What did you do today? - 2021 version

[Gumby]

Sorry to hear about that, street. Have you had a tetanus shot recently?

 

[street]

Gumby, I did last fall when I received the flu shot. So, that was something for me to smile about. The nail must have missed the bones but not sure how. I left a blood trail a blind man could of followed.

Thanks Gumby!

 

[Christine]

Got the wheels swapped on my RV. Or rather I drove to the garage and they did it for me.
That is swapping studded winter tires for normal summer ones.
I like the studs in winter - my motorhome drive like it's on rails. But it's even better when I put the summer shoes on my RV.

 

[Out of Steam]

Putting up wall shelves in the garage to replace a wooden storage cabinet and shelving unit that I have disassembled. It was too long and deep for the space and made getting two cars inside questionable.

Reusing the wood from it to build the shelves. I've seen the price of lumber.

 

[Gumby]

Gumby, I did last fall when I received the flu shot. So, that was something for me to smile about. The nail must have missed the bones but not sure how. I left a blood trail a blind man could of followed.

Thanks Gumby!

That's good news. My periodic tetanus shots have always been as a consequence of somehow puncturing myself somewhere, usually by doing something stupid. Last time was using a drill driven paint chipper attachment on a old radiator. It happens often enough that I've never actually had a booster shot.

 

[aja8888]

Back yard is like a swamp after the recent 8" rain. My gutters are clogged from leaves that I failed to clean out this winter. As a result, the rain water just ran over the gutters. UGH! I forgot about cleaning them when the freeze came this winter as I was helping others fix busted pipes and water damage around here. No pipe or water leak damage to our house during that period, though.

The rear gutter guards are toast and I just bought new ones which will be put up once I can find someone to hold the ladder.

I also dug out (in areas) and cleaned the yard perimeter drainpipe as it is (was) plugged up in places after 20 years of moving rainwater to the street. Easy digging in very wet soil! But it was a royal PIA.

At 77+ years old, the shovel and wheelbarrow seem heavier than I recall in previous uses. Oh, it's 90 F and humid out too!

Maybe I'll finish this wet and muddy job after Thursday (Golf match scheduled) and things will be drier.

I'm starting to wonder why we even have a 2,000 square foot house and associated yard since it's only the two of us and the other family members hold the holiday events now since DW is not readily capable of those tasks anymore. I think we will start evaluating a condo or apartment since we don't rally have a need for a SFH anymore.

 

[Hermit]

Made up the brackets and mount for my cabinet project

Putting up wall shelves in the garage to replace a wooden storage cabinet and shelving unit that I have disassembled. It was too long and deep for the space and made getting two cars inside questionable.

Reusing the wood from it to build the shelves. I've seen the price of lumber.

Shelves and cabinets seem to be the thing today, so I will chime in. I finished hanging the wall cabinets in my kitchen today. Crown molding and such will come later.

 

[Walt34]

Well, I'm hobbling along after an accident late yesterday. I was cleaning up some round fence posts that had old barbwire on them and 8 inch pole barn nails driven in them also. Well, one rolled of off the top and the nail landed right on top of my foot. The nail imbedded right between my big toe and the one next to it. It just about went all the way through. Lol Darn!!

When I read that I said out loud "Ouch!" and DW came in from the next room to see what was wrong with me. When I explained her response was the same. Hope the healing goes easy for you.

Today the big accomplishment was finding and buying a new dishwasher to replace the old leaking one. After doing due diligence online and finding that just about every install that way is at least ten days out we decided to shop local as intended. At local shop #1 we went in, heard someone on the phone in a back room, but no one ever came out so after browsing around a bit and not finding anything we liked anyway after about ten minutes, we left. DW then wanted to go to Lowes, so off we went. They could get a dishwasher that we were interested in, but it wouldn't be available for installation until June. And that was a "maybe". Uh, no thanks. From looking online I knew that Home Depot could do better than that.

So on to local shop #2. We had bought a clothes dryer from them about 16 years ago but they delivered the wrong model, with an end-of-cycle buzzer that could not be turned off so I decided never to buy anything from them again. (I had to dig into it, find the blasted buzzer, and unplug it.) In the meantime we kept hearing good things about them, so we decided to try again, especially since at this point we were running out of options, the only other one remaining being Home Depot, and I've heard some horror stories about them from relatives, so that was the last resort. Well, apparently in the intervening years business has been good for local shop #2 since when we got there, there was a sign indicating that they'd moved about a mile and a half away to what turned out to be much nicer digs than their old store.

