Did you look for the other one? Where there's a Cheech there's gotta be a Chong.
Don't get bit by a Black Widow (spider, figured I better add thatWatered a bit today just to keep things going till the monsoon arrives, a 30% chance of rain is in the forecast for tomorrow & Friday. Hope it materializes, because we need it badly here in these drought conditions.
Ironically, the weed plants are doing best out there in the yard, five MMJ numbers which are healthy & happy, lol... saw a grasshopper on one plant today, thing must have been stoned out of its mind, lol.
Meh, let the critter get high on my weed, it's not like I really care that much about it, it's more of a soil amendment experiment than anything else... that and it's the first time I can legally grow dope, go figure.
Shifted more boxes from the shop building to the mud room, so I can start working through 'em and sorting out what I want to keep and what I want to donate. Already started a donation pile, and it's growing too!
Of course, it's nice to see the really cool stuff again, things I'm definitely gonna keep... my home is starting to look the way it should, with awesome artwork & cool decor. Found my coffee table books, but I'm still looking for the tartan tablecloth.
Anyway, I gotta get cleaned up and hit town for that double-stick tape or adhesive strips/squares. I have some very nice posters which are totally old school, '60s & '70s travel posters from the Med, along with some Western posters.
Gotta buy some 'Spider Killer' at the Depot, I found another one of those nasty black spiders near my stuff in the shop building... it was actually under a box that I shifted, and these things are big & fast, so it's time for chemical warfare.
That metal shop building is on a smooth slab, and it'll eventually be a workshop, once I clear the boxes out of it and donate some stuff as well. Those spiders gotta go, they've been trying to establish a foothold but I want 'em outta there...
Otherwise, it's all good, gonna sort through more boxes today and get stuff where it needs to be... hopefully I find that tartan cloth I use for the coffee table, dunno where I stowed it when I was loading boxes. Hopefully I find it today. Cheers!!!
), NOT NICE! Learned that the hard way!!
Have you considered using a tack as a drill bit?Pearl, without that spider clarification, the name "Black Widow" is RACIST!!!
"Huh? Wha'? [rubs eyes] Oh, I was just having a bad libtard dream..."
Never made it to town, and it's too hot to go now, so maybe tomorrow... I started searching through boxes and I eventually found my tartan cloth for the coffee table, so I'm happy! I also located some items I've wanted to fill gaps in the home decor, plus some books and stuff for the shelf unit under the TV.
Another reason why I put off the trip to town: I thought maybe I could use a tiny drill bit to get those tacks into the hard paneling, but evidently the smallest bit I have is 1/16", which is still too large for the tacks. Meh, it was worth a look, I have tons of tacks, but I reckon I'll go with the tape or adhesive strips/squares after all.
No big deal, I can spend the afternoon puttering around and putting stuff on these shelves, and I can square away the coffee table too, now that I've found everything I need. It's gonna look great, I have the full-on 'conversation pit' and TV-viewing area in my living room (or great room), using two sofas at a right angle... very comfortable! The cats approve!!!
Show us the light houses.Okey-dokey, spent some time unloading boxes and distributing stuff to various rooms. Found me dear departed mum's lighthouse collection, now it's set up on a corner table in the living room. These are ceramic lighthouse models, one of 'em actually lights up... it's the Old Point Loma Lighthouse which can be found on my nautical chart of San Diego Bay, lol. I also have one of those Himalayan salt lamps on that same table, it lights up too so it makes for a nice touch at night, with a soft glow that illuminates the other lighthouses. I'll post a pic in a moment, I may still rearrange things too, I'm just pulling stuff out of boxes right now... and it's cool, reliving my past as I unload this stuff.
Hmm... perhaps I should start a new thread for my home decor, I have heaps of photos. Lemme go do that, lol...
One more day of crazy (hope that's all).
