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dilettante said:
I try to keep a set of battery-powered magnetic "road flare" lights (which can double as flashlights as needed), a fire extinguisher, a 12-volt powered tire compressor, gloves, shoes, jumper cables, rags, a rug, and a small blanket.

I've needed the tire compressor a few times and used the jumper cables to help a guy with a dead battery once. The rags get various uses when I clean the car. The blanket is for winter emergencies, but stays rolled tightly and takes little space or weight.

But I'm also out far between towns sometimes. I haven't done so many 1200 mile round trips lately, but never say never. Those run through areas with no cellphone service for 10s of miles.
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right... I've taken the extinguisher out of the car.. because I've bought a couple of new aerosol type ones so I'm gonna put one of those in instead... little smaller.. I also have a tyre compressor like this..
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Capt Lightning said:
Just finished lunch when Mrs. L said she thought there was a water leak in the bathroom. Sure enough there was water - yes it was water - leaking from round the pan when you flushed it. Groan.. started to disconnect the pan from its cabinet and sure enough there was a leak where the flush pipe connects to it. Fortunately I had a new seal for this, but it wasn't much fun crawling round the floor and trying to fit it. I'm not convinced that the seal is a perfect fit, so I'll see if I can get a better one when I'm next in town. Glad I didn't have to call a plumber - I dread to think of the cost on a bank holiday weekend.
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you would have been almost bankrupt at the cost... good thing you knew how to do it yourself. Funnily enough earlier on I saw my neighbour bringing in a plumber don't know what for but he had several P-traps in his hands..
 
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After yesterday's street fair event, enjoyed a solid night of sleep, awoke in fairly good shape that is now 8am Sunday 5/25/25. Big question was how my surgery area now on healing day 24 would feel after such a rowdy day of dancing to 3 rock bands spread over 9 hours. At first yesterday, the still internal tender area was quite noticeable but as the day progressed, just like last weekend, much less so. Typical of the way our body's need to loosen up when healing.

Key to my recovery is just enough physical activity while the healing is still in a late phase plastic state to conform as I normally move before the internal scar tissue around the implanted sutured mesh becomes too set up. For sunrise breakfast, mic'd a can of Campbell's Spaghetti O' with Meat Balls, something I only eat maybe once every couple months with more protein. If I make the call at noon to go back today that has a less rock oriented band line-up, will just attend from 2pm till 5pm.

Also had tweaked my lower back muscles some last Tuesday moving furniture that hasn't become much worse. Yeah can feel that area of my back it a bit more this morning but it never became much an issue. First time at the venue, I can see is one of the best at our regional cities with a small circular amphitheater for outdoor music with a cement floor up front for dancing and then grassy circular cement band terraces for the audience. Well attended with wall to wall people by early afternoon. And plenty of other folks dancing with a long list of styles.

Thought the festival was free but found they actually had it with the food/drink/art streets fenced off with a modest $17 fee used for good charity purposes, metal detectors at the entrances to get in that in this era is trivial. Up north is the much bigger 3-day Bottle Rock Festival holiday event with single day tickets $225. And the just announced Dead & Company single day tickets shows in Golden Gate park are $240. Nicely given a stamped hand, unlike with many outdoor paid events of this era, one could leave the area and return that allowed me to return to my vehicle mid afternoon, eat lunch, and nap.

When I got home, 4 delivered Amazon orders were piled up in front of my door as I now lean against one, a nicely soft foam, well-rated, medium sized pillow that was just $27 for a 4-pack. It is much fun to be alive !
 

hollydolly said:
you would have been almost bankrupt at the cost... good thing you knew how to do it yourself. Funnily enough earlier on I saw my neighbour bringing in a plumber don't know what for but he had sevral P-traps in his hands..
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I installed the bathroom myself, - plumbing, tiling, the lot, so I know what goes where. One year DD sent me a birthday card with the message, ' If dad can't fix it, we're screwed'. The only plumbing work I've paid for, was to have a new boiler installed and that was just short of 6k.
 
Capt Lightning said:
I installed the bathroom myself, - plumbing, tiling, the lot, so I know what goes where. One year DD sent me a birthday card with the message, ' If dad can't fix it, we're screwed'. The only plumbing work I've paid for, was to have a new boiler installed and that was just short of 6k.
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yes this was my husband too..he installed both the bathrooms and the toilet..himself.. he installed the electric shower.. all the vanities , and did all the tiling... ..

Plumbing charges are through the roof ...most around here are charging £150 -£200 just call out charge, with £70-£100 per hour labour with added tax...
 
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I figgered it out. Lowe's simply uses address on application to look up who lives there. They find me among the residents, see my (somewhat advanced) age, decide they don't want me stroking out or having a heart attack in their store. I hope I don't trip over something in their store. It would cost them a whole lot more than giving me a part-time job! LOL I hope they get warts and ugly toenail fungus.
 
Good morning and Happy Sunday, May 25th. As David pointed out above, today is 5-25-25. Easy to remember.

