Saturday, April 15, 2006
Oh yi.
We are plugging onwards for our jolly holiday weekend, in the two steps forward and one step back mode.
Yesterday I thought we could get a good early start on outdoorsy stuff, but I turned out to have more books to pack up and mail than I planned for. NOT that that's at all bad...it just gets no garden raking done. But when I went to town I did buy the boards for the swing seat, and I was all set to go out and work on it after dinner....
...but the drill's power pack had run down and I couldn't find the jigsaw ANYWHERE. By the time I *did* (in the kitchen under a stack of empty egg cartons, the logical place), it was dark. So we decided tomorrow would do fine.
That was today, which produced 50 mph winds starting about 3 am. Eventually it did calm down to merely breezy, and I was able to cut the wood, drill the holes and assemble a swing. Mostly. Except I can't find the rotary file piece for my drill to smooth down the edges of the boards like I want, and one original slat turned out to be made of bent wood, meaning the 2 1/2" bolts aren't long enough to hold their nuts. So the bench will probably not get done until Monday.
We decided to do an indoor task and finally set up the DVD/VHS recorder I bought as our family Christmas present. It went pretty well, all things considered, and we even found all the remotes and stuff. BUT. (There is always a but.) It turns out that there is some oddball techy difference between DVD-R disks (the kind we need) and DVD+R disks (the kind we bought). Of COURSE there would be.
So tomorrow we must go to the store and buy a traditional Easter solar powered garden lighthouse, two 3" bolts, and a pack of DVD-BLOODY DASH-R's.
And a gallon of milk. Since I foolishly failed to buy two when I was at the store yesterday. Which means we are out again.
Yesterday I thought we could get a good early start on outdoorsy stuff, but I turned out to have more books to pack up and mail than I planned for. NOT that that's at all bad...it just gets no garden raking done. But when I went to town I did buy the boards for the swing seat, and I was all set to go out and work on it after dinner....
...but the drill's power pack had run down and I couldn't find the jigsaw ANYWHERE. By the time I *did* (in the kitchen under a stack of empty egg cartons, the logical place), it was dark. So we decided tomorrow would do fine.
That was today, which produced 50 mph winds starting about 3 am. Eventually it did calm down to merely breezy, and I was able to cut the wood, drill the holes and assemble a swing. Mostly. Except I can't find the rotary file piece for my drill to smooth down the edges of the boards like I want, and one original slat turned out to be made of bent wood, meaning the 2 1/2" bolts aren't long enough to hold their nuts. So the bench will probably not get done until Monday.
We decided to do an indoor task and finally set up the DVD/VHS recorder I bought as our family Christmas present. It went pretty well, all things considered, and we even found all the remotes and stuff. BUT. (There is always a but.) It turns out that there is some oddball techy difference between DVD-R disks (the kind we need) and DVD+R disks (the kind we bought). Of COURSE there would be.
So tomorrow we must go to the store and buy a traditional Easter solar powered garden lighthouse, two 3" bolts, and a pack of DVD-BLOODY DASH-R's.
And a gallon of milk. Since I foolishly failed to buy two when I was at the store yesterday. Which means we are out again.
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