What did you do today?

[zannej]

Thanks!
Man, it's cold here. Friend helped me put up some Reflectix and quilted moving blankets to insulate things a bit. I'm going to be using cats as warmers tonight. LOL.
Took Mom for her vaccine & grabbed takeout from burger king bc I didn't feel like cooking. I had to unload all the bottled water and cat food from the truck. Brother was supposed to help but he wouldn't. I'm about to take a nap under my pile of cats.

 

[havasu]

We're working hard. Stained the top caps of my retaining walls, them spent 2 hours caulking and touch up in the kitchen. We've been living out of boxes the last week cuz the kitchen has been repainted. After and before pics.

 

[Floorist]

Hey anybody home? No posts in 2 days? Just checking if everyone is ok.

Just freezing. Hasn't been over 30 for several days and won't be until next Thursday. -10 WC tonight.

 

[highup]

Hey anybody home? No posts in 2 days? Just checking if everyone is ok.

Everything maybe it was you!
I did a restretch today location was 5 milrs out of cell range. Between some tall hills. I installed a Garmin like app on my phone called Waze. It directed me all the way out to the house. When the app said arriving at destination, there was a roadblock. From a short distance away I thought it was a cable across the road.
Well it was sort of a cable
The cable was connected to a fence and a post and a goat.
Looks like he made about four laps around the post before he decided to kick back and enjoy the weather.

 

[highup]

The restrrtch was actually because the carpet edge against the hardwood was beginning to have some loose threads come out. Installation is only about a year old, possibly less. Why don't guys put seam adhesive in the gully when they use tack strip in a situation like this?

 

[Jon]

We're working hard. Stained the top caps of my retaining walls, them spent 2 hours caulking and touch up in the kitchen. We've been living out of boxes the last week cuz the kitchen has been repainted. After and before pics.View attachment 11393View attachment 11394

Looks good
Would you like to come and do our kitchen now as we have those cupboard doors with the bits of wood around

 

[DarisMulkin]

Dont forget to share it around your friends

Why don't guys put seam adhesive in the gully when they use tack strip in a situation like this?

I never have put sealer in the gully. They started that with berbers when they were popular. Reason not to: what if you need to pull that edge up for like a restretch as you are doing. You could have a raveling mess or even rip the carpet trying to get it up. I just nudge the tackless a little closer and drive the carpet in.

 

[DarisMulkin]

Hav tell me you didn't paint those beautiful stained cabinets. I love stain and wood grain not paint. I hate painting but not staining on my own projects.

 

[havasu]

I hated to paint them but 3 companies wanted over $10k just to strip and restain.

 

[Floorist]

Beautiful day. 10F -6 WC. Got my first covid shot yesterday.

 

[highup]

The seam adhesive soaks into the backing. I did a test once and it released from the plywood without much effort.

 

[highup]

Beautiful day. 10F -6 WC. Got my first covid shot yesterday.

It's 9:45 in the morning and it's 50° here it only got down to 48 last night.

 

[zannej]

Havasu, it's a shame it was that expensive to get them done & keep the color. The white looks good thus far. It will brighten the kitchen up.

They used to tether goats up along the highway around here to cut back the grass. But people kept stealing them or running off the road to hit them so they stopped.

Looking at that carpet job next to the hardwood, my eye was drawn to the shingles on the walls & I'm wondering why they chose that decor. LOL.

I slept under a pile of cats and dogs last night. Some of the kitties got under the covers with me. I stayed warm. Brief cat fight this morning. Looks like 4 involved. Two of them were still riled up after I broke it up. Sir Hammington was in a particularly bad mood & wouldn't calm down. Tried to swat at me. I shoved him out of the room & his demeanor changed immediately. He cast some aspersions at me on his way out, but once he was out his body language changed. Standing tall with his tail and ears up. No hunkering down with ears back grousing.

Frodo sent me some stuff in the mail that should be ready today or tomorrow. Post office never has packages ready the day they arrive. Always a day or two (sometimes 5) later. I'm trying to get up the nerve to get up and go out. Still under 40 degrees. Since it rarely gets that cold here, we aren't used to it. Hope there isn't any ice on the roads. Been raining a lot too. I'll have to stop by the grocery store and grab some stuff for Mom's dinner. I keep hoping it will warm up.

I know it's not nearly as cold here as it is where some of you guys are, but I haven't lived anywhere that snowed in almost 4 decades. Lived in California, then here, then in Singapore, then Guam, then back here. The moisture makes it feel so much colder.

Mom's dog is now staring at me because he wants to go back to her room & he's waiting for me to remove the cats from my lap and get up.

 

[zannej]

Went to the post office, got mail, nothing stuck in the box this time. Package from Frodo was there. He made me a mask out of leather & it's cool. I can use it to tweak the pattern more to fit with what I'm going for. Also found that Secret Treasures washable nursing pads fit perfectly in the middle for a filter. Just need to attach it to a cloth lining and add a real filter behind it. I'm going to play around with seeing how metal bands fit to make it conform to the face and I have a memory foam nose thing for comfort & keeping glasses from fogging.


Daris, the Jokes thread is here: https://www.flooringforum.com/threads/jokes.2862/unread

 

[highup]

I'm just sticking with disposables. You don't have to wash them daily.
Local shop owner tested positive for covid a week or so ago. The shop isn't open and his wife took him to the emergency room yesterday. He's back home now we're just waiting for updates. Saying prayers for him and his wife and kids right now. It's kind of scary when it hits this close to home. He's rarely at the shop but his wife is 5 days a week. After his diagnosis, his wife and the kids have been self-isolating at the house and they're okay. Hopefully he's passed the worst of this and he'll start getting better.

 

[highup]

This 51° now at 7:45 ish. The temperature has only changed one degree all day long. It's been raining all day and I think I'd be happier if I was a frog.

I stand corrected it got up to 53. I was way off.

 

[Floorist]

It has been many years since we were this cold for this long.

 

[highup]

We're real wussies out here we don't get extremes. I'll bet the coldest we got in the last 5 or 10 years is 24° with an average low in the winter time of 32 to 34. During the winter are highs are usually 45 or more. In the summer a temperatures for highs can range from low to mid 60s to mid 70s with occasional bursts approaching 80 or higher. When I see the temperatures around the country we are about as mild as it gets not getting extremes either ways.

 

[DarisMulkin]

Febuary is always our coldest month. Temps may dip into the minus. But being surrounded by the Great Lakes on 3 side it keeps us warm. Generally we are in the 20's-30's. 16* at 6 this A.M. Just read this. Hi you could get a litttle of the white stuff.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/12/weather/snow-northwest-saturday-forecast-portland-seattle/index.htmlOur forcast for the weekend:
https://www.accuweather.com/en/us/davison-mi/48423/weather-forecast/333726

 

[Floorist]

Tomorrow, -12, 30 mph winds and 3 inches of snow. Today 3, -11wc.

The people from the north need to come and get their weather, it's drunk and going crazy