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Ooh, it went down in price. It was $39 when I looked at it before. LOL. I might get it but I'm debating.

Cleaned litterboxes, did shoulder exercises, picked up some trash, refilled water for cats, went to get curbside pickup at Walmart, sat around at my friend's house waiting for his gf to be ready to go get her stuff from her ex's place. Good thing my brother came along bc there was some heavy stuff. The ex tossed most of her stuff outside. He's still holding on to her expensive vacuum and my baker's rack. I'm going to have to go get them another day. Wasn't any room in the truck. She was pissed that he just put stuff outside bc there are crackheads in the area who come and take stuff.

Friend's toddler has double ear infection again and was crying. He wanted the new gf to hold him but she was busy hemming a dress for a client & then she had to deliver it. My brother and I took turns distracting him to get him to stop fussing.

Grabbed takeout from a local place and brought it home. Ate and then I restocked the toothpick dispenser, filled a salt shaker with diatomaceous earth & sprinkled it around the living room and kitchen, transferred cat treats from container that the cats can rip open to one they can't get open. Fed kitties and am lying down. Boo (my oldest cat) just climbed on me.
 
Who do you trust for weather?
For Saturday, Sunday and Monday, AccuWeather says 25, 16, and 23
NOAA says 30, 23 and 28.
It's almost never that we get down to 26, tho we can have a lot of 29 to 35 temps in December to late January. Our frost line depth is 0.
I don't recall a low of 16 since 1989.
During that two week freak cold snap, it got down to 9 at my place.
That was the first and only 9 degree temp in my 65 years of life. The reason cold temperatures are an issue here is because water pipes aren't very very deep as a matter of fact under my mobile home it runs across the ground underneath from the water supply to where it comes up inside.
If it looks like it's gonna get crazy cold, I just turn the water on at a fast drip before going to bed.
If I need to get up in the middle of the night, I'll turn the water faucet all the way on for a minute or two and then back to a fast drip.
I don't have a clue how you people up north survive the winters.
If I'd does get down to 16, I won't be able to maintain 65 indoors.
 
I don't know if I "trust" anyone for weather but I can see the predictions. I know sometimes they expect rain and it doesn't but I know its only a prediction and not a certainty.

I'm in the same situation with it not getting that cold very often. I think we had a cold snap that had the coldest temps recorded here in 100 years (that was when the pipes ruptured). Its been getting colder every winter & more pipes keep bursting. Pipes here aren't buried very deep like in your area.

Today I did my shoulder exercises & got my arm to lift a few more inches higher. Still won't go straight up, but I'm making progress. I put my back against the door while using the rope pulley thing and pulled down with my right arm to pull my left arm up more. I turned sideways to try to stretch it up to the side a bit more (but that motion is less flexible). I can reach behind my back a little bit and I can reach away from me to grab stuff without pain (so long as I don't stretch too much).

I went to get mail and while waiting in line to get my packages there were a couple of kids running around playing. Their mother was quietly trying to get them to calm down but they were too full of energy. They weren't causing any harm and it was good to see kids actually playing instead of having faces buried in phones. I envied their energy.

I took some pictures of the peeling paint on my truck (happened after I took it through the car wash when it was too cold).
Pic doesn't show it so well, but the paint on the hood is the worst-- it's curling up like dead leaves. I don't know what the black stuff is, it doesn't want to come off easily but when I try it turns red.
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This is where paint came off on the side of the bed:
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A little bit on the door
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A small strip peeling near the windshield
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This last chip was caused by the accident in 2018 when the drunk driver ran into my fender and bent my hood. The body shop that worked on it refused to paint that part for some reason. They also spilled paint thinner inside the vehicle and ruined the PU leather on the arm rests but I think that place went out of business now.
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I got the Duplicolor touch-up stick that will scrape off rust and let me brush on the matching paint and then do clearcoat, but I don't think that would work for some of the larger areas like the spot on the hood (not that I can even reach the spot on the hood without some sort of stepstool or ladder).

I'm thinking the hood might require spray paint (which duplicolor makes). Will have to sand it and try to smooth the edges though. I don't need it to be perfect, but I want to prevent rust and more paint peeling.

(As an aside, that black crud never comes off in the car wash and I tried washing it off myself but had trouble and then I fell getting out of the truck bed and hurt my right shoulder- which was sore for months).

Anyone done touch-up paint on a vehicle before? I don't have a garage or covered area so that complicates things-- but I'm thinking of getting a tent. Would be cheaper than going to the local body shop that takes forever & leaves orange peel texture after charging thousands of $$.
 
Even if you messed off those paint chipped areas really really good, and use spray paint it would produce an extremely thin layer once it cures out. Those little bottles of touch up paint with the brush in the cap might work. You might be able to pour it inside the chipped areas and carefully smoosh it around with the brush to the edges of where is chipped and with some luck it'll flow itself out flat if it's poured on thick enough.
Has the truck ever been repainted?
If so, some shops use an epoxy primer and if it dries too long it needs to be sanded before the finish coat goes on. That might explain the peeling paint.
If is factory paint then sometimes the manufacturers had some "bad years" when they changed over to a different type of paint. GM had a lot of clear coat problems back in the '80s or '90s.
 
