{"id":3055,"date":"2011-05-10T23:25:59","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T04:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/polarbear60.org\/randr\/?p=3055"},"modified":"2025-04-20T13:29:42","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T18:29:42","slug":"neck-woods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/neck-woods\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Neck of the Woods"},"content":{"rendered":"

What’s been happening in our neck of the woods?\u00a0 I’ve been pretty quiet, and, frankly, I haven’t really been busy enough to warrant the silence.\u00a0 But I haven’t been doing much that’s noteworthy.\u00a0 Just in case you were wondering, here goes (in no particular order):<\/p>\n

– Hubby and I got three sixteen foot boards made for the house.\u00a0 This entails planing a one inch deck board down to 7\/8″ of an inch of thickness; shaving just a little off the sides to ensure it’s 5 1\/2″ wide; notching half the width of the board out of opposite sides the full length of the board with a router; and routing an angle onto each notch — one outside and one inside.\u00a0 This is called “shiplap<\/a>.”\u00a0 You can still buy this siding new, but it’s the wrong size for the siding on our 111 year old Victorian house.\u00a0 To get siding that fits exactly when a board needs to be replaced, we have to make it.<\/p>\n

– Hubby got the front wall painted in color coat as far as we have the boards reconditioned or replaced.\u00a0 Here’s a photo:<\/p>\n

\"Front<\/p>\n

He put color coat on the next four boards tonight.\u00a0 Due to some other things in the queue, we probably won’t get the bottom four boards replaced until early next month.\u00a0 With the exception of a little paint scraping and sanding, hubby has done all the work for this job.<\/p>\n

– We’ve had no rain in Texas.\u00a0 I’ve been working sprinklers in morning and evening hours (when evaporation is least) to try to get the grass growing and salvage what little St Augustine grass is still left.<\/p>\n

– I’m getting a little work done on Polar Bear on the Loose.\u00a0 I’m still working through the How to Revise Your Novel Course.\u00a0 I’m on Lesson 8.<\/p>\n

– Dazzle, our 18 year old chow\/spaniel cross, won’t be with us much longer, and we’re trying to ensure she’s as comfortable and healthy as possible.\u00a0 She’s always been an outside dog, but she was diagnosed with what amounts to a bed sore today, so she’s in the house recuperating to keep it clean, dry, and fly-free while she gets medication.\u00a0 Last week, upon discovering she’d lost nine pounds in the last year (she was a 40 pound dog, so that’s significant), we decided to switch her from dry to canned dog food.\u00a0 She likes that idea.\u00a0 She also was having trouble eating her vitamins, so we got a grinder and are grinding them onto her food, making it easier for her to ingest.<\/p>\n

– Sometime last week, I managed to screw up a hip\/ lower back muscle.\u00a0 I strained the one on the right side two years ago.\u00a0 Last week, I did the one on the left side.\u00a0 According to a neat app I found last night called iMuscle<\/a>, it’s the gluteus medius muscle.\u00a0 The app has fine quality photos and includes exercises and stretching for each muscle which will allow someone to strengthen or rehabilitate.\u00a0 At $4.99, I think it was a bargain.<\/p>\n

I guess that should mostly bring you up to speed.<\/p>\n

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What’s been happening in our neck of the woods?\u00a0 I’ve been pretty quiet, and, frankly, I haven’t really been busy enough to warrant the silence.\u00a0 But I haven’t been doing much that’s noteworthy.\u00a0 Just in case you were wondering, here goes (in no particular order): – Hubby and I got …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[52,77,5,4],"tags":[122,135,151],"class_list":["post-3055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pbotl","category-pets","category-property","category-writing","tag-central-tx-house","tag-dazzle","tag-htryn"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3055"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16393,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3055\/revisions\/16393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}