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Post by val2525 on Apr 17, 2024 18:51:21 GMT
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Post by denise15601 on Apr 17, 2024 21:01:32 GMT
OMG Frak! That whole dissertation confuses the heck out of me.
When my bathroom was remodeled, we did run into some hiccups, but the items were cheap and came from Home Depot. The 2 installers were brothers and one of them was a total hunk. I had to keep reminding myself that he was young enough to be my son. Over 6 foot with blue eyes, and a doll-baby.
The old eyes still lust after young hunks, I guess.
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Post by denise15601 on Apr 17, 2024 21:07:25 GMT
I actually went out to lunch today with my friend for my b-day. The only other times that I have been in a restaurant was a year ago for my b-day, and my daughter's and grandson's in May.
We went to a place that holds conventions and weddings. I didn't know that people went there for lunch, but my friend said that the older crowd goes there. And she was right-everyone was our age...kind of interesting. It was large and roomy, so I didn't feel threatened by Covid for once.
My Reuben sandwich and sweet potato fries were yummy. We are going back in May for her birthday.
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Post by kritter on Apr 17, 2024 21:24:07 GMT
Speaking of flamingos, I was in Ross yesterday and was in the checkout line with a cat statue and a large metal flamingo which is exceptionally great. Both for my yard.
Just standing there and this lady comes up and asks if she can have the flamingo. Some story about a sister with medical issues who loves flamingos and it is her birthday coming up yada, yada, yada. I had been talking to the lady in front of me about how cute the flamingo is and she and I just looked at each other and then the flamingo and then I said "nope" After the other lady walked away, we just shook our heads. She waited for me to walk out to the parking lot because you just never know about desperate for flamingos people.
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Post by Desire on Apr 17, 2024 23:31:22 GMT
And doorways have saddles? Not I, in happier days. So, talk amongst yourselves. I'm over here talking to myself. That made me laugh. When my sister was here visiting she was talking about ripping out her wall-wall carpeting to put hardwood flooring in her family room but was worried about how it was going to match up with her foyer that already has hardwood. I said to her, you'll probably need to put an oak saddle between the rooms since the hardwood will be off-color and probably the opposite direction. She said WTH do you mean, a saddle, like a horse saddle? I forget that if you've never built a house on your own, or have done a lot of remodeling, you don't recognize all the terminology that goes with it. I told her to go look at our foyer hallway hardwood where it meets the kitchen floor tile, that wide piece of wood trim separating them at the doorway is a saddle. Sorry for all your problems, Frak. It's frustrating when plans get messed up.
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Post by Desire on Apr 17, 2024 23:33:37 GMT
Hmnn. I may have to rethink buying a house. I'm looking at beach towels for the pool this summer. I can't decide. Flamingos? Tropical flowers? Multicolored sunrise? Multicolor stripes? Watermelon print? I'm leaning towards the watermelon TBH, even though I love the flamingos. Decisions, decisions Get something that won't clash with your new bathing suits!
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Post by Emerald_Door on Apr 18, 2024 1:30:42 GMT
Val, have you been thinking of buying a house?
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Post by val2525 on Apr 18, 2024 3:15:40 GMT
Eventually, yes. But not if house prices and interest rates keep going up.
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Post by chapeaunoir on Apr 18, 2024 7:47:59 GMT
frakinfashion - that's absolutely crazy! Our tiles come from Italy - at least they've arrived on these shores in one piece.
What do you want to hear from your remodeler? "I've got some bad news and some good news." Uhhhhhhhh... Bad news is that the back side of our house has dropped, probably from earthquake subsidence. The floor has close to 1 1/2" of drop from the foyer to the back of the house - once the lino is torn out and the appliances out, one can see the drywall has separated from the floor, AND I repaired two cracks that tell me that our reno guy is right, because of the direction of the cracks. The floor needs to be within 1/4" to be level. The good news, he said, is that he's good at leveling floors and knows just what must be done. We discussed it and I gave the OK for the 42 bags of leveling material to be purchased (his cheaper idea of piecing it with plywood was an OK one, but I'm all about build quality and making things to last). He wants also the OK from the DH (who is the lead in this project, admittedly, I'm just the Dogsbody who paints the place and shells out some money), but I think he's being extra careful, as he has no problem at all discussing leveling and the technical stuff with me to convey to the DH. We also discuss running lol.
