Give me a gift certificate to Home Depot and Amazon (thanks Bob!) and you can expect all hell to break loose.
I've had a number of non-critical things I wanted to do around my house. Also, I am helping Jess and Edglas at an event next Saturday,
brewgrass, so I had some prep things to do.
First, the amazon gift certificate. Besides buying 3 used movies (surfwise, battle royale, and cloud atlas) and 6 used books (Virginia Woolf collection, St. Aubry collection, Making a Killing, a book on clouds, a book about ocean waves, and the power of habits) I also bought two dollies we can use to haul stuff around and roll the coolers under and out from under the tables at the booth.
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| it has rubber on top so the coolers won't slip and it can hold 800 lbs! |
I also bought a privacy screen for my deck and two strands of 100 lightbulb solar christmas lights. My deck looks very cool!
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| christmas lights up (I hadn't put the privacy screen up yet) |
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| privacy screen, as seen from the deck - I love my staple gun |
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| privacy screen from below, you can hardly see it when the sun is shining |
And I spent Saturday night making little packets to put the acaraje in. I had to stuff one packet into another packet and then cut the right side. I'm almost through the whole box, hopefully will be done tonight.
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| making packets for acaraje! btw, you're SUPPOSED to wear gloves when handling the packets |
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| I found a few other things we're going to need for brewgrass that we didn't have the last time - this mat will replace a big metal tray and the dishes will be used to rest the spoons on |
I also went to HD yesterday with the gift certificate my parents gave me and bought some pots and plants.
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| these flowers all smell nice, and I had to move my other plants inside because they were getting burned by the sun - most of these plants will flower into the fall, hooray! |
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Then I went back to HD today because I finally figured out what to do about my creepy dirt floor crawl space (I'm going to cover the floor with a vapor barrier I ordered this morning and use drylock to seal the bricks / plaster). I also had a new painting project in mind.
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| the last of my HD gift certificate - drylock, rollers, gloves, a crap paint brush, scrubbing bubble (I can't resist cleaning products) and safety goggles...I had to get those respirator masks and the goggles for working in the crawl space |
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| I took these two old tv tray tables (purchased in 1994!!!!)... |
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| ...and painted them this snazzy neon red which did not show up very well in this picture - I'll take another pic when they're done |
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