Rambler
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Hopefully will be getting our flu shots today.
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Scheduled annual vet visit for cat.
Scheduled seasonal flu shot.
I have been absent from this forum for a month!
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tomorrow, I get to massage the Iliopsoas muscle by moving the viscera and the erectors!
I have been absent from this forum for a month!
Thought I would be busy with my sporadic part-time w*rk projects for a while, but it turned out they had another lull. So, we went up to our high-country retreat for another period of navel gazing. Alas, the house exterior called out for help! In the house's 4th year, the siding stain was already badly faded and I learned that we were supposed to apply a 2nd coat after only 18 months! So, we got ourselves busy.
My neighbor with a smaller house paid $3K for his exterior re-staining job. My house is 25% larger and would cost around $4K. I was not impressed with the job however. To be fair, contractors only apply stain by spraying and a good coat must be applied by hand brushing. So, to do it right I must do it myself. OK, OK! I'll admit that the frugal bastard in me wanted to save some money too.
So, I rented some scaffold rigs, then put my own 20-ft ladder on top of two levels of scaffold. See picture.
Holy cow! When up on the top of the shaky ladder to stain the chimney top, I was sweating, trembling, and cursing myself for getting into this. Look closely at the photo and you can see guy ropes to stabilize the ladder at the mid point as well as the top. The base of the ladder was clamped to the scaffold platform to prevent slippage. It was still scarier than anything I have done; I have climbed up to the roof top of my other two-story house all the time to work on the A/C with no sweat. Anyway, it is now done and I am now back in the valley and still alive to file this post.
This episode got me thinking why I would want an RV to add to my list of things to maintain. Then, I recovered and have spent time surfing the Web for travel trailers as well as some motorhomes. What's a guy to do? Just sit around waiting to die? We even went out recently looking at some used RVs. Boy, they are cheap, but that's another story.
It's San Francisco Bay in California, Vicente. I know I'm up late when you are online.Cuppa: What harbor is that of your photo?
I was sitting outside a couple days ago, about 30 minutes before sunrise, enjoying the latest pass of the Space Station.Urban fauna.
Cuppa,Gotadimple, I'd probably flunk that photo class, I know not to use the zoom on my camera, it will always be fuzzy.