slip epoxy floor coating But that's so $$$ it probably wouldn't be worth it for your intended use.
So, what ARE you planning to do with the space? You posted something about hanging a TV on the wall? Entertainment area?
I DO hope you get that frig, SIX!
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
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There was a Christmas party put on by dear daughter's exercise program. Bc of Covid lockdowns and them my cancer odyssey and then hubby's surgery dear daughter has been shouldering household chores and, stressed out, and not having any fun. Poor kid
She wasn't too enthusiastic about going but I pushed her, and myself, a little and she wound up having fun.
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Ear worm/stuck song of the day...
Ballroom Blitz
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
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Glad your daughter and you had fun at her Christmas party.
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Laundry done and my walk was dry though it was trying to rain on my way home. Having a sit down now.
My brain for ear worms digs up old stuff. Like the chorus to "Alexander's Ragtime Band"!.
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You're right, SIX, that table is a PERFECT fit. And it looks so classy the way you fixed it up. I love it!
Thanks!
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I'm impressed with your repair work on the shed. The sill plate? Eewww. Good thing you replaced it. And how in hell does someone put in studs that don't even reach all the way to the sill plate?? Great job on filling in that gap. Good measurement there!
Well... at one point I believe that it did reach the sill plate. There's been obvious evidence that somebody "repaired" that nightmare at least once before my friend and I got to it and did it right. That broken slab and the shed that's on it I believe are the source of the structural problems to the main house, as well as all the problems that we started fixing in the porch back in late summer of 2019. Now I sit and wait to see if anything gets worse. It doesn't appear to be anymore though. If that concrete repair patch cracks though I'll know something is up pretty quick.
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And the conduit looks so professional.
If you meant on the left side, thanks! Yeah... had to do a ton of work on the electric in the porch, and the stuff on that wall was done from inside the shed since there was paneling up between the two and I didn't take that down before putting the drywall up.
All of the electric on that wall used to be up 3.5 feet for some odd reason, and the light switch to the ceiling fan was all the way on that wall. I ended up moving that switch to right inside my new porch door where it belongs, and I also put 8 outlets around the room at the correct height. More than I'd ever need out there, but there's not a single place you could ever want to plug something in there that you'd need an extension cord. And that outlet that's high in the middle is so you can plug in a TV without having a cord going to the floor outlets. I also added an outlet outside in the front and the back of the porch which is protected by a GFCI outlet inside the room.
Before I started the electric, there wasn't any outlets at all on the front or back of the porch, and there were only the 6 or so outlets that were as high as that dumb light switch for the ceiling fan/light that you had to walk across the room to turn on after you got inside the door.
If you mean on the right side, that's the garbage I'm going to be taking out next year and doing right!
I just ran out of warm weather before I could get to that is all, and that's why I didn't paint it. There's actually a missing panel in the ceiling that they removed to get the electric down there. I thought I'd have to buy a new one to replace it when I get the electric right, but it turned out that it was actually one of the scattered boards they had in the porch attic to walk on to make sure your foot didn't go through the roof. It's got some reminants of racoon poop on it and who knows what else, but once I get the electric done right I'm going to get that on the horses outside, bleach it down and then sand it and paint it so I can have a full ceiling in there.
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Crack repair and patch looks great too! The only thing that would make it complete would be a no-slip epoxy floor coating But that's so $$$ it probably wouldn't be worth it for your intended use.
I just may do something like that down the road. Not a bad idea to learn another skill. That's one of the things I'm putting on the backburner though until I know I've solved all of my big issues first. That's also why I took such care to put that insulation in the way I did so it looks nice up there without any drywall or paneling for now too... I still want the shed to look nice until I'm confident I'm not going to be putting up a finished wall on that side only to have to take it back down to work on something.
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I told my bud yesterday that I'd stay as late as it took and we'd have his basement finished and we'd move everything he was keeping down there off the carpet so he could wash it before we get the pool table down there.
And I wasn't lying.
Not only did we get it all done, but we were done by 10:00PM, when I thought I might need to stay until 1 or 2AM again.
His wife is so impressed. "Oh my god! It looks like professional work!". 
Yup. This wasn't my first rodeo.
Got the two seater leather recliner and the fireplace TV stand here now, and the one seater is coming next week with that possible brand new fridge if he can fit it in his vehicle when he goes there next week.
He's already trying to think of things to trade, because his daughter wants her room repainted and he wants his front porch repainted too.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
There was a Christmas party put on by dear daughter's exercise program. Bc of Covid lockdowns and them my cancer odyssey and then hubby's surgery dear daughter has been shouldering household chores and, stressed out, and not having any fun. Poor kid
She wasn't too enthusiastic about going but I pushed her, and myself, a little and she wound up having fun.
Glad the fam was able to finally unwind a little.
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Ear worm/stuck song of the day...
Ballroom Blitz
I've seen Wayne's World so much that I probably heard that song as much as I've heard Stairway.
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