Dude, who even knows.
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Oh, huh, without noticing it everything in the kitchen’s fine now except two “work stations” worth of counter space and the floor, I think by now I’ll need to go and give the other rooms another pass before I call the house put away though. And I half-did the garage in passing last week, but I need to finish there.
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You still occasionally see Internet Tough Guys threatening to show up at my door and I’m like you show up to my door and you either start off appreciably below me or teetering on an edge it’s really easy to push you back from, it’s hard to be too intimidating then
And I KNOW the obvious move is to start off down but barge in when I open the door.
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Appreciated all the little white flowers that just fell on the tree in the middle of the backyard, must not have been back there this season in prior years.
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I tolerate a pretty dirty kitchen floor while Karafuto l’s still in a not-final state but even then I really need to go at it again soon, but it just highlights how much further along in general I am than last time, whole areas once full of waiting tasks now clear, shelves rearranged and shit parked on counters moved in, even got a USB-powered scrubber staff so I can get a good deep clean this time.
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Ah okay, my bathtub drains all day now.
In February it started only draining once a day at like midnight, then it didn’t drain at all for a few months and I had to bail it out, then it was midnight only again, now it’s full time once more.
Got that?
…but what could that be?
The sewer line from my house to the main has been cracked by roots. Most of the year, it’s above the water table, so when the bathtub drains some water flows out into the soil.
The non-draining parts are in the heart of the wet season, when the water table is above the pipe, and there’s not pressure to drain.
And the “midnight only” parts? Well, midnight is when leaves open their pores for gas exchange, releasing oxygen and taking in carbon dioxide. They wait til then so they lose a minimum of water this way but they still lose a bunch, so to replace it the roots slurp up more water… which, if the soil water level is just a bit above the pipe, brings it briefly below, and the tub drains.
I was told about the pipe by my inspector when I moved in, I’ve held off until I’m further on planning the basement (/2nd floor) because I might want to get a bigger one put in for capacity with multiple units, interestingly last spring I had no tub problems but I had to keep plunging the toilet cause it didn’t have enough suction for turds, but that hasn’t been a thing this year.
Karafuto somehow gives me like +15 Woodcraft
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Okay I don’t think any of the lavender is even in bloom right now and already the scent coming in the window is calming. Excellent call on that one.
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Alright, lower backyard is fully ready for the last pre-dry season trim, then finished digging the hole for all this lavender under my sittin’ window (need more topsoil tomorrow tho).
Then it seems the woodchips jamming Darwin’s tailgate finally rotted enough to open it, that’ll make it easier getting bedloads of mulch and of topsoil for finishing Blueberry Hill.
So tomorrow mowing, potting some doomed annuals to save, finish lavender planting, then finally on to the retaining slope of Blueberry Hill and planting these first few bushes.
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Man all the rosebushes – which must have been messes under the previous methhead couple owners’ tenure and then on divorce trimmed back for sale by her dad to these thick stumps that gave off like 3 man-high nightmare canes a year – have finally been developed to the point where they split their spring growth into a candelabra of color that keeps going a while if you deadhead them. Good stuff!
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