More to come

I know it has been a long time since I posted last.  There has been a lot going on and I haven’t taken the time to write about it all here.  I do have a lot to identify as past projects and new ones I am currently working on that need to be finished in the next month before my first child decides to come into the world. 

There is a lot to tell and I will make an effort over the next several weeks to post the past and future entries with pictures, but painting the nursery comes first this weekend.  Things will be a little more relaxed once Aimee can start putting together the nursery finally.

Oh, and I am trying out a new way to post that doesn’t require me to bring up blogger.com directly.  Microsoft Windows Live Writer (Beta) is part of the Windows Live offerings that I came across when posting my work schedule to Office Live and trying to get access to it from home.  Anywho, I will let you know over the next several posts how this goes and if I like Writer for blogging.

That’s all for now.

Another weekend

Well, this weekend I have a few other things I wanted to get done and ended up doing a lot of other little things, but it feels good to have a list of finished projects:

• Nailed the loose baseboard in the Office to the wall so we wouldn't keep kicking it across the room
• Put some fold down door stops on a couple doors that like to work their way closed; Master BR, master bath, and Office. These seem to be way nicer and easier to use than the wedge door stops we were using.
• Vacuumed, to clean up the drilling mess from previous task and catch oversize hairballs in the office and bathroom
• Tried to patch hole in roof over garage that is leaking; but didn't quite get it completely, or the roofing sealant didn't completely stick.
• Hair cut; done by Aimee - really short
  
• Tried to patch up the small holes in Aimee's car trunk that are letting in water when it rains really hard; but with little success.... I think the bondo I got was not the right stuff to use, so I have to go back to the store to see what else I can find.

Power's out

Wow, we were sitting here and the power just went out. I think this is the first time we have actually used the UPSs that I got for our computers. Granted Aimee's laptop and my work laptop aren't affected too much since they have batteries of their own, but my desktop and the router and cablemodem allow me to keep writing this in the dark.

Evidently there was some problem with the transformer on the pole in the backyard of our neighbor that needed some attention by the power company and they decided to just cut power to about 10 houses fed by it witout letting anyone know. There is a guy perched on the pole out there working with redoing what looked like the main connection to the distribution point.

Hey, maybe this will fix the light flickering that has been going on since before Christmas. If I remember correctly the lights did that brownout thing earlier tonight. Well, that would be cool cuz it can't be good for all our appliances and electronics for the power to dim like that.

Wow, they must be finished with whatever they were doing, cuz the lights just came back on. End of the excitement for tonight; although it is also good to know I knew where the flashlights were so I could see where I was going. It is amazing how dark the house is when there is no ambient light.

The Weekend

While Aimee was volunteering at one of her clubs, I decided to do some stuff around the house and ended up just doing odds-n-ends:

• Mowed the Grass
• filled the pond; I had taken a little too much out when I was lowering the water level from the winter buildup
• Christmas lights taken down off the house
• Plum Tree hole got filled the rest of the way
• Sprayed the first application of Round-Up on the yard to kill off the weeds that have started to spring up
• Put back up and fixed the black-out shade in our bedroom; it needed the brackets put back up and some adjustments to make it work right
• Weeded and cleaned out a flower bed in the front yard that needed attention since last fall when the gladiola greens had browned and almost rotted away.
• Put a padlock on the tool shed; have been meaning to do that since we got it because of guidance from "It Takes a Thief" on Discovery channel.
• cleaned up some of the dead stuff in the flower beds by the front walk and driveway
• Noted that I need to cap the ends of the deck so cats can't get under our deck and make a mess

Well, that is about it I got finished this weekend. Will post some pictures if I have a chance later.

starting February

Starting off February, I got the last lower cabinet disassembled and wrapped up with all the extra shelves. This is the last of 3 lower cabinets.

I am using the new "adjustable" saw horses my sister's family got me for christmas and my oversize I-beam supports.

I just have one more upper cabinet to wrap up that I will do later today. I have quite a stack of cabinets now, hopefully my dad or someone on CraigsList will be able to use them.


Now I have some space to put away some stuff that has been sitting out in the middle of the floor and space along the other wall to put up the cabinets that have been sitting there since early last year. My rolling lumber cart is going into this space, once I move that other stuff along the wall out of the way. I hope it fits.


Oh and there are a couple things I left off the list from last post:

1. Got my trailer lights working; ended up being that it didn't ground until it was laying flat. When it was foldeded up, the lights mostly don't work.


2. Installed the tank and faucet of a hot water tap for the kitchen sink; I still need to rewire the electrical to add a plug to plug it in and connect it to the the water pipe.
   
3. Installed shelving for storing lumber out of the way... on the outside wall of the garage. It is storing the 2x4s for my mobile workbench table top right now, but with the added space due to getting the cabinets out, I may have room to finally put that workbench top together. You can see the stack of lumber at the top of the last picture above.
   
4. Installed a key lockbox so that our extra keys are safer than just leaving them in a basket by the door.
   

Over 3 months

It has been over three months since my last post. (That kinda sounded like confession, but none here, except that I haven't been too busy during that time.)

I do have a list of projects I have worked on during that time though... I had to get out the pictures to help me remember what all I did and I am not sure I have pictures of everything.

Oct 2007 end: Celebrated Nephews birthdays

Isaac turned "1".


Tyler turned 4.


November:

Fixed sprinkler pipe


and partly filled in hole from plum tree


Dug up a wheelborrow full of irises which had overrun the front patch next to the driveway


Put up shelves above Aimee and my desks.



Put up Christmas lights


Spent Christmas with Family, I may post some pictures later.

It snowed Christmas Day!


Dec 31, 2007:
Had a really weird freeze that left this frost forest on my car roof.


Jan 2008:

Then less than a week later it snowed a little.


got the power strip attached above where my new workbench goes.


Then finished the first part of my workbench, that has a set of yet-to-be-finished pullout extensions to support large sheets for sawing (and evidently no picture.)

Watched as the local water company flooded my front yard for the 4th and worst time in 18 months


Celebrated my and Aimee's grandmother's birthdays with family in Seattle.


Removed old white melamine cabinets from the garage wall, took them apart and plastic wrapped them for someone else to maybe use. oh, and game myself a nasty blood blister in the process.




And it decided to really snow, about 4 inches, which stayed around about a week.

And that brings us to Feb. which just started.