so waht ya doin today?

[fiver]

picture #3 is the only one of the right side.
all the others are of the left side.
she went through the gate and stayed on the paved walk way down the middle to take the pic's and somehow didn't show any of that, or the stuff I actually have planted.
but you all get the picture of what I have been doing the last 6-7 weeks.

 

[fiver]

oh no that's mine, the wife took them.
I don't think there are any stock pic's like that. [or I hope not anyway]
Littlegirl is probably sick of looking at it and she has only been over 3-4 times to help with the cement work.
she definitely has no pictures.

all of that brown orange color is 'Deck Correct' stained to a red-wood tint,
and all of the wood is pressure treated weather proof stuff.
I love the combination of the two.
water and sun just rolls off the deck correct [it's a polymer coating from PPG] and will fill in any cracks or whatever in the wood.
all of the wood sitting on the ground has that and it all sits on a piece of plastic lawn edging stapled to the bottom.
the outside edge [grass side] is a 2x2 screwed to the 2x6's at the bottom, the plastic is on the bottom and it sticks out about 1" to keep the grass away from the wood and to make it easier to mow.

I figure I need about 100 cubic feet of top soil to fill in the rest of the boxes I will add a layer of potting soil, and fertilize everything with 16-16-16 and then they will get covered with black plastic weed stop and left to do their thing until next year.

to give an idea of the size it is 22' from the picket fence to the solid wood mini-fence.
from the edge of the pavement [to the left] to the 6' tall stained cedar fence is 45', to the right is 40' and the walk way is 5'6" wide.
there is 104 screws holding the sprinkler system up on the left side and 102 screws on the right side.
[yep one more hold down strap]

 

[Winelover]

Coming up on 41 years, the end of next month. Can't recall what we did for our 20th......probably drove out West. On our 10th, I kept my promise to take Cindy back to Yellowstone, where we went for our honeymoon. She just returned from Alaska on Monday. She took 1500 pictures.

 

[smokeywolf]

Welcome back to Cindy.
John and Cindy have the Mrs. and I beat by 20 years, as of last week.

Went out at 7AM and hooked the concrete guys up to power. Bobcat is supposed to show up today to start breaking up the old asphalt driveway.

 

[uncle jimbo]

I am going fishing with my youngest son.

 

[popper]

Taking advil and typing one handed. Doc made a 1 1/2 slice in left to remove some squamish stuff. She's planning a family get together in Estes next year for the 50th. Wanted to go to Williamsburg this year, not far away - huh? That's just outside Norfolk. Then she says maybe the Ark in Ky. Another tourist trap I don't care about. In revenge she decided we'd keep her nephew's dog for a couple weeks.
i did read an interesting article yesterday about a contrifical supercharger driven by a CVT & planetary gear. 1:10000 speed ratio. Seems like the throttle body can go. Uses a variable viscosity fluid so the CVT elements never actually touch - low loss. Supposed to be no lag even at low speed 7 entire unit is 13#.

 

[Hawk]

Am going thru an old tackle box I haven't been in in 25-30 years.
Bomber Model A s, Chuggers, big and small deep diving Bombers (cant remember their names, Lazy Ikes, all size Rapalas and others I cant even remember the names of. Probably forty lures.
Had a plastic divided box of plastic worms, shad and other stuff. Thought I would dump the worms and reuse the box. Box has about a half inch of liquid in it where the worms have started to dissolve. Don't know what would clean that up, but not sure it's worth it for a 3 dollar box.
We used to have a boat in the 80s and would fish all the time. Sold the boat in 1990. Dallas lakes are too crowded to fish on anymore, anyway.
Don't know what to do with them. I'll probably never use them again, but don't want to just throw them away.
Need to find someone with a big pond.

 

[Hawk]

Did have about 10 lbs of lead in it. Dad and I cast our own jigs and slabs and he had a 7 lb weight with small chains that we would use to free lures that had gotten snagged on the bottom.

