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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
It's a good thing they heal on their own, or we'd be walking around with two bloody stumps by now.




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Originally posted by 1KIKI:

Speaking of burn scars - there was one summer day when I had walked to my grandmother's house to mow her lawn. When I got back my mom had been doing some ironing at the time (remember irons?) but was taking a break, and I was chatting with her and my oldest sister about how was grandma doing - but they were both goggling at me until one of them said - YOUR ELBOW - which was apparently smoking. I had backed my elbow into the iron, but it was so hot I didn't feel it. (I've read that with really hot burns the nerve ends get instantly fried before they can send their signal.) That's a scar that I still have.

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Well... one of them just indirectly effects me and is nothing I can do anything about and I just hope it works out for them.

The other one directly effects me and may well be something I can't do anything about either. That in and of itself is just life and can be dealt with, but unfortunately it's potentially such a large problem that it is making me question whether or not things I've been doing and plan to do in the future are moot at this point.


I don't mind challenges, which is a good thing because I've given myself no shortages of them to overcome, but it's the hopeless situations that I'm not all that fond of.

That feeling like your reward for trying to do things right is just being shit on even more, and instead of being pushed back to square one, you've just been bumped off the cliff and you're hanging on long enough to decide whether it's even safe to climb back up it or if you're better off just letting go and crossing your fingers that it will be a gentle landing.


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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
well, since you just visited your bro and you kinda stalled out after that, and it's no secret that you planned on selling your place and getting a smaller one near him so you could "take care" of him (relieving your dad's mind about what's going to happen to him) my guess is that you found your brother in worse shape than you expected.

So, there goes all of your plans!

But, yanno, you can STILL sell your place and hopefully replenish your bank account, and find a smaller place more suitable to your lifestyle and closer to your brother. The one thing you CAN'T do, and can't expect to do, is "take care" of him unless he wants to take care of himself. All you can do is be there to pick up the pieces and remind him that he's making terrible choices. Been there myself. I wound having a very distinct emotional break from my mom bc she played the alcoholic self-injurious card a few times too often and I realized that she was beyong my effort, so I stopped caring what she did. I ran away, in essence. But I could have limited my goal to just "picking up the pieces" and reminding her of her terrible choices. THAT would have been more doable!

You'll have to find a different goal worthy of your intelligence and prodigious work output. It will come to you, of that I have no doubt.

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Originally posted by 1KIKI:

Brenda - I thought your province made a big effort to house the homeless ... ?

I imagine it has a far greater homeless population than most other provinces, because the weather is more tolerable. I think being homeless - in Albert, or Saskatchewan, or even Quebec, as examples - would be far more dire, especially in winter.

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Originally posted by 1KIKI:

Jack - I hope whatever you think is going wrong isn't nearly as dire as you fear.

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Well you're not wrong about the first half of the problems. But the rest a a tad closer to home and not involving my brother. Just feels like you can't catch a break sometimes.

I worked outside most of the day today, which really alleviates a lot of stress and clears the mind a bit. Hopefully I can get back to working without worrying about the things that are out of my control, and also hopefully ignoring my spidey sense telling me that something catastrophic is about to happen is the right choice in the mean time. It's not something I usually do, but this house has given me full blown PTSD and I don't think I can even assess anything objectively anymore.

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Originally posted by SignyM:
Well, let's hope your "spidey sense" is wrong, and nothing terrible is about to happen.

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Think I'm going to cook and eat early. Don't think I'll be up too long.

I actually did my first workout for a while today. I've been active working on the house all winter, but that's not the same as an actual workout. 2 days working outside in cool had me more winded than I'm comfortable with. Going to have to step up my game if I'm going to last very long once we start hitting the 80's and 90's. I got about 10 winter lbs I could stand to lose.

Nothing too serious yet. Just enough to get the blood flowing. Slow and steady wins the race. Gotta be tight and chiseled when I work outside without my shirt on.

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Yeah, no kidding! Gotta get those abs a workout, SIX!

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Sorry to hear about the rain. But ... yanno... your particular area got deluged a few times when it wasn't supposed to. Maybe the rain will miss your neighborhood this time?

fingers crossed

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
At least you can run your errands in the dry!

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
No fair. How come you get the cute animals?


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No fair. How come you get the cute animals?


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You must have beavers down there. Guess they just don't wander too far off their track. Toronto is largest city in Canada, so it has its share of critters getting into places they don't belong.

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No fair. How come you get the cute animals?


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You must have beavers down there. Guess they just don't wander too far off their track. Toronto is largest city in Canada, so it has its share of critters getting into places they don't belong.

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The internet says they should be around here. But I've always lived very near to big cities like Chicago and Milwaukee. I'm over 40 years old and have never actually seen a live beaver in my life, except I'm sure I must have seen one in a zoo when I was a kid if they've got any in there.

We don't have cute beavers by me. I recently was talking with city workers over the last few weeks. There's a major problem with our ditch that diverts all the flood water. It's not known yet whether it was caused by the muskrats or if the muskrats moved in after the problem got out of hand.

I noticed a house far down across the ditch that had a fence that was collapsing last year. At the time, of course, I just chalked it up to them being as disgusting as the guy who lived behind me and let his fence get destroyed, but now every fence over there is falling in. That ditch is ready to collapse, and these things are living all over inside of it...



It's the beaver's ugly cousin with it's scaly tail.

It seems that the muskrats are doing to the ditch what the moles are trying to do to my house.

I'm going to be in quite a lot of trouble if that ditch isn't fixed.


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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I sure hope they do it sooner than later. But that's going to be a costly bill to the city, particularly if they end up having to replace everybody's fences on that side. Somebody should have done something about it sooner for sure. The problem wasn't nearly as bad last year. Fortunately, I'm far enough away that the ditch isn't adding to my particular set of problems now. But if it actually collapses and ceases to work, I'm on the list of property owners who are going to be screwed first.


My buddy and his fiencee made a surprise visit today. Seems they're actually looking at property in my area and just looked at a house within a mile from my place. I'd love if they ended up fleeing Illinois taxes and living in my hood.

Had to apologize for the mess since it looks like a bomb hit the place with the kitchen work going on, but she really loved what I've done on the 2nd floor so far and envies my big front lawn despite the bare dirt I had to fill in after the trees came down.




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Originally posted by 1KIKI:

I got some important things finished yesterday, so today I start the week with a much lighter heart. I still have a crap-ton to catch up on from the days when I was still working and overwhelmed by pain to the point of incapacity, but the big stuff I've been working on is (mostly) done.

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Today I've just got my 'daily' tasks on my list, plus grocery shopping, and shopping for my next recipe - which is vegetable-filled bbq turkey meatloaf. It's an experiment. I THINK I've learned a few things from my previous versions, like ... ketchup isn't really a good source of tomato flavor - it kind of disappears. So I'm going to be using tomato paste instead. And ketchup isn't really a good source of sweetness either, so I'll be using cooked, mashed sweet potato (partly as a panade) and a bit of sugar. And hot sauce isn't a good source of heat because the heat kind of cooks away, so I'll be using cayenne pepper. And fresh garlic isn't reliable for garlic flavor, so even though I'll put it in for its nutritional properties, for flavor I'm going to rely on garlic powder.

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The other thing I did yesterday was order ingredients to make (low sodium, aluminum-free, non-GMO, and organic) home-made double-acting baking powder. I'm going to go back to trying to figure out how to make curry-spiced biscuits filled with chicken and vegetable.

I should probably put this is the recipe thread, but I'm lazy today.

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