for justin

have saw will travel

this is a picture of my saw on cnkelly's patio. why is it there, you ask? because today is super saturday at kelly's house. her mom and sister and i are over here helping with several odd jobs that need to be finished. i am excited about being able to help kelly with her projects and really excited to use my saw. my fear of it diminishes with each use. now if only i could bring myself to do a test run on the radial arm saw...i could probably get to really building stuff with that thing fired up.

Chair Update

I left it there, at least for now. It had a stain on the side arm, you can’t see it in the picture, but it had a very unnerving quality about it. That fabric is fantastic and the frame of it is nice. I’m still kind of torn. I mean, it’s got great bones, and I do love the existing fabric. And maybe I could re-cover the part with the unnerving stain. I just don’t know, and it will just be another project to have to do later. But I have been wanting to learn how to re-upholster, so this seems like a good starter project. So.Completely.Torn.

should i buy this chair? i love it but it needs some work.

The wait begins...

I called today and the sod is not coming Saturday. The man said that it will probably be next Saturday instead. This is fine as I have plenty to do to keep myself busy, but the real problem at this point is that I am either going to have to leave myself open to this same situation for the next however-many weekends, or possibly take another vacation day to put the sod down during the week.

The upshot is I have a little more time to go OCD on getting the leveling just right.

I have about 50 things I need to paint, so I think I’m just going to drag them all out into the carport on Saturday and do that. It’s supposed to be nice, but I guess they can’t cut the sod when it rains which means they probably wouldn’t be cutting until Saturday at the earliest, anyway. This sod stuff, I just don’t understand how it works as far as the timing of the cutting and the laying. The guy actually laughed when I called and said, “I’m supposed to be getting sod on Saturday and I can’t remember how this works with the whole rain/no rain thing,” so they must get that a lot.

And I think I’m going to go up to Urbana on Sunday and go to the Flea Market with my dad. Yay!

the earth is flat.

sort of. details later.

mid-day progress update

here's how thins are shapin up so far. now i say midday but really its about third-day because i plant to work until the sun goes down.

grading a yard is hard. dont let anyone tell youl otherwise. i cannot for the life of me get the soil to be level. i guess its technically the leveling thats hard. my recommendation: dont buy a house. and if you do buy a house, make sure you have enough money stashed away that you can hire some cheap migrant labor for jobs like this. because this project has actually made me want to hurl myself through a plate glass window.