Comments on: Home Improvement

By: Trudi Gilliam

Trudi Gilliam — Tue, 19 May 2009 13:59:13 +0000

I forgot to add, with a red face, that Walt and I have had 15 gallons of wood stain in the basement for two years, even bought a pressure washer for the project, but there sits all that stuff, untouched. We stain our deck every year, but the log walls? maybe this year… I am following the rules on the Antique Road Show, don’t mess with the wood finish or you will de-value the item. Oh, how I rationalize.

By: Terry

Terry — Tue, 19 May 2009 13:12:46 +0000

Cute, Wreg.

You are too funny, Bonnie! We live pretty close to the hardware store, so we rarely have an excuse because we run out of something (except for time/patience/skill), but you’re out in the middle of nowhere, so your unfinished projects are understandable. You explain it all perfectly!

Exactly, Trudi. I don’t mind helping to keep the economy moving in my own little way.

By: Trudi Gilliam

Trudi Gilliam — Tue, 19 May 2009 04:00:38 +0000

Why do we beat ourselves up for not keeping everything around us perfectly on the up and up? Hey, doing a large project from start to finish does have its satisfactions but, if it is too much trouble, beyond our capabilities, or too painful, PAY SOMEONE. After all, people pay you for your skills and services….

By: Bonnie

Bonnie — Mon, 18 May 2009 19:43:59 +0000

Holy familiar husband, Terry.
It’s an impossible task to begin a project here and see it through completion unless that is all you do and/or have a paid staff to do it for you.
Hence, -the list of things that are finished to within 79% of done-ness.
Because you ran out of parts/brushes/paint/screws/time/muscle/patience/skill/.
By the time you re-start the project, nature intervenes with rain/no rain/storms/clouds and so it goes on hold.
To begin something else.
Which stops because the car/dogs/houseguests/hacking cough/out of service phones put a whammy on that weeks good intentions.
Only to resume something else and the store is closed/no longer stocking that brand/waiting for the container.
And then it’s season. So there’s no more time.

I grant us all a full pardon from house projects. We just do the best we can.
Community service hours begin at home.

By: Wreggie

Wreggie — Mon, 18 May 2009 18:57:32 +0000

Yes I know what T-111 is…my house is covered in the shit and it is hard to paint.

A suggestion…pretend you are Michael Angelo. You are working for a cause greater than yourself.

Find a scaffold with rollers and lay on your back to paint. Paint a fat cherub up there somewhere. Or maybe some tropical stencils.

I can’t imagine you grouchy. You? Never!

This advice is coming from a man that has a garage that is so full of crap that you can’t imagine.