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Paul Chambers🚧 @paul@oldfriends.live · Jul 25, 2026
A story of an unwanted carport in 4 images... #PaulsRoof The new room is near completion.
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Paul Chambers🚧 @paul@oldfriends.live · Jul 22, 2026
Hope everyone has a great day. We are taking it easy today. So far, the weather is nice so might tinker in the raised garden beds or around in #PaulsYard some. The #PaulsRoof converted carport new room is almost complete, so, hopefully today the cats can get in there and see what all the fuss and commotion is about. They are going to love the full length glass door to look out of. #SissyCat is doing better with #MillieCat but not 100% there yet. Still separating them when we leave the house for more than an hour or so.
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Paul Chambers🚧 @paul@oldfriends.live · Jul 06, 2026
tl;dr Just a general update about me with 7 subjects for #FediBusyBodies... lol🤭 1) #PaulsYard and #PaulsGarden is coming along. As far as production goes, this year will probably be a bust. Fall planting and early 2027 spring planting will hopefully result in a very productive year next year. Still have some work to do, like irrigation, but it will come in the fall and winter. (If we save $$) 2/ Still haven't got the place feeling like "my space" after we had to clear most of the house out for the floor replacement. 3/ Penny is doing fine from her Widow maker heart attack. Still have limitations but she survived it and is making the best out of the limitations. August will be two years already. The #Fediverse helped me greatly to get through it. The time she was in the hospital I was never alone because of you guys and Hashtag game player.❤️ 4/ My recent Spinal Baclofen Pump replacement surgery went smoothly, pain minimum, and no sign of infection a week in. My overall health is stable but there has been some progression in my Parkinson's plus, Multiple System Atrophy, but not as the speed that is average. My progression is way slower and they are trying to figure out why to see if they can replicate it other people with it. 5/ Taking care remotely of an 85-year-old aunt is a hard thing to do and we are preparing for her new move in here at some point. We are finishing the new room from #PaulsRoof into a suite for her. Two 180 miles round trips per week in the summer is taking its toll on me. 6/ #SissyCat still won't accept #MillieCat into the family and a few months in, we are at our wits end. Sissy's over demeanor has change. 7/ Got my self-hosting home lab setup with some #FediFriends help. Got a lot of work to do still but I already migrated MS OneDrive and Google Drive over to it. So the degoogling will be done, That's about it.
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Paul Chambers🚧 @paul@oldfriends.live · Jun 30, 2026
Replying to @stinerman@mastodon.social
@stinerman@mastodon.social We plan on doing something next year re swimming, if we can save up. I will need a pool Hoyer like lift to put me in and out. My insurance will pay for a pool lift but not any pool. But yeah, I get my best rehab to my muscles in aqua therapy. The people that did #PaulsRoof has eyed a place out the side of the living room where a deck can go if we swap a window for a door and the elevation is perfect for a generic above ground pool with it built around it...
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Paul Chambers🚧 @paul@oldfriends.live · Jun 30, 2026
Replying to @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org
@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org do you have access to recent US images? I've been searching for a recent birdseye of my house since we did #PaulsRoof and some of #PaulsYard and still learning how to grab recent ones either free or low cost
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Paul Chambers🚧 @paul@oldfriends.live · May 02, 2026
We have to get two rooms in our house totally empty by 8AM Monday morning and both Penny and I are whooped. I just put stuff in bins but both of us are dragging. They are coming to pull up the subfloor of the last two rooms that need new plywood in our old house and do some floor joist repair and posts and beams. Then, all it will be new in the house. Even though these floor repairs are covered under Medicaid's home chore and maintenance, the finish flooring isn't so we will have to save up for the finished flooring. This will burn my yearly home chore and maintenance allotment. The program pays for safety issues, basically. They are also moving my wheelchair deck and ramp to the new doorway by the former carport, now an emerging room. Note, the stuff we did with #PaulsRoof is not done with the Medicaid program that keeps me out of the nursing home. They don't do anything with roofs or elective remodeling. Before I entered the program, I was in the hospital several times per year, usually one being critical. In the decade I have been in the program I haven't had an unplanned hospital stay and only 2 ER visits. About the program: The Ohio Home Care Waiver (OHCW) is a home- and community- based services (HCBS) waiver operated by the #Ohio Department of #Medicaid (Ohio Medicaid) and is designed for individuals with physical disabilities and unstable medical conditions to receive care in their homes and communities instead of nursing facilities, hospitals, or rehabilitation facilities. OHCW allows individuals to have more control of their lives, remain active participants in their communities, and make important choices about the care they receive. The following services are covered by OHCW, as defined in OAC Rule 5160-46-04. Adult day health center services. Community integration. Community transition. Home care attendant. Home delivered meals. Home maintenance and chore. Home modification. Home medical equipment and supplies (supplemental adaptive and assistive devices). Out‐of‐home respite. Personal care aide. Personal emergency response system. Supplemental transportation. Waiver nursing. https://medicaid.ohio.gov/families-and-individuals/citizen-programs-and-initiatives/hcbs/ohio-home-care-waiver
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Paul Chambers🚧 @paul@oldfriends.live · Apr 27, 2026
Oh crud. Where we live in #AppalachianOhio you don't have to get "building permits. #Ohio Yesterday, I found out that you are supposed to self-report to the county auditor (tax dept) any "improvements" over $2000 within 60 days of starting or they hit you hard when they do the property reevaluations or, if they find out about it, and our Republican county is big on hitting people hard. I am self-reporting today to reduce any penalties, if any. "Upon the discovery of a building or improvement that has been constructed but of which the county auditor has not been notified as required by this section, the county auditor shall appraise it and place it upon the tax list and duplicate at its taxable value, together with a penalty equal to fifty per cent of the amount of taxes that would have been charged against the building or improvement from the date of construction to the date of discovery had the county auditor been notified of its construction as required by this section." If we end up in tax court, everybody on the fediverse knows we started our improvements with the intent of replacing the flat roof, #PaulsRoof, (which should be exempt from reporting) then at some point, decided to turn the carport into a health room after the bad winter prevented Penny from going to elective cardiac rehab like she did three times per week for over a year after her heart attack. :ohio2: Section 5713.17 | Duty to notify county auditor of improvement costing over $2,000 - penalty - examination of buildings. Ohio Revised Code/Title 57 Taxation/Chapter 5713 Assessing Real Estate https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-5713.17
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Paul Chambers🚧 @paul@oldfriends.live · Mar 31, 2026
Replying to on mastodon.monoceros.co.za
@uastronomer@mastodon.monoceros.co.za We recently got rid of two flat roof that joined at different pitches out of fear of leaks, and literally the day before they started building up the roof, it started leaking, nearly 6 years after we moved here and I started obsessively worrying about it. #PaulsRoof https://oldfriends.live/@paul/115640059887143072
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Paul Chambers🚧 @paul@oldfriends.live · Feb 21, 2026
Replying to on oldfriends.live
Friendly possum checking out what is going on! Update on #PaulsRoof. We decided to turn the carport into a cardio and physical therapy room, painting and music room. Carport is roughed in. In a stroke of luck, Mernards had vinyl siding on sale for $2.22 per 12 foot panel. The cheapest we found was like $15 per panel and we need 66 panels. So hooray, it will be getting siding immediately. Going to Habitat For Humanity Restore for a couple windows and doors.
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