What did you do today 2025

[street]

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Installed a walnut bar kitchen with slim shaker doors for a client. Waiting for the counters.

Beautiful!!!

 

[street]

Took DW to her volunteer work she does at the local small hospital. It was a snow day so it is bettah that I take her, so she doesn't have remove snow from car when she leaves.
After dropping her off I headed for the ranch to spend the morning. More snow this evening and tomorrow with wind. So, I wanted to get there today.
After lunch got out potting soil out of shed and gearing up for planting of vegetables in a few weeks. I will take a walk later and do some shoveling before I go get the wife.

 

[Koolau]

Restocked my Diet Pepsi stack. CVS (Longs) had a big sale - $5/12 pack. Bought out all they had (nine 12 packs!)

 

[aja8888]

Restocked my Diet Pepsi stack. CVS (Longs) had a big sale - $5/12 pack. Bought out all they had (nine 12 packs!)

Yikes! does this (Pepsi) show up in your blood work? (lol!)

 

[Koolau]

Yikes! does this (Pepsi) show up in your blood work? (lol!)

Doc says my electrolytes are perfect! My MDR of Aspartame is always exceeded.

 

[MC Rider]

I want my coffee so strong it shows up in a drug test!

I spent time organizing stuff in the shed and soon can move stuff in there from the garage. Then organize the garage better.

 

[Koolau]

Yikes! does this (Pepsi) show up in your blood work? (lol!)

I want my coffee so strong it shows up in a drug test!

One of the reasons I stopped drinking coffee and switched to Diet Pepsi is because DP has about 1/10 the caffeine of coffee!

 

[skyking1]

I finished up digging a shell and core and a Starbucks. We started Monday and it was fairly miserable. Black peaty stuff that was really greasy slick, after repeated freezes and thaws.

Hard to paint a puddle. I had my helper bail a bunch of that water away.

slickery.
Stepped trench for the shell and core next door. Lower pipe is Sanitary, the upper is the grease line. Stepped trenches are slow going.

The retired part of me is over this stuff, completely. Done.
The other guy, the one building a house with a $60,000 excavator and $60,000 dump truck and insurance etc at my disposal? He waxes a bit philosophical about it. I'll keep doing it until we move away.
I did the last gig in early November and have been hard at the house. We got it done in those intervening 3 months.

 

[mebden]

Well I got on my John Deere mower and cut my grass for the 1st time in 2025 it was mostly clover weeds but really looks good now and tomorrow cleaning my pool and probably going to turn the heater on and go for a swim and work on my summer tan as it was 78 with a humidity level of 68% here and tomorrow they say it is going to be a little warmer down here in the deep south of Louisiana. This a lot better than almost 2 weeks ago having 10" of snow on my pool deck LOL

 

[pacergal]

Negative covid tests this morning, Yea! so heading over tonight to visit with DS and DGS and will bring dinner and DS mail that sometimes still comes here.
Love my time with Grandkids.

 

[imjustawarrior]

The was errand day.

DW and I:
took her car in for emissions testing
Costco to pick up my new glasses (3 pairs)
Freddy's for lunch

Then I:
haircut
carwash

Now I am sitting in my recliner with a cup of coffee goofing off.

 

[MC Rider]

Got a hand xray so the docs can see Mr Arthur Itis better.
Went to the drugstore and grocery. Saw a friend outside and talked to him a bit.
Organized the shed a bit then moved a bunch of stuff from garage to shed.
Dug through a big box of way old stuff and pulled out a log book from a trip in 1990.
Made a pdf of it and sent to my daughter who might be interested since I went to see her.
That seems productive enough for 1 day. Now just chilling.

 

[Gumby]

We had 1-2 inches of snow overnight followed by rain until noon, so I shoveled about 58 tons of slushy mix off my walks and driveway this afternoon.

 

[aja8888]

Doggie went to Day Care today (Play Day). He's tired out from the romp in the 80 F weather and running with the big dogs.

 

[MC Rider]

We had 1-2 inches of snow overnight followed by rain until noon, so I shoveled about 58 tons of slushy mix off my walks and driveway this afternoon.

I thought 16 tons was the quota.
You inspired me to see this one. Again.

 

[Yipper]

Whatever the hell I wanted to do.

 

[MC Rider]

Whatever the hell I wanted to do.

Yay retirement!

 

[skyking1]

My wife and I drove up to the new place and she saw it complete for the first time. Looking like a house. It was exciting.
While we were there, the window vendor surprised me with delivery notification for the next morning. I started scrambling to put together some help in case we couldn't get the delivery truck up the driveway. Then I jumped on the excavator and scraped and mixed a little rock up into the snow and made an amalgam that might freeze and give a little bit of traction.
If all else fails I can load the windows onto the forklift platform and shuffle them up to the house. But I would rather get the delivery truck up to 500-ft long driveway.

That's all I'm trying to do this week up here. It's definitely not roofing weather.

Now I'm hunkered down in my warm apartment roughing it.

 

[MC Rider]

Good thing you got that heavy equipment handy.

 

[Ronstar]

Mega ice on our 800' driveway. Slipped and slid to get garbage cans to the street. DW couldn't drive in that, so I again slipped and slid down the drive in my 4wd truck to take DW and MIL to MIL's eye doc for a macular degeneration shot. Doc was more than an hour late. Got 4 bags of ice melt, got home and the ice had melted. So I took a nap.

 

[skyking1]

Good thing you got that heavy equipment handy.

Yes, you need to have the right tools. That forklit's costing me $2,700 a month. I'm going to keep it on hopefully long enough to get the solar panels installed and then I can take it back.

 

[MC Rider]

It's great that you are building your own dream house. Enjoying the posts and pics. Forklift at $2700 a month. Gotta pay to play. It's good you can operate the things yourself. Paying someone would be pricey I'm sure.

 

[Koolau]

We had 1-2 inches of snow overnight followed by rain until noon, so I shoveled about 58 tons of slushy mix off my walks and driveway this afternoon.

I recall many years back that the new paradigm was that the wives were supposed to shovel the snow 'cause us old guys were dropping like flies from heart attacks from the exertion (while supposedly the females are bullet-proof in the heart department).

I mentioned this to DW ca 2000 and she bought me a snow blower for Christmas!

 

[aja8888]

After my lunch date yesterday with two old ladies (friends), today is a continuation of mostly doing nothing except maybe going to the bank to get a supply of $5 bills (for tips). Three dog walks are always on the schedule too, but that's required, not something other that would be considered discussing here.

It's already 75 F out there so it will be nice on the dog walks.

 

[imjustawarrior]

Three dog walks are always on the schedule too, but that's required, not something other that would be considered discussing here.

Our dog also gets 3 walks a day when the days are shorter. In the summer, it is 4. Although, our little man does not like anything over 40F. He is a cold weather beast.