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    I clicked on the A/C today

    I was sitting here dieing... And whining up a storm... Then it dawned on me I bought a house with central air...

    SMRT I am.

    Think I need to look at the HVAC though, smells funky - or is that normal for a first run of the year?

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    I started working on stripping this mahogany bed I picked up awhile ago. Spent the day in the garage with the door open and fan blowing, loaded up with PPE as I'm using a stripper with Methylene Chloride... nasty stuff.


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    I built a giant tent around my deck so I can sand and stain without worrying about thundershowers this weekend:


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    In order..
    Washed and polished the cars.
    Made breakfast for the wife.
    Cleaned all 4 bathrooms top to bottom
    Dusted the entire house with a wet cloth.
    Wiped down all the leather furniture with cleaner.
    Made lunch for my daughter.
    Dusted out the server, laptops & workstations.
    Sat down to decide what to make for lunch...
    Read beyond.ca for a few minutes while procrastinating..

    Have to do...
    Vacuum the entire house.
    Steam clean the tile on the main floor & bathrooms.
    Do all the mirrors and windows.
    Pack for the week in San Diego & Vegas
    Move the pool out for the buyer to pick it up.
    Make a beer can chicken for dinner.
    Get drunk.
    Get laid.
    Drink some more.
    Pass out in my own urine on my formerly clean floor.
    Wake up and stumble to bed.
    Get laid again.
    Sleep and wake up with a hangover for a plane ride tomorrow morning at 10am.

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    Stupidstore bought a wack of flowers for 40% off.
    Picked up 10lbs of dogshit for recycling.
    Trying a diffrent recipe for brisket.
    Bishop Henry for dinner tonite.
    Weed wacking the backyard.
    Massage my dogs leg after the surgery.
    Getting some fireworks to launch.
    Drinking alot of beer while hooking up a dishwasher.
    Waiting for Andy to fix my shop door.
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    Finally got around to fixing the Jacuzzi tub, it's only been broken for oh shit I don't know a year and a half.
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    Vinyled the top of my washer and dryer to prevent scratching the original surface.

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    Nice looking deck blitz. Looks like some re-stucco action going on there too.


    Today we replaced a bunch of patches of dead sod that didn't come back after winter and pressure washed the house.
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    Mostly finished the left side of my front hall... it was some godawful faux finish over 70s wallpaper... We kinda prefer knotty pine...

    I was having a heck of a time where the half wall met the outer wall and the door trim met... oh and nobody makes plain pine trim anymore it would seem - so I've been cutting my own... and that shoe rack - well it used to be 8" tall I decided to take it up to the lower level ceiling at least...



    Few more boards to cut and a little sanding and BLO application

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    Installed NAS for home media sharing. Mounting it next weekend.

    Finished the dog house I started, started with high ambitions, finished with a plane simple ass box with an opening and weather seal.

    Fixed 1 faucet leak, waiting for parts on another.

    Mowed both lawns, waiting for a cooler few days to overseed again.

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    Well I dug in a shed base with 4" compacted 25mm crush and 2x2' patio squares. Followed it up 40' of concrete garden edging along the chainlink fence I installed. One of these days I'll write up a complete thread with pictures. I've been documenting my progress with cell phone pictures.

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    Cleaned my condo, worked, and built a fence with my dad.

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    Stopped raining so I got the chance to weed and plant my front yards garden beds. Still need to find some shade loving perennials.
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    I've spent the last 4 days hanging drywall in the basement. 5/8" in the theater and 1/2" everywhere else. No pictures yet as I still have a bit to finish up.

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    Spent the week pretending to be a sparky, figured that made for a good weekend too...

    Downstairs family room had an old knob dimmer - where the knob keeps falling off...figured it was time for new decorator switches...

    New dimmer switch works great - but forgot - Lowes cheap switch can't be ganged...so stuck half done - not driving to crossiron for a switch

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    I am almost completely finished the topping & clipping of the cedar hedge from hell.

    This sucker has not seen a trimmer for about 15 years or so. The hedge itself is L shaped around two sides of my yard and is about 140 ft or so long, both sides. It stood about 20 ft tall and was about 8-10 ft thick.

    I have taken 6 loads of branches & clippings to the dump and have about two more to go.

    The hedge is now 10-12 ft tall and about 5-6 ft thick and looks waaay better.

    You can't grow a cedar in Calgary (or not well anyway), but they flourish out here on the Island. Only 18 years old and 20+ ft tall and they started off as tiny 2 ft trees you buy at Costco... that's a ton of growth.

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    Well ya know that gate I started this thread with? Moisture meter finally read 10% - so I hit it with a coat of paint... (about 1/8" sag if your wondering - I think that's the post - not the gate) so far so good... stupid Alberta wet spring...

    And made a huge dent in my burn pile (have been merciless with the tree pruning since we moved, it was getting ugly).

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    Keeping the thread going,

    This weekend was building crown molding from scratch!

    Sorry for the massive pic, did this post on my phone. Don't know how to resize on it.

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    Fixed your link to make the image smaller, great work on the house, always enjoy reading updates on your blog!

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    Hey this thread fell back a long way...

    This is pretty much finished (other than a piece of trim at the bottom)

    '79 vintage chromed single oven gone... 'newer' Double convection installed... We now have all black appliances


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