So I put some in I think they look sweet even though I basically did a bad job

The original stairs were pretty beaten up oak. Here's the stairs halfway done

Here is the stairs before sanding, priming and painting. They stayed like this for about 18 months because we got busy and couldn't decide on finishing.

My wife was trying to clean our kettle

I said, it needs CLR

she asked what CLR is

I said Calcium Lime and Rust. There is also Lime-Away.

She put the CLR in there. Then she washed it out many times. All of the mineral deposits washed away. She rinsed it out with water many more times, and then eventually cleaned it with vinegar after rinsing it many times. At least, I think that's how she cleaned it. She's the kettle cleaner, I don't know much about it, other than that CLR exists.

It was very clean for a few months.

We got a regular kettle after that

I was super stressed about it (still is, thanks for all the help and good words in the knives instances) I guess I will see if I did good on my next camping trip.

I don't have much experience with car repair.

Woke up to a very dead 2018 Lincoln. It was the battery. Bought a new battery which turned out to be a heck of a chore in an mkx. I dropped a ratchet into the engine. I crawled underneath to see if I could pull it out. That's what I noticed this bolt sticking out. A little research, a jack and jack-stand, a 15mm wrench et voila.

Just another dull day.

I consider myself lucky with how this went.

Edit: The second picture

Not the electric screen and rocking chair but pretty much everything else....I should be more specific. I closed in my little porch and love it.

Anyone find you need a list to remember the list?

Hopefully the 4th time I visit the hardware store to rebuild this mailbox I will remember the list of things that helps me remember the things I need.

I did a stupid and want to say thanks to the NHS who patched me up. Ask me about the stupid, it's pretty stupid.

Made the mistake of buying sushi at a 24 Hour grocery shop planning on eating at that night. It’s sat in the fridge for two days. I live somewhat out in the country and I went to grab a snack and grab two little rolls out of it and scarf those down real fast so I can get up to the mountains and sight in some of my rifles.

At this time, the sushi and question was about four days old and in the fridge and it was not one of my brightest ideas, but I figured I would grab one or two scarf down real fast so I can make it up in the mountains before I got dusk and make it back.

I was not feeling too hot on the way back, but I figured it was just because I’ve been running around and doing a bunch of driving and getting all my equipment together and what not. This, however, was not the case. I ended up picking up a mild case of food poisoning, and I hadn’t been this sick since I had malaria and Afghanistan where liquid was coming out of both ends.

I tried to relieve my butt area with wet wipes, and even putting one folded up just between the butt cheek cheeks just to keep it so it didn’t burn like a volcano that did not work.

So once again and a stroke of genius, I decided hey lotion, shoes, and I have some cocoa butter so I use that and let me tell you this it was like throwing gasoline on a burning fire.

I got the proper medication now, which is just over-the-counter. I’m feeling a little better able to keep down solid mostly out of both ends. Sorry about the TMI (Too much information.)

But on a positive note before I left the shooting area, which is up in the woods by me about 35 minutes away I cleaned up two bags trash and so that’s why I thought I was tired and in a little out of sorts, but according to the VA, I just have a case of food poisoning and it’s been years since I had a case like this and I don’t recommend it and I realize that there is plenty of my steps that I did to myself, but I would just like to put out that Intel in case anybody else runs across that sort of situation. Do not use lotion. Use the Destin or whatever your country has and you will be a whole lot happier camper.

I really enjoy this community even though I don’t post it’s nice seeing good things around the world and good people working on small things for their community or their houses or their cars are improving little things on here and there and I have definitely used a lot of your advice so my advice is not probably up to the caliper that you guys have given me but I’d figure I’d throw in my token with that and yeah I hope you guys are staying safe out there wherever we are around the world and have a happy day evening afternoon whatever time zone your end.

P.S. The picture is of the scenery up there by the mountain not the actual makeshift shooting range, but it’s a lot prettier and I figure you guys might all enjoy that.

Hope y’all have a splendid day and just like to say that it’s nice to open up this community and get positive news with everything that’s going on in the world so thanks for that and if this post violates any of the rules or anything like that, feel MODS to remove it. I’m primarily a worker so I’m still trying to walk that line in between everything what’s appropriate and what’s not.

There's a lot of them, and they're actively buzzing around. I suppose they'll have a good chance to survive the winter, unless a bear gets them. I probably won't take much if any honey, so they'll have more.

cross-posted from: https://toast.ooo/post/15112115

Canvas 2026 starts tomorrow!

tomorrow! it's tomorrow! in almost 24 hours we begin!

if you haven't heard of this before-- Canvas is a yearly event grant's been running since 2023, and it's a real-time collaborative pixel canvas that runs for 48 hours, just for the Fediverse!

How do I join?

On the website you'll be able to login using fediverse-auth (it works similar to "sign in with google")

if your app supports it, you can also login directly with it ✨

You can also test the login process directly on the site (click the emojis!)

Changelog (vs last week)

Contributions welcome! sc07.dev/sc07/canvas

• [fbebffc] Allow color picking the void or empty space (Ategon)
• [c5a17eb] Add a pixel available chime offset setting (Ategon)
• [7bef4c8] Prevent the settings sidebar from resizing (Ategon)
• [c04c9e1] Make admin and mod buttons compactable (Ategon)
• [5ec44d6] Allow scrolling through keybindings (Ategon)
• [e0fbffa] Show initial canvas coordinates properly (Ategon)
• [8473cd5] chore: update all dependencies (Grant)
• [f42798b] Fix extra color pick on primary when selecting with secondary (Ategon)
• [7e4d906] docs: add AI policy (Grant)
• [fe62158] Add Cursors of other Users & fix eslint checks (Ategon, Grant)
• [01bf450] Add keybindings for zoom (Ategon)
• [c60b152] Add a custom bottom mobile bar with a different color picker (Ategon)
• [22ea4dc] Add panning using keyboard (Ategon)
• [0d3e249] Makes the palette ignore dark reader converting (Ategon)
• [4d6b217] Add the pixel count to the favicon (Ategon)
• [9b7a7ea] ci: remove unused variables (Grant)
• [a6be389] ci: move image build (Grant)

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Fits 2 sticks of butter, cream, coffee, and chocolate chips in the center console. More updates later.

The (indoor) swimming pool is closed for 2 weeks during summertime (welcome to Sweden) that's also why a year subscription is valid for 54 weeks.

So instead I went to a nearby lake to swim during my lunch break. (The biggest advantage to that specific beach is you only have to bring a towel.)

Believe it or not, there is a mile long island a half mile away, and it cannot be seen due to forest fire smoke. The Air Quality index is currently at 1650. It is considered unsafe for anyone to be outdoors now. And I can even smell the smoke inside the house now. There are no birbs flying around the yard and not even insects are in the air.

Usually, we can blame forest fire smoke on Canada, I do live quite close to the border. But this year, it's our own forests that are on fire. I'm about 150 miles west of the fires and the smoke caught up with us yesterday and has just gotten worse and will remain so until the fires are put out I think.

Kind of makes me glad I'm waiting on knee surgery next week and can't walk well enough to be out and about wandering the forest.

I didn't want to go to the hardware store so i tried to fix the fan myself. I got it working again so now my wife will be very pleased.

this one's a girl, you can tell because the chin is the same color as the body. Also because she's like 2x the size of all the boy frogs I caught.

also I have such chubby hands in photos it's so unfair, curse my mom's baby hand genetics 😔