DD's family is coming this afternoon so I'll spend a little time straightening up. Today we're belatedly celebrating DSILs birthday so she's bringing a cake, meaning I don't have to figure out a dessert. He requested a taco bar dinner. Easy to assemble, not much prep work, and as is our habit, DD & I each supply about half the meal.

Make it a great day, SF Peeps!
 
StarSong said:
Good morning and Happy Sunday, May 25th. As David pointed out above, today is 5-25-25. Easy to remember.

DD's family is coming this afternoon so I'll spend a little time straightening up. Today we're belatedly celebrating DSILs birthday so she's bringing a cake, meaning I don't have to figure out a dessert. He requested a taco bar dinner. Easy to assemble, not much prep work, and as is our habit, DD & I each supply about half the meal.

Make it a great day, SF Peeps!
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we don't say our dates like that..in the UK it's 25-5-25
 
hawkdon said:
Morning folks!! A bright sunny day here, if a bit cool, 57deg thats cool for me these days....slept okay, little restless due
to the pains in the old body....ah well...no big plans yet, do
have a chair full of just laundered clothes to fold and put away...
sometime life is so boring now it just sucks, but what the heck,
I don't want all the excitement I see on the news LOL...
Catch you later, gater!!~!
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In a while, crocodile.
 
Georgiagranny said:
Hey, kids. I took a couple pix of what's being done in the iris bed. Might not look like much, but it's big.

Nevermind. They're too big, and I don't know how to resize them. Fooey.
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@Georgiagranny , if you are using a Windows pc, you should watch any of many Youtube basic videos on using MS Paint that includes image resizing and cropping basics.

If you use an Android smartphone, the included Google Photos app includes very simple to use cropping and resizing functions one can easily search for. And there are plenty of folks on this forum one can ask questions about how, where, what.
 
David777 said:
if you are using a Windows pc, you should watch any of many Youtube basic videos on using MS Paint that includes image resizing and cropping basics.
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For that sort of thing I turn to IrfanView first. No significant painting or titling/captioning with text, but a lot of features for resizing and adjusting color, contrast, and sharpness. Free and most of the basic features are pretty easy to learn.
 
Welp, I am half-way thru a long delayed project...moving
the LR furniture, in order to straighten out the 12x12 rug
that it sits on....whewwww.....got the recliner moved, and two
side tables moved, now on break for the final push of readjusting the rug and moving stuff back......back pain
guaranteed///// :cry:
 
hawkdon said:
Welp, I am half-way thru a long delayed project...moving
the LR furniture, in order to straighten out the 12x12 rug
that it sits on....whewwww.....got the recliner moved, and two
side tables moved, now on break for the final push of readjusting the rug and moving stuff back......back pain
guaranteed///// :cry:
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why didn't you wait until your cleaner come and she could have given you a hand...tsk!


I tell you what, I was laying a new rug in the LR.. and I had no option but 12 inches of it had to go under the sofa... other wise the other side would have been sitting on the grate... well I tried everything to lift that corner of the sofa up, and I just couldn't..it was too heavy.. I used a big pole to try and lever it up..nope nothing worked.. my now ex husband came over to collect some stuff.. and I told him about the rug, he walked in and picked up the sofa with just one hand... in 2 seconds...I;d been trying for a week to pick it up... :ROFLMAO:
 
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Not a bad day today. Our eldest daughter is visiting from Lonon this weekend. Bearing in mind my Mum hasn't got long left so she's visiting here every day while she's here.

The two of us had an afternoon out together to a lovely little coastal village called Arnside that we love. I spent a lot of of time there growing up. It was good to just mooch about together and let life take a back seat for a few hours.
 
hollydolly said:
why didn't you wait until your cleaner come and she could have given you a hand...tsk!


I tell you what, I was laying a new rug in the LR.. and I had no option but 12 inches of it had to go under the sofa... other wise the other side would have been sitting on the grate... well I tried everything to lift that corner of the sofa up, and I just couldn't..it was too heavy.. I used a big pole to try and lever it up..nope nothing worked.. my now ex husband came over to collect some stuff.. and I told him about the rug, he walked in and picked up the sofa with just one hand... in 2 seconds...I;d been trying for a week to pick it up... :ROFLMAO:
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I"m glad that things between you are sufficiently civil that you mentioned it and he lent a hand. 🤗
 
I am wicked,, did some wash today.

After lunch , got out the weed whacker.
Did some trimming around the house.

Why is you think its all done ,, then notice some you missed?

We are supposed to go our niece's house Monday.
Been asked to bring our own drink & dish to pass.
Drink is easy bottle of ice water .

Offered to bring sloppy joes.
That is ground beef, onion,homemade chili sauce,, cooked together.
 
Sliverfox said:
I am wicked,, did some wash today.

After lunch , got out the weed whacker.
Did some trimming around the house.

Why is you think its all done ,, then notice some you missed?

We are supposed to go our niece's house Monday.
Been asked to bring our own drink & dish to pass.
Drink is easy bottle of ice water .

Offered to bring sloppy joes.
That is ground beef, onion,homemade chili sauce,, cooked together.
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Hmm, Sloppy Joes, I haven't had those in a long time. Must make.
 

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