Birthday Weekend
It's been a busy week at the QBCPS. Aoibheall and I took Friday off from work and went grocery shopping. Big shopping. Usually, that's a Saturday job but for Aoibheall's birthday the town of Boulder Creek has a big "Art & Wine Festival" which makes driving through town very taxing. So, we went shopping on Friday and got groceries, birthday cake, and many many sodas which were not sweetened with high fructose corn syrup.
Saturday, we sanded and painted the railing around the deck. The old paint was easily seven years old (probably older) and it was peeling like a week-old sunburn. Peaches and I sanded while Aoibheall and the BabyGoddess started painting. By evening, we had put one coat on the whole railing. It's difficult enough to get into the spaces between the vertical pales that Aoibheall wants to get a paint sprayer and I just want to replace the darned thing with a barrier that can be painted with a roller.
We celebrated with sodas, salad, and sleep.
Sunday I went off to the TechShop to take the basic safety unit on the oxyacetylene welding rig. It was a good refresher since the last time I did any gas welding or cutting I was a sophomore in high school. We've got these old bike frames that we want to chop up and turn into a big CD rack with sprockets and chains and all, but it'll never happen while we lack the skills. While I was doing that, Aoibheall and the girls walked into town and saw the festival. The "wine tasting" was as bogus as the tasting at Uncorked!, but while Uncorked!'s problem was that you couldn't buy any of the wine, Boulder Creek's problem was that you were given 3 ounces at a time. That's not a tasting, that's an excuse for public drunkenness.
Sunday night, we had a barbecue on the deck, admired the blue railing, and then had cake! Happy birthday to you, sweetie!
Monday we got up and slapped a second coat on the railing. That went very quickly, and when we were done there was plenty of day left. So we piled into the car and drove over the hill. Picked up a pair of hiking boots for the BabyGoddess and then we went for a walk up the Flume Trail. We didn't make it to the reservoir, but we went farther than we had the previous time, and that's improvement. Inexplicably tired, we wrapped up our celebration with dinner out and an early bedtime.
But we have a freshly painted railing! Now we just need to affix the sheets of lath to the railing and get the pet door installed and get a chain link fence put in across the side of the house and we'll be ready for the doggies to come home. We've got six weeks. Can We Do It? I think so.
Saturday, we sanded and painted the railing around the deck. The old paint was easily seven years old (probably older) and it was peeling like a week-old sunburn. Peaches and I sanded while Aoibheall and the BabyGoddess started painting. By evening, we had put one coat on the whole railing. It's difficult enough to get into the spaces between the vertical pales that Aoibheall wants to get a paint sprayer and I just want to replace the darned thing with a barrier that can be painted with a roller.
We celebrated with sodas, salad, and sleep.
Sunday I went off to the TechShop to take the basic safety unit on the oxyacetylene welding rig. It was a good refresher since the last time I did any gas welding or cutting I was a sophomore in high school. We've got these old bike frames that we want to chop up and turn into a big CD rack with sprockets and chains and all, but it'll never happen while we lack the skills. While I was doing that, Aoibheall and the girls walked into town and saw the festival. The "wine tasting" was as bogus as the tasting at Uncorked!, but while Uncorked!'s problem was that you couldn't buy any of the wine, Boulder Creek's problem was that you were given 3 ounces at a time. That's not a tasting, that's an excuse for public drunkenness.
Sunday night, we had a barbecue on the deck, admired the blue railing, and then had cake! Happy birthday to you, sweetie!
Monday we got up and slapped a second coat on the railing. That went very quickly, and when we were done there was plenty of day left. So we piled into the car and drove over the hill. Picked up a pair of hiking boots for the BabyGoddess and then we went for a walk up the Flume Trail. We didn't make it to the reservoir, but we went farther than we had the previous time, and that's improvement. Inexplicably tired, we wrapped up our celebration with dinner out and an early bedtime.
But we have a freshly painted railing! Now we just need to affix the sheets of lath to the railing and get the pet door installed and get a chain link fence put in across the side of the house and we'll be ready for the doggies to come home. We've got six weeks. Can We Do It? I think so.
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