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Vaping on the Front or back Porch
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My notifications were really slow this evening and I missed out on the wine tonight . I'll be here tomorrow night to enjoy some 
So what should have been a 2 hour job was 6 hours straight~! Took out the old unit and found rotten wood. So had to get wood and rip down some 2x10 to replace the wood around the unit. Done, sealed and cooling the house even replaced the moldings inside.
Welcome @vapingrookie but no one in here needs Beginner info .
That's weird, his post just disappeared.
Because I reported it for spam so I guess a MOD agreed.
This kind of heat will break you down. Glad your not in pain
. Sleep well tonight and hope you will have your energy back tomorrow. Good night, Steve.
This kind of heat will break you down. Glad your not in pain
Thanks, I had a couple of glasses of wine and watched a movie. Now waiting for my coffee to perk to cut the lawns early before it gets too hot.
Don't over do it in this gah awful hot weather, it don't take much. I know I'm gonna sound like a mama Wolf
...drink plenty of water
Don't over do it in this gah awful hot weather, it don't take much. I know I'm gonna sound like a mama Wolf
I always drink gallons of water every day in this heat~! Surprised I haven't drowned on dry land yet~! Was done with the lawns by 10:30 and also picked and washed some fresh lettuce, tomatoes and cucumbers I picked. Made a nice Garden Salad for a BBQ Dinner at my Sweeties tonight in the backyard this morning. Then after I cooled off in the A/C for a bit I actually went back out and trimmed a couple of small bushes near the garden but man I had to cool off with the hose. Brutal is the only way to describe it outside.
I have to say it feels a hell of a lot hotter~!
Same here....drinking gallons of water, my kidneys were on overdrive. Glad you were done fairly early to get out of the heat. Mmm, garden goodies...they are the best. Sounds like a good day and finishing it up with a bbq with your sweetie
. Oh hell, 100 here felt like 110...brutal is a good word to describe it. I trimmed up and pulled weeds around a couple of Hibiscus flowers, and the rose bush, then soaked in the sun for 40 minutes, that's all I could handle. Soaked in the ac while cleaning inside, watched a movie, and chilled for a bit, but always pushing pause to get up to do something
Good Morning, Steve 
Hope you have a good day today.
It's a beautiful morning here, temp is 73 with a little bit of rain and clouds. A great morning sitting out on the porch....vaping and having tea
Hope you have a good day today. It's a beautiful morning here, temp is 73 with a little bit of rain and clouds. A great morning sitting out on the porch....vaping and having tea
Good Morning, Steve
Good afternoon my fellow porch dwellers~! We figured the only way to deal with this Heat Wave was to go to The Beach~!
Awesome, some weeds take longer to die off. I sprayed some Creeping Bent Grass last week and it took all week before it started to die off. Could also be this freaking heat.
I think it's the concentration of the mix. the weeds that died off, I hosed em down basicly, because there was a lot in some spots.
it is supposed to be dry all week, so I am going to make a heavy mix and go at the Charley that's out in the yard.
it is supposed to be dry all week, so I am going to make a heavy mix and go at the Charley that's out in the yard.
I have found with the Creeping Charlie if you spray it directly on them it works great. I wish I could find something to kill the fucking Wild Violets because nothing kills those fuckers. Now I just pull em out~! Found some onion grass pop up this morning in a place we used Sod a few years ago and it came with the freaking sod. Got Crabgrass with Topsoil one time also.
That's a great way of dealing with the heat. Hope the two of you enjoyed the day on the beach.
The heat broke here
took advantage of it...cleaned the inside of vehicle, did some food shopping, and ended with sitting on the porch, listening / watching it rain, vaping, brushing Duke and throwing the ball for Emma 
I got a call from my friend before who's companion for over 30 years is dying and his kids came from Chicago and California and took him to Chicago by Medical Transport. Such a messed up story I heard for over an hour I am still SMFH. I am dumbfounded and all I have to look forward to is I can be here and there for Caroline but never got a chance to say Goodbye to George.
I'm so sorry, Steve. It's never easy hearing divesting heart breaking news about a friend and not being able to talk with him...say goodbye makes it 100% worse. You're in my thoughts and prayers
May his family be comforted by each other's love.
May his family be comforted by each other's love.
Reading this reminds me about something that happened when I visited my biological father in FL at seventeen. He had a friend from HI pass. His friend was living with a woman, had been together for years. Dad arranged for me to go with another friend to good old Disney. He needed to tend to laying his friend to peace. His lady had brought his ashes from HI with her.
The day I returned back to the house, I went to sit on the sofa. I hoped up immediately because "someone else" was still sitting there. Dad grinned at how I had felt this lady's presence and said she was a strong woman. Not sure he could begin to fathom how right he had been. This lady's presence reverberated like my friend Knife Hawk who I was told by a few is a living arch wizard.
Sometimes we mean more in simply being than we realize. For all the consolation that offers us, we need to let it be as that. Know it is rough from experience. Held my great grandmother in my arms as Death came into her room and took her. She politely asked death for a grace of a few moments. She gave me a message to give my grandma, her daughter. She told me I would know the "right" time. Found that I did. Life as bittersweet as it is, that time was about half a day before my grandma passed.
Went home for her wake & funeral. I leaned in and give her a kiss. My mom said she was glad I could it because she just couldn't. I've also "eaten sin" for my wife's grandfather. What little sin he had would not have kept him from Heaven by any means. I still did as he asked. Did so without any priest present. The local Baptist priest did come. It was a little funny moment as he recognized me. He came over and gently patted my back, whispered "thank you". I smiled and told him quietly it was no trouble.
