lazy Thursday...

[Mugwump]

....it's been overcast most the day, and very windy, and even sprinkled a few times....ran a few errands...putz'd...and got a nice nap in.... ......needed that too...sinuses are going bonkers..

....so what has everyone been doing while not around here?......

[LizStreithorst]

I got wc done early so I could work on the building and wouldn't you know, it started raining!  After I got home from work I decided that the chicks needed more elbow room so I hauled the last of my 42X47" fish containers to my sun room/dining room and moved the chicks into it.  I swear, if it keeps going like this the chickens will die of old age before I get their house finished.  Yesterday I cut off the bottom 1/3 of the ugly rotted wafer board off so I can replace it with 1/2" ply that I removed from old goat feeders.  When I got to the back of the building I saw that the rotted joist in the back had broken off.  I picked up a 2X6 to replace it with.  I did it with the front joist so I know that I can do it, but jacking up the building and replacing the joist is very stressful to me because I've never done that before now.  Thank God all the rest of the joists are sound.

I got a couple of good books as well as some quack compression gloves that are supposed to help my poor weak hands.  I used the gloves while I worked on the building yesterday.  The jury is still out as to whether they help.  The plan this evening is to have an bath, get in the sack early and have a nice read.

[Mugwump]

I got wc done early so I could work on the building and wouldn't you know, it started raining!  After I got home from work I decided that the chicks needed more elbow room so I hauled the last of my 42X47" fish containers to my sun room/dining room and moved the chicks into it.  I swear, if it keeps going like this the chickens will die of old age before I get their house finished.  Yesterday I cut off the bottom 1/3 of the ugly rotted wafer board off so I can replace it with 1/2" ply that I removed from old goat feeders.  When I got to the back of the building I saw that the rotted joist in the back had broken off.  I picked up a 2X6 to replace it with.  I did it with the front joist so I know that I can do it, but jacking up the building and replacing the joist is very stressful to me because I've never done that before now.  Thank God all the rest of the joists are sound.

I got a couple of good books as well as some quack compression gloves that are supposed to help my poor weak hands.  I used the gloves while I worked on the building yesterday.  The jury is still out as to whether they help.  The plan this evening is to have an bath, get in the sack early and have a nice read.

If you have room under the floor joists...you can use cinder blocks under those suspected weak spots

[Ron Sower]

...Lucy and I went to Wally-World and Walgreens this morning...had lunch...let a neighbor's dogs out to pee, which they didn't...and played Samba - the card game- the rest of the afternoon....

[wallace]

Fought with a supercilious bureaucrat over a legal matter. One of the angels looks like he swallowed a marble. I ordered some kanamycin to try and save him and I thought it would arrive today but it didn't. Its a blockage...  These things are usually hopeless but what the hell, I feel like trying.