The Drop in Centre

[Mikiesboy]

20 minutes ago, BHopper2 said:

@Mikiesboy What's that writing above the towel rack? Also, great job getting back together.

 

Back from the lawyer's appointment. It went...

 

17 minutes ago, MacGreg said:

Looks like a Van Gogh print. 

Your appointment just 'went', huh? Hmm. 

Yes Sir, it is Van Gogh...

 

 

i have always liked his stuff ... and the bathroom was pale yellow.. so we put this in there. In the other washroom is a painting my mother did of some water lillies

[Mikiesboy]

okay.. back to work.. see you later !!!

[Reader1810]

12 hours ago, mollyhousemouse said:

Sirs and friends, it's been good being here tonight. i have some hard adulting to do this weekend, and must pack for a trip to see my family. Dad's in the hospital and Mom's Alzheimer's is progressing rapidly, i'll be staying with her for the weekend.  i'll check in as i can when i'm there.
good night, sleep well

 I’ll be thinking good thoughts for you, molly. 

[Reader1810]

4 hours ago, Mikiesboy said:

Foggy, rainy and miserable.. seemly our new normal here.  Our poor niece arrives from England tomorrow ... i hope it cheers up by then.

We’re supposed to have sun this weekend and higher temps, tim. Here’s hoping the weatherman’s right. As for your niece, I’m sure she’ll have a nice visit whatever the weather. 

[Parker Owens]

3 hours ago, Mikiesboy said:

So, in our bathroom we had a towel rail that is seriously welded to the wall. It is porcelain or something and they do not move. The rail itself was plastic. Well its been in there like 30 years and the plastic perished finally and it broke. Gluing it didnt work. Michael decided that we'd go off to the lumber place (Lowes) and get a piece of dowel to put in there. Armed with measurements we went last night.  We found a piece of square cut poplar the right size but much too long - 48in rather than the 24in we needed.  As apartment dwellers we don't need a saw, so Michael asked if they'd cut it. 

"Oh no we can't do that."   But you cut wood.  "Oh yes, but we cant cut that."  Ooookay.

Now we had to think about how the heck we could cut that. We do have tools, just no saw. I was sure we had some hacksaw blades. We decided we'd give that a try. We paid for our wood and went home.

Michael, using little tiny hacksaw blades did cut through the thing which was only 3/4in  square. But now our shorter piece was less flexible than it was in the store and Michael, strong as he is could not get it into the cemented on porcelain holders. We thought about what we could do about this now.

I said, what if cut off another 1/4in? Then we could put that into the porcelain devil holder.. stick some glue on the end of the longer piece and put it in.

That's what we did...and we now have a towel rail again

 

Love your ingenuity! 

[Kitt]

1 hour ago, Mikiesboy said:

because frankly we didn't want them in here while we are trying to get ready for company.. they likely would have ripped out the exsiting  thing and replaced it .. much of the wall with it and this was just simpler.   We had them replace the toilet paper holder .. and they  painted that to 'match' the pale yellow.  except they used beige.. which they tried to tell us would look the same when it dried.. it doesn't.

Ah! So the two superintendants that used to work at my old apartment now work at your place.  We called them Dip and Whipped. One was a dipsh@$ and the other did everything Dip said.

Edited May 3, 2019 by Kitt

[MacGreg]

2 hours ago, Mikiesboy said:

 

Yes Sir, it is Van Gogh...

 

 

i have always liked his stuff ... and the bathroom was pale yellow.. so we put this in there. In the other washroom is a painting my mother did of some water lillies

The photo won't show, but I'm sure it looks good. Nice that you have your mother's painting up. xo

[Mikiesboy]

12 minutes ago, MacGreg said:

The photo won't show, but I'm sure it looks good. Nice that you have your mother's painting up. xo

i have a few of her paintings  in the house ...she had no training and she asked an artist once what they thought and whether she should take lessons.  He said you have a good eye.. and no, no lessons because they just change your style..  i have one on my phone but i cant post it in here for some reason.

