Stopped by Mom's on the way to the Y, to finally fill the holes I screwed up when putting on her kitchen cabinet handles. The patch job looks good; if necessary, I can go back and do a faux wood grain thing with some stain, but Mom seems happy with it ( Read more... )

Le Y ( Read more... )

I put flea stuff on the cats this morning, which involved first going to the vet for more flea stuff. A "six month" supply goes fast, with three cats ( Read more... )

Well, sort of ( Read more... )

Caulk has been caulked, and the remaining new siding has been painted. There's still plenty to do, including a second coat of paint before I get started on deck stuff, but I did not have to tack up plastic over any part of the house when I finished today. Finally.Then I went to help Mom move stuff into the condo -- for what that was worth. It ( Read more... )

Hmm, as of last update, I'd started with the joint compound. Hoo, boy.

Last week, I patched and sanded and patched and sanded and patched and sanded. Eventually I had to accept that the walls would not become smooth in any reasonable amount of time. (The old walls, that is. My new drywall is a paragon of smoothness. The old drywall is crap; ( Read more... )

Two weeks ago today, Mom came down to put some finishing touches on the condo, specifically cabinet knobs and some kind of closet organizer. So, Friday through Sunday we shopped... and shopped... and shopped. Got knobs for the bathroom cabinets, including a couple of cute lizard-shaped ones for the guest bath. Kitchen cabinet handles would have ( Read more... )

Paid my third-quarter taxes. Well, some of them, anyway. As long as it all balances at year-end, the assorted revenue services seem happy enough. Yay for savings account, where money was conveniently hiding ( Read more... )

Assorted stuff from the last few days ( Read more... )

I have done many things over the past few days. Unfortunately, keeping accurate and detailed notes was not one of them, so no bullet-pointed ego-boosting list of day-by-day accomplishments for me. :-( Things I can remember include a whole lot of computer set-up, the majority of the file conversions for the "compressed" version of the client ( Read more... )