I stand before you all today a man of accomplishment. I allowed myself to sleep in a bit today (around 9:30) and then I immediately launched into a whirlwind rage against my list of “To-Do’s”.
I trimmed as many of the low hanging limbs from the front Chinese Elm tree. I bundled said limbs into waste management approved bundles and placed them on my curb. I then set to the task of sanding and painting my garage door, starting by removing the CRAPPY barn door accouterments that were made out of some sort of 1970’s miracle foam. They were so wonderfully durable that a few of them crumbled in my hands, and I found that they were affixed with some sort of glue.
This glue was not doing an adequate job, and after about an hour with a palm sander I found that it was just much easer to grab the paint scraper and put some muscle behind it and the paint (with glue attached) would flake off quite readily. I figure this is because water trapped itself behind the foam doodads and made the paint bubble slightly.
About an hour at that and I had a garage door ready for painting. Dad stopped by and we ran to the hardware store to pick up some nuts (easy there
Luckily, 14th Street Hardware in Pekin is OLDER than time and had plenty replacement parts on hand. $0.71 and a bit of elbow grease later, and my garage door was sound as a pound. I then turned my attention to painting the garage door, I am one coat of exterior white down and it already looks like a new door.
I plan to do another coat tomorrow morning and then re-paint the black trim when I’m complete. Tomorrow the chains come out and we’re ripping out some hedges! What will go in their place? New plants? That red cedar ground covering they use in playgrounds? A 1/4 scale statue of
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