Monday, October 31, 2022
It Was a LONG Week
Monday, October 24, 2022
The Never Ending Project
It's finally complete. Woohoo. Painting the exterior of the house is now off the Honey Do list. The 3 year part time project is over! I did get some help from a friend that has a much taller/nicer ladder than what I have. Still wasn't quite tall enough for the highest spot but he rigged up and extension to the roller and paint brush and got it done while I pretty much stood around. I was actually busy painting the lower parts I could reach while he did that, or before he got here. I am still pretty sore from all the up and down ladder climbing. Especially my calves and feet. Oh my. His help made sure it got done in two days and no one was injured falling off my make shift scaffold which will now be disposed of. I am so very thankful for his help. And we actually had a good time.
Now on to other Honey Do projects like the yearly trimming of the whiskers on the Oak trees. Then my garage will get a major overhaul. My plan is to get rid of tons of stuff I have been a pack rat with. That means some things may get tossed I may need later...you know how that goes. There is just no room to really do anything I want to do in there and everything gets lost. And someone else thinks that when there is no room for her stuff, just set it somewhere in the garage-that has no room. Ugh. We just have to get in the mindset to toss it. That's easy for 'K,' when it's my stuff lol. She has a whole wall of things left over from her jewelry business. I have been after her for years to thin it down. Her craft room is even worse. She hasn't been ready to think she is finally done with it. She does fiddle with stuff on occasion by making a piece of jewelry for someone as a gift. It's gonna be tough to get her to change her mind.
HAPPY TRAILS
Monday, October 17, 2022
I'm Baa-aack
Dan Tyminski
Monday, October 10, 2022
Range Time etc.
Monday, October 3, 2022
Busy Days and Great Weather
I have been trying to knock out more things on the Honey Do List, taking advantage of this great weather. I've gotten past some of the harder painting. Some of it included me having to climb on the roof and lay down on my back to paint under the eaves. I would say I have about 3/4 complete now. It should go pretty fast from here. The only hiccup are the two highest peaks of the roof and the areas there that need to be painted. I don't have any ladders that tall. I have done it before, multiple times, the last being 15 years ago by my estimation. I used a home made scaffold with two ladders on the very top (high-about 8') and managed to reach those areas. Now, this much later in life, I find I am not as stable up there as I used to be. I've fallen off one of those ladders before and broke a bunch of stuff. Don't want that to happen again at this point in my life. But I think I may have it figured out with an extension and a couple rollers. Once I get this finished I won't be doing it again if I live long enough. And yes, I am very sore and have been all week. By the way, CBD oil apparently is working for me.
I took down a small Hackberry tree that was growing between my fence and the neighbors along with a lot of other undergrowth. The previous owners of the house next door placed a fence right up next to mine. They never said anything (like I did with mine) just did it and I am left fighting all the grass and hackberries that grow up in there. They never saw it as they built a privacy fence. Out of site out of mind I guess. I actually had to cut my fence to get at that junk. But it's gone now and it will get treated with plenty of herbicide.
It's getting closer and closer for our mini road trip. I got a new battery put in the vehicle we will be going in. It left 'K' stranded the other day. She got it jumped and home without further incident. I had one of the portable battery pack jumpers but it was dead too. It had been in the car a couple years. I will remember to check the charge on it ever so often now. I thought that Lithium battery would hold a charge longer than that. It did, but not enough to start an SUV. Glad that dead battery didn't happen on our trip. I just had the car serviced last month and they checked the battery and it was good to go. It just didn't have enough amps to turn over. Anyway, we are both chomping at the bit to get out and about for a bit. Now if 'K' can relax enough leaving the dogs alone for a few days (for the most part).
Happy Trail