Summer Projects

Sell house and rent condo to relieve self of work load....Done and done...... Relax and enjoy life...paint...

Trench in pipe for misters in Wife's vegetable garden. Half done. Digging trenches by hand is fun in Florida in the summer (not).

Lay wooden floors for our house and our rental, two bathrooms to renavate, laundry room to convert, 3rd bedroom renovations...

Yes it is summer in Florida, so now's the time to get all that inside work done.

Paint home interior

fabricate bedroom closet doors

replace roof shingles with metal roofing

finish tree stand

Plus whatever the Boss(wife) decides needs to be done

My summers are spent running from the back door to the pool, then back again for another cold beer.

I watched my 15 YO and his bud tear down the old cedar fence and build a new one for me this spring. They'll be laying a flagstone sidewalk/patio for me this fall. Maybe painting the house, too.

At my age, it's good to have eager kids to do the work.

Laminate flooring in Master bedroom. Finish sheetrock project, paint. Add screen room to patio (just got the slab poured last weekend).

Summer for me started in late early March with starting our first growing season garden. Reseeding grass for our 1/4 ac patch. Re install front irrigation system. Now in AZ its hibernation season Barton down the hatches and stay cool. Work starts at 2:00 AM and ends before 12 noon. September will be the start of our second garden season.

Mrs Cat wants wooden flooring laid in the sun lounge, gotta do some painting first too.

I want to break 200 feet per second with a self wood bow also make a decent bow sting from natural materials (currently making nettle cordage). Got several bows on the go and I just bought a Canon PowerShot SX230 HS camera which will film at 240 frames per second from a well known auction site... should get some good slo mo of arrow flight for tuning up flight arrows

Gotta give the new gas boiler its annual service seein' as how I installed it 2 years ago.

Del

Good luck, Del! Be sure to share when you're done...

Summer is here too and so is the monsoon season.

I got a nice break in the weather last week to get an undeground power cable put in without working in the mud. Just lucky.

I've got apartments to finish off. Actually it's a bit more than finishing. Converting my house from a big empty nest to something that will feed me for a change. Mostly indoor work now..just need to motivate myself and find some good masons who don't mind detail work and being bird-dogged. Tough ask here.

Just finishing up the SOW so I can at least tell a mason crew what's expected.

Then there's three motorbikes to fix as well...never ends.

Still months of work ahead. I'm doing this in between paid work so it's dragging. Don't want the banks to make a penny out of this one. Cash only no credit.

Well since I'm having lower back issues again...I'm hiring people to do all of my "things".

Southeast Texas Summer:

Mow the yard

Trench for drainage

Mow the yard

Scrape hundred year old plaster

Mow the yard

Weld on barber chair for local theater production of. . .

Mow the yard

Sweeney Todd (directed by wife)

Mow the yard

Mow the yard

Spray weed killer (resist urge to spray entire yard)

Mow the yard

Build live theater sound equipment for . . .

Mow the yard

Upcoming play that will have the actors perform all their own sound effects on stage.

Mow the yard

Install transoms above doors in the bedroom

Mow the yard

You get the idea. . .

-A-

So, ya gonna mow the yard mate?

We get about 60" of rain a year here. Also, about 200 days of sun. In the summer, this adds up to having to mow ALOT!

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-A-

At least you can get barber chair advice here on CR4 if you need it!

We've been doing a lot of mowing here in the Northeast thanks to all the rain... hence my excitement over getting a riding mower! I just replaced the wheels on our self-propelled mower (it wasn't propelling and had to be pushed) but it still takes 4-6 hours to do the yard.

Living the dream....

4 to 6 hours? You need more than a riding mower!

Pushing up hill takes a long time! It did go a little quicker when the mower was fixed to be self-propelled rather than just pushing. Lots of hills, banks, trees, and other obstacles in the yard. I'm getting a nice John Deere next week that's going to make life a lot easier.

Like SolarEagle, I sold my house last winter, and rented an apartment in a large complex. No lawn to mow, If something breaks I call Maintenance.

Wife is in Mexico for the next few months taking care of some family business so no "honey-dos"

Retired, but still work a few hours a week at my former job. Just enough for beer money.

Major project at the moment: add to my hoard of beer bottles

OK, I do have one "project".

Tomorrow, the boys and I are headed back to the farm in AR, for a week.

There will be a few fence posts to replace and maybe some pasture mowing, but mostly just relaxing.

I only get back there once a year, but my brother takes care of the place when I'm gone.

Replace 40 yr old gutters, fascia, soffits, eave venting, add ridge vent, replace two layers of 25 yr old 3-tab shingles, add 50 A service panel to garage for welder, compressor, 50A and 30A RV outlets, tear up and replace old cracked up concrete front walkway, install pavers on path next to garage to reduce erosion, take down two dead trees in back yard, finish garden shed out back, take down two nasty tulip poplars in front yard, finish six drywall projects in house, clean and reorganize basement or cellar, finish cleaning and re-organizing the garage, strip and repaint the main bath, remove nasty old insulation from attic and add radiant barrier before topping off with new batts, shore up the header over the garage door because we put so much cr4p in the garage attic it is sagging, re-point the firebricks in the fireplace, re-do the mortar on the chimney cap, maybe even clean the flue if things look nasty, clear the drain from the cellar entryway, remove 40 yr old aluminum siding and replace with something else, completely gut the kitchen because we have the original builder quality ($h!T) cabinets and that lovely harvest gold linoleum floor tiles . . .

And then for the following weekend . . . It will be a great house (for the next owners. )

I am in that limbo area where I am too old to work 5 days then knock myself out more on the weekends, and the time when I will be looking for more things to do to knock myself out on week days. Ask again in about 2-1/2 years.

I hear you buddy!