In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)
POSTED BY: SIGNYM
UPDATED: Monday, September 7, 2026 11:50
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Hey Sigs...
You have any ideas of what I could do to keep this thing elevated off the floor?
It's going to take about a month to cure and where it's going is on top of a really nice carpet.
If it were me, I'd just throw some 2x4 scraps under either side and call it a day, but my aunt isn't going to go for that on her carpet.
I'm almost wondering if I need to send her pictures on her retirement day and let her know it will be ready to use next month. Because otherwise she's going to be tripping over it in her kitchen or bathroom because there's nowhere else that isn't covered in very nice looking carpet.
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How about faux feet? Four, or maybe six blocks of decent-looking wood to hold the chest up off the carpet while it cures. They don't have to be attached, all they need to do is sort of match the style and color of the chest. Here are a few possibilities of the kind of shapes you could create...
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Thanks Sigs. I didn't know they had so many options. I had rubber feet I used for my front porch step when I had to make a new one since the old one was hollowed out by ants after the wood rot set in. I was going to use those, but that would leave me short when I did the back steps. I'll see if Amazon has a cheap 4 pack that would look good. I think the black ones that you posted first would look great with the black handles and hinges. Not that you'd see much of them under the box and in the carpet. 
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I wasn't planning on being up yet, but I've been dealing with a LOT OF NOISE outside.
I was hearing chainsaws and they sounded close, but that was going on for a while and the whole time I could see part of my neighbors tree out my window and figured that was too good to be true.
Somehow I managed to maybe grab 20 minutes of sleep in between, and when I opened my eyes again I could no longer see all the branches that I usually do from my couch.
Holy shit! They're actually cutting it down!
I'm wondering if somebody saw me outside after the storm last Monday snapping a bunch of pictures of the tree and they went out and saw that 50 foot limb snapped off and just waiting to fall on my house with the right wind.
Looks like it's just a big pole now.
If I thought I wasn't getting any sleep earlier, I think things are going to start getting LOUD. At least if they're using the same guys I did who charged half price but didn't give a shit about your lawn. Good for them and for me that our area between our houses is all Moled out and half weeds, so who cares?
Just mind the house, please. 
Man... My overall general anxiety I walk around with in the back of my mind has just decreased by quite a bit.
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Originally posted by Brenda:Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Does it still look like a Coffin, Brenda?
Hopefully that blue/grey makes a difference.
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Sorry man. For right now it still looks like a coffin. Maybe once you are finished with it won't.
I wonder if the handles will make it look more or less like a coffin.
Not a bad idea though... Maybe I should get into the coffin making business. Those things get stupid expensive.Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
Hey, SIX. Both my family doc and the neurologist basically say the shakiness comes from doing to many heavy things. Before I moved here I had two or three nasty falls and landed on my hands hard. It's taken till now for those falls to show up in my hands. The shakiness does come and go. Sometimes they don't shake at all and because of carrying to much heavy stuff on Friday and Saturday. Yeah, not good. Taking it easy today has made a difference.
Oh okay. I know you can't watch movies with flashes and thought that maybe it was all related. Still not good, but probably better that it's physical rather than neurological. Do they recommend you to do any sort of exercises that could help. Light stuff even as light as daily stretches that might relieve some tension build up?Quote:
It is Malware anti-virus. It's spelt weird but like I said it is a free thing and I get the pop-ups to redo it every so often. But with all this weird stuff, I haven't bothered with it.
Malwarebytes? Probably.
If yes, here's the website: https://www.malwarebytes.com/mwb-download
Just click on the button that says "Free Antivirus Download". It will show up in your browser's download when it's completed. You just run that and let it do all the default setups and say "I agree" and "OK" all the way through. The defaults would be all that you need.
But you don't do any financial stuff on your computer at all, right? If you're not tied into that world at all, you probably don't have to bother. And I don't imagine you're doing much online that's putting you into places where you could get yourself into virus trouble anyhow.
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I don't know about the handles. I think it is the way that it was built that makes it look like an old style coffin.
Never know. From my understanding they do.
