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In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)
Wednesday, October 25, 2023 11:21 PM
6IXSTRINGJACK
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Well, hubby and I got one more thing done today that hadn't been done for years: cleaning the ceiling fan/light fixture over the kitchen table. Thanks to his height he was able to reach up and remove the blades, LEDs, and bells for me to wash/ wipe, and then he put them up again. Tomorrow I'm going to get out the stepstool and finish cleaning. It was gross. I'm so glad it's done!
Wednesday, October 25, 2023 11:49 PM
SIGNYM
I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.
Thursday, October 26, 2023 12:18 PM
Thursday, October 26, 2023 4:58 PM
BRENDA
Thursday, October 26, 2023 11:12 PM
Thursday, October 26, 2023 11:22 PM
Friday, October 27, 2023 1:14 PM
Friday, October 27, 2023 5:13 PM
Friday, October 27, 2023 7:59 PM
Friday, October 27, 2023 8:43 PM
Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Fished mounting the other drawer box, today and making tweaks to both of them. They slide perfectly now, and are mounted flush so when I make the face plates for them they're going to work great. My neighbor didn't have the right bits for the profile I need to make. I'm going to have to watch some youtube videos to figure out the easiest way to match the profile I need so I'm not blowing a bunch of money on bits I don't need. No hurry on that. I'm just happy I finally have a drawer big enough to put my flatware caddy in. First time in 12 years it wasn't out in the open on the countertop. I took the drawer out by the fridge since I'd have to pull the fridge back out to get it out. I'm going to paint the drawers and put my contact paper on them. I don't need to have the face to do all of that. Once I finally get these things finished I can finally put the drawer pulls on all 4 drawers and the false drawer under the sink. I've had those things in my possession for about 3 years now. I cleaned up the garage real good. Then I tested out my snowblower and generator. Everything started right up and is running great. Finally I topped off all my fluids on my car and filled the tires. It was a long day. I'm exhausted. Going to sleep well tonight. Looks like it's going to be COLD. Probably won't have another day like today until mid-March. :( -------------------------------------------------- Political correctness is just tyranny, with a smiley face.
Friday, October 27, 2023 8:54 PM
Friday, October 27, 2023 10:34 PM
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Fished mounting the other drawer box, today and making tweaks to both of them. They slide perfectly now, and are mounted flush so when I make the face plates for them they're going to work great. My neighbor didn't have the right bits for the profile I need to make. I'm going to have to watch some youtube videos to figure out the easiest way to match the profile I need so I'm not blowing a bunch of money on bits I don't need. No hurry on that. I'm just happy I finally have a drawer big enough to put my flatware caddy in. First time in 12 years it wasn't out in the open on the countertop. I took the drawer out by the fridge since I'd have to pull the fridge back out to get it out. I'm going to paint the drawers and put my contact paper on them. I don't need to have the face to do all of that. Once I finally get these things finished I can finally put the drawer pulls on all 4 drawers and the false drawer under the sink. I've had those things in my possession for about 3 years now. I cleaned up the garage real good. Then I tested out my snowblower and generator. Everything started right up and is running great. Finally I topped off all my fluids on my car and filled the tires. It was a long day. I'm exhausted. Going to sleep well tonight. Looks like it's going to be COLD. Probably won't have another day like today until mid-March. :( -------------------------------------------------- Political correctness is just tyranny, with a smiley face. In a way, it sounds like you're getting buttoned up for the winter? Say, OOC, what size generator do you have? Does it run on gasoline? ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger Loving America is like loving an addicted spouse - SIGNYM
Friday, October 27, 2023 10:36 PM
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Over here, trying to learn everything I can about irrigation bc I have some areas that don't have any and some that need re-doing. I thought I'd have to do drip, but I found some Rainbird high efficiency nozzles that'll work fine for the space that I have. There's an online tutorial that details the pressure and linear velocity limitations and design requirements... I have listened to the same 10 minutes 5 times over bc hubby keeps interrupting me, but one of these days I'll get thru it! Gonna need several distinct zones: one for watering once a week, one for every two weeks, and one for once a month, plus a separate one for a patch on the other side of the driveway which has a beautiful Canary Island pine and Cape honeysuckle "shrub" that's grown into a tree. But I want to replace all of the electrically actuated valves with just gate valves bc some leak and some are frozen and all are really, really old. Plus I need a pressure -reducing valve. I don't mind putting in the PVC pipe and risers.. done repair and mods before... but not about to do plumbing. ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger Loving America is like loving an addicted spouse - SIGNYM
Saturday, October 28, 2023 2:54 AM
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Sunday, October 29, 2023 1:29 PM
Sunday, October 29, 2023 3:46 PM
