What did you accomplish today?

Making this recipe for taco Tuesday
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Recipe from here : https://cafedelites.com/pork-carnitas-mexican-slow-cooked-pulled-pork/

I made sure to zest the oranges and limes so I can make the margarita salt recipe I showed you the other day. Can't wait till dinner :)
 
I'm sitting in the porch, staring at my buds and I'm trying to get myself emotionally together enough to help mom today.

She's got oedema in her right hand and foot now and I think this is the start of the end.

We tried talking about it but both ended up crying so we decided to try to pretend it isn't the end.

I'm really sad and watching my mom slowly die in front of me is terrifying.

I'm both glad and sad I quit hard drugs. If I was still a hard drugs user, I wouldn't care about anything and mom would probably be dead already. Instead, I'm fighting the urge to grab some jib from town and I'm living this fucked up life and feeling every painful second.

Sorry about the brain diarrhea.
 
farmingfisherman said:
Cleaned out the garage, vacuumed the car and met with yet another contractor in hopes of finding a fair bid for windows.
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Back a decade ago I had Window World replace several buildings worth of windows, one building at a time...back when they had the "any window for $199 with lifetime warranty". The local owner operator had a great talented crew, and they would also wrap the exterior trim in aluminum for another $50 each. But then their $199 windows became lower quality. I had my own home done by them with a better grade of window for around $300 each.

They also now have high end windows, and I have friends that have had specialty windows replaced by them...and they are great about warranty stuff. They might be worth a call. I noticed they don't advertise the $199 deal any more, but I'm sure they have loads of options.

A great "trick" if you have any big picture windows...Instead of buying a traditional picture window for several thousand dollars, you can have them attach 2-3-4 double hung windows side by side, to fill the opening, for a fraction of the cost, and it still looks good, and typically you wind up with better ventilation. I've done this a few times, including my own home currently.
 
I stopped to pick up rent from a few students...I have some new ones from Nigeria...They had not figured out how to turn the heat on yet...It was below 50F degrees in their apartment, and we have had several nights down to 30F or below....Brrrrr I showed him how to operate the thermostat, and a big smile came across his face when heat started coming out the registers....lol I had showed his room mate last month but there's a bit of a language barrier I guess. Great people though... friendly, clean, polite, here working on their masters degrees.
 
manfredo said:
Back a decade ago I had Window World replace several buildings worth of windows, one building at a time...back when they had the "any window for $199 with lifetime warranty". The local owner operator had a great talented crew, and they would also wrap the exterior trim in aluminum for another $50 each. But then their $199 windows became lower quality. I had my own home done by them with a better grade of window for around $300 each.

They also now have high end windows, and I have friends that have had specialty windows replaced by them...and they are great about warranty stuff. They might be worth a call. I noticed they don't advertise the $199 deal any more, but I'm sure they have loads of options.

A great "trick" if you have any big picture windows...Instead of buying a traditional picture window for several thousand dollars, you can have them attach 2-3-4 double hung windows side by side, to fill the opening, for a fraction of the cost, and it still looks good, and typically you wind up with better ventilation. I've done this a few times, including my own home currently.
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Thanks for the tip!
 
Kalebaiden said:
I'm sitting in the porch, staring at my buds and I'm trying to get myself emotionally together enough to help mom today.

She's got oedema in her right hand and foot now and I think this is the start of the end.

We tried talking about it but both ended up crying so we decided to try to pretend it isn't the end.

I'm really sad and watching my mom slowly die in front of me is terrifying.

I'm both glad and sad I quit hard drugs. If I was still a hard drugs user, I wouldn't care about anything and mom would probably be dead already. Instead, I'm fighting the urge to grab some jib from town and I'm living this fucked up life and feeling every painful second.

Sorry about the brain diarrhea.
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Please take your poor mom to the doctor and allow the physician to diagnose instead of these potentially unnecessary and torturous conversations with a mentally compromised patient. I also think your mother should have her privacy respected without posting about her like this on the internet.
 
Called ahead to Ace so they could go gather the stuff I needed, they got most of it right. Got the stuff to fix my sprinkler. Replacing the 6" threaded riser with PVC so it won't break off again. Picked up a bottle of EdFred shower cleaner I use for pH down, phosphoric acid. Chicken thawed out for dinner, beer shelf filled. Buds and suds in a bit.
 
I've been busy fishing, my nearest river closed last day of October so I'd been getting as much as possilbe done before it closed :-(
I've had the necessary odds and ends to make a bubble cloner waiting to be built.
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I got the idea about a month ago when I put a air stone into my reservoir and noticed how high the bubbles were reaching up the sides, I'd tried the spray type aero cloner but found it water logged the rock wool cube and spat water/nutrient out of the holes i ended up back cloning with a rock wool cube tray and syringe.
So I tried a tester on clones I'd written off, they rooted with a bubble stone and a 1ltr ice cream tub lol.
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So I'm quite impressed with the bubble cloner so I put my new one together this evening.
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I've still to tidy up the lid and make some holes for the air hose.
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I've put a rw cube in each one to see how well the spray is divided over the clone sites, its been running for 5 hrs now and there's not a drop of water to be seen.
I've also a spare blank top just incase I ever require more sites.
I'll probably take a few clones tomorrow just to test it out I'm quite happy with end job!
 
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