Of course, today our heat pump and furnace started acting up - we had no heat this morning and it had dropped to just about freezing last night. Hrrrrr...we fussed with the thermostat, but the DH had to leave for work and it was already after 7 a.m. He finally took off. The heat pump fan suddenly started up at about 8:30, after I had called the heating company to have someone come out. He's still coming out but if there's nothing to fix, will do a maintenance inspection, which we need. So our tiler said he could coordinate with the furnace person (which I'm having out first thing in the morning) and use the time to get the leveling material.
Yeah, great time for the furnace to act up.
I went out for short trail run today and crap, I'm out of shape from the 6 week layoff with the hip tendonitis. But it was a really nice day and good to get out into the trees!
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Post by chapeaunoir on Apr 18, 2024 7:55:30 GMT
OMG Frak! That whole dissertation confuses the heck out of me. When my bathroom was remodeled, we did run into some hiccups, but the items were cheap and came from Home Depot. The 2 installers were brothers and one of them was a total hunk. I had to keep reminding myself that he was young enough to be my son. Over 6 foot with blue eyes, and a doll-baby. The old eyes still lust after young hunks, I guess.
You are never too old, though I tend to be a chubby-chaser (but only in my mind, and the DH need never worry lol). I'm actually fairly awful, my eyes always roving, my mind always going, though it's like an incidental side-hobby. I've kind of always been this way - there is no cure so I just relax and enjoy it.
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Post by denise15601 on Apr 18, 2024 14:28:47 GMT
Chap...ugh. Not much good news there. Sure hope that your furnace problem can be easily fixed. And the floor leveling sounds like quite a chore.
My brick & cement back porch has settled by about 2 inches and it is sitting on my oil tank underneath. Hopefully it will outlast me and my daughter can get it fixed when she inherits my house.
So much for our nice weather...this coming week will have about 4 days of cold nights. So I will be covering my flowering shrubs again. The previous covering saved them and they are looking a lot better than they did last year.
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Post by Desire on Apr 18, 2024 15:48:46 GMT
Woke up this morning and had to turn up the thermostats, it was freezing in here. Yesterday was a lot warmer and they were set down low. We usually don't need to use the furnace in mid-April but it looks like it will be on all week and next week. The small space heater in the family room just won't cut it to keep the area warm enough. I think we're going to have one of those years where we go from furnace to A/C with no period of being able to open windows to get nice fresh breezes in. I love our spring weather when it's so sunny and warm but we have cool breezes and we can open all the windows. Some years it just doesn't happen.
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Post by Desire on Apr 18, 2024 17:54:28 GMT
Speaking of flamingos, I was in Ross yesterday and was in the checkout line with a cat statue and a large metal flamingo which is exceptionally great. Both for my yard. Just standing there and this lady comes up and asks if she can have the flamingo. Some story about a sister with medical issues who loves flamingos and it is her birthday coming up yada, yada, yada. I had been talking to the lady in front of me about how cute the flamingo is and she and I just looked at each other and then the flamingo and then I said "nope" After the other lady walked away, we just shook our heads. She waited for me to walk out to the parking lot because you just never know about desperate for flamingos people. Kritter - you should have told her that there was a whole bunch of them, all different sizes and colors, way in the back of the store on the end of one of the aisles. That she needs to just go straight to the back of the store and then walk down about 10 aisles, turn to the left and she'll find them. You'd be checked out by time she came back to the register.
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Post by val2525 on Apr 18, 2024 17:56:30 GMT
If you don't admire a nice looking specimen of the human race, regardless of gender, then you're most likely dead. Cloudy and humid here. Mid 80s I think. Found out our pool is already open and there have been some folks using it. I'll have to dip my foot in it tomorrow and see how the temp is.
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Post by kritter on Apr 18, 2024 18:24:24 GMT
Nope, I don't trifle with fools. I was so surprised by her boldness that I almost laughed. Did she really expect me to hand it over because of some sob story? Apparently she figured it was worth a try. The flamingo makes the third in a set of long legged metal birds that I have found at Ross one at a time over the past year.
I guess I am dead because I don't really notice or admire a nice looking specimen of the human race anymore but I do take a second look at some of the outfits that people wear when they are out in public. I figure they either live alone with no mirror or nobody that saw them leave had the nerve to suggest that they check themselves before walking out the door.
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Post by chapeaunoir on Apr 19, 2024 7:42:13 GMT
Well, the furnace man came this morning, and I have about a $700 bill to fix the furnace/heat pump. He bundled in the yearly maintenance check, though, which we appreciated, so we did get a bit of a discount, and it's better than having to pay $10k to replace the furnace.
