As I type this it is minus 3. Just finished a bowl of ice cream to warm me up.
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Nick
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Minus 63 in Minn today .. -8 here tomorrow during the hot part of the day ..
10 pm now and it's 47.1 Today's high was 48 and this morning it got down to 30. Highs about 45ish and lows near 30 are pretty normal for this time of year.
11 right now, -4 WC
Nick
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Cold as all get out here to ..
Suppose to be 80 degrees here today. Shorts and a tee shirt are the dress of the day!
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Went to look at a house today. May buy it. We bought this one 25 years ago. All owner occupied around here then, almost all rentals now.
The day before yesterday I did some more cleaning in the house & cleaned out the car so it wouldn't be too junked up to give my elderly friend a lift to a restaurant. We went to visit her out in West Monroe yesterday. She's about 93 years old now and has a helper who drives her places. She ended up riding with her helper. The helper assists her with getting in and out of vehicles as well as getting up and down from chairs. She uses a walker so the helper stays near her to make sure she won't lose her balance or get dizzy and fall. It was really great seeing her again.
The kittens finally caught on to the whole litterbox thing and are no longer peeing on the waterproof mattress pad on the bed, so I haven't been having to wash the pad 3x a day. My sister has been keeping the litterbox cleaned, but I still need a better litter mat and an extra box. One box is not enough for all 6 of the kitties in the front room.
I think I mentioned before that we started demolition on the walls of the guest bathroom, although right now the studs are still up and a bunch of laundry and stuff has been shoved in to that room pending getting washed. I wonder if pure lemon juice would work on couch pillows/cushions or if I should just toss them.
I got a bunch of Mom's laundry done-- still have a ton more to wash though. Got a long handled lint brush for cleaning out the dryer lint catcher area and that has helped.
I'm going to be driving my sister back around the 3rd or 4th of January and maybe staying a week or two. I'm leaning toward a week bc I worry that my brother won't take care of things while we're gone. I also hope he doesn't bring over his friend who is banned from the house. I'm not too worried about the healthy cats, but there's an elderly cat and a cat with leukemia-- the latter needs a lot of care.
Since the floor in the kitchen was so messed up, I used some area rugs to temporarily cover it up.
That rotten looking spot is covered with this runner
And the part that is torn up has another rug
We used to have a larger one, but my brother dropped something that broke and it spilled all over & just ruined it.
The front room where my sister is staying looks like this:
The kittens finally caught on to the whole litterbox thing and are no longer peeing on the waterproof mattress pad on the bed, so I haven't been having to wash the pad 3x a day. My sister has been keeping the litterbox cleaned, but I still need a better litter mat and an extra box. One box is not enough for all 6 of the kitties in the front room.
I think I mentioned before that we started demolition on the walls of the guest bathroom, although right now the studs are still up and a bunch of laundry and stuff has been shoved in to that room pending getting washed. I wonder if pure lemon juice would work on couch pillows/cushions or if I should just toss them.
I got a bunch of Mom's laundry done-- still have a ton more to wash though. Got a long handled lint brush for cleaning out the dryer lint catcher area and that has helped.
I'm going to be driving my sister back around the 3rd or 4th of January and maybe staying a week or two. I'm leaning toward a week bc I worry that my brother won't take care of things while we're gone. I also hope he doesn't bring over his friend who is banned from the house. I'm not too worried about the healthy cats, but there's an elderly cat and a cat with leukemia-- the latter needs a lot of care.
Since the floor in the kitchen was so messed up, I used some area rugs to temporarily cover it up.
That rotten looking spot is covered with this runner
And the part that is torn up has another rug
We used to have a larger one, but my brother dropped something that broke and it spilled all over & just ruined it.
The front room where my sister is staying looks like this:
Pretty fancy looking oriental screen in the 3rd image. When I was a kid, my Dad used to deliver for Coca Cola. I don't ever recall a bottle carrier or case that big. (last image)
Floorist, I'd be a bit wary of buying a rental. Sometimes you end up with tenants that are hard to evict or they have done a lot of damage to the property. I see a lot of court cases on TV where someone purchased a house with tenants or someone has tenants. Sometimes the property is ok prior to purchase, but angry former tenants will vandalize. I'm sure you know all this already though.
