Didn’t get all that much done this weekend…we chose to relax most of Saturday. Ate nice meals. Drove around and looked at property. Talked. Solved all the worlds problems at one time or another. Sunday, we trimmed some trees and did the final prep on the sunroom for paint. “Trimmed some trees” is actually harder [...]
On the Square
Brake it.
Went to back the Left-handed Fargle-snorker out of the yard to mow the grass around it…was just a bit surprised when I put on the brakes and there was nothing there. Nothing gets the heart going like a big truck rolling down the road with no brakes. A bit of creative driving and all was [...]
Paint
Full power restored….
*schhniiick* “Full power restored.” “Excellent! More than a match for poor Enter….” Oh…wait…that’s a different movie. Ah well. This weekend was a change. A real change. I’m not quite sure what to make of it yet. See, for the first time in like 4 months…it wasn’t raining (or 10 degrees!) all weekend. Wow! Ground that [...]
On the Square
Whoosh! (the sound of money departing at high speed and volume)
I ordered the shakes for our 1880′s Gothic Debatable tower today. I’m replacing all the cedar on it. Got some trim work around the edge of the roof to do as well. Oh, and a couple pieces of tin to fabricate. 12 cartons…96 shingles/carton. 3 different patterns (fancy-ing this up just a bit). I’m pretty [...]
Pets
The Weekend Off…
Well, with forcast temperatures in the teens, we decided we wouldn’t be getting much work done this weekend. Painting? Uh, no. Not only do I not want to be outside, but the paint would be somewhat solidified. We may have lost some paint anyway…since some of it was stored in parts of the house that [...]
Projects
Padded…
ROAD TRIP!!! So, I jumped in the left-handed fargle-snorker and trucked on up to Clarksville on Saturday. The trip itself is kind of a big deal. It’s an old rig, yet brand new to me, so I’d no experience as to its reliability etc. The gas gauge doesn’t work, and I didn’t even know what [...]
Pictures
Boom goes up. Boom goes down. Boom goes up. Boom goes down…
Playing with the new toy…ur…tool…TOOL today. TOOL. Wanted to get used to the boom movement/bounce etc…since I haven’t been on a boom truck since my Llamco Electric days…gad…30ish years ago…and that was a squirt boom instead of a knuckle boom… Anyway, wanted to test it out and practice a bit before trying to use it [...]
Tools
Guys. Tools. The left-handed fargle-snorker.
Most of us that have aged beyond our second decade realize something about guys. They’re guys. Single minded. Determined. Sweaty. Messy. Passionate. We LIKE blowing stuff up. Pretty simple creatures. Our lives revolve around just a few things. 1) What’s for breakfast? 2) When can I get laid? 3) (hands shaking) Is there something around [...]
Tools
Casualty
Our first casualty on this project…my Skil Saw. An actual Skil brand Skil saw even. Dead. Spectacularly dead in point of fact. And at the tender age of only…(divides by pi, carries the two)…wait, what? Really? I’ve had that Skil saw 20 years! Just how did that happen? Used to be I just plain wasn’t [...]
Tools
Ordered another tool…
Well, after spending several weekends of rooftop acrobatics getting this dormer ready for paint…lots of scraping, manufacturing new and repairing some fishscales, reattaching many of the rest, repairing the trim, and rebuilding the sills, I finally got to the point where it was time to paint. Well, prime, actually. I’m slapping on a coat of [...]