So the upshot is we're getting it installed Thursday morning. They offered tomorrow, but that's the day the floor installers are coming to finish off the floor trim from the job last August and we figured it best to not have them possibly getting in each other's way.

Oh, and then I mowed the back part of the yard.

 

[street]

Thanks Walt34. I'm very thankful it went between the toe bones. It would of pierced or broken foot bones, so things could of been worse. It's going to be a wile to get back to hiking but been out and about some this afternoon.

Our grand daughter is here and haven't tried to keep up with her and been doing somethings, so not a total waste of day for me.

It looked like you had a busy day and an eventful also.

 

[Ronstar]

Well, I'm hobbling along after an accident late yesterday. I was cleaning up some round fence posts that had old barbwire on them and 8 inch pole barn nails driven in them also. Well, one rolled of off the top and the nail landed right on top of my foot. The nail imbedded right between my big toe and the one next to it. It just about went all the way through. Lol Darn!!

Went and got my first covid shot this morning and will have our step grand daughter here with us this afternoon. I had a lot of things planned but not sure how much I can be on my feet today yet.

Whoa! That sounds painful. I know you said you had a tetanus shot a while ago, but maybe a trip to the doc just to be extra safe. Maybe a quick care if you have one nearby. It seems that we have more weird accidents as we get older.

 

[street]

Whoa! That sounds painful. I know you said you had a tetanus shot a while ago, but maybe a trip to the doc just to be extra safe. Maybe a quick care if you have one nearby. It seems that we have more weird accidents as we get older.

Man that is for sure. When I got my covid shot today I told the nurse about it and she said to keep an eye on it if swelling or red strike starts get to a doctor right away. It just has been 24 hours so will see what tomorrow brings.

Thanks Ronstar.

 

[NW-Bound]

I'm starting to wonder why we even have a 2,000 square foot house and associated yard since it's only the two of us and the other family members hold the holiday events now since DW is not readily capable of those tasks anymore. I think we will start evaluating a condo or apartment since we don't rally have a need for a SFH anymore.

At some point, all that old people need is a home like this.

IKEA is selling it for $47,500. The home is prebuilt, unlike their furniture that you have to assemble yourself.

 

[Out of Steam]

Shelves and cabinets seem to be the thing today, so I will chime in. I finished hanging the wall cabinets in my kitchen today. Crown molding and such will come later.

Sounds like fancier work than my garage project, which is a bit "rough and ready".

 

[Out of Steam]

Man that is for sure. When I got my covid shot today I told the nurse about it and she said to keep an eye on it if swelling or red strike starts get to a doctor right away. It just has been 24 hours so will see what tomorrow brings.

Hope all goes OK!

Since I'm pulling nails out of boards to reuse them, I think I will take your mishap as a cue to wear leather boots instead of sneakers when I go back to work tomorrow afternoon.

 

[NW-Bound]

^^^ I dunno. Street said 8" nail.

I figure you will want steel-toe-cap shoes, not just leather.

 

[MRG]

Took puppy for her first vet visit. It was uneventful except what the vet was doing. He said he "was operating on a chicken" which I took to mean he was eating lunch. No, he was operating on a chicken! I asked if it was a special chicken? He smiled "five hundred dollar special chicken." He showed me the x-ray, stupid thing had 2 wood screws in its crop. He showed me one and the crop contents. He said the lady didn't want a recipe so he was trying to save her chicken. He still had one screw to get loose.

Our pup has been very active especially at night. She's learned the 3" gap under the coffee table allows her to slide under and hide. Last night about 2:30 AM she announced crate training was over when she proudly jumped on top of hers and barked defiantly at me. DW and I haven has much sleep.

 

[Out of Steam]

^^^ I dunno. Street said 8" nail.

I figure you will want steel-toe-cap shoes, not just leather.

Nothing heavier than 3/4 inch boards and 8d finishing nails, so old school hiking boots should be safe enough. In any case, I haven't owned a pair of steel-toed shoes in the current millennium.

 

[Gumby]

I went out to my garden plot in the rain to take our first harvest of the year - asparagus and mint. The young wife is turning it into a salad for dinner. Mmmm good!

 

[street]

40 to 50 lbs

Hope all goes OK!

Since I'm pulling nails out of boards to reuse them, I think I will take your mishap as a cue to wear leather boots instead of sneakers when I go back to work tomorrow afternoon.

The sad part about it, I was wearing flip flops. Lol I brought home a pickup load of these used fence posts (40 to 50 lbs a piece) to cut the barb off at my home in town. So, I had shorts and flip flops just cutting barb and throwing it in the garbage. It wasn't a smart thing I know. I worked all day doing things and foot is doing well. Hard to beleive it is with a stab wound as bad as it was.

