It’s there! The floor is in! No more whining about it… time to put up or shut up! I’d love to spend tomorrow cleaning up around the edges… finishing up the ceiling… putting up backer board and tin so my woodstove can be hauled in… plus getting a start on everything else… but… It’s Cow…
Category: Projects
Longmire Days
I’m abandoning ship. Something to do with a television show called Longmire. I’m leaving the guys behind to work, and I’m going to play. If you don’t hear from me, I’ve lost myself in “Durant”. Don’t bother coming to look for me, just call the Absaroka County Sheriff’s office. I don’t know why I like…
The Garage – Progress
First round. What a difference, right? Haven’t taken one of the top painted… but it is! Two of the garage doors… BEFORE I scraped them and washed the windows and caulked around the windows (until I ran out!) The windows were SOOOOOOO dirty, they appeared to be frosted glass! Ick. I used my minitruck as…
Build Your Own Solar Oven
I’ve primed garage doors and windows today… using a brush the entire time since enough of a breeze was blowing, that my sprayer would have drifted all over my garage! I’ve started making a few SoapStones with the handmade soap from Miller Soap Company. Did I tell you about the scents??? Oh, my… they are…
Headed for Bed
Well, I DEFINITELY feel like I accomplished something today! I started at 8 this morning, had a pop and some water on occasion, took 15 minutes to eat most of a sandwich, and went back out and finished painting my garage! The upper half. That entailed moving/climbing/repositioning and painting from the extension ladder. Whew. Holding…
Girls Need Jawhorses Too
I worked all day in my studio… finishing up my tongue and groove siding. I much prefer this work to hanging my ceiling! And I actually did something I’ve been waiting WEEKS to do. After requesting to borrow Vernon’s “jawhorse”… and, after he continually forgot to bring it up from the other place… I went…
Artistic Wool Felting
Progress in the studio: The last sheet is in place, though not screwed down. Or up. Depending on your perspective. Yes, I plan to paint this side just like the other, but I was more concerned about using the lift than painting. Hopefully, a few minutes of attaching it, then it’s off to the other…
I Did It Myself
I spent the day in my studio… listening to Willa Cather’s O Pioneers! and repeatedly raising an OSB sheet to my ceiling. Since the walls are neither straight nor square, I had to continually trim more and more from the edges, of course, lifting/cranking/sawing/cursing/hammering/shoving it back into place each time. It took six tries, but…
All In All
That hot tub I haven’t bought yet? I sure could use it now! I spent the morning spray painting my garden shed and garage, at least as far as I could get on a ladder! So there’s the up and down, the weight of the backpack of paint (only 8#, but still…) and the reaching…
Rain!
.73″ of rain poured out of the sky today… most of it in about a half an hour! It was interesting there for a bit, with lightning popping and thunder rolling. My dogs just KNEW a strike was headed for them, so anywhere within 3′ of a human was BOUND to be safer, right? They’re…
All Progress
Most of the snow melted today… and if there’s one thing that will put a smile on a farmer’s face, it is timing the application of fertilizer so that a spring storm will take it into the ground. Vernon managed that today. It’s a fine line between frozen and muddy, because if there’s one thing…
Decisions. Decisions.
Decisions, decisions. New tin roof colors… what to get? My first choice was mottled brown… from a distance it looks like asphalt shingles… not tin! But, of course, it’s more expensive, and not on the “allowed” list of colors. They had a wonderful sage green, soft, and one of my personal favorites for clothing (if…