Perfectly reasonable to think it could be tied to my seizures. But I'm just glad that it isn't. That would make life really hard. Nobody has recommended stretches or but I do little things like stretch my hands out and stretch my arms up over my head. Doing that sometimes my wrists will crack.
That's the way.
Like I said it was on the system when I got it.Nope, I will not do financial stuff on the computer. I do not trust that.
No. Outside of for my writing there is only about 5 sites I go to on a regular bases.
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Originally posted by Brenda:
I don't know about the handles. I think it is the way that it was built that makes it look like an old style coffin.
Yeah... In my mind it was going to be a lot more blue/grey when it was finished, but Sigs would have to tell me what I did wrong. I didn't want it to look painted or I would have just painted it, but I thought I'd be able to get rid of most of the wood color while leaving the visual look of the wood grain patterns, but this ended up being one of the lightest looking pieces I've ever done. Stark contrast from the dark brown shelves I was able to make in my closets with the Dark Walnut stain from the exact same manufacturer. Oh well.
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Never know. From my understanding they do.
Yeah. I think I heard something like $25-30 thousand for a fancy one, and that was probably 15 years ago.
Not what I'd be doing.
I'd be bringing Cheap back. If I could learn how to make dovetails like that, I could construct boxes like this in way less time than it takes to strip and sand it all down first. I could probably charge people $1,200 to $1,500 for a coffin that looks really nice, but doesn't have all the "frills".
The rich people can still have their fancy coffins. But people like me who plan on digging a hole in the backyard and putting a sign up asking for somebody to finish the job when I go to sleep the last time should be thrilled about it. They charged over $2,000 for the piece of plastic resin crap they put my grandma's and uncle's urns in. My coffin would be cheaper than most headstones.
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Perfectly reasonable to think it could be tied to my seizures. But I'm just glad that it isn't. That would make life really hard. Nobody has recommended stretches or but I do little things like stretch my hands out and stretch my arms up over my head. Doing that sometimes my wrists will crack.
Yeah. When I was a kid and we went out to eat on Sunday mornings after we had to get up real early to go grocery shopping with our mom, there was a woman named Barb who ate there that we often ate with. She had a neurological problem, but I don't remember what it was. Most of the time she was fine, but then her hands would start shaking.
I remember she drank coffee, but I don't remember how. I'm sure at that point she had some sort of "system" to do things like that just in case an episode happened as she was drinking the hot coffee.
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That's the way.
Nope, I will not do financial stuff on the computer. I do not trust that.
No. Outside of for my writing there is only about 5 sites I go to on a regular bases.
Honestly, Brenda, I'd just skip it and not worry about it. If you ever do break down or we are all forced to start doing all of our banking and bill paying online, you would want to get a new computer that could run Windows 11 to be truly safe anyway.
The only thing you likely have on your computer that anybody would ever be interested in is your book, and that's not what the criminals are looking for. They're looking for a quick and easy payday through access to all your passwords to your bank and cards. As long as you're doing all of that the old way, no worries.
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I was just looking at the box and really tempted to leave it at 3 coats, but there are a few spots I don't like on the front of the body, and if I'm going to do that I might as well at least do one more coat everywhere. I'll probably let that dry and then only do whatever panels I feel still need a 5th coat and call it a day.
24 hours after I get that done, I can flip things over and work on the lips. Technically I don't need to put another coat on the bottom and I could flip that over later today, but I wouldn't be able to do that with the top if I'm putting another coat of poly on, so I'll just hit it all now.
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I was thinking SIX that if you had some blocks of wood you could shape them and paint them black. Just for temporary support.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I was thinking SIX that if you had some blocks of wood you could shape them and paint them black. Just for temporary support.
Good idea, Sigs. I actually have 3 small blocks of wood that I thought I might have been using for that bifold door but I didn't need. Just need to cut one more off, and maybe I'll shape them all to the same size and even break the edges on my belt sander. We could think of them more like coasters.
I decided against adding those rubber feet. I don't want to screw anything into this, even on that bottom. I think it would be nice for her to be able to drag the nice smooth surface on the carpet at some point too, instead of having big rubber feet on it holding it firmly in place.
