Protected: When It Rains, It Pours (part ii)
Jun 3rd 2008As You Wish & Lori & projects
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Luzas. Goings on. Stuff. Life.
Jun 3rd 2008As You Wish & Lori & projects
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Mar 17th 2008Blue Lime & Lori & community & projects
For years, I’ve been hoarding “good” boxes. I use them not only for wrapping gifts, but also at events to create height and interest in displays. They are especially good for silent auctions! We had waaaaay too many. I had every intention of culling them and taking them to the recycling center, but for a [...]
Jan 10th 2008Lori & projects & work
OK, so most of you know that my new job came with some giant first/urgent tasks (don’t they always?). But, given the calls and emails I’ve received, most of you don’t know just how giant these tasks were. While I appreciate you all checking on me, I hope you’ll understand why I have not [...]
Nov 23rd 2007Blue Lime & family S & projects
Today was our annual “Thanksgiving 2″. We got up at six, left Bryan at seven, and got to Paris just after 12noon for Thanksgiving dinner with Lori’s mom and grandparents. We spent the day with them, watching the Aggies beat the Longhorns (Whoop!), and catching up with family. Lori worked on a scarf project, too.
Around [...]
Nov 21st 2007projects
Garden-safe Fire Ant Killer
(as described by a manager at a local nursery)
Supplies
5 gallon bucket of water
shovel
Ingredients
1/4 cup Turpentine (not “turpatine” sold at places like WalMart)
1/4 cup ammonia
1/4 cup Lysol® cleaner
1/4 cup Dawn® dish washing liquid
Instructions
Add each of the ingredients to the bucket of water and mix gently. (Add the Dawn last to keep the suds [...]
Mar 18th 2007critters & projects
Guest bath: first coat of sealent is on the perimeter. It takes 24 hours to set before we can do the 2nd coat, another 24 for the second coat to set before we can reinstall the toilet and trim the room, and 72 hours to cure completely. So, we’ll work on that room each evening [...]
Mar 17th 2007projects
Well the guest bath is laid, but not sealed or trimmed. The craft room is trimmed. We unloaded all the things from the master suite that we don’t use on a daily basis (of course, this still leaves a lot, like closet shelving units that reach the floor.) We ripped all the carpet, padding, tacks, [...]
Mar 17th 2007projects
We changed our plan a bit for today. Since we needed two people to place the floors in the craft room, and since we can’t fit two people in the bathroom, we traded those.
The craft room is finished except for some trim. (We bought all that was in stock a couple of days ago, so [...]
Mar 15th 2007projects
Well, we laid a lot less floor today, but we still made very good progress. After discovering we purchased the wrong thickness of sub-floor material for the guest bathroom (water damage in that room had swelled the floor, so the thickness was deceiving), we made yet another trip to the hardware store. Emil spent the [...]
Mar 15th 2007projects
With a good set of prepping under our belts (Sunday, we planned and shopped. Monday and Tuesday evenings, we prepped and started learning how to work with the flooring materials), we had a very productive first day of installing new Pergo floors on the top level of our house. The guest room is now finished–complete [...]