Rot Doctor

After a late night of watching Olympics, we were both too tired to walk this morning.

Whenever I get a few minutes I have been organizing around the new cabinet in the shop, I got a light installed in what will be the battery charging area and got the fuselages arranged on the pegboard.  I also got half the new drawer handles installed on the right side of the cabinet.

I made a trip over to see the twins, Ava (I think!) is showing me she is 3 years old now.  When I left there, UPS had showed up with the epoxy.  I took it to the shop and read the directions (a first), then mixed up a batch and started repairing the deck.  It has a two hour pot life, so I had plenty of time to use up the quart I had mixed.  We spent another evening enjoying the Olympics.

Short blog today, More Deck!

Vera had bible study this morning, while she was gone, I researched wood repair online.  I found a couple of rotten spots in the deck that need repair before going any further.  I found an epoxy product that is injected into the rotten wood to repair it, so I ordered it.  The company turned out to be in Seattle, so I will have it tomorrow.  I spent the rest of the day repairing a crack in the sidewalk.  No pictures today, we spent the evening watching the Olympics.

Wax?

Yep, wax makes boards slide together much better, I wish that I had thought of it yesterday.  I was sliding 2x6's under the deck and they were a tight fit.  On the third one, I tried oil, it helped a little, but I still did a lot of pounding.  Today I remembered wax makes things slide better, I got a candle from Vera, used the torch to heat the wood and melt the candle.  It went in half way with hardly any resistance, then I had to pound on it a little the last half, but I was done in about 10 minutes!  Vera's new shelves came today, all bent up!  I printed out the receipt and we took them back to Home Depot for a refund.  We picked up a couple of things for my projects and forgot one item we have been meaning to get.  After we got home, I finished screwing down the boards, had dinner, watched some Olympics and went out the do some more organizing in the shop.  It was really nice outside so I decided to fly the little helicopter instead.  I got in two nice flights and then went out to the shop.  I hunted everywhere for my blue masking tape, Vera came out and found it in about 2 minutes.  I must have walked by it ten times!  We got the pressure washer out so I can do the deck tomorrow.  I decided it was time to call it a day and come in here for the evening.

I am always talking about the little helicopter, this will give you an idea how small it is.  It's battery is sitting in the teaspoon, it will fly 8 minutes with that battery.

Winter Wood

After our walk this morning we went to 4 Corners Farm Store and bought a ton and a half of wood pellets.  By 10:30 we had them all stacked in the wood shed and then I started working on reinforcing the porch.  When things quit going my way on that project, I took a break and mowed the lawn.

When I finished that, I sprayed some weeds, filled the ponds, put algacide in the bigger pond and watered some plants.  Our wild flower mix that we had planted by the pond is starting to bloom and the water lilies are continuing to bloom, so it is looking good.  I finally ran out of excuses, so I went back to working on the porch.  I did not get done, but reached a good stopping point for the day.  We watched some more Olympics, then I came in to edit pictures and do my blogs, now it is off to bed so I can get up in time to walk tomorrow.

This cabinet is turning into a big job!

This is the cabinet I got.  I spent the day emptying the old shelves and making repairs to the cabinet.  One of the handles was broken, and I broke another bringing it home, so we made a run to Longview looking for a new one.  No one had anything like them, so we bought a different style.  We went to Safeway for a few things and they had flower pots at half price, so we bought two for Vera's new lavender plants.  By the end of the day, I had put the cabinet in place, but have not filled it yet.  I came in and spent the evening watching the Olympics.

Mountain Mania

We headed down to Mountain Mania this morning and the first thing we saw was Myrna with her tractor.  She uses it in tractor pulls, we have seen her several times at the Toledo Thrashing Bee.

There were lots of flower booths this year.  They had live music and Zumba in front of Bredfield's.

Just as we were cutting through the alley by the library, the Life Flight helicopter came in to land next to the fire hall (first picture), it was blowing tables and dirt everywhere, so it backed up over city hall (second picture) and hovered while they cleared stuff out, then it landed and they put it on display (third picture).

Just as we left there, we ran into Eddie who was going to be driving the old fire truck as they gave kids and adults rides, I have ridden on it several times.

I had not been to the Pastime since the folks left it, things have not changed much.

The Lavender Garden was our next stop, it sure smelled nice there.  Vera got a couple of plants for our deck.

From there we went down to the car show at the Rock Church, we checked out the cars and had lunch there.

We started going to garage sales after the car show, one of them was off Carnine Rd in a development I never knew existed.  The people at this sale were moving to Hawaii and the prices on tools were great so I picked up a saber saw. The picture is of Silver Lake as we left their place.  We saw a cabinet we liked at a garage sale, I came home, did some measuring and went back and bought it.  I spent the rest of the day rearranging my shop where I plan on putting it.

Finally Done

After our walk, a few garage sales this morning and breakfast at the 49er, I was determined to finish up the water line job.  The first thing I did under the house was seal up a hole under the guest bathroom tub that was letting in air.  Then I started getting the plywood out from under the house.  I brought the 4 wheeler over and ran the winch line under the house to pull them out, that went OK until one got hung up  and I had to unhook it and Vera pulled the other two out with the winch.  With Vera pulling and me pushing we finally got them all out.  I took a short break and then put all the skirting back on, closed up the access panel, put the tools away, had a shower, ate dinner and took a nap.

When we got home from our walk, the doe and her twin fawns were having a snack from the plum tree.  I went in and got the camera, but could never get a good picture of the fawns.

Just before I went under the house, I heard a couple of Chinook helicopters, I got a nice picture of the maple tree, but missed the helicopters.  Then I could hear them coming back, so I grabbed the camera again, but they were too far East.  I went over and sat down by the pond, pretty soon the birds came back and started taking baths in the pond bubbler. There were three or four Nuthatches taking baths.

After my nap, I was going out to fly the helicopter, as I went out the door I saw this bunny rolling around on the ground.  I thought for a minute it was hurt but then realized it was dusting itself.  I went in, got the camera again and got this picture of it rolling.

Then it got back up and dug up some more dust before rolling around some more.  When I went to tell Vera it saw me and took off.  I finally got the helicopter and made 5 flights.