I will try to call him tomorrow.
What did you do today?
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I'm headed to Florida to help the Red Cross with Hurricane Dorian. I'll see ya all in 2-3 weeks
Talked to Randy on the phone for a couple hours. He is fine. Modem shot craps.
That’s good!I was worried about him.
Thats okay then
Rusty and Daris if you stop seeing emails from me start worrying
If he was closer I could give him a few old puters that are just siting here
I want to meet Randy I will have to get one more trip into Vegas while I am still working in that I can at least claim it tax wise as a bushiness trip before I throw flooring away. Getting tooooo old for this stupid game
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Hav its great there are people like you who are able to help others in times of misfortune
Rusty, thanks for checking on him. I hope he can get a new modem soon. I miss seeing his posts.
I'm going to miss Havasu during the hurricane cleanup but hope it goes smoothly.
I just finished cooking stroganoff & am going to go over to help my friend pull his baseboards & set his cabinets in flush against the wall. Just waiting for him to get home from work to head over.
I'm going to miss Havasu during the hurricane cleanup but hope it goes smoothly.
I just finished cooking stroganoff & am going to go over to help my friend pull his baseboards & set his cabinets in flush against the wall. Just waiting for him to get home from work to head over.
Spent a few hours working on my riding mower. It's only about 25 years old.
Great chatting with you Rusty. Sorry for making you guys get worried. I Know my lack of appearance is way out of the norm. Not a ton of work, but with my limited internet access, I've been spending it researching cab fixes for a friends old 1970 Camaro. It's been a nightmare figuring out what was wrong, but we got it 90$ whipped. He rebuilt the carb, so my job was figuring out what he done did to it............ we got what he done did, corrected, so on to fine tuning so he can return his pride and joy to the street now and then.
Hey Ern.............. 1970 Z28 with an LT1....... last year of the 11-1 compression. Car still looks like new, paint and interior too. 119,000 miles. Not bad for 50 years. Man, many years ago he had the engine rebuilt and added a blueprinted factory can, roller rockers and some coated Hooker headers, World products heads and a few other goodies. I can wait to get this thing off the jack stands. zoom zoom zoom.
Hey Ern.............. 1970 Z28 with an LT1....... last year of the 11-1 compression. Car still looks like new, paint and interior too. 119,000 miles. Not bad for 50 years. Man, many years ago he had the engine rebuilt and added a blueprinted factory can, roller rockers and some coated Hooker headers, World products heads and a few other goodies. I can wait to get this thing off the jack stands. zoom zoom zoom.
...........note to self:
Check emails.
highup you should have checked your email as I sent the winning numbers of Lotto to you
Thought this heat was over. Heat index 101 today.
Can you hear me now?
Being a hearing aid sufferer I can't imagine carrying around a contraption like that. We have come a long ways baby.
But think how cool it looks.
I'm so glad to "see" you, Randy! I'm just glad you're OK. Sounds like you were productive.
I was productive today but at my friend's house instead of my own. Got up early & went over, helped him clear off the counters & we adjusted the cabinets some more & moved things a little bit. Tried to secure the countertops together but we need another set of hands & maybe a tool to turn the little bolt thingies. Also discovered we need to shim the back end of the corner cabinet but we couldn't get to it bc it was surrounded by the other ones. Debating whether we will just shim the top or actually mess with moving the other ones & shimming it & then trying to get them back in place. I'm going to bring over some clamps another day & we will use some shims in between the spaces to get them secured together & leveled. Before we could do the adjustments though, we had to take off the wall trim, baseboards, & one side of the door trim. The top layer of plywood floor was put in after the baseboards so we had to pry them up. Found an old Grand Casino playing card (I think 7 of diamonds) behind one of the baseboards. A bunch of bugs were in there too. With the trim out of the way we were able to get the cabinets flush against the bottom of the wall. The walls aren't plumb so they tip back a bit leaving a gap behind the tops of the cabinets/counters-- but we'll fill that with some sort of trim.
We made a trip to the hardware store & grabbed some stuff to try to work on the back of my friend's house. There is a back room that used to be the laundry room and the floor dropped out under the sliding glass doors. We temporarily put in a treated 2x6 on to of some concrete blocks. Turns out we needed one more concrete block for the center though. And we will need some 4x4s cut to the right size to cram under. I had my friend use some scrap pieces of 2x4s he was going to throw away (but I insisted he keep them "just in case"). He mumbled & laughed about how I got to say "I told you so" bc we ended up needing them. For now a floor jack is holding things in place temporarily & we have the glass doors sitting up into the top & side rails but we don't have a bottom rail. The main point was to seal it up bc it was just open to the air with clear plastic wrapped over it before. Lots of ants & wasps were crawling around in the rotting wood though. Whole back area is going to need some TLC at a later point. He's going to tackle that when he has more people to help (and ones who can lift things better than I can). It might not sound like a lot of work, but all that lifting in that damn heat- and stupid mosquitoes chewed up my ankles (cue the world's smallest violins- LOL).
