Just Another Weekend
Spent a lot of it working. Probably will do the same for the next couple. When I wasn't working, I was doing something like the following.
Hiking with the dogs at Springton Manor or hiking with them and Jen at French Creek again. Jen worked too, but now her deadline is over. Her new phone system is installed and she should be back to normal life. I'm far from it. Other things to mark the weekend was rolling 200,000 miles in the mazda.
Now we can finally get rid of it. The truck, on the other hand, we can't get rid of even though it decided not to start this weekend. It only has 275,000 miles on it. The subaru, which I'd like to get rid of since the accident, has this piercing windshield squeal when you run the windshield wipers. Literally I have to drive with my finger in my ear it's so bad. I finally got around to putting Rain-x on the glass .
It actually works. I could kick myself for not doing it sooner.
What else was there?
Oh yeah. I picked up $600 worth of trim. It took two trips. This is what $400 looks like - that's 24 casings and 5 base.
The guy at Lowes was like "You've got a lot of work ahead of you." Little does he know I have so much "work", that I'm actually looking forward to this project.
I also threw up this little gate to help with Gretchen's Invisible Fence training.
The invisible fence teaches her going outside the yard is bad, so to teach her going to the park is ok (with us), we put in this gate. Hopefully she'll learn going through the gate is ok, but going through anywhere else is bad. So far. She won't go near it and she hasn't even been shocked yet. I think the problem is the white flags on either side of it. I should get a section for each side to connect to trees. Maybe without the flags in her view, she'll be more inclinde to try it.
That was about it. Time to get back to work.
- b
Hiking with the dogs at Springton Manor or hiking with them and Jen at French Creek again. Jen worked too, but now her deadline is over. Her new phone system is installed and she should be back to normal life. I'm far from it. Other things to mark the weekend was rolling 200,000 miles in the mazda.
Now we can finally get rid of it. The truck, on the other hand, we can't get rid of even though it decided not to start this weekend. It only has 275,000 miles on it. The subaru, which I'd like to get rid of since the accident, has this piercing windshield squeal when you run the windshield wipers. Literally I have to drive with my finger in my ear it's so bad. I finally got around to putting Rain-x on the glass .It actually works. I could kick myself for not doing it sooner.What else was there?
Oh yeah. I picked up $600 worth of trim. It took two trips. This is what $400 looks like - that's 24 casings and 5 base.
The guy at Lowes was like "You've got a lot of work ahead of you." Little does he know I have so much "work", that I'm actually looking forward to this project.I also threw up this little gate to help with Gretchen's Invisible Fence training.
The invisible fence teaches her going outside the yard is bad, so to teach her going to the park is ok (with us), we put in this gate. Hopefully she'll learn going through the gate is ok, but going through anywhere else is bad. So far. She won't go near it and she hasn't even been shocked yet. I think the problem is the white flags on either side of it. I should get a section for each side to connect to trees. Maybe without the flags in her view, she'll be more inclinde to try it.That was about it. Time to get back to work.
- b
Labels: desperately seeking a vacation, loser, no life, work-aholic
posted by JenBob at
6:38 PM
2 Comments:
Paintable caulk will be your best friend in a trim/molding project.
Just finished re-doing a couple rooms of our house.
Also, follow the "measure twice, cut once" mantra, but cut a little on the long side (1/16") and trim back as needed for a perfect fit.
I still prefer a mitered cut for inside corners of baseboard trim versus using a coping saw.
Also, another great invention is the pre-primed molding.
With all these time and angst saving tips I've offered, you best be able to get on your bike soon.
i agree on the mitered cut for inside corners, but haven't had the balls to not do what I'm supposed to.
As far as the per-primed stuff goes, have you met my wife? Better yet, keep your wife from meeting mine. The pre-primed stuff wasn't nice enough. We had to go with some complicated two piece, extra work, are Fing kidding me kind of setup.
Though it looks really nice.
At least once you cover up all the goofs with the paintable caulk.
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