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That's the Way It Crumbles, Cookie-Wise

A better look from way down in the back yard. That piece of aluminum wasn't that far from the dormer.

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Remembered the fishing rod. Reeled it in close enough to grab from inside.
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It is 10 feet long. Miraculously it got up there with only one small kink, which I hammered out.
 
Two recent visits by the hawk. Once on the fence and once on the neighbor's deck. I hear a hawk screaming a lot. I think there is a baby close by, somewhere.

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The neighbor's deck is less than 20 years old, and the flooring is already being replaced. Mine will be 43 years old in September and is in much better shape. Mine has 2x6 flooring. I suspect they used the thin 5/4 decking wood. Would like to sneak over there and check (but I won't). :sneaky:

Tonight after midnight I mopped the upstairs bathroom floor. :)
 
Nancy Hart said:
Two recent visits by the hawk. Once on the fence and once on the neighbor's deck. I hear a hawk screaming a lot. I think there is a baby close by, somewhere.

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The neighbor's deck is less than 20 years old, and the flooring is already being replaced. Mine will be 43 years old in September and is in much better shape. Mine has 2x6 flooring. I suspect they used the thin 5/4 decking wood. Would like to sneak over there and check (but I won't). :sneaky:
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maybe you need a small drone for local reconnaissance?:unsure: Watch out for hawks!
 
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There is a long nail that passes through the rain gutter into the side of the house right above the deck. I've been watching it for months. It has been slowly backing its way out of the house. It was almost ready to fall out. The step ladder was right inside the kitchen door, so I pounded the nail back in yesterday. I was on a roll. ;)

Then there was the door threshold at the upstairs bathroom. It looks like it was hand chiseled with an axe, something that Abraham Lincoln might have had in his log cabin. But it has character, heart pine with natural red color. It fits the house. Somehow half of it never got covered with polyurethane, two nails have worked themselves up out, paint splatters and cat claw marks were on the old polyurethane.

I pounded the nails back in, sanded it, mixed some acrylic art paint with Durham's wood putty to fill some holes. Put a coat of polyurethane I've had in the basement for years. You have to wait 12 hours before doing a second coat. I see some flaws I could have sanded out better now, but it is what it is.

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This reminded me of the bedroom threshold, with another nail that had worked out. This nail was holding in place a piece that split halfway across lengthwise. I replaced that nail with a longer one and added 3 more to stabilize the split.

I was in a do-nothing mood for 2 days prior. Why can't I ever remember to just pick an easy job to start the day off with? It's much more fun to do something, than do nothing.
 
There is a plant in the back yard that has filled in all around where I sprigged St. Augustine. I think it's crabgrass. Won't know for sure unless I let it go to seed. When it's kept mowed down it looks very much like St. Augustine. More important I just found crabgrass is only an annual!!! That means every year the St. Augustine will choke out a little bit more. :)

This is what crabgrass is supposed to look like (according to AI). If so, I say, bring it on!
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Here is information about crabgrass that showed up on my Facebook feed the other day. The picture shows the crabgrass as having pinkish stems at the bottom, so that might help you identify whether your grass is crabgrass or not, @Nancy Hart . We have some clumps growing here and there, and now that I have read that it is a healing plant, I am going to look at ours and see if that is what we have (once the heat backs off a little and i can be outside).

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Thanks, Yvonne. I just went out and found some that had gone to seed. It's definitely like they picture crabgrass. Three-forked seed sprout. Some older plants sprouting around the edges of the driveway show the pink stem base. It's good for animal pastures, but you have to plant it every year.

It's 90F here already, feels like temp, 100F. It got to 99F yesterday, supposed to be 98 today. This is by far the hottest spell we've had all summer. Rain had kept the temps lower.
 
Put the second coat of primer on the sink.

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Cut a sloped sliver of wood to fit under the threshold upstairs. (Floor is not level.) Had to use 2 pieces. Will paint it with polyurethane before gluing it in. Not inclined to buy red stain for a couple of square inches.

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So far today, I changed a light bulb. :cool:

This required bringing the 6' step ladder upstairs. The globe for the fixture had become a graveyard for the flying insects that invaded the house this winter. Getting it down to clean required a wrench. Putting it back meant holding many moving parts all at the same time, for which I used painter's tape temporarily. It's back up and I didn't drop it.
 
Nancy Hart said:
So far today, I changed a light bulb. :cool:

This required bringing the 6' step ladder upstairs. The globe for the fixture had become a graveyard for the flying insects that invaded the house this winter. Getting it down to clean required a wrench. Putting it back meant holding many moving parts all at the same time, for which I used painter's tape temporarily. It's back up and I didn't drop it.
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Good job!💡
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"how many Minions does it take.......?"💡:unsure:
 
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