Highup, the screen and rug came from Vietnam back in the 90s. It was before trade with the US started picking back up again, so my father got a lot of the lacquer and mother-of-pearl inlay stuff for cheap. I think the screen was $600, he got some little boxes for about $4 each, and some eggshell artwork (not sure the price on them). We have some wall mounted screens that were about $12 I think.
I can't remember where my father found the coca cola containers. Back in the late 90s we flew to Saipan and hopped a tiny plane to Tinian. Saw where the Enola Gay launched from to drop the bomb and found a midden pile in the woods that was nothing but WW2 coca cola bottles going all the way back to 1942. I dug down through the broken ones to find good ones and filled my backpack up. We gave quite a few away over the years, but we must've gotten about 50 of them.
The display case the coke containers are sitting on is an antique piece that belonged to my father's grandmother. I believe he got the shells from diving back when he had a license to legally be able to bring those up from dives (he used to be the manager and stocker of an aquarium in college and eventually got a Masters degree in invertebrate zoology).
The thing on the wall with the US flag is the cloth my father carried with him in Vietnam that has writing in multiple languages indicating that if he was a citizen of the united states and he was seeking food, protection, and assistance in being returned to his people and that if such assistance is given, the people will be rewarded. (I need to take a picture of the text closer up someday).
The large piece of furniture to the left of the antique case is something that was in a furnished apartment we rented in either Singapore or Guam. We had a similar piece that wasn't as pretty and when we were about to transfer, my parents asked the owners of the furniture if we could trade out the display cases and they were fine with it, so we took the prettier one and left the "ugly" one. I've grown to like the display case despite loathing it when I had to clean it and managed to cut my hand on a glass shelf.
My sister is seated in my mother's antique rocking chair that is over 40-years-old. Laser-eye-kitty is Yasuke.
Sorry for the babbling. LOL.
Highup, the screen and rug came from Vietnam back in the 90s. It was before trade with the US started picking back up again, so my father got a lot of the lacquer and mother-of-pearl inlay stuff for cheap. I think the screen was $600, he got some little boxes for about $4 each, and some eggshell artwork (not sure the price on them). We have some wall mounted screens that were about $12 I think.
I can't remember where my father found the coca cola containers. Back in the late 90s we flew to Saipan and hopped a tiny plane to Tinian. Saw where the Enola Gay launched from to drop the bomb and found a midden pile in the woods that was nothing but WW2 coca cola bottles going all the way back to 1942. I dug down through the broken ones to find good ones and filled my backpack up. We gave quite a few away over the years, but we must've gotten about 50 of them.
The display case the coke containers are sitting on is an antique piece that belonged to my father's grandmother. I believe he got the shells from diving back when he had a license to legally be able to bring those up from dives (he used to be the manager and stocker of an aquarium in college and eventually got a Masters degree in invertebrate zoology).
The thing on the wall with the US flag is the cloth my father carried with him in Vietnam that has writing in multiple languages indicating that if he was a citizen of the united states and he was seeking food, protection, and assistance in being returned to his people and that if such assistance is given, the people will be rewarded. (I need to take a picture of the text closer up someday).
The large piece of furniture to the left of the antique case is something that was in a furnished apartment we rented in either Singapore or Guam. We had a similar piece that wasn't as pretty and when we were about to transfer, my parents asked the owners of the furniture if we could trade out the display cases and they were fine with it, so we took the prettier one and left the "ugly" one. I've grown to like the display case despite loathing it when I had to clean it and managed to cut my hand on a glass shelf.
My sister is seated in my mother's antique rocking chair that is over 40-years-old. Laser-eye-kitty is Yasuke.
Sorry for the babbling. LOL.
Pretty neat family history/memorabilia .
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10 degrees -9 WC
Nick
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-5 with WC. Slowly bringing in fire wood .. Couple of trips at a time ..
If you want to feel cold here it is:
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My brother lives up by Alexandria and sister down by Albert Lea.
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Daris
https://www.facebook.com/NWSTwinCit...752513291552/1757037597663028/?type=3&theater
My brother lives up by Alexandria and sister down by Albert Lea.
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Nick
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Nick
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