Hope all is well. Pick on the kids for me. Give little GD a hug and a noogie and tell her it's from some strange lady on the internet who likes kids with good senses of humor. When I taught pre-k, we had "pick on" days. Whoever's turn it was to be picked on got blamed/credit for everything good or bad and got to be the helper (it was all kind and never became anything mean). They loved pick on day and would ask when they could be picked on.
My mother has a note in her file to only get Levothyroxine because she reacted badly to other meds. The weird thing is, the Euthyrox was over $30 but the Levothyroxine was only $10. They have forgotten and filled the wrong stuff for my mother in the past so I always have to check to make sure they got it right. Not only did they refill mine rather quickly, when I requested a switch for my brother because he was getting sick, they refilled his. They let me pick up his prescriptions and my mother's prescriptions (but they have seen me with both my mother and brother while picking up prescriptions before).
Oh no! Please give your son a hug from me. He doesn't know me, but it sounds like he could use a hug. You may have said elsewhere but my memory sucks. How old is he? I hope the surgery goes well and that he heals quickly from it. That is a lot for a single person to go through.So my son’s hip issue had been put on the back burner until after his bone marrow transplant. But he was in so much pain on Monday they decided to xray it.
Turns out, he’s been walking around with a broken hip!
And he’s getting a hip replacement today! They’re moving fast on the hip so they can hopefully keep a large part of the bone marrow transplant schedule intact. Really appreciate the surgeon and team squeezing him in after hours on what’s normally a non-surgery day for them.
So that’s what I’m doing today, lol
@mosquitomountainman, you remain in my family’s prayers - been keeping up with some of Sue’s posts. No words of wisdom to offer, just praying for the best.
I don't have a problem with most spiders but black widows and brown recluses are on my instant kill list. I hadn't heard of brown widows before. We once had a black widow who nested in our kitchen window (between window and screen) and hatched over 100 little ones. We could see the red dots on their tiny bodies and the mother was right there with them. Went around to the screen side with some RAID and eradicated them.BTW, I waged war upon Brown Widows after those arachnid cousins infested our yard in Coronado... things are even WORSE than Black Widows, they pack a meaner punch with their venom and they're quite fast. Unlike the Black Widow, which hangs out under woodpiles and whatnot, the Brown Widow is active in the garden, spinning ugly webs down low between homes, flower pots, patio furniture, etc. They like hiding under the pot rims, which is why I swapped out all pots with rims in our yard in Coronado... didn't want my elderly mom getting bitten by one of those nasty critters, a bite would've finished her off before her time.
I wrote a letter to the local rag about the dangers presented by the Brown Widow spider, particularly to kids and the elderly, and the editor had the sense to print a warning in the paper, complete with photo. Just doing my part to help folks avoid grief... one gal got bitten by a Brown Widow which crawled into her garden gloves, and she said the pain was "worse than childbirth." Those spiders are nasty, they're quick and agile and they have large fangs visible to the eye, plus their venom is powerful... ugh. I'm not afraid of spiders in general, I actually like having the harmless ones in my yard for bug control, but the venomous ones gotta go. Especially the Black & Brown Widows...
I won't kill a tarantula, they're basically harmless, but the Widows aren't welcome on my property. I must have killed a thousand Brown Widows in Coronado over a period of several years, they are difficult to eradicate once they establish a foothold. The best method of killing them was to give each spider a squirt of 'Spider Killer' as it hung upside-down in its web... best time was after dark, or early in the morning while it was still dark. I'd wear a headlamp and patrol the entire yard, blasting each one I found and stomping it afterward. Had to destroy the egg sacs too, they look like WWII naval mines. If ya don't destroy the egg sacs, the whole area will be reinfested. Tough critters to eradicate, that's for sure. 🕷
The last thing I want to to is have a freezer in the bed of my truck and heavy rain to go with it... I will have to rearrange my schedule around the weather radar..
. Put water in the dogs swimming pool, so if he wants he can take a dip.
Big black garbage bags!
The big dumpster is right outside her door! Took an allergy pill! The mom said a lot of the stuff came from the dumpster, we'll be sending it back home!!
He recently turned 28.