I confess, I want to Habitat ReStore today. I've had a Sandvik hand saw for 25 years and it still works fairly well. It had a Teflon coated blade that made it glide through wood with ease. I used it for cutting door jambs.
Anyway this has piranha teeth similar to the Sandvik the teeth have a little bit more set in them.
These teeth feel like they've never touched a piece of wood, they're so sharp. There's a little bit of blades clear coating is missing but other than that it's like a brand new saw. The price was right.
For another $4, I got a 1-in Lennox hole saw. It was still in the original package.
 

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A young fellow stopped in at the store while I was printing some flooring layouts. The store is closed today but I can get in.
He was looking for some white schluter edge molding.
I was about done and I told him he can follow me down to the warehouse and look through the tubes of miscellaneous or returned stock to see if there was something that would work.
The Young Guy's mom work for laticrete and his dad worked for Makita and I guess this guy knows how to install tile. He's currently a golf caddy. A large percentage of the golfers that come here are those terrible 1 percenters but he said that a lot of them are the 1/10th of 1 percenters. One guy he regular caddies for told him he sold his business. The kid asked him how much a hundred million?
The guy put his thumb in the air shaking it upwards.
The kid said 200 million.
Again the guy shook his thumb up in the air.
500 million he asked.
The guy said no, 2 billion. 😱
The kids said, so I'm guessing you're retired now and can do whatever you want.
He said no I'm working at the place that I sold and I'll be working there for another 3 years and they're paying me.....
...... 10 million per year.

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I don't know about the rest of the body on the truck, but the bumper was replaced and the hood was fixed and painted by a really crappy body shop. You could see the difference in the paint job close up and they didn't paint the whole hood. But they are out of business now. Those are the guys that spilled paint thinner inside my truck on the arm rests and ruined them. And didn't secure the tie rod. I had to take it straight to a repair shop right after picking it up to get the tie rod secured.

I've since been told by the Ridgeline community that the white paint that Honda used was absolute garbage and is known to have all sorts of problems. None of the other vehicles have this problem and we have all Hondas. My brother's Nimbus Gray Ridgeline doesn't have it & the Sierra Blue CR-V doesn't have it. I've been told I should probably just get a vinyl wrap on the truck. It not all over, at least on the hood and top. Problem with the top is that there's a moon roof. The window in the top moves. I really don't like it and never use it though. If I could redesign the truck it would have a roof rack instead.

I used to paint rocks with nail polish (never wore nail polish but 40 years ago I loved to paint rocks with it). I suppose I could start with the tiny spot in the front of the hood and worst case I can wipe it off. I'm thinking of getting a piece of white carbon fiber vinyl decal and putting it on to cover the damage and making it look sort of like a big fat stripe or something. Or just having the whole hood wrapped. The left fender and the front bumper had to be replaced. Although I noticed that the shitty repair guy didn't replace the plastic that broke along the front under the hood.

This is what the crud looks like on the roof of the truck:
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The paint that peeled and was sticking up on the hood is gone now. The rainstorm last night washed it off.

I took a brief video of part of the last leg of my drive home on my road about halfway down and almost to my front gate. Free undercarriage wash. LOL.


It rained almost all day. I managed to get into the truck to drive into town while the rain was lighter. Grabbed some shower supplies from Walmart. I have bought like 4 deodorant sticks but they keep disappearing. I think my brother might have taken some of them since we both use men's deodorant. We use the same body wash too. I found that I like the smell of men's products better and you get more for less $. They upcharge women's products and put smaller amounts in. At least the shampoo he got is different. He got Old Spice scent and I got Tea Tree Oil.

I briefly talked to the pharmacist about trying to find out if my brother's insurance will cover a Dexcom G6 blood sugar meter bc he's having trouble with the regular meters not reading the test strips. He'll call back later.

Took a shower at my friend's house and sat for a bit waiting for the rain to let up enough to not get re-soaked on my way to the truck.

Mom is sick today though so I just had to bring her a bowl to barf in. She might have to cancel her appointment tomorrow.
 
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A friend of mine brought a late model Toyota pickup from a local dealer. Not long after, the paint started having issues.
It was Toyotas problem and they did a complete repaint...... We're talking removing the seats and interior panels. A local shop painted it. .....over $16,000 I think.
 
My brother bought a chevy from some idiot who bought it from a dealership that ripped people off. Knowingly sold a lemon. It was a 1500 but someone had put the rear of an S10 on it so the u-bolts on the drive shaft kept breaking. It was a complete hunk of garbage. The dealership went out of business thankfully, but my brother wasted too much $ on that junker. He sold it to a "friend" who never paid him for it. Did I mention that it was painted with house paint?

Saw the sad news on the terrylove forums that Terry passed away on Jan 20.

Ended up having to take Mom to the ER. Her bp spiked way too high, she couldn't keep anything down, and her sugar was over 400. They kept her a few hours with IV fluids and anti-nausea meds. Had to give her something to lower her bp as well. She felt nauseous again as we were leaving but I don't think she's thrown up again. she was exhausted and I helped her back to her room so she could sleep. But now I can't get to sleep. Got a headache that won't go away. The diagnosis was food poisoning. My brother and I got a little sick after eating food from the local place but we both had chicken and mom had the fish. She said it tasted too fishy but we didn't think much of it.

I need to eat something in a bit when I can motivate myself to get up.
 
Walked the dog. 16 degrees 5 wind chill
You win, this was supposed to be the cold day of our to day cold snap. AccuWeather said 16 but we got down to 26. My morning routine includes putting out some bird seed on the railing for the chickadees and the juncos.
I'm also in charge of protecting them with my 1911 Airsoft.
The blue jays come in and eat it all up real quick if I don't keep an eye out.
 

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