Dan's Ramblings

Dan here ~

Thursday, a nice cloudy calm day. Not too cold, not too hot. I used up the last of the gravel that had been delivered for me to use as I rebuild the driveway. That makes 20 yards I have spread so far. I have 12 more on order that hopefully arrives before too long. Hopefully that will be enough. Time will tell if it causes the water to do what I intended. 

I have enlarged ditches and created new ones as I strive to get the water to not run down the road. Sitting under the heating pad currently. It is supposed to rain tonight and maybe tomorrow so I might get to see what happens before I spread more gravel.

Dan's Ramblings

Dan here ~ 

Thursday evening. A beautiful day, not as warm as yesterday but at least not as windy.  

Dan's Ramblings

Dan here ~

Thursday evening. Another week gone by. Has been rainy and extremely foggy today. Visibility today was measured in the hundreds of feet. When I went to Mechanic Falls for a switch for a project I’ll tell you about in a minute, I found it hard to believe the number of ignorant people driving without their lights on, at least three out of every ten cars I met. I’m glad I didn’t have far to go.

On Tuesday after supper Carol asked me to come downstairs and read her blog post. While downstairs I asked what was the water all over the floor. Further investigation found the culprit to be the dishwasher. We dried up the mess and waited until Wednesday to look deeper. After digging in and finding a couple leaky areas and since there were already several aspects of the old one that did not function correctly anymore, we decided on a new one. 

Dan's Ramblings

Dan here ~

Thursday evening, I guess it’s Thursday evening since Carol just informed me Friday is tomorrow. So here I am rambling away, Carol skipped you, she said that nothing had happened. So I’ll ramble a few minutes and then go sew.

I tell you sewing beats what I was doing all day. I have been proceeding on my crawl space project and having just about as much fun as any old man can have. I don’t think it beats cutting up wood, but it’s right up there. I have now placed 6 mil plastic over the majority of the crawl space floor, what’s left I will finish tomorrow. I have spread about three +/- yards of stone underneath, both above and below the plastic. I can sense a big difference in the air quality under there. I have always contended that the crawl space is why I take allergy meds daily. I never did until I moved here. Here are a couple pics of the process. 

Dan's Ramblings

Dan here ~

Well, we got enough snow to say it snowed, not much more though. Little did I know when I bought my snowblower that I would jinx the season regarding snowfall. There is a very small amount in the forecast for the end of this week. I guess time will tell.

The carpenter came back on Friday and built doors and created a small cupboard over the Murphy beds/design walls. 

He got one coat of paint applied and will be back this week to put the second coat on to call it complete. He only has one small project left on his list to do here. That is to build a small outside storage closet to replace a cheap plastic one we bought. Hopefully that will be the end at least for now.

This and That

Carol here ~ 

I need a couple of small gifts so have been working on some Lemoyne Star hot mats/pot holders.

On Sunday I got four of them ready to bind.

Dan's Ramblings

Dan here ~

Tuesday evening and you guessed it out by the fire. 

The weather here has been incredible. It did finally get cold enough that the tomato plant that I had been trying to get some tomatoes out of finally got frosted. Not completely but she’s a gonna. I want the six to eight tomatoes that I got to ripen for their seeds. I have never done it with tomatoes before. I used to grow a lot of my flowers from last year’s seeds when I had the greenhouse. Don’t see why I can’t cut open the tomatoes and let them dry and plant some in the spring. Wait for it… time will tell.

Projects

Dan here, coming to you from in front of the fire Tuesday evening. Quiet around here now, there was several young adults next door most of the day. They left around dark. They were well behaved. 

I have been quite busy of late. On Monday I erected the windbreak for the grill. I managed to get the three posts set and the short stockade fence attached. I remembered that woodworking projects are much like quilting projects. Just like when I design and build a quilt, I often get almost complete and see a different idea I think would have worked better. Were I to build the fence again I would make a couple minor changes, but hopefully it will perform as I intended. When it is windy I could not grill because I could not control the temperature inside the grill. Time will see if it works better now. Looks nice anyway.