Couple of things going on.

Hello there.

I can't believe that it has been more than a month since my last blog entry. Since then I have been working on two things.

I put together a sort of "A-frame" thingy to suspend a rope chair from. The construction is complete and only needs some faux-weathering (paint job). It took about a week to build and was sort of fun. In order to do it (I had no plans, just knew what it should look like) I first built a HUGE carpenter's square out of two 2x4s. Used the 3 foot/4 foot/5 foot right triangle to lay out the angled legs. Once I had one leg made I was able to take apart the jig and use those as 2 of the other 3 legs. You'll see when I post pictures. The thing is tremendously sturdy and made entirely from wood I had laying around plus 10 feet of electrical conduit (less than 3 bucks!!) for braces.

The other thing I have been doing is tiling my basement laundry room/half bath. No easy chore, this area had 2 layers of vinyl flooring, separated by 1/4 inch plywood and all glued down to cement. The plywood and top layer (done by me, too hastily, about 15 years ago) had bubbles under it and popped when you stepped over one. This would not make for a good tile base. So I used a heat gun and removed EVERYTHING down to the concrete. It took 5 days to do the removal of 66 square feet. Yes, I know, asbestos potential. But from what I read, asbestos is a problem when you are exposed to it for LONG periods of time (read: miners of asbestos came down with lung diseases). I wore a respirator and worked slowly and carefully. Anyway, I just finished laying the tile and now I need to put in the grout. When that is done I will add tile baseboards that match. Then it will be complete and hopefully last a VERY long time.

Pictures pending...I've been taking them as I go. Just too busy to format and upload them.

Next post sooner.