Such is life having been born in the veil. Lots of times simply being resonates a message to evil. That message can go unheard by most, evil though hears it as a deafening roar of thunder. It tells evil that it doesn't get the upper hand, not this day or the next.
Welcome @MyMagicMist and I hope enjoy you time on the porches~!
Reading that made me sad and also made me think it made you stronger. I have lost too many close friends and family in a flash over the years but it still takes it's toll on us. what doesn't kill us makes us stronger but it is totally exhausting and detrimental to our well being. I always think how they want us to live on but it sure does take time. Making me tear up a little just thinking f a few recent passing's than will never totally go into the back of my head.
Reading that made me sad and also made me think it made you stronger. I have lost too many close friends and family in a flash over the years but it still takes it's toll on us. what doesn't kill us makes us stronger but it is totally exhausting and detrimental to our well being. I always think how they want us to live on but it sure does take time. Making me tear up a little just thinking f a few recent passing's than will never totally go into the back of my head.
Another rough fucking day, so what else is new? Drove so many miles today and the towns I drove to aren't 1/4 of the miles I did. One of those days when you got back home only to head back to where you just was. Good thing Gas Prices are civilized for the summer months~!
Much in my life has given me lessons to grant strength. The lesson of love taught me by seeing my stepfather's hate is the one I'm most grateful of learning. Granted the bulk of that lesson came from my Pap by means of contrasting the hate. Pap never needed to say he loved anyone, they knew. It was seen in how he lived.
I'm also humble enough to know there are many stronger. Never would I claim being indestructible. That's a silly thing which can get a person bad hurt. Emotions at times are still difficult for me, believe the reason being is I feel so passionately. There's still times I shut them off to cope. I'm alright doing that as long as I tether, and I do.
Sorry you had a rough one, running all over the place today. Not to be political but hopefully anything regarding Iran doesn't cause higher gas prices. Kind of fear leadership is going to have a bad case of foot to mouth, stir up a wasp nest. These aren't wasps anyone wants stirred up either.
Still say we let the Red Sox have a damn fine season this go. Not that I mind baseball too much. Not even sure why I'd want Red Sox. I don't mind American football, or soccer, rugby either but don't have any favorites. I'm not into any real pro sports exactly. Watch WWE way too much though. Yes, know roughly 90% of it is fake. I enjoy the 10% that isn't. Like seeing a good boxing match, or full combat fighting. But don't go out of my way to see either.
That's probably my gayness showing through. I also don't get urges to go wrench on a car. I understand the basics though and can do minor repair, maintenance. I can for example change a tire to the dough-nut spare if need be, check oil, transmission fluid and fill if needed. Also know what to look for in oil that indicates a motor is in trouble. I'm just not a car guy, not a motorcycle guy either though I understand the basics of those about as well as a car.
I like to stalk, people and animals. Before there's that gasp, I mean stalking in a neutral to positive way. Although I'm sure if needed I can stalk negatively. Stalking people in a positive way means not being seen, noticed, yet being where people are to observe without judgment, merely observing. That's the same in stalking other animals but I enjoy getting close enough to lay brushing fingertips on them. Did that once with a deer, he let me know it wasn't appreciated. I froze in place, lowering my head, he walked on making sure I heard him without seeing where he went. Felt his eyes cutting me down as did.
Life offers though moment of chuckling inside too. It's not all bad. Would not want it all good. If it was you'd not know what was bad. Reckon I ought to wrap up, look at another thread a little then get to the rack. The maletonin is starting to send me zzzs.
Every time I drove past the Gas Station it was $2.75 a gallon but it was $2.79 every fill up~! I was like WTF?
Hey @Jinx yesterday I was sitting on the front porch and I noticed a bunch of Crabgrass popping up in the front lawn~! I was like WTF? With all the Crabgrass Preventer I have put down it should not be but the neighbors have tons of it so it blew over from the Landscapers. Had to use the Old Fashioned Crabgrass Treatment which was pull it out by hand. Since it wasn't established it cam out very easy like Onion Grass and I think I got it all or most of it.
Poor crab grass. What has it done to deserve vilifying? I could understand if it were johnson grass or jimson weed.
I do understand not wanting crab grass. It takes nutrients from good looking grasses and it doesn't look too good itself. Still, I think there's likely a place and meaning for everything. Take me for example, I likely need to be going and clearing last nights supper dishes & taking out trash.
We had one of those frozen turkey loafs baked up, fried taters, green beans. She tells me if there's any bean I need to grow its those. I'm going to grow pintos too so I can keep them on hand for Trinity beans. She says then she'll use my excess methane to run a generator for our off grid home.
Well, I better, ...
I do understand not wanting crab grass. It takes nutrients from good looking grasses and it doesn't look too good itself. Still, I think there's likely a place and meaning for everything. Take me for example, I likely need to be going and clearing last nights supper dishes & taking out trash.
We had one of those frozen turkey loafs baked up, fried taters, green beans. She tells me if there's any bean I need to grow its those. I'm going to grow pintos too so I can keep them on hand for Trinity beans. She says then she'll use my excess methane to run a generator for our off grid home.
Well, I better, ...
You just reminded me I need to pick some Green and Yellow Beans~! Off to harvest them~!
Yeah, so I wound up adding a course of bricks behind the shed using the bricks I removed from the front and side of the house when I installed the scalloped bricks. Then I spent the afternoon detailing my truck so it is nice and clean for a cruise down to Long Beach for dinner tonight.
Have a great night everyone.
Have a great night everyone.
Have a great night, Steve.