[Mikiesboy]

mostly all clean ... we've eaten and i had a short nap .. hehe

[Mikiesboy]

okay, it was more like i passed out.. LOL

[Brayon]

5 minutes ago, Mikiesboy said:

okay, it was more like i passed out.. LOL

A good passed out, or I should be worried, because you're sick passed out?

[Mikiesboy]

3 minutes ago, BHopper2 said:

A good passed out, or I should be worried, because you're sick passed out?

hard work= tired = passed out... i'm not sick

[Brayon]

1 minute ago, Mikiesboy said:

hard work= tired = passed out... i'm not sick

Gotcha. 🙂

[Brayon]

I totally suck at this pre-posting timer stuff. Ugh... that chapter wasn't supposed to come out till Monday.

[mollyhousemouse]

hello Sirs and friends

it's been a rough day, but i'm here and glad that i am. Dad looks rougher than i expected, but his wicked sense of humor is mostly intact. His nurse today said he looks 100% better from yesterday. Mom looks frail but is holding it together. She broke down when i saw her at the hospital.

thanks for listening & the support.

[Brayon]

1 minute ago, mollyhousemouse said:

hello Sirs and friends

it's been a rough day, but i'm here and glad that i am. Dad looks rougher than i expected, but his wicked sense of humor is mostly intact. His nurse today said he looks 100% better from yesterday. Mom looks frail but is holding it together. She broke down when i saw her at the hospital.

thanks for listening & the support.

Hang in there, girl. You got this!

[MichaelS36]

22 minutes ago, mollyhousemouse said:

hello Sirs and friends

it's been a rough day, but i'm here and glad that i am. Dad looks rougher than i expected, but his wicked sense of humor is mostly intact. His nurse today said he looks 100% better from yesterday. Mom looks frail but is holding it together. She broke down when i saw her at the hospital.

thanks for listening & the support.

you did the right thing, molly. you will have no regrets in the future. Hold on to each other. 

[Mikiesboy]

This is a wonderful 1:20   Makes me wanna go even more.

[mollyhousemouse]

13 minutes ago, MichaelS36 said:

you did the right thing, molly. you will have no regrets in the future. Hold on to each other. 

thank You Sir, it feels right

35 minutes ago, BHopper2 said:

Hang in there, girl. You got this!

thanks A

[Brayon]

3 minutes ago, Mikiesboy said:

This is a wonderful 1:20   Makes me wanna go even more.

It is beautiful country.

[Wayne Gray]

1 hour ago, mollyhousemouse said:

hello Sirs and friends

it's been a rough day, but i'm here and glad that i am. Dad looks rougher than i expected, but his wicked sense of humor is mostly intact. His nurse today said he looks 100% better from yesterday. Mom looks frail but is holding it together. She broke down when i saw her at the hospital.

thanks for listening & the support.

Awww.  I'm sorry you hurt today, molly.  But, what a gift you gave.  What a gift, for a parent to look and see their child there waiting for them when they open their eyes.

The hard things... they are the ones worth doing.  You did well today.

[Reader1810]

1 hour ago, BHopper2 said:

I totally suck at this pre-posting timer stuff. Ugh... that chapter wasn't supposed to come out till Monday.

You’re not the only one to have this issue, A. I think there’s a bug that is immune to fixing. 

[Brayon]

Just now, Reader1810 said:

You’re not the only one to have this issue, A. I think there’s a bug that is immune to fixing. 

I thought it worked at first, and then I had to fix a format error. I think that may have done it.

[Reader1810]

1 hour ago, mollyhousemouse said:

hello Sirs and friends

it's been a rough day, but i'm here and glad that i am. Dad looks rougher than i expected, but his wicked sense of humor is mostly intact. His nurse today said he looks 100% better from yesterday. Mom looks frail but is holding it together. She broke down when i saw her at the hospital.

thanks for listening & the support.

Hang in there, molly. As for us listening and offering support, we do and we are - always.   

[Reader1810]

2 minutes ago, BHopper2 said:

I thought it worked at first, and then I had to fix a format error. I think that may have done it.

Good for you, A.