What’s on your mind?

[Apple fanboy]

Wait ... what's that on your shoulder?



We have the fence completed, well, call it structurally finished, as the only thing left to be done is the 16" or so lattice on the upper part of the rear (doing it in framed box sections, to make it look very finished). Rear, sides, and al lthe gates are completed - we have a wide-ish gate on the east side, and on the west, a small gate that opens from stairs (TBC), and a larger set of double gates so we can still access the backyard with a vehicle (which will be handy for the shed construction and landscaping).

Love the east side being fenced to the front corner, it was only fenced to the rear corner, so now it's a little more private, secure, and gives a rather dull side of the house a little more interest. Also been opening up the plants/trees/etc., on that side, to be more landscaped.

Our fence is definitely in need of replacement. It was in a state when we moved in and hasn’t gotten any better in the last four months. But it will have to wait until the lockdown has been lifted.

 

[LizKat]

The fencepost attached to my garden gate gave up the ghost over winter, so the gate's leaning against the barn door now waiting for a new fencepost and nicer weather for installation. In the meantime the overwintered garden has nothing but some optimistic chives coming up in it thanks to lingering snow and cold weather, but I saw a rabbit hopping around in there the other day as if to scope out other possibilities for later on. Hmm. I need to make a phone call about that fencepost, coronavirus or no. That rabbit tells me my little project is ESSENTIAL !!!

 

[JamesMike]

@LizKat, is your barn and old one? I like the old barn and how they were constructed.

 

[LizKat]

@LizKat, is your barn and old one? I like the old barn and how they were constructed.

It's pretty old but just a pole barn. They had enough sense to cable the thing inside so it could not elect to fall down sometime during a blizzard. Roof is still in good shape, I had it reshingled awhile back.

You'd have loved looking at the framing of the old barn next door on my former in-laws' property, which place I bought after the surviving spouse passed away, just to have the elbow room and also in case their grandkids might want it some day. That barn was probably built around middle of 19th century. It was in terminal disrepair due to the roof having pretty much gone.

The house on that property had served for generations as a retirement cottage near the village for when whoever was farming the place up the way passed it on. Back then the barn likely housed several cows, a calf or two, some hens. But it had long since been just used for storage, certainly in the 20th century, and it needed to come down.

However, my brother in law, from whom I bought the place, brought his best tractor down and it took him and his son nearly three days to get the standing remains of the thing to give up the ghost. All mortise and through-tenon joints... beechwood, oak timbers... "I ain't goin' nowhere willingly..." Some strategic chainsawing was required here and there.

 

[S.B.G]

Dark Shadows

 

[D.T.]

Our fence is definitely in need of replacement. It was in a state when we moved in and hasn’t gotten any better in the last four months. But it will have to wait until the lockdown has been lifted.

Yeah, ours was a little long-in-the-tooth, plus kind of mediocre materials (so-so prefab sections, etc.), and it also got knocked around by 2 back-to-back storms/floods/90mph winds ... the deck sort of went with it, the next few years had some, umm, impediments to getting this resolved, so this is long overdue.

 

[AngerDanger]

Dark Shadows

That's completely normal. What we're worried about is this area here:

 

[LizKat]

That's completely normal. What we're worried about is this area here:

Unfortunately that looks a lot like the inside of the last of some avocados I had bought. I forgot I had one left and it definitely got away from me. I kinda knew that but cut into it anyway to have a look. Eeeek.

 

[S.B.G]

Dark Shadows

 

[Apple fanboy]

Yeah, ours was a little long-in-the-tooth, plus kind of mediocre materials (so-so prefab sections, etc.), and it also got knocked around by 2 back-to-back storms/floods/90mph winds ... the deck sort of went with it, the next few years had some, umm, impediments to getting this resolved, so this is long overdue.

Well we only moved in at the start of December. We’ve pretty much completed the internal renovations. Knocked down walls, built walls, new kitchen, new bathroom, new underfloor heating, new boiler new windows and doors (external and internal) and decorating every room.
I just have to finish off the porch and the hallway.
All we’ve done outside is cut down a load of trees that were far too big and far to close to the house.

 

[yaxomoxay]

Predictive text is going to drive me over the edge. I don't get why words that are correct in context, meaning, and spelling get changed on my iPhone, messing up sentences over and over... in TWO languages. I think it's getting worse, the more they think the I in AI is higher, the dumber the thing is.

 

[LizKat]

Predictive text is going to drive me over the edge. I don't get why words that are correct in context, meaning, and spelling get changed on my iPhone, messing up sentences over and over... in TWO languages. I think it's getting worse, the more they think the I in AI is higher, the dumber the thing is.

