3-28-13

6:20am

60 degrees and sunny for Saturday?

Just might head down to the flea market.

I'm sure it will be cold out early in the morning

and will still need to bundle up.

Just ready to get out and do something outside.

This Winter has dragged on long enough!  


8:10am


Got the second picture ledge's trim glued on.
Awaiting for it to dry then will give it a coat of paint.
Still using the semi-gloss for now.
The only other white paint I can find is flat.
Thinking about mixing a little of the
semi-gloss with the flat to produce a paint
with less sheen to it.  
I'm hoping to have the shelf done and installed
this weekend.  Everyone has tomorrow off work and school.

I was also thinking that if this ledge shelf worked out
that maybe I could make one similar for my son's room,
around the entire top of the room so he could
put his HO scale train and track on it and be
able to run it.  I've always wanted to do it but
didn't know how to make the shelf til now.
I didn't want one with tacky looking brackets underneath
it holding it up.


2:45pm



It's a good thing I left when I did this afternoon
to pick up the kids that got out early today because
I came home and couldn't park in my driveway due
to our neighbor having a big box truck in her parking pad
blocking our driveway and the road.
I just parked out front along the street and came
in through the front door. 
Soon after getting
home we happened to be looking at the security cameras
and see a white van coming down the street.
He pulls off into our side driveway, pauses for a moment
to assess the truck situation blocking the road,
then decides it would be perfectly fine to
just drive through our yard and go around
the truck.   I ran out front as he was stopping at
the stop sign and was cussing up a storm at that driver .
I'm telling ya I am surrounded by idiots!!
Who in the hell drives through someone's yard
instead of turning around when the road is blocked???
Dumb asses that's who!!! 
I'm not talking about driving along the
grass line along the edge of the street,
I'm talking completely up in the yard!
There is two other driveways along our side street
that the person could of backed up into
and turned around in.

 And I thought by buying a house with much needed
parking for our vehicles that we wouldn't
have any problems with parking,  HA....HA....HA! 


4:25pm


Tonight we're heading back over to hubby's
work to pick up a boxspring, bed frame
and some pans.  Went yesterday to do it but
someone had locked the apartment up
and the office was closed so no keys to get in til today.
All was good though as I did find a hammock last night that
someone threw out.  Something I've always wanted.
The rope kind with the wood running across both ends.
It would be nice to crawl up in the hammock on
a warm day in the shade and take a nap.
Wishful thinking I know but I can dream.

 

         

  
          



    

3-27-13

8:45am

Still working little by little on my picture ledges.

I got the 3rd coat of paint on, screwed together

the second ledge and started caulking where the

two boards come together to fill in any gaps.

 It's like caulking a bathtub.

Run caulk along gaps.  Take finger and press caulk

smoothly into the gaps to fill it in.  Paint over caulk.

 I'll probably apply one more coat of paint later on

then will start gluing the trim on.

Spring break is quickly approaching and I'm

hoping to use that week to get all these projects

from shelves to bathroom to getting

the kids bedrooms done.

We've been working on getting each

child a full size bed.

Going to get a box spring and frame tonight 

(free from hubby's work.  It wouldn't fit in the truck

the other day with the mattress and have gotten some rope to

tie it to the luggage rack on top the truck)
 Still need another box spring and frame.


2:00pm


Started putting the trim on one of the ledges.
Wasn't sure what I was supposed to put it on with
so used the caulk and pieces of duct tape to hold
it on while drying.  Once dry I'll go back over it
again with caulk and fill in any gaps.
Then paint it.

   

4:00pm


One picture ledge is done, well maybe.
I do not like the semi gloss paint I used on it.
It reflects light too much and might see if
I have something more along the lines of a satin paint
and repaint it.

Too shiny!
You can see how my camera flash bounces off the paint.
Now imagine what light coming in through
the window does.  It's distracting, ughhh.  
I guess when I asked hubby for some trim paint
I should have been more specific huh.

    

Well time to start supper.
We're having bbq pulled pork spaghetti.
Then off to hubby's work after to get
the boxspring and bed frame after rush hour traffic dies down.
Been thining about a couple large planters on the vacant
apartments deck along with some really nice
pots & pans.  I didn't grab them last time I was there
and now are having second thoughts.   
Hubby wanted to grab the dishes that were left
behind as well but I don't think I have room for them.