1. Cleaned up our kitchen, which had been neglected for a couple days. My wife has Parkinson’s, so one of my care giver duties is to do as much of the kitchen and laundry as I can while maintaining some semblance of outside maintenance.
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  2. It definitely happened and here's some pics.

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  4. ;)
    Sorry, I couldn't resist the zipper pics since you weren't specific
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  5. Here you go.

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  6. having trouble loading pics - keeps telling me they're too large even though they are less than 1MB

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  7. @John Beeman true, I wasn’t specific. Nice work on the walkway!

    While eagerly awaiting your pic, I added “snow” & water to my snow globe and glued in the rubber plug.
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  8. I glued in the bottom piece with the music-box movement this morning. And now it’s done!

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  9. I’m very happy with the results, so I will be starting on another one that needs a restore. The figures inside are a group of meerkats and the music box plays “Side By Side”. As you can see, the water has gotten really cloudy.

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  10. I have disassembled the Meerkat snow globe. The music mechanism works, but runs slowly. The rubber plug is still pliable, but badly discolored. So I will be replacing them both.

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  11. I never knew that meerkats could breathe underwater.
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  12. Yes, they’re surprisingly talented.
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  13. It's a "mere fact" (chuck yuk yuk)
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  14. Got to keeep maintaning that maintenance. Sorry to hear about your wife.
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  15. @BamaT Sorry your wife isn’t well. Prayers for her condition ot be managed as best it can.

    I have made some progress on the Meerkat slow globe. All the parts have arrived, so yesterday, I put the “snow”, water & glycerin into the globe and then closed it with the rubber plug (to which the figures are glued). This morning, I applied a layer of glue over the plug. I plan to do a couple of layers, to be sure it is well sealed. Once it’s cured, in a day or 2, I will add the base, with the musical movement. That is the final step.
  16. I went for s workout-first in about 5 years. Nice gym-Anytime Fitness.
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  17. The Meerkat globe is done.

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  18. Aaaah, I guess that beats my "mere cat".
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  19. Had a nice workout again.
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