We had our first storm of the
season yesterday afternoon and this was accompanied by a power outage. I was
able – for the first time – to use my emergency lanterns - which I bought from Amazon
some time ago just for this purpose.
We have a gas stove and oven so
I was still able to cook dinner by the light of the lanterns.
I did not need to activate my
storm radio – which is battery powered and which you can also wind up – and has
a jigger you can use to power up a mobile phone.
I used my lawn edger for the
first time yesterday. This is almost as scary as the jigsaw and chomps up
anything in its path. I only did a small part of the lawn as I was disconcerted
by the chunks of grass, earth and concrete flying about.
I will get better at this just
as I will with the jigsaw.
Deckman says the deck will be
finished this week. I have ordered 10 gallons of deck stain in readiness for our
next major job.
However – painting the fence taught
me a lesson and reminded me how difficult and tedious beyond redemption painting
really is.
So I have also ordered a paint
sprayer. This will be my first experience with one of these contraptions.
I imagine that by the end of
the process the deck, most of the back garden – and the birds and the squirrels
– will all be colored dark oak. I should warn the neighbors to keep their dogs inside.
At least Dark Oak is a neutral and will blend in with most everything.
ReplyDeleteI am running into too much rain to paint, that is a veRy strange predicament for my part of the world. I should put more effort into spray painting but there is just something I like about a roller, hard to eXplain.
ReplyDeletefmcgmccllc: Especially if everything is the same color.
ReplyDeleteesb: I am no good at all with rollers. I also no good with brushes.