putting a new steel roof on the house over the old shingles. thats the pile of strapping in the back. weather forecast is crappy today, nice by the weekend
i'am so friggin sore right now. have to check on dad after i get off the computer. hes 72 so he delegates and i do. we have half the roof strapped. had to take off the vents. open the crown on the roof for a continues vent, take down the old tv tower, and plant plant five trees
Up at 6:30 to be at a meeting till about 8:30. Change clothes. Roll out the Acadian, mask it all up except firewall, spray firewall. Run into the forest and shoot 3 very annoying crows.
Change clothes.
Take daughter's friend home who had come to stay the night. Also do some grocery shopping and take some cookies to Grandma.
Change clothes, peel off the masking and remask to spray the black now. Fire up the BBQ and cook the meat for lunch. Wolf down lunch and spray the black on the inner fenders and cradle.
Take out the garden tractor, remove mower, install tiller and till the garden so wife and daughter can plant. Remove tiller, put mower back on (sprain thumb in the process) and mow for 1/2 hour.
Hop on little 4 wheel drive tractor and level dirt for an hour.
Change clothes and drive the 7 miles back to the store to exchange the wrong groceries for the stuff she wanted in the first place. Normal for me when I grocery shop...
Change clothes.
Back on 4 wheel drive leveling again until supper.
Wolf down supper, back on 4 wheel drive, level dirt, remove leveler, install blade, move gravel pile. Remove blade, park tractor, push Acadian back into the garage.
Start looking for all the parts I removed last winter so that I could paint under the hood. Boxes of parts lost, of course.
That takes me up to about now. In between all this, I had to check in many times on here to see what everyone else was up to today! Just came in to make some coffee, have an apple fritter and back out to the garage. It's 11:35 now, maybe the rest of the work is done and I can do some car work!!!
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1966 Strato Chief 2 door, 427 4 speed, 45,000 original miles
1966 Grande Parisienne, 396 1 of 23 factory air cars
ive been renovating my house for five years straight now and i dont think the wife will ever let me take a break. I have done every room almost and thats why i cant get my pontiac on the road, no money left!!!
Me and my soon to be wife bought our house last july and since then It's gotten out of control.It started with a little painting, refinishing some hardwood floors and repairing electrical. Then she started whatching all these DYI t.v. shows. So now i have a gutted bathroom, remove 1 1/2 walls from my kitchen and will demo the cabinatry later this week and she thinks im some kind of carpenter now. Also I'm getting married in my back yard on july19 and it has to be finished by then. On a happier note I took my car to work two months(I work at a large autobody shop)and have been working on it there as much as possible.
My to do list on our house is huge this year. Having the camshaft issues with my car really put me behind. I was off all last week and didn't even get the grass cut!
thats were i went wrong carl !! I make electric guitars in my spare time so when she met me she knew i could do carpentry stuff, and then when i gutted the kitchen down to the studs and did everything from mahogany countertops to makin my own cabinets and doors it all spun out of control from there!!! And to boot she has a interior design degree!!! aaahhhhh Ideas out the wingwang!!
the main roof is completely strapped. valley for 2 gables and end caps to cover the strapping next. sorry not much time for picts. great weekend for working on the roof. still sore. time for bed
i'am so friggin sore right now. have to check on dad after i get off the computer. hes 72 so he delegates and i do. we have half the roof strapped. had to take off the vents. open the crown on the roof for a continues vent, take down the old tv tower, and plant plant five trees
finally picts.
tv tower down and the two of the trees planted on sat are a crimson king maple and a japanese silk lilac tree
back strapped and half done
front strapped and half done
back done with a european mountain ash that we had planted on sat