Tuesday, March 23, 2021

T-shirt picture and the big floor project

I remembered to take a picture of the t-shirts on the design wall.
My first task for the big floor project was to fill in the low spot where I had stopped work last year. Here you can see how the flooring hovered over the floor by the cast of the shadows.  I had put fill in this area before, but apparently I missed a spot!  LOL!!
I mixed up a bit of vinyl floor patch making it on the thin side, and poured it in place. I carefully worked it under the planks; there was no way I was taking that floor apart!
Here is how it looked this morning. It had dried out quite a bit so I will be good to go to lay down planks tonight after work.
Next I needed get the room cleaned out of all the stuff that had accumulated in the laundry/utility room. I hauled out all the recycling to the recycling bin - that was five trips of cutting up boxes and dumping the boxes and bags I keep the recycling in. I also decided to clean up the pile of weekly newspapers I never read that had accumulated beside the front door. I kicked them behind a bush so it was time to pick a winter's worth of papers and toss them in the recycling bin. While I was on my hands and knees pulling the papers out of the bush, I saw two little holes in the caulking at the front door frame. I never noticed them before even when I had the same holes on the other side of the door that the wasps used as a passageway to live inside my door frame.
I found the caulk gun and a tube of caulk so now no wasps will not be making their home here!
Back to the laundry room. Did three loads of laundry - one load were the sheets I stripped off my bed - to get the laundry off the floor. The laundry tub needed a good scrub and I found an old toothbrush so I could scrub the drain too. Then there was odds and ends that needed another home, shoes put away, and the wastebasket emptied. Finally I could vacuum the room. So the room is ready for installation of flooring tonight. I did dig out this fabric.
I had made my sister two vinyl project pouches with this color combination and she asked me to make her a pillow case in the same fabrics. The body will have to be the purple and the polka dot will be the border since I don't have that much of it left.
To say the least I am a bit tired today. I never sat down after I got home from work, but I am happy to have gotten so much done.

5 comments:

  1. Wow sure rocked it last night. Good for you. Don’t forget to take time for you and rest a bit. It’s hard to remember that we are not 21 anymore, even though our brain thinks we are lol.

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  2. You are the best handywoman I know. Good for you for getting all this done.

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  3. I hope the rest of the floor goes in OK. Will you have a spot under the water heater that has to be put in after they take the old one out?

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  4. You are one of 5he hardest working ladies I know!

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