Your projects, what are you working on in your free time? Options

[Acadian]

Good luck to you and your dad there, mirocu! Do you think you can finish the walls before the winter really sets in hard?

[mirocu]

Good luck to you and your dad there, mirocu! Do you think you can finish the walls before the winter really sets in hard?

I reckon so. We´re only doing the long sides and one is halfway there and the other coming strong. Another day or two and it´s done. We may have to get some more material however but not much.

[Decrepit]

I have a project of sorts that I hope to accomplish this week. My current military retiree ID expires at the end of the year, me turning 65 this coming January. I'll need a new ID showing me Medicare eligible. Research has shown that I can get the new ID beginning 90 days prior to my birthday. If my math is correct, Wednesday sees me within the 90-day mark.

The hassle is that the nearest issuing authority is several hours away. Neither my car nor myself are what we once were. The drive there and back will challenge both of us. Still, it's gotta get done. Better now than once cold weather sets in.

Speaking of projects, I washed and waxed the car!!!!!!! It can be argued that I waited ten years too late before waxing it, allowing much of its paint to peel off. But hey, I'm lazy. Better late than never?

This post has been edited by Decrepit: Jun 18 2020, 06:18 PM

[mirocu]

Speaking of projects, I washed and waxed the car!!!!!!! It can be argued that I waited ten years too late before waxing it, allowing much of its paint to peel off. But hey, I'm lazy. Better late than never?

I hire a guy I know to do that for me. Not the washing part, the waxing/polishing parts. He´s basically a professional and the darn car looks brand new when he´s had his hands on it!


Good luck with the ID thing!

[mALX]

Today dad and I started to put up walls on the new garage. I know I said we were gonna do it next year, but what the heck. Better do it now so we can paint it next year instead

Hmm, I need some motivated house fixers at my son's new house. Plenty to do there!



*mALX sends tempting bird seed to Mirocu and Poppa Bird to fly here and help...*

[mirocu]

[mALX]

I have a project of sorts that I hope to accomplish this week. My current military retiree ID expires at the end of the year, me turning 65 this coming January. I'll need a new ID showing me Medicare eligible. Research has shown that I can get the new ID beginning 90 days prior to my birthday. If my math is current Wednesday sees me within the 90-day mark.

The hassle is that the nearest issuing authority is several hours away. Neither my car nor myself are what we once were. The drive there and back will challenge both of us. Still, it's gotta get done. Better now than once cold weather sets in.

Speaking of projects, I washed and waxed the car!!!!!!! It can be argued that I waited ten years too late before waxing it, allowing much of its paint to peel off. But hey, I'm lazy. Better late than never?

That might be a trip better made with a friend in a better working car to drive you there and to take the strain off you; be there if needed if the trip gets to be too much for you.

Around here they have agencies that will transport you to appointments at doctor's offices or the Social Security Administration (etc) if you have untrustworthy transportation and are elderly or infirmed in some way; (and usually when the destination is too far to afford a taxi to take you there and back, which it sounds like this place is).

We have the same situation here on the Veterans Affairs = 3-4 hour drive through some of the worst mountain roads imaginable, and if you are lucky you won't be crushed in a rock slide or your car go out of control on the steep grade and/or drive off the side of the Black Mountain. (they have "Runaway Truck" ramps all down that mountain for those huge semi trucks that go completely out of control on that steep a grade; and more than one semi was not able to stop by the end of that ramp).



http://www.crashforensics.com/images/blackmountain1.jpg



http://www.fsrengineering.com/sector_transportation.htm



http://cmsimg.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcsi...elf-rock-slides


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This post has been edited by mALX: Nov 1 2015, 05:53 PM

[mirocu]

One of the long walls is done and the other very close behind!


Our boards lasted way longer than we thought. We won´t have to get more than a few new ones when we start putting up walls on the back of the garage. I say walls because we will leave a gap so we can easily walk into the garage without having to go around it every time.


Man, we have done so much this year!

[mALX]

One of the long walls is done and the other very close behind!


Our boards lasted way longer than we thought. We won´t have to get more than a few new ones when we start putting up walls on the back of the garage. I say walls because we will leave a gap so we can easily walk into the garage without having to go around it every time.


Man, we have done so much this year!

You sure have! Really good the old boards are still in such good shape to be used!

[mirocu]

You sure have! Really good the old boards are still in such good shape to be used!

Some have cracks and some have weird shapes and can´t be used, but the overwhelming majority is fine. They have been in storage for years and years and years and they´re only this good because they have been inside behind closed doors and with small wooden pieces separating one layer from another, allowing air everywhere.

We would have to move it all up to us anyway, might as well put them to use


Pixies to prove it really happened will be up later

[mALX]

You sure have! Really good the old boards are still in such good shape to be used!

Some have cracks and some have weird shapes and can´t be used, but the overwhelming majority is fine. They have been in storage for years and years and years and they´re only this good because they have been inside behind closed doors and with small wooden pieces separating one layer from another, allowing air everywhere.

We would have to move it all up to us anyway, might as well put them to use


Pixies to prove it really happened will be up later

Bold: Woo Hoo!





This post has been edited by mALX: Nov 2 2015, 04:35 PM

[mirocu]

Both long sides of the garage are done and we prepared for the back walls. Forgot the camera again though!

[mALX]

Both long sides of the garage are done and we prepared for the back walls. Forgot the camera again though!

Didn't happen then!

[mirocu]

Didn't happen then!

Darn, I gotta do it all over again then

[mALX]

Didn't happen then!

Darn, I gotta do it all over again then

No, we will accept a pic of the long side walls up.

[mirocu]

Oh, good.

It did happen after all!

And just for comparison, this is from early March.

I´m so happy we got the garage up this year! I certainly didn´t expect it

This post has been edited by mirocu: Nov 5 2015, 04:02 PM

[Grits]

Looks great, mirocu! Congratulations on getting it done before winter!

[Acadian]

Looks great, mirocu! Congratulations on getting it done before winter!

What she said!

[ghastley]

Looks great, mirocu! Congratulations on getting it done before winter!

mirocu does winter? Tell him not to do it over here!

[mirocu]

Yeah, I´m really glad it got done before winter really sets in. We were lucky the carpenter just got a job cancelled and could start working at our place right away

We don´t have enough boards to cover up the backside completely but we´re gonna use what we have and continue next year. We´ve had enough expenses for this year It amazed us though we did have enough for both longsides, none of use believed that.