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: I checked sis's 10-day. She's due for 42F on Wednesday. Is that about what your weather will be doing tomorrow? It's great that you finished those drawers SIX! I hope you get a little charge out of them whenever you use them! At least, for the first couple of months, and then it'll be routine. Hey, everything you never wanted to know about irrigation for waterwise So Cal landscaping. A lot is all about saving water, but there are general design principles, references to parts, and installation pix. I haven't QUITE made my way thru the whole thing, but I did pick up a bunch of handy tips. This is what I got out of it: Your sprinkler coverage should be head-to-head. That is, the radius of one sprinkler should reach the head of the next sprinkler. It's best to use underground PVC pipes and sprinklers for lawns. Save drip irrigation for small oddly shaped garden areas. I have some planted areas that are marginal for sprinklers, but I'm going to try them first, given the complications of drip irrigation. 1/2" PVC lines can carry about 4 gallons per minute. Above that, the water linear velocity exceeds about 5 feet per second and you may get "water hammer". For me and the sprinkler heads I plan to use, that means an absolute maximum of 10 heads per line, 8-9 more conservatively. Most people's water pressure is TOO HIGH. A pressure reducing valve (and inline filter) will protect your system from damage and clogging. Spray heads are supposed to be attached to the main line with "swing lines" which will protect the line from being broken if someone steps on a head, and also allows you to move or add heads without having to splice it into a hard line. Rainbird and Toro are good brands, the Rainbird catalog is here: Enough info for me to plan out where and how I need to modify/add to my irrigation system. ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger Loving America is like loving an addicted spouse - SIGNYM
Monday, October 30, 2023 1:06 PM
Monday, October 30, 2023 4:57 PM
Monday, October 30, 2023 11:05 PM
Quote:Originally posted by Brenda: Back and done. On the flip side it looks like my phone may have died. I hate my life.
Monday, October 30, 2023 11:09 PM
Monday, October 30, 2023 11:29 PM
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote:Originally posted by Brenda: Back and done. On the flip side it looks like my phone may have died. I hate my life. You mean cell phone? Mine has died... well, locked up, anyway... twice. Wouldn't run, couldn't be shut down. Just a blank black screen. I had to let the battery run down to zero, then start charging it to restart it. Maybe that might work for you? ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger Loving America is like loving an addicted spouse - SIGNYM
Tuesday, October 31, 2023 1:07 PM
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Wednesday, November 1, 2023 12:50 PM
Wednesday, November 1, 2023 11:39 PM
Wednesday, November 1, 2023 11:40 PM
Thursday, November 2, 2023 3:01 AM
Quote:Originally posted by Brenda: Got an afternoon mah jong game in because I went and checked what was happening at the senior's centre. Also got battery replaced in phone and its still not working. Will have to look into that tomorrow.
Thursday, November 2, 2023 5:14 PM
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote:Originally posted by Brenda: Got an afternoon mah jong game in because I went and checked what was happening at the senior's centre. Also got battery replaced in phone and its still not working. Will have to look into that tomorrow. Boy, quality control just isn't what it used to be. ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger Loving America is like loving an addicted spouse - SIGNYM
Thursday, November 2, 2023 5:16 PM
Thursday, November 2, 2023 7:34 PM
Thursday, November 2, 2023 7:42 PM
Thursday, November 2, 2023 7:56 PM
Thursday, November 2, 2023 9:05 PM
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Oh wow SIX! You battled bureaucracy to (an almost) standstill! That's as much as anyone can expect to do!!! I'm impressed. As, as someone who used to be a bureaucrat, it takes a helluva lot to impress me!
Friday, November 3, 2023 1:14 PM
Friday, November 3, 2023 1:40 PM
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Oh wow SIX! You battled bureaucracy to (an almost) standstill! That's as much as anyone can expect to do!!! I'm impressed. As, as someone who used to be a bureaucrat, it takes a helluva lot to impress me! SIX: Yeah. I'm sure I really got under their skin too since I was copying everybody in the chain with the emails, sometimes at 10:00PM when I felt like being saucy. A few years back I made the silly "mistake" of being one of about 1,000 people in our township to vote us out of the township because of how we were being screwed. But even though that saved a few hundred a year for a few years I realize the potential of what I'd just done was that I'd have to start from scratch on this one day, and had a pretty good feeling this was coming. So yeah... all that devaluing I had done and all of those contacts I'd made with our old township years ago went to waste, and wouldn't you know it... even though I got somebody from the old township to tell me on 3 separate occasions that they forwarded all of my old info to the new outfit, that must have been "lost in the mail". So when the computerized statewide reassessment happened, all that work had been erased and they nearly doubled my property taxes overnight.
Quote: My property was flagged as "grossly undervalued", and in order to get it up to what they wanted they bastardized values all over my property tax card including the Effective Age, Effective Year and Condition, while also removing the Influence and Obsolescence Factors.
