Kevin's Watch

We're moving from a single level structure to a 3-story townhouse. Go figure.

That's what's available around here with the number of bedrooms and baths we want, and walkable to synagogue.

We didn't want a private house, cause it's more money and more maintenance. In a townhouse, the HOA takes care of some things.

Annoyed by a problem with the dishwasher. The control panel is dead. No lights to be seen. The fix has been to go down to the breaker box and flip the fuse off for a few seconds. Except last weekend my cure didn’t work. So I called in for repairs. They came the other day, flipped off the breaker for a couple of minutes flipped it back on and ran some diagnostics and upgraded the software in the control panel and it worked fine. Until this morning, where the control panel is again without power. They warned me it might happen, in which case they would have to replace the panel. A more expensive problem.

Having the same problem with the dryer. I used to have to replace the control panel of our oven. It was a hundred bucks, and would have been a lot more to have someone else do it. It was just disconnecting wires from the old, and connecting them to the new. Now I'm going to look for one for the dryer.

I expect dishwasher to be a bit more involved, though.

Aging in place, ugh. My condo is all on one floor, but there's a fairly narrow set of stairs up to it. I'm golden as long as I never have to leave the apartment.

The big problem here is that there's a design flaw in the fabulous wall o' solar windows in the living/dining room. The architect and/or the builder didn't install the flashing properly, or even at all -- I'm unclear which it is, and tbh it doesn't matter at this point because it's been 40ish years since the building was built. Anyway, the upshot is that those solar windows are leaking, and no amount of caulking fixes the problem. Other maintenance has also been kinda let go over the years, and so we're facing a humongous bill for fixing the solar windows in all units, plus re-roofing and restucco of the whole place. A couple of the big windows have already been done, and some roofs* have been patched multiple times, but it's still going to be a hella expensive job. You wouldn't think windows would leak much in the desert, but we've had a lot of rain here (relatively speaking) this year and it's been pretty bad. I'm philosophical about it -- I'm okay with moving furniture out of the way and putting out containers to catch the drips until we have the money to get everything fixed (there's a special assessment for the work, naturally), but not everybody is so calm about it.

* Roofs, plural. We have a regular slanted roof on the north side of the building (which has *never* been replaced), but on the south side where the solar windows are, the apartments are tiered, so there are multiple small roofs. Very cool design-wise, complicated to re-roof all at once...

sgt.null wrote:I've committed to around 30 hours of it next week.

Ugh.

Turned out to be 40.

We .ove all of it next Saturday.

I've picked up double shifts for 2 weeks
Next month. And then the holiday
Extra shifts.

Hang in there, Sarge!

Thanks. Swamped with moving then
Holidays at work.

Our extended dry summer here on the Eastside of Seattle was predicted to end Thursday night/Friday morning with the prediction of our day long gray skies and all day mist/rain returning. Yay! The air quality here from wildfires, and the fires themselves, have been awful. I have been taking advantage of the dry weather, and left my tomatoes on the vine, as they were planted late and most of them are still green and hard as rocks.

This novice gardener has heard I can still ripen my tomatoes 'on the vine' by clipping them, bundling them together, and hanging them upside down in a protected space. I spent Thursday afternoon doing so, and wound up with three hanging bundles, as well as a window ledge of tomatoes which fell off the vine wrapped in newspaper.






I'm glad I got this done, as yesterday morning we had a pretty intense hail storm for about 5 minutes. If it hailed as hard in the community garden where my box garden is located, I think I would have lost most, if not all, of the tomatoes. I need to drive by and see how my collard greens and chard weathered the hail storm. But, I've been told those vegetables are hardy and can go through the first frost, so I'm hoping if slightly damaged that they'll bounce back.

Has anyone else done this with tomatoes? Does it work?

Foggy morning. Winter is coming. 36° F/ 2° C. Frost on the cars. I’m hoping for a hard frost though to take care of the boxelder bugs that have been swarming on the back door the last couple of weeks soaking up the autumn sun. The old walnut tree in the front yard has shed 99% of its leaves and the big white oak has left a carpet of them in the back yard. If this carries on we will soon have the first snow of the season.

I’m kind of looking forward to the first snow. We adopted our dog after the last snow, in April. She is a rescue from Texas, and I want to see how she reacts to the white stuff when she sees it for the first time.

Damelon wrote:I’m kind of looking forward to the first snow. We adopted our dog after the last snow, in April. She is a rescue from Texas, and I want to see how she reacts to the white stuff when she sees it for the first time.

Aww...

Moving today , tomorrow. We'll
The others are. I'm working two
Doubles. Need that 💰 🤑 💸 💲 💶 💵.

Have a safe move. Say hi to Julie for me!

Today it is lashing down with rain as it always seems to these days on the SE coast of Oz .. thanks to the lovely la nina who has absolutely outstayed her welcome.

She was welcome when she first arrived after prolonged drought, bushfires and the like .. and well its the 3rd year and she's a bringer of much misery to a great many but on the flip side also beautiful lush green scapes .. wachagonado

I'm glad that the rain has been allowing your countryside to heal with greenery, Skyweir, especially after that disastrous fire of three years ago. Here in the Arizona desert, I think we'd LOVE to take that rain off of your hands for a while!

Damelon wrote:Have a safe move. Say hi to Julie for me!

I've done so. Julie says hi as well.

In the middle of the move.
In the new house, 10 minutes
From my job. Need to finish

Emptying our old house today.

Rabbit
Rabbit!
Rabbit!!

Bruised! Yesterday I fell down the last four stairs and landed next to the front door. I banged my head and skinned my left elbow. The lump on my head has mainly gone but is still sore when touched. That's the second lump this week. The other day I bent down to pick up one of the dog's toys and banged my head on the piano getting up again. I really must be more careful. I certainly don't want another brain bleed!

Otherwise what can I say? It's raining again.

Ouch! Ouch! Ouch! Io!

And ouch again!