Good morning!!!!

[mkr7734]

Very nice out there today so I did the Core aeration on the yard around the house and a re-seed job to. Hope it is not to early but thought I may as well before it rains. So now the yard looks like it is covered with Dog Do do. Thinking I should go get some lime for it to. Got to get the PH down some. About the only ground cover that grows well is moss..

 

[sodamo]

65°F and no rain last 24 hours.

Finished the mowing yesterday.

Be safe
Have a great day

David Sent from my iPad Air using TractorByNet

 

[daugen]

got it all done, roses planted, blackberry bushes planted and raised veggie garden done, except for a final coat of poly. Dumped four bucket loads of topsoil in, then four huge bags of garden soil w/fertilizer, and then built the covering boards. A coat of exterior stain and it is almost ready.

Yeah, the uploader no longer requires one meg files or smaller. What a huge savings in time not having to edit all the pics.

 

[newbury]

Pet peeve of the day:

Searching websites for product info - the internal search engines for both Home Depot and Lowes web sites are utterly worthless, to name but two.

Search for something you know that they carry - using a variety of different search terms - and you get everything but the thing you're looking to find some info on.

Whoever is coding this crap needs to be taken out behind the shed and beat silly up side the head with a big stick.

They should be forced to look up obscure items themselves for 1 hour a day on their OWN time. I end up "stumbling" across something and immediately add it to a "other" list so I can find it days later.

 

[wngsprd]

Picked up 2 yards of pine bark mulch while in town today and spread with my pitchfork and rake. Tired.

Drew, looks nice, and I'm sure you'll have a green thumb with your garden.

Glad I can start posting pix again. I never learned how to shrink them.

 

[rswyan]

Snuck down to Autozone and grabbed a new battery for the van, just finished installing that.

All tile/drywall/cement board in the shower removed ... except for the ceiling. Need to go dump the loader.

 

[sodamo]

Very nice Drew.
Good news about the pic loader.

David Sent from my iPad Air using TractorByNet

 

[sodamo]

Hopefully fixed leaking tire on golf cart. Tire is aging for sure and a crack in sidewall. Tire has had a slow leak as long as I've owned the cart, but yesterday it would hold when pumped. Put in some Tire Science sealant from HD seems to be holding so far. Never used it before.

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[daugen]

All tile/drywall/cement board in the shower removed

maybe you said this before, but sounds like a serious renovation, ripping out the backer board. Was it rotten?
That must have been a real mess.

Thanks David and Billie. I'm leaving for PA on Friday so I really wanted to get a coat of stain on this afternoon so i could get poly on tomorrow, as rain is coming in this weekend. And they want a 24 hour dry time. The color came out a little more "furnitury" (how's that for an abused word?) than I expected but the sun will bleach/dull it down even with topcoating. Not much stands up to the sun. It's soft wood so I had to get it properly sealed; actually I should have stained it off the garden to get the bottom side but that would have added a day. So I made sure the sides were well done, slobbered a bit...it's a vegetable garden. And I used wood putty to seal in the top surfaces. So it will last twenty years and the top piece will probably rot by then. But I sure wasn't putting pressure treated up there; the whole idea is to keep those chemicals away. Lowes didn't have cypress, though I probably would have had a heart attack at the price. That would have looked nice left natural. I didn't want a fancy bubinga wood look either. Teak covering boards? no

Lowes had pine, oak and treated in longer lengths. Pretty skimpy selection. Not even sure I saw fir in there. But I did see/experience my fair share
of clueless workers. I always ask where things are and about half the time am sent to the wrong aisle.

 

[rswyan]

maybe you said this before, but sounds like a serious renovation, ripping out the backer board. Was it rotten?

In places it was a little nasty ...

Had the bottoms of two of the walls repaired probably back in '96 or '97 ... the cement board on those sections was more or less fine ... except it was moist. That was done by some old boys from Europe ... whatever they used to adhere the tile was unbelievably strong stuff. Had hardly broken any tiles, until I had started on those sections.

Elsewhere there was rotten wallboard (the original drywall - not cement board - from around 1970) ... kinda nasty with some black mold in spots.

That must have been a real mess.

Wasn't nearly as bad as I figured it might be ...