After a brief rest & cooling off, we went back to working on the countertops-- My friend decided to try to cut them by hand instead of taking them to my workshop to use my tablesaw. So the cuts ended up a little wonky & the edge trim isn't adhering in some spots-- we'll use some gorilla glue and painter's tape to hold it on. But now the long piece is no longer blocking the doorway so it looks pretty good. Got the other edge piece taped on for now. I'm going to stain the sides once we get the counters completely set in place & secured so they won't move. Then I'll do some touch-ups on spots I missed or ones that need a bit more stain. We found a little folding table in the back room that I brought to the front. I'm going to sand it and stain it to match the cabinets.
When the weather cools off a bit my friend will be able to come out and help me with some projects at my house. I really need to go through & get rid of a lot of junk I'm never going to use & that I really won't miss bc it's been in boxes for years.
I was productive today but at my friend's house instead of my own. Got up early & went over, helped him clear off the counters & we adjusted the cabinets some more & moved things a little bit. Tried to secure the countertops together but we need another set of hands & maybe a tool to turn the little bolt thingies. Also discovered we need to shim the back end of the corner cabinet but we couldn't get to it bc it was surrounded by the other ones. Debating whether we will just shim the top or actually mess with moving the other ones & shimming it & then trying to get them back in place. I'm going to bring over some clamps another day & we will use some shims in between the spaces to get them secured together & leveled. Before we could do the adjustments though, we had to take off the wall trim, baseboards, & one side of the door trim. The top layer of plywood floor was put in after the baseboards so we had to pry them up. Found an old Grand Casino playing card (I think 7 of diamonds) behind one of the baseboards. A bunch of bugs were in there too. With the trim out of the way we were able to get the cabinets flush against the bottom of the wall. The walls aren't plumb so they tip back a bit leaving a gap behind the tops of the cabinets/counters-- but we'll fill that with some sort of trim.
We made a trip to the hardware store & grabbed some stuff to try to work on the back of my friend's house. There is a back room that used to be the laundry room and the floor dropped out under the sliding glass doors. We temporarily put in a treated 2x6 on to of some concrete blocks. Turns out we needed one more concrete block for the center though. And we will need some 4x4s cut to the right size to cram under. I had my friend use some scrap pieces of 2x4s he was going to throw away (but I insisted he keep them "just in case"). He mumbled & laughed about how I got to say "I told you so" bc we ended up needing them. For now a floor jack is holding things in place temporarily & we have the glass doors sitting up into the top & side rails but we don't have a bottom rail. The main point was to seal it up bc it was just open to the air with clear plastic wrapped over it before. Lots of ants & wasps were crawling around in the rotting wood though. Whole back area is going to need some TLC at a later point. He's going to tackle that when he has more people to help (and ones who can lift things better than I can). It might not sound like a lot of work, but all that lifting in that damn heat- and stupid mosquitoes chewed up my ankles (cue the world's smallest violins- LOL).
After a brief rest & cooling off, we went back to working on the countertops-- My friend decided to try to cut them by hand instead of taking them to my workshop to use my tablesaw. So the cuts ended up a little wonky & the edge trim isn't adhering in some spots-- we'll use some gorilla glue and painter's tape to hold it on. But now the long piece is no longer blocking the doorway so it looks pretty good. Got the other edge piece taped on for now. I'm going to stain the sides once we get the counters completely set in place & secured so they won't move. Then I'll do some touch-ups on spots I missed or ones that need a bit more stain. We found a little folding table in the back room that I brought to the front. I'm going to sand it and stain it to match the cabinets.
When the weather cools off a bit my friend will be able to come out and help me with some projects at my house. I really need to go through & get rid of a lot of junk I'm never going to use & that I really won't miss bc it's been in boxes for years.
Want to see some pictures when you are done with the cabinets.
It's going to look nice. It already looks better than before.
The colors look different because my friend has a better camera & he sent me this:
The floors have a lot of movement to them bc they are nailed down. I got him to use screws on the worst bit (off camera) that kept popping up. Going to get more screws & try to secure the rest of the floors so they won't move so much. They are just nailed down right now. I think the plan is to cut the door trim to fit around the cabinets & put some trim above the backsplash of the countertops to cover the gaps from the walls leaning back.
My friend wants to put an 18-inch pantry to the left of the counters flush up against the edge (not sure what he's going to do about the power outlet-- maybe cut a hole in the back for the plugs & have something on the side of the pantry. There will be upper cabinets that go around the corner as well. On the opposite wall he wants to put a very small breakfast nook or snack bar type thing using the scrap of countertop that got cut off. Not sure if it will have sufficient space though.
The colors look different because my friend has a better camera & he sent me this:
The floors have a lot of movement to them bc they are nailed down. I got him to use screws on the worst bit (off camera) that kept popping up. Going to get more screws & try to secure the rest of the floors so they won't move so much. They are just nailed down right now. I think the plan is to cut the door trim to fit around the cabinets & put some trim above the backsplash of the countertops to cover the gaps from the walls leaning back.
My friend wants to put an 18-inch pantry to the left of the counters flush up against the edge (not sure what he's going to do about the power outlet-- maybe cut a hole in the back for the plugs & have something on the side of the pantry. There will be upper cabinets that go around the corner as well. On the opposite wall he wants to put a very small breakfast nook or snack bar type thing using the scrap of countertop that got cut off. Not sure if it will have sufficient space though.