More problems with the floor - we have to have bits of the subfloor fixed, but our tiler said that since we did all the appliance hauling ourselves (he was dismayed that we carried the dishwasher out ourselves, saying we should have just let him do it, I guess as part of the contract, and said he'd trade fixing the rotten bits of subfloor so we wouldn't be out any extra money. He's good people, very honest. He also decided he could do the job properly with fewer than the 42 bags of leveling grot so we saved some $$ with that - our basement is filled with big sacks of this stuff. Our kitchen/dining room and laundry room are also covered with a fine layer of dust, including my freshly painted walls, from the floor sanding, which took almost all day. The DH felt badly about that. The subfloor looks good, though.
Val - a house is a giant hole in the dirt that you throw money into.
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Post by val2525 on Apr 19, 2024 14:12:34 GMT
New neighbors are moving in upstairs. Looks like they're moving from Austin since their moving company only delivers within 100 miles of Austin 🤔 The two movers were speaking to each other in a language I'm not familiar. That made me curious so I looked up the company.
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Post by kritter on Apr 19, 2024 15:29:39 GMT
Heard from my fence contractor this morning. He now has the permit and fence is scheduled for Tuesday. If he has just gotten the permit in the first place, it would all be done by now. I am beginning to think that this guy has no problem putting up fences without permits and hasn't been caught so far. Apparently he does not do much work in my area or he would know that our Code Compliance dept. takes no prisoners.
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Post by val2525 on Apr 19, 2024 15:37:53 GMT
Hmmm. Could be Greek they were speaking. I looked up the origin of the biz name as it looks like a family name. It's from Greece and Cyprus. Mystery solved LOL.
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Post by denise15601 on Apr 19, 2024 16:17:57 GMT
Chap-that dust is a chore to clean up. When I had my bathroom done, I had no idea that my house would be covered in dust just from when they sawed into my bathroom closet to access the plumbing. Or maybe when they broke into the walls.
Really hated dusting off all of my knick-knacks.
Sorry about your furnace and I hope everything goes better from now on.
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Post by Desire on Apr 19, 2024 18:04:47 GMT
Best way to handle it is to get a vacuum with a long extension and brush on the end and just run it up and down the walls. That sheetrock dust and floor sanding dust is horrendous. You'll see it for months, it gets into every crevice and corner.
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Post by chapeaunoir on Apr 19, 2024 21:59:22 GMT
Best way to handle it is to get a vacuum with a long extension and brush on the end and just run it up and down the walls. That sheetrock dust and floor sanding dust is horrendous. You'll see it for months, it gets into every crevice and corner. That's what I think I'm going to do - it will pick up the dust without smearing it or creating any streaks. The DH has cleaned off surfaces and I think did some counter vacuuming. Yeah, it'll be like Christmas tinsel - find it for the next year. Right now it's really coating the windowsills and the like and I'm going to vacuum those off right away - the rest I'll wait until he's done. I mentioned our last home renos took five months and it was basically semi-chaos the entire time (I had to work nights because the equipment they were using interferred with our wi-fi) and I took the brunt of it because the DH was at work outside the home five days a week. This, thank gawd, should be a lot easier (and he telecommutes two days a week).
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Post by val2525 on Apr 20, 2024 17:26:04 GMT
Last year the maintenance guys here had to cut thru the sheetrock and ceiling to install my LR ceiling fan and the electrical outlet. Fortunately, they had me move all of the furniture out of the living room (moved it to the dining room). When they got there, they covered the furniture in the dining room with sheeting, then they dropped sheeting from the ceiling like a wall and made a little room where the work was being done. I now I see why they did all of that. It contained the majority of the dust and all I had to do was a quick mop on the floor when they were done. (They mopped the floor when they finished but I went over it again.)
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Post by denise15601 on Apr 20, 2024 22:51:44 GMT
Freeze warning for tonight. My flowering shrubs are covered again....sigh.
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Post by chapeaunoir on Apr 21, 2024 1:00:08 GMT
We just saw Madama Butterfly at the Tacoma Opera - it was terrific! There we few dry eyes in the audience and as it wound towards the tragic conclusion I could hear quiet hasping, throat clearing - the man sitting in front me one seat over kept removing his glasses and wiping his eyes - there was a long standing ovation at the end. My eyes are red.
The Tacoma Opera is a smaller company who puts on outstanding shows in a more intimate atmosphere of a couple of small, elegant old theaters for prices normal people can afford. We like the matinee as it's over an hour to get down there.
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