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This Week on "This Old DasBlueHaus" (Feb 20)
February 20, 2005 ( life )
So, as my parents are comnig through and picking up the truck I've had on loan for so long, I tried to run around and get all my vehicle-required errands done this weekend, so a lot of my time has been taken up by grocery shopping for heavy/hard-to-find-nearby items (So, yes, Fiesta trip for Ja food!), also, the weather has been grey and wet, so I'm not so inclined to be working outside so much...
I got some stuff done anyhow;
I painted the upstairs, outside door blue -- this involved scraping the old layers of (probably lead-based) chipping paint off (I wore a face-mask). It doesn't look pro, but it looks a whole HELL of a lot better than it did.
I then used up the remaining scraps of tile and bought 5 more squares and re-tiled the entry way, which has old commercial crap-tile, so it looks a lot better as well.
I went down and harvested some bamboo from one of our friends whose yards it has invaded; but it's so spindly and mostly-rotten, I don't know if I'll manage to make anything out of it. It was also an exporatory trip to find out if we could make a roll-up bamboo mat for the Dome project for the farm party this summer, and perhaps some camping trips in the spring. (We have a few dome-building geeks in the group, who dream up ways to make easy-set-up huge domes, there's just this problem with good flooring...) I don't think the bamboo we currently have access to will work; same problem here as there -- termites love bamboo. I did uproot some stalks/runners of bamboo and transplant them to our yard (muahahahahaha), we'll see if it survives long enough to take it over.
I moved some of my herbs I've been keeping inside out, so they can enjoy the soaking rain, and any sun that might happen to come along.
I re-strung my drum (to tighten the skin, there's a loop of cord that goes around the top, and the original cord was fraying, so I re-corded it and tightened it so it's playable again).
I also did a little cleaning, as my kitchen and bedroom hadn't been swept/mopped in a while.
I think that's all I've done this weekend, but it's only 2pm on Sunday... ;)
Posted by griffjon at February 20, 2005 01:28 PM
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