Wednesday, November 01, 2006

YEA YEA It has been more than a month.

I know I know. It has been since the beginning of Sept since I made a blog entry. So sue me. Obviously it hasn't killed you not being able to read a new one. I will give you some stats of how my past couple months have been:

Sept-
13 days at the fire station (sometimes for only half a day)
6 days on call for LifeNet
1 lunch with a friend
1 meeting the comcast guy
1 b-day party
1 day of golf
1 VA Tech game
Which all equals 24 days that had stuff going on.

Oct-
16 days working for the fire dept
3 days on call for LifeNet
1 day Grace singing at church
2 days meeting the air conditioner guys
1 day meeting the heating oil guy
1 day meeting the water heater guy
2 days of the folk festival
1 day meeting the window guy
That 27 days of stuff for Oct.

Now for what I have gotten done on the house. I have worked on the roof some more. The problem is that it takes about 2-3 hours of scraping to get the old paint off the roof. Also I can only work on it when the forecast does not call for rain within 24-32 hours. So that limits the time when I can work up there. But, I have gotten 2 more panels done and a bunch more patching. Only like 15 more panels to go.

Today I started working on the basement also. I figured it was a good diversion from the roof on days I couldn't work up there. So today I scraped down one wall and painted it. It will need another couple coats, but it is looking better. It will be nice to waterproof the basement some and clean it up real well.

I forgot to mention in the listings above that I brewed 10 gals of beer, but have only bottled 5 gals so far. The other 5 decided to start to ferment some more when I took it out of the fridge. So to avoid bottles from blowing up I am waiting for it to simmer down a bit before bottling it.

I also have been breaking up the old sidewalk in the back yard for the future patio. Why do it now you may ask? Well, I had a sledge hammer and a day off so why not break up some concrete? I then take it to the weird dump.

*the Weird dump*
Why is the dump weird you ask?
Well the city dump on Hopkins road is nothing but a very large pole barn with a concrete floor. All that you do is back up to one of the sides of the dump and throw all of your trash onto the concrete. Then a bull dozer comes and pushes the stuff you put on the floor and puts it into a tractor trailer. The truck then drives off with the stuff. It may be just me, but I think that they could take out one or two of those steps. But heck I can't complain. With the Richmond city sticker on my truck it is all free. Which is different than y'all county dwellers.

Well that is about it for now. If I ever end up finishing a project that I start I will post some pics of it on here. But as for now who really wants to see a half painted roof? Ok you caught me, it is not even half painted. Maybe lets go with a quarter painted.