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hollydolly said:
Laying new carpet... !! Well , it's really a huge rug.. and it's been really difficult to do on my own because it means lifting up each end of a sofa.. which is extremely heavy.. and I can just lift the end by 2 or 3 inches . It took 2 of us last time we laid a rug..
So, trying to work out how I'd manage to slip the rug under and hold up each end of the sofa at the same time.. I got 2 pieces of kindling and raised each end on them by an inch or so which was enough for me to get the rug under... However frustratingly one end has gone under too much and is leaving a bare space between the rug and the Hearth of about 2 inches.. , and now I can't get the rug to pull out from under there... 😖...so I'm having a rest and a cuppa tea while I decide what to do..
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:unsure::unsure::unsure:. I hope you figure it out.
 
hollydolly said:
Wooohoo...done it all by myself...managed to use a heavy wooden walking stick as a prise tolift up the corner of the sofa enough for me to get over the other side and pull it just that inch or so to line up against the hearth..

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Good for you! You got it!
 
Off tomorrow! That means I can sleep late...like probably won't even get up until 5 :D

DD and I went to the garden center and came home with a crap ton of flowers. I even got carried away and bought a big pot of salvia, the kind that's already arranged and growing and will stay in the pot it came in. My tightwad/skinflint gene rarely does anything like that. I buy bedding plants and make up my own pots, but this one was just too pretty to leave at the garden center.

Bright and early tomorrow morning I'm gonna be up and digging in the garden, planting stuff and weeding and raking up the blankety-blank magnolia leaves. We have two huge magnolias, and they're really pretty, but they sure are messy.

Yanno what? I'm off Saturday, too! Yanno what else? I got sweet-talked into working on Sunday, which will make three Sundays in a row that I've worked. This time, though, it's so that supervisor really can take a day off so I don't much mind. Heaven knows he deserves a day off.
 
Just read your pdf Steve, very impressive. I considered building a sport plane at one point in my life, but decided I already had enough expensive hobbies. Flying the P51, and the MiG had to be a rush. We had Bob Hoovers P51 racer in our hanger for awhile in the mid 70's in Denver.

bowmore said:
To celebrate my 84th birthday and the 50th anniversary of my first solo flight, I am flying up the coast to Santa Barbara
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@Georgiagranny, I was up before 5 as well... took my morning coffee out onto the screened-in porch and enjoyed the sounds and sights of early morning... crickets still trilling, overlaid with exuberant birdsong... the morning light gradually turning the foliage from dark, brooding shapes to individual light-kissed leaves... savored my daily devotions and telling the Lord good morning... watered the geranium (closest I get to gardening, haha), did a little of my own version of tai chi. Who knows what this day holds? I hope I can bless someone =)
 
@Marie5656 That does look like her! Maybe she should demand payment for using her likeness;)

Methinks we're being lied to again. Whenever the weatherheads predict sunshine, we almost always get rain; when they predict rain, it's almost always sunny with not a raindrop in sight. They're trying to make us believe that we'll get rain starting early evening Saturday and then on and off through at least next Wednesday. Pfffft.

I got some of the plants put in today, but it got too hot to keep working. One area where I wanted to plant gets shade around 5 or so, and I did manage just now to get those planted. Still have three more to get in the ground.

Tomorrow it's back to churning out cookies and croissants. By the time I get home at noon, it will be much too hot to plant anything because at noon the entire garden is in full sun. Sigh.

But I have Saturday off. Woohoo. A Saturday off is a rare thing indeed, and since DD and I did our Walmarting today, we don't have to contend with the crowds on the weekend. Yay.
 
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