Breaking all of OSHA rules or how not to work from a step ladder next to stairs....
I broke every safety rule & then some today while taping the stripes......what I thought would be a couple hours to tape & maybe an hour to paint turned into an all day marathon & I didn't even get to the painting.
In other words I grossly under estimated what this job involved!
This is what looked like at 1:00 pm when Popster got home from golf....after I turned the corner I realized I would run out of tape so I sent him to the store to another roll....45 mins later he came back with the wrong thing....what else is new!!!! While he went back to the store I continued on marking where the stripes would be....& was actually congratulating myself on how well it was working out. No problem with where they fell next to the doors......everything was level.....never happens in an older home like this...really patting myself on the back. When Popster finally got back with the right tape I went back to work.
Now did I continue to tape from where I left off? Of course not! I started at the end & worked backwards!
What happened? When I reached the point where I had left off before something did not look right! I was putting the tape on the wrong side of the lines so I had to rip it all down & redo that whole wall!
I finally got it all redone, jumped in the shower & got ready so we could meet Mark & Dani for dinner. Now I will have to paint it tomorrow morning!
I went up & down the ladder at least 5,000 times & figured I burned at least 10,000 calories so I'm having ice cream tonight with some Aleve as a chaser for my aching body!
I was woken up around 3:30am yesterday by thunder as a line of severe storms were rolling through the area. My alarm goes off at 4:00am so I figured I'd just get up. I was standing in the kitchen waiting for the coffee pot when there was a blinding explosion in the back yard along with a huge clap of thunder. It was like someone threw a bomb in the yard....needless to say it scared the crap out of me & I was waiting for a tree to fall. We didn't see anything & I left the house at 7:00am while it was still raining. Popster didn't see this until last night but it had struck this big oak that is about 15 feet from our sun room. It just stripped that piece of bark right off the tree Makes the expression "Don't mess with Mother Nature" become very real! Love
Popster has been teaching Molly to run along side of his bike. It has been a slow process but she's finally getting it. They start off very slowly....... then speed up a little...... which is when she gets crazy& decides to "carry" the leash...... gradually she feels more comfortable.... then she begins to gallop.... & the ears start to flap!!!!!
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