Quote: After about 6-7 months of us going back and forth I did exactly what I didn't want to do and pushed them so hard I'd backed myself into a corner. They were going to pay to have an appraisal done. I'm not exactly a fan of inviting strangers into my house to look at everything and take pictures of everything (and honestly, I was worried that if I didn't get the point across to the appraiser about the issues with the house, they might very well appraise it at what the reassessment this year started at... or more). But I knew that if I refused them at that point, they'd just tell me they were going with the original reassessment rather than what I'd already argued them down to so it had to be done. I'm glad we did it in retrospect. I still got what I'd argued them down to, but instead of adding another $25k to my property value next year like they informed me they were going to, it's only being raised about $6k next year while everybody else gets up to another 30% increase off of this years massive increase. That right there is over $200 in additional savings every year going forward, and now we have a much lower base to work off of in the future even though the two highest yearly increases in property values in the housing market are behind us.
Quote: Unless we find out the economy is so screwed up that house prices never drop and then they skyrocket again when the FED lowers the interest rates, I can't imagine that I'm going to have much more than negligible yearly increases going forward. I also have new contacts, and a whole lot of information in their system (and a ton of emails saved on my end to shove in their faces if they every decide to try anything funny).
Friday, November 3, 2023 4:27 PM
Friday, November 3, 2023 6:19 PM
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Oh wow SIX! You battled bureaucracy to (an almost) standstill! That's as much as anyone can expect to do!!! I'm impressed. As, as someone who used to be a bureaucrat, it takes a helluva lot to impress me! SIX: Yeah. I'm sure I really got under their skin too since I was copying everybody in the chain with the emails, sometimes at 10:00PM when I felt like being saucy. A few years back I made the silly "mistake" of being one of about 1,000 people in our township to vote us out of the township because of how we were being screwed. But even though that saved a few hundred a year for a few years I realize the potential of what I'd just done was that I'd have to start from scratch on this one day, and had a pretty good feeling this was coming. So yeah... all that devaluing I had done and all of those contacts I'd made with our old township years ago went to waste, and wouldn't you know it... even though I got somebody from the old township to tell me on 3 separate occasions that they forwarded all of my old info to the new outfit, that must have been "lost in the mail". So when the computerized statewide reassessment happened, all that work had been erased and they nearly doubled my property taxes overnight. Wow! But since this seems to have been a statewide program, I doubt whether your old township records would have survived. That's the point of a these programs.. to wipe out all the old adjustments.
Quote:Quote: My property was flagged as "grossly undervalued", and in order to get it up to what they wanted they bastardized values all over my property tax card including the Effective Age, Effective Year and Condition, while also removing the Influence and Obsolescence Factors. I have no idea what this means. Maybe I should look into what's behind our assessment.
Quote:Quote: After about 6-7 months of us going back and forth I did exactly what I didn't want to do and pushed them so hard I'd backed myself into a corner. They were going to pay to have an appraisal done. I'm not exactly a fan of inviting strangers into my house to look at everything and take pictures of everything (and honestly, I was worried that if I didn't get the point across to the appraiser about the issues with the house, they might very well appraise it at what the reassessment this year started at... or more). But I knew that if I refused them at that point, they'd just tell me they were going with the original reassessment rather than what I'd already argued them down to so it had to be done. I'm glad we did it in retrospect. I still got what I'd argued them down to, but instead of adding another $25k to my property value next year like they informed me they were going to, it's only being raised about $6k next year while everybody else gets up to another 30% increase off of this years massive increase. That right there is over $200 in additional savings every year going forward, and now we have a much lower base to work off of in the future even though the two highest yearly increases in property values in the housing market are behind us. So... you pointed out some of the major work still to be done? Like the floating house/sinking porch?Altho, at this point, I can't recall any else that you might have mentioned that still needs work. You must have been very persuasive!
Quote:Quote: Unless we find out the economy is so screwed up that house prices never drop and then they skyrocket again when the FED lowers the interest rates, I can't imagine that I'm going to have much more than negligible yearly increases going forward. I also have new contacts, and a whole lot of information in their system (and a ton of emails saved on my end to shove in their faces if they every decide to try anything funny). Well played, SIX! There's nothing that a bureaucrat hates more than someone who saves all their paoerwiand correspondence! Excellent for any future legal proceedings if it should get that far. :thumbs up:
Saturday, November 4, 2023 1:03 PM
Saturday, November 4, 2023 5:00 PM
Sunday, November 5, 2023 1:29 PM
Sunday, November 5, 2023 3:11 PM
Sunday, November 5, 2023 7:14 PM
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Long-range forecasts aren't very accurate, but the latest forecast predicts a strong El Nino winter and spring. For you, BRENDA, that could mean a lot less snow than usual (except the highest Coast Ranges.) For you, SIX that means somewhat less snow than usual. For us, we could get another banner winter rainfall in the Sierras. Of course, the El Nino effect only works half the time, so maybe it'll be weather as usual. ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger Loving America is like loving an addicted spouse - SIGNYM
Monday, November 6, 2023 12:01 AM
Monday, November 6, 2023 11:47 AM
Monday, November 6, 2023 12:55 PM
Monday, November 6, 2023 1:33 PM
Quote:Originally posted by Brenda: Well, the new phone I bought and plugged in last night won't let me dial out. Oh, I can get a dial tone and I can hear it dialing but then nothing happens. I hate telephones right now.
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