 

[Walt34]

The guy showed up as promised and installed the last couple of pieces of trim from the hardwood floor installed last August. Turned out he was the owner of the company. He was NOT happy about the way the two guys had left the job, and I got the distinct impression they're going to hear about it. Anyway the floor looks great. Finally. The downside is that the entire kitchen and family room needed a thorough cleaning from the dust kicked up by whatever tools he used to even out the edge of the floor before installing the trim.

Then I mowed the front, side and the close-in back yard, then went inside to finish assembling an R/C model glider. I kept hearing some "scratching" sounds from the dryer vent where it exits the house and decided I'd better take a look. Good thing I did, a bird was building a nest in there. She'd figured out how to flip the little door open that covers the exit and opens with the air pressure from the dryer. I had to take out that whole section of vent off and take it outside to clean it out. When the house was new there was a little "cage" over the vent opening to prevent exactly that but it kept getting clogged with lint and had to be cleaned about every other dryer load. I removed it, and in almost 19 years this is the first time any critters have tried to gain entry there so I'll roll the die again.

In spite of the extra project I did manage to finish the Night Walrus (where to they come up with these names?) and I'm looking forward to flying it if the wind/weather ever settles down.

 

[Out of Steam]

The sad part about it, I was wearing flip flops. Lol I brought home a pickup load of these used fence posts (40 to 50 lbs a piece) to cut the barb off at my home in town. So, I had shorts and flip flops just cutting barb and throwing it in the garbage. It wasn't a smart thing I know. I worked all day doing things and foot is doing well. Hard to beleive it is with a stab wound as bad as it was.

Hope you continue to get better! My injury issue has usually been doing heavy work without gloves, whether splinters (steel, glass, other), blisters, poison ivy, or small burns.

 

[braumeister]

He said the lady didn't want a recipe so he was trying to save her chicken. He still had one screw to get loose.

I take it the owner also had a screw loose.

 

[Walt34]

When the house was new there was a little "cage" over the vent opening to prevent exactly that but it kept getting clogged with lint and had to be cleaned about every other dryer load. I removed it, and in almost 19 years this is the first time any critters have tried to gain entry there so I'll roll the die again.

Well, that didn't last long. When I checked again the persistent bird had started over building another nest in the dryer vent. Oh well, cage it is over the vent; DW was going to Lowes anyway for some other stuff and she picked one up and I installed it over the existing vent. It's gonna take Superbird to rip that off and get in there! I have a battery powered vacuum cleaner that will be ideal for cleaning the lint from the cage if it clogs with lint like the old one did.

And the installers showed up as promised to install the new dishwasher so all should be fixed now. Until the next thing breaks. Ah, the joys of homeownership.

 

[Souschef]

Well, that didn't last long. When I checked again the persistent bird had started over building another nest in the dryer vent. Oh well, cage it is over the vent; DW was going to Lowes anyway for some other stuff and she picked one up and I installed it over the existing vent. It's gonna take Superbird to rip that off and get in there! I have a battery powered vacuum cleaner that will be ideal for cleaning the lint from the cage if it clogs with lint like the old one did.

And the installers showed up as promised to install the new dishwasher so all should be fixed now. Until the next thing breaks. Ah, the joys of homeownership.

I discovered that my dishwasher was hardwired in when the installers came. The guy said I needed an electrician to connect it. I said, "I am an electrician"

Fortunately, both dishwashers were GE, and the connections were in the same place. I turned off the breaker, and undid the 3 wire nuts. They installed the new unit, and I hooked up the new dishwasher.

 

[Hermit]

Well, that didn't last long. When I checked again the persistent bird had started over building another nest in the dryer vent. Oh well, cage it is over the vent; DW was going to Lowes anyway for some other stuff and she picked one up and I installed it over the existing vent. It's gonna take Superbird to rip that off and get in there! I have a battery powered vacuum cleaner that will be ideal for cleaning the lint from the cage if it clogs with lint like the old one did.

And the installers showed up as promised to install the new dishwasher so all should be fixed now. Until the next thing breaks. Ah, the joys of homeownership.

If you have replaced the dryer, chances are you have fixed the original problem. If the dryer filter is working properly, you should not get very much lint at the end of the vent. I had a vent cover with maybe 1/2 inch holes. I think I might have cleaned it out once or twice in about 12 years. The dryer filter got cleaned about every cycle.