I've had a few issues with predictive text, enough so it may be affecting how I think: I caught myself starting to type "finished" instead of "done" last night in a message on my phone and the only reason for my choice was because I was in a hurry and didn't want to glance back and see it had written "down", which is what it's been swapping in for "done" lately.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

I've had a few issues with predictive text, enough so it may be affecting how I think: I caught myself starting to type "finished" instead of "done" last night in a message on my phone and the only reason for my choice was because I was in a hurry and didn't want to glance back and see it had written "down", which is what it's been swapping in for "done" lately.

Predictive text and I shall have a full, frank, exchange of views in the near future, as relations between us are barely cordial at times, whereas, at other times, strangely and surprisingly, and inexplicably, we appear to enjoy something approaching complete understanding of one another.

The trouble is, I never know which it is to be when I start to write.......

 

[yaxomoxay]

Predictive text and I shall have a full, frank, exchange of views in the near future, as relations between us are barely cordial at times, whereas, at other times, strangely and surprisingly, and inexplicably, we appear to enjoy something approaching complete understanding of one another.

The trouble is, I never know which it is to be when I start to write.......

I don't know. The post was prompted by me writing a text with "Sheriff" which became "Sharing", "cheating" which became "cheering", "dead" which became "deadline", and "mansions" which became "Manson's".
Go figure.
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Addendum: don't let me start on how many times "meditation" becomes "mediation".

 

[Scepticalscribe]

I don't know. The post was prompted by me writing a text with "Sheriff" which became "Sharing", "cheating" which became "cheering", "dead" which became "deadline", and "mansions" which became "Manson's".
Go figure.
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Addendum: don't let me start on how many times "meditation" becomes "mediation".

Oh, yes, I am more than familiar with that last example.

And, indeed, I have also encountered some of the others.

That damned predictive text thinks it knows my mind better than I do.

And then, there is the notorious (and excruciatingly embarrassing) substitution - effected by the removal of a single letter - of another noun, for when I have wished to write the word "public", as in "public policy", "public good", or "public sphere".

 

[AngerDanger]

Foooooooood

 

[Apple fanboy]

Foooooooood

We’ll go cook something!

 

[kazmac]

Oh, yes, I am more than familiar with that last example.

And, indeed, I have also encountered some of the others.

That damned predictive text thinks it knows my mind better than I do.

And then, there is the notorious (and excruciatingly embarrassing) substitution - effected by the removal of a single letter - of another noun, for when I have wished to write the word "public", as in "public policy", "public good", or "public sphere".

Oh yes, I know that word all too well.

And, yes, tech frustrates me to tears sometimes. As was the case with Windows this morning. Thank goodness I knew how to use the search function. Of course, I couldn't fix the simple issue myself because Windows claimed the directory was in use by another program.🥵

I had to ask one of my wonderful coworkers to help me out.😚

And I wanted to jump to Windows at home? Eh, no.🤨 Some things never change.

And in real life, we are good here. That is all that matters.

Hope everyone here is good too!

 

[Apple fanboy]

Oh yes, I know that word all too well.

And, yes, tech frustrates me to tears sometimes. As was the case with Windows this morning. Thank goodness I knew how to use the search function. Of course, I couldn't fix the simple issue myself because Windows claimed the directory was in use by another program.🥵

I had to ask one of my wonderful coworkers to help me out.😚

And I wanted to jump to Windows at home? Eh, no.🤨 Some things never change.

And in real life, we are good here. That is all that matters.

Hope everyone here is good too!

Glad to hear. How is the new job going? Okay I trust.

 

[AngerDanger]

We’ll go cook something!

Alright, but I'm based in New England, and I think you're from old England, so we should proably meet somehere in the middle.

Say, Nuuk?

 

[Apple fanboy]

Alright, but I'm based in New England, and I think you're from old England, so we should proably meet somehere in the middle.

Say, Nuuk?

Well dinner is done here. I’ll have to wait for breakfast before I can have something else!

 

[LizKat]

Foooooooood

That sushi of yours is still burning a hole in my brain if not my screen. I'm gonna have to go out and walk around the yard before we get the new load of snow promised for Tuesday. Maybe I'll find enough dandelion greens for a start on a decent dinner salad. Or at least get distracted enough so that food doesn't remain my first preoccupation.

 

[kazmac]

Glad to hear. How is the new job going? Okay I trust.

As my awesome supervisor said there is a learning curve. Everyone is great there.

I like it a lot, but memories of HTML coding and Windows = 🥺😡 sometimes.

What’s up with your Mac Mini: Did you get it back yet? And how are the home renovations going?

 

[JamesMike]

I was talking with my younger sister, she is a nurse at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio. She brought up something I had not thought about. The staff gets a bit frustrated that having face masks on all the time doesn't allow full interaction with patients. Patients can't see their facial expressions. I realized after our talk that our facial expressions are an essential part of our daily communication skills.

 

[Matz]

Well dinner is done here. I’ll have to wait for breakfast before I can have something else!

Why?