I have decided Not to wait till Spring / Summer to paint my Outdoor Furniture.  I usually Try to do it in the Spring, and I slap a hurried coat of white paint on and call it a day.  And it looked like crap.  Who cares it's outside!  Well, I do this year.  I also want to tune up the furniture and correct the wobblies, replace missing springs and ( Read more... )

I didn't get completed as I had hoped this weekend.  My problem... Painting.  I hate Painting.  I did however get 2 of the 4 bookshelves installed and the other 2 painted.  One of the units is ready to install.  The other, almost.  It needs to be taken apart enough to remove 6.5 inches of width - reassembled - final coat of paint put on and then it ( Read more... )

I got the 4 book shelves built. And on Saturday after my running... I started to paint them. All I can say is I am the worst painter. I had more paint on my shirt than I did on the shelves. I did get 2 done before I went to bed. I hope to get the rest done tomorrow and start hanging them. I actually found 5 of the original 13 L - brackets ( Read more... )

After about a week of reading, watching videos, cutting test pieces, climbing up and down the stairs and the ladder to dry fit the test cuts, interviewing Handymen to actually do the job, and racking my brain all over the place trying to do geometry (which I used to be really good at)... Saturday morning I woke up determined to beat this task to a ( Read more... )

I call it piddling, because I was not up to the level of working on this project this weekend.  I'm still having some back issues and throw in a sinus infection... and Voila!  Piddling.  What I did manage to do was uninstall the book cases, carry them to the Garage and disassemble them.


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Several years ago - Back when Krazy Kay was talking to me and way before she stopped, she took me junkin'.  She kind of taught me a few ins and outs about it.  How to regularly shop junk stores (there is a very specific way) - always get Lunch midway and a sweet treat on the way home (DQ) - How to look at items in order to maximize their potential ( Read more... )

After I got back from picking up light bulbs to fix the lights in my office (of course after I fixed them) and picking up my prescription...I came home entered in year 2001 home depot / lowes receipts.  And then I went outside and painted the fire pit.  Yes I painted it.

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I did this little project.  I repainted the Copper Solar Carriage Lights.  I have been wanting to do it for a while, but I haven't had the gumption or latex gloves.  But today... I surely did.  You see the back yard has had no attention other than mowing, an occasional trim, weekly cleanups and some minor repairs (fence, canopy, swing)... I pretty ( Read more... )