Just did what may be the final sand down on the outside of the box. It went very well compared to the last scuff sand which took about an hour. Not including the bottom which I did decide to hit harder this time, the rest of the box probably only had about 5 to 10% of the surface covered in anything that wasn't like glass.
I only want to do one more coat outside now for sure because I want to have enough to do one more inside while I'm doing the lips. It could use a good sand down that it wasn't getting like the outside got, and I think I can make that way smoother inside than it is now with just one more coat after a good sanding.
Did you see that my neighbors finally took care of that tree?
Nothing but a stump left now, and I see the stump grinder parked down the block waiting.
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
I don't know about the handles. I think it is the way that it was built that makes it look like an old style coffin.
Yeah... In my mind it was going to be a lot more blue/grey when it was finished, but Sigs would have to tell me what I did wrong. I didn't want it to look painted or I would have just painted it, but I thought I'd be able to get rid of most of the wood color while leaving the visual look of the wood grain patterns, but this ended up being one of the lightest looking pieces I've ever done. Stark contrast from the dark brown shelves I was able to make in my closets with the Dark Walnut stain from the exact same manufacturer. Oh well.Quote:
Never know. From my understanding they do.
Yeah. I think I heard something like $25-30 thousand for a fancy one, and that was probably 15 years ago.
Not what I'd be doing.
I'd be bringing Cheap back. If I could learn how to make dovetails like that, I could construct boxes like this in way less time than it takes to strip and sand it all down first. I could probably charge people $1,200 to $1,500 for a coffin that looks really nice, but doesn't have all the "frills".
The rich people can still have their fancy coffins. But people like me who plan on digging a hole in the backyard and putting a sign up asking for somebody to finish the job when I go to sleep the last time should be thrilled about it. They charged over $2,000 for the piece of plastic resin crap they put my grandma's and uncle's urns in. My coffin would be cheaper than most headstones.Quote:
Perfectly reasonable to think it could be tied to my seizures. But I'm just glad that it isn't. That would make life really hard. Nobody has recommended stretches or but I do little things like stretch my hands out and stretch my arms up over my head. Doing that sometimes my wrists will crack.
Yeah. When I was a kid and we went out to eat on Sunday mornings after we had to get up real early to go grocery shopping with our mom, there was a woman named Barb who ate there that we often ate with. She had a neurological problem, but I don't remember what it was. Most of the time she was fine, but then her hands would start shaking.
I remember she drank coffee, but I don't remember how. I'm sure at that point she had some sort of "system" to do things like that just in case an episode happened as she was drinking the hot coffee.Quote:
That's the way.
Nope, I will not do financial stuff on the computer. I do not trust that.
No. Outside of for my writing there is only about 5 sites I go to on a regular bases.
Honestly, Brenda, I'd just skip it and not worry about it. If you ever do break down or we are all forced to start doing all of our banking and bill paying online, you would want to get a new computer that could run Windows 11 to be truly safe anyway.
The only thing you likely have on your computer that anybody would ever be interested in is your book, and that's not what the criminals are looking for. They're looking for a quick and easy payday through access to all your passwords to your bank and cards. As long as you're doing all of that the old way, no worries.
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I think it looks fine being a lighter colour. But that is just me.
Yeah, I've heard those figures even for today.
Never understood the need for frills when no one is going to being looking at it regular.
That's terrible what they charged for grandmother and uncle's urns and for crappy ones no less.
I found the bill that was sent to the Veteran's Affairs up here. Years after my dad died. Think I found it just after my mum had die
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All done for today. Hands are so-so. Bringing heavy things back and doing heavy things when in. *sigh* Oh, well. One I had to do and other I just wanted to do.
SIX, you talk about neighbours finally cutting down that tree. I would love to put up a sign that says, "NO SLAMMING YOUR APARTMENT DOOR!!!" I just had someone do that about three times now.
I try not to do that as these are security doors and heavy, so when you let them go they bang some thing fierce.
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