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Another weekend, another sunburn
I've made Michelle promise me that this coming weekend will involve indoor projects. I knew as I was making my demand that's a promise she can't keep, and it was mostly for my own benefit. I already know I'm going to spend the better part of Saturday in the backyard cleaning up: we're having a gathering a guitarists at our place in two weeks, and there's a big pile of lumber left over from building the deck that's got to be used up or carted away.
Moved a chain link fence this weekend, that was the Big Project. The Reader's Digest condensed version goes like this: for years the backyard was bisected by a fence to provide a DogPoop-Free Zone for the kidlets to play in. Nice idea but it never caught on, so I moved the fence, turned it really, 90 degrees so instead of bisecting the yard it terminates the driveway. The truly fun part was getting to use a jackhammer to cut holes in the blacktop for the posts. At eighty pounds it's probably the heaviest tool I've ever used, and it just beats you to Hell and back.
Our backyard is now twice the size it was - or at least, the conveniently available area is expanded, and it looks Friggin' Huuuuuge.
I sometimes wish I didn't feel that knowing how to do something constrains one to do it when it needs doing. But, seeing as I can't afford to pay someone to do it for me, well, there we are. Or, more accurately, there I am. Or was. Whatever.
Did have a Pretty Neat Idea™ regarding some of the remains of the old deck. There's some scrap 1-by stock, and the old steps. A 6' high fence borders our yard on the North (there's a story there, but it'll keep). I'm going to take the old steps and mount them to the fence. Then, I'll use the leftover 1-by's to make a "door" and frame to mount at the top of the steps...just a few feet high; a little person's door. Some landscaping around the base of the steps with a mailbox on a pole, and we'll have a little hobbit door in the fence. I think it'll be cute; I'll post pictures when it's done if anyone wants to see it.
Moved a chain link fence this weekend, that was the Big Project. The Reader's Digest condensed version goes like this: for years the backyard was bisected by a fence to provide a DogPoop-Free Zone for the kidlets to play in. Nice idea but it never caught on, so I moved the fence, turned it really, 90 degrees so instead of bisecting the yard it terminates the driveway. The truly fun part was getting to use a jackhammer to cut holes in the blacktop for the posts. At eighty pounds it's probably the heaviest tool I've ever used, and it just beats you to Hell and back.
Our backyard is now twice the size it was - or at least, the conveniently available area is expanded, and it looks Friggin' Huuuuuge.
I sometimes wish I didn't feel that knowing how to do something constrains one to do it when it needs doing. But, seeing as I can't afford to pay someone to do it for me, well, there we are. Or, more accurately, there I am. Or was. Whatever.
Did have a Pretty Neat Idea™ regarding some of the remains of the old deck. There's some scrap 1-by stock, and the old steps. A 6' high fence borders our yard on the North (there's a story there, but it'll keep). I'm going to take the old steps and mount them to the fence. Then, I'll use the leftover 1-by's to make a "door" and frame to mount at the top of the steps...just a few feet high; a little person's door. Some landscaping around the base of the steps with a mailbox on a pole, and we'll have a little hobbit door in the fence. I think it'll be cute; I'll post pictures when it's done if anyone wants to see it.