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In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)

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UPDATED: Thursday, May 7, 2026 19:20
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Tuesday, May 5, 2026 12:42 PM

BRENDA

Out soon to get things done one of which is the vampires.

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Tuesday, May 5, 2026 6:11 PM

BRENDA

All done for today. Vampires done with, library return and then found 3 more tv shows.

Supper too and ran again to that lady who used to look after my mum. We had another good chat. She's been busy. Her husband is still getting treatments for his cancer. Immunio therapy and she is working. Hopefully we will get together for coffee next Friday. Have to send her an email.

I have 2 more appointments for this week and next for my doctor's office. Both of them are around 9am. I wonder what is going on that the nurse and my doctor are so busy.

There is quite a breeze out earlier today. Made me wish I had a jacket on.

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Wednesday, May 6, 2026 1:14 PM

BRENDA

Out soon with a cool down. I buy new hair clips and of course the weather cools.

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Wednesday, May 6, 2026 11:01 PM

BRENDA

Off to mah jong tomorrow.

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Thursday, May 7, 2026 5:24 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Man.... I could use some heat.

I've still got the damn furnace on right now and it's May 3rd.

I said I wasn't going to do it, but it was getting miserable in here.

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Sorry to hear that SIX. We are going to be sweltering where I am until at least Friday of this week.

And we've got fires starting to go in province too. Think it's going to be a long summer.

You're so much further up north. That's just silly.

Still cold enough that I didn't want to go outside to sand things down today so I've been working on the bathroom. Not too much done yet, but I've decided I'm going against my dad's suggestion for getting a bigger vanity and I'm just going to restore and paint the existing one. It's a savings of probably $600 in the long run, and I don't think not having an extra 6 inches is going to make or break a sale on my house down the road. There's been at least two families living here before me and one of them were quite large and they all made due. I like having space on both sides of the toilet too, and if I got a bigger vanity I think it would encroach upon your bubble when sitting down.

Besides... I think he's thinking this is necessary because of how things currently are anyhow. First was the problem where the vanity, medicine cabinet mirror and the vanity lights above it are all uneven. It looks terrible. On top of that, I installed a small IKEA shelf thing up high to the right above the light switch/outlet, and I use that to put my electric toothbrush and beard trimmer on top of. It sticks out a little more from that wall than the right edge of the mirror for the medicine cabinet, so it looks needlessly crowded in that corner. That shelf won't need to be there anymore when I get the new medicine cabinet and the over the toilet cab hung, and I'll be evening out everything above the vanity before this is done.

Inside of the cabinet was a horror show that I've never gotten around to clean before. I'm sure I did some minor cleaning when I first moved in before putting cleaning products and the like down there, but I never cleaned the wall or anything underneath the lone drawer at the bottom of the unit before today. Every few years I end up doing something else where I think "That ought to be the last of the mouse shit in this house", but here we are again.

I don't even want to know what is between the walls anywhere, so we won't be removing any more of them.

I don't know who did it, if it was the people who were here 35+ years or the idiots that lived here before me, but at some point the wall behind the cab had been busted out all willy nilly to get some plumbing done and some point, and that looked nearly as ghastly as the disgusting wall it was cut into.

I've wiped EVERYTHING down thoroughly with cleaning wipes from the unit to the wall to the drawers and door and the drawer slides, and every nook and cranny in between.

I also cut everything in that opening for the plumbing into a perfect square behind there, which I am going to be capping off with some nice trim. I've decided not to go white with the vanity, and instead use a mid-tone grey color I have about a half-gallon left of that I had used to paint my shelves in the shed a few years back. That way I can keep the white sink top without it looking funny, and it should all look nice with the darker grey I'm going to be using on the walls. (Although, I still might flip those two and paint the lighter gray on the walls and the darker grey for the vanity.... not sure yet). But because I'll be using darker paint for all of this, including the wall, I will also be painting everything IN the wall that is within view of the opening a dark color too, so it really should all blend in much nicer than it does now. Down the road when everything is finished I'll likely be putting some insulation back there regardless, and if I do good job with the cutting for around the pipes it should cover all of that up with the paper in the front being what you'll see. If it's not torn up, I'll probably just paint the insulation paper the dark color too and it should all really blend in back there.

I think I'm just about ready to start power sanding down whatever I can reach in that vanity before hand-sanding the rest of it. I just need to remove the drawer slides first. I was going to keep all of them intact both in the cab and on the drawers, but I didn't do that in the kitchen and I don't really feel like cutting any corners now. That would just lead to a somewhat sloppy looking paint job inside, and I don't want that. We're going to do these right like I did all the kitchen cabinets and hopefully even with hot showers and the like it will hold up as well as they have so far.

My hips are killing me from having to sit crosslegged while doing a lot of this. I need to ease my way back into this work so I don't put myself out of commission for a week or two doing stupid things.

I don't think I'll be doing any primer like I wanted to when I woke up today, but plans changed and I'm adding a lot more work to the current docket. One day at a time here...

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Thursday, May 7, 2026 5:35 PM

BRENDA

It maybe silly but that is the way things are going in BC. There are fire bans already all over the province except for the south east corner which is around Cranbrook. These fire bans are early.

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Thursday, May 7, 2026 5:40 PM

BRENDA

Temp is sitting at 68F right now which is 19C to me. Starting to warm up again after the cold of yesterday.

And I am all finished for now. Dishes done, will tackle putting some paper work away later.

Got a call from my doctor's office. My thyroid test is normal but am I still going in next week because he didn't put down on the requisition form how often I should go in. Lab gives you a card for certain tests and they didn't know what to put down. Have to straighten that out.

Had one decent hand at mah jong. 900points, so broke 1,000 easy. Finished with over 2,000points. But a lot of 4,000point scores. So no winnings for me.

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Thursday, May 7, 2026 7:20 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

It's days like today that really make me laugh about Covid masking...

I had my filter on my sander, and I was also wearing a hostpital mask while sanding the inside and outside of the vanity. You don't even want to know what came out of my nose when I was done. I'm sure my post-8cm-growth-pneumonia lung appreciates it.

Had to be done.

But all the drawers will be sanded outside along with the other stuff I still need to sand out there. It's a little warmer tomorrow. I think the high is 60 degrees. There's supposed to be some rain, but it's spotty. Hopefully I can get most of the sanding I still need to do done outside tomorrow if that's what I choose to do. I have my doubts though because a lot of it is sanding by hand. It's even warmer this weekend, but I think we're supposed to have more rain too.

Got all the dust cleaned up and the vanity wiped down. I pretty much lost out on the sunlight now, but if I want to prime that cabinet inside and out I could still do that with my portable lighting. I just may.

I'm debating on painting the inside of the drawers or not. They're a really light wood color and the finish has held up very well over the years. Just like that kitchen table, I'm hesitant to sand them down and paint them. I may just separate the faces from the drawers and sand/paint them and leave the drawers themselves the light wood color. It wouldn't match the rest of the stuff, but this was a very dark stained vanity and that didn't match the light wood color either.

It's inside... Let's just leave it, right?

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