 

[RBHarter]

Did about 4.5,hr today , soaked from my scalp to my socks .......there's a little something that never happened in the desert ....... Got up to what the Piutes call white death ...... except it was 70° not -7° ...... Digging the humidity , really I am ...or something . Have to go do a mower belt this afternoon maybe get a tractor loaded to dig a ditch tomorrow cause 7 post holes kicked my whinny little burro today . Heat index is a real thing .........how the devil did they fight a war in this ? If it weren't for a promise I'd be loading the trucks back up cause ........yuk .

 

[fiver]

Uncle Jimbo fishes Flaming Gorge, that's a Pretty big/deep pond.
most of the lakes I fish ain't so big but are stretched out with long shore lines.

now I'm debating whether to get back to the front porch-south side of the house or keep going on the Garden stuff.
my next door neighbors wife seen our porch all torn up and he ended up having to re-do his.

I'm thinking I'm going to do a small 8'X8' roofed porch around the front door shaded in on one side with some Lattice, and a gate on the front so I can move furniture in and out of the front door.
I can step up after that and do a porch along the whole front of the house except the last 4' or so by the Garage door and put a little flower garden and the steps there.
I'd have to pour about 3.5-4 yds of cement to level everything out first, but the resulting shade would surely help cool the house in summer and move snow away from the house in the winter.

 

[Hawk]

Temperature here in Texas has been really high. Thermometer in my backyard has said a hundred and seven degrees, 108 degrees and 109 degrees consecutively for the last 3 days. It's supposed to be hotter today through the weekend.

 

[waco]

Gotta guy coming over in a few hours to give me a bid on painting my house. No. I don't want to do it myself...I'd rather write a check...

 

[Intheshop]

Worked waaaay to hard today.... tiling a shower that's as big as a small walk in closet,has twin shower heads.Heck,the bathroom is the size of a small bedroom.

Gotta go to my first cardiac rehab tomorrow, haha.... practing putting on my pitiful face.But there is a cpl good looking nurses.

 

[Intheshop]

Gotta guy coming over in a few hours to give me a bid on painting my house. No. I don't want to do it myself...I'd rather write a check...

Good luck with your project..... paint has gotten $$$ here. Generally you get what you pay for.I was a pretty loyal Sherwin Williams guy but about 5 or so years ago they've gotten a little uppity.Prices going up,quality.... ehhh? Ben Moore has been the mover and shaker (Ha) quality wise over the same period.

 

[Rick]

Gotta guy coming over in a few hours to give me a bid on painting my house. No. I don't want to do it myself...I'd rather write a check...

I understand exactly how you feel. For me it's nearly anything but painting.

 

[fiver]

I like the painting part.
it's all the prep work I hate, I pick and poke and re-work on it, then poke at it some more.
I know the prep part makes the whole job look good or not so good when it's all said and done.

 

[Intheshop]

Paint equals money to a builder 'cause it's about the last thing you do whether it's a steel fabrication,a cabmet,a house,a racebike,a gunstock,a bow,etc....... so yeah,I love to paint.

 

[Winelover]

Nix the paint and go with siding, cry once.................

 

[fiver]

I would love to do siding.
some outfit was in the neighborhood going door to door hawking the stuff and I went and tracked down one of the salesmen.
[he had went right on by earlier]
I was like look my place is X feet by X feet and this tall at the eaves in the front and back.
he was like,,,, well,, it's not the front and back that's the problem, nor the garage.
it's the 35' up to the sides over your entranceway and over the Garage.
that roof is awful steep right there and we would have to use a boom lift.
I was like look I painted the place and replaced the trim up there just working off a ladder, okay a couple of Ladders, but still.
finally he was like okay, we start measuring the place.
I show him the patterns I want and he starts clicking off numbers on his calculator and makes a phone call to his boss clicks on his calculator some more and finally looks at me and says it would be between 40 and 42,000$.
hmm that's a lot of 5 gallon buckets of paint and calk and trim pieces.

 

[Winelover]

You could brick the place, for that kind of money. I doubt you have this kind of square footage to cover. Didn't run that much to brick this place, when I had it built in 2012.