I woke up early on Sunday, so I read in bed until the news
came on. I drank several cups of coffee watching the news all morning. Then I
remembered I never filled in the Blog! Yikes!!!
I took care of that, then shaved and showered. Before I got
dressed, I had to decide if I was going to go to Home Depot, Costco and Kroger’s
or just stay home. I ended up putting my stay-at-home clothes on.
I watched several DIY shows while waiting for the
temperature to rise. Finally, about 2:30 p.m., I went out and pulled the truck
outside near the road. I set up my sanding station where the truck sits. I got
out a mask and put that on. Then I put 60 grit sandpaper on the palm sander and
started shaping the heads and tails of the two rocking horses.
Sounds simple, right? Wrong! Because you are not just
sanding these big chunks of wood. You are rounding edges, smoothing curves and
enhancing them enough so they look like a horse’s head and tail. Two hours and
four sheets of 60 grit later, my arm gave out. Palm sanders are a bitch if you
have a bad rotator cuff.
So, I opened the garage door, turned on the air compressor,
blew myself off and blew the sawdust outside (which is why I pulled the truck
so far back, BTW) and moved everything back. Then I pulled the truck back in.
I went inside and left my sanding crocs (the ones without
holes) at the doorway. I went in the bedroom and changed into my robe. I took
my clothes downstairs. I was in my bare feet and realized, despite all my
precautions yesterday and today, I was walking on sawdust. Dammit!!!
So, I put my slippers on and got out the vacuum. I did the
two walk-off rugs, both outside and inside the garage man-door. Then I did the
downstairs. I did the two stair steps and then the whole main house.
Sidebar: As you may know, I only have the large area rug in
the living room. Now, I normally just run the vacuum over it. But I recently
learned that you are supposed to do it in a checkerboard pattern, one direction
and then the other. It’s something about lifting the fibers (or something). So,
I did that. I dunno, maybe everybody knew that but me.
I cleaned it out and put away the vacuum. Then I started the
last of the weekend wash.
I realized I’d forgotten to take anything out of the freezer
for my Sunday supper. In my defense, I’d planned on getting the catfish that
was on sale at Kroger’s and having me a fish fry. Be that as it may, I was
screwed.
So, I took out a pound of ground round, a pork tenderloin
and the last of the smoked turkey breast from Honey-Baked ham. All of that can
be used this week, but not today.
So, today, I made Jake’s mac and cheese with Hormel’s hot
chili. I couldn’t eat all of it (of course) but man, that hit the spot!
I watched some TV, but then switched to reading until I was
tired. Then I went to bed.
checkerboard? I have never heard that before!
ReplyDeleteMe either! But, it did seem to work better.
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