- I’m pretty sure Irish Woman’s journal entry for tonight will begin “Dear Diary, Today I worked my husband like a rented mule.”.
- The gods of do-it-yourself hate me. A bottle of concrete sealer cost $25. We bought 2. I hoped to do it with one and return the other one to the store.
- It took precisely 1.10 bottles of concrete sealer to put two coats on our concrete porch.
- I may be able to use the rest when I reseal our patio, but don’t count on it. That may not happen until next spring and by then I may have a chunk of nice, glossy plastic in the shape of the inside of a bottle
- Dear Lumber Manufacturers – 8 feet is 96 inches. Not 96.25, nor is it 96.5, or even 95.5. 96. Out of 38 decking boards I worked with today, 25 of them were 96.25, 12 were 96.5, and one was 95.5. Someday I will find you and I will spend an enjoyable evening running the antique furniture in your boardroom through a wood chipper.
- Tapcon concrete screws are a wonder of modern engineering. Tapcon masonry drill bits are a ball of suck and fail.
- Tally of materials for the weekend –
- 12 10 foot 2×4, pressure treated
- 10 8 foot 2×4, pressure treated
- 38 8 foot (see above note) 5/4×6 pressure treated decking planks
- 5 pounds of 2 1/2 inch decking screws
- 42 Tapcon screws
- 1 Tapcon drill bit, broken in two while in use
- 2 new Bosch masonry bits, one of which lost its temper while trying to drill through a piece of aggregate
- 2 batteries for the cordless drill, completely drained
- 1 15mg Meloxicam
- 3 325mg Aspirin
- 3 beers
- 3 quarts of water
- It is amazing what you will find when you pull the bottom two or three rows of siding off of an old house.
- You know you’re funky when you spend as much time cleaning the tub after your shower as you did cleaning yourself.
- The top deck of the porch is done. Next weekend I will build the step for the front of the porch, cover all vertical surfaces in a manner yet to be determined, and begin planning and design for the porch extension off the back of the bloody thing.
- I just keep repeating “I love my wife and I want her to be happy, for when she is happy, I have the opportunity for happiness” as I do these things.
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Thoughts on the Weekend
Posted by daddybear71 on September 30, 2012
https://daddybearsden.com/2012/09/30/thoughts-on-the-weekend-20/
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Kurt P
/ September 30, 2012You know that they let those boards run a little long so you can trim them for a straight end cut- right?
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daddybear71
/ October 1, 2012I know. I just wish they were consistently long, and for Cthulhu’s sake, not short.
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ZerCool
/ October 1, 2012At least you didn’t accidentally pick up a pile of 92-5/8 studs when you wanted 96s. THAT makes for cranky people.
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julie
/ October 1, 2012🙂
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