The grade ones and twos are missing nearly 50% of the student population from a new “Tummy Bug“, that is going around. Complete with fever, sore throat, vomiting, and so much more. Sounds familiar huh? Probably not. Probably is. Probably. What!?!
How is your Wednesday going? I feel as though ours is all over the place. The temperature is warm, nearing hot. The sky is dark earlier and earlier at night. Our mornings are getting tougher due to just how dim the sunlight is at seven am-ish these days. After all that Hump Day is here! Also Pizza Lunch Day. Less than a week until Halloween. So much left to do!
The kids decided to help decorate so they mixed up clear pva glue, red acrylic paint, and a touch of water and left hundreds of bloody hand prints all over the glass doors, windows, front walkway, and bricks by the front entrance. I somehow thought they would be more subtle. Nope. We now reside in an abattoir apparently. Very authentic. The porous brick work is going to hold on to the paint pigment for weeks, if not months to come. Merry Christmas from the slaughter house four I guess. What can I do? If the weather continues to hold after the big night I could try to pressure wash it. That’s November me’s problem to sort out.
Oh the dimness of the light. All it makes me want to do is go back to bed, or have a several hours long nap. I was going to work outside, but it began to rain as soon as I got home this morning after school drop off. Limits my desire to prune shrubs if I’m going to get poured on.
I could work on the bed project. I made considerable progress yesterday. I cut out all of the recesses for the vertical slats, by binding my rails together and using the table saw. I also cut the slat tenons too. I could potentially start to glue & screw much of this thing together. But it does need some sanding after all. The two additional feet I made need to get cleaned up. I have lots of round overs to do on several edges to soften things up under hand. All the feet need to be cut to their final lengths, and then I’ll have hole/gap filling, planing surfaces to meet nice and flush, even more sanding, then staining to do. Attaching the feet, and possibly adding a minor head board to stop pillows from pushing off the bed at night. Even with all of that left, I’m further ahead than I was before. And that’s what counts. If I was more exact when cutting I’d have a lot less touch up work to do, but I always seem to miss something, somewhere. I’ll have to notch out a few things I’m sure in order to get it all to come together in the end. Gap filling is going to be a must, I can feel it in my bones.
I didn’t want to swap out my regular saw blade for my dado stack, so all of my cuts took much longer than they needed go. But, I think I will have a better fit by moving slowly. So no harm done. Made a hell of a mess with saw dust yesterday, so I feel like I got enough out of my day. Today’s hand cramps bear witness to my continued use of the heavy sled I made. Much safer with the sled and my hold down sticks. My fingers thank me. Atleast this far in they do.
Have a glorious Wednesday. Ciao Bella!
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