Thursday Update
Last night, I took advantage of the nice cool weather we're having here and got the grass cut. The days are getting shorter now, and my afterwork grass-cutting window is down to about an hour and a half now, before it starts getting dark. I guess later on, I'll have to start cutting grass with the John Deere's headlights on. That should be interesting, especially over by the rock-lined wetlands area.
The newly-seeded spots are coming in pretty well now. One of them I almost could have cut, but decided to let it go another week or so before hitting it with the mower.
I think I forgot to mention that we're replacing the storm door on the walk-out basement door. We ordered that up at Lowe's last Saturday. The one on there now is a real piece of crap, that the previous owner apparently put in himself. It's missing the lower panel for some reason. It is also so out of square you can't even raise or lower the glass to use the screen.
So ... we looked at a few at Lowe's and found one we liked. It's a nice heavy duty storm door, wood core under the aluminum cladding, and is one of those with the disappearing screens. Installation was pretty reasonable, so we went with having it done by one of their contractors.
I'm meeting him here this afternoon around 4:30 so he can get measurements of that door, the entry door on the garage, and the front door and side glasses. The entry door on the garage and the front door don't have storm doors on them, so we'll have the measurements on file at Lowe's if we decide to put storm doors on those doors as well. I'm thinking one on the front door might be a good idea for energy efficiency, although the house seems pretty "tight" as it is.
As for weekend plans, there are still a multitude of bare spots in the front yard for overseeding, so if we dodge a bullet and don't get too much rain, I'll be doing that. Janice will continue with the door-painting work and get some more "Posh Red" on the exterior doors. If it does rain (and probably even if it doesn't) we'll continue hanging artwork. That's a two-person job anyway ... me doing the hanging and my supervisor telling where things should go. ;-)
Anyway, that's it for now ... have a great weekend!
The newly-seeded spots are coming in pretty well now. One of them I almost could have cut, but decided to let it go another week or so before hitting it with the mower.
I think I forgot to mention that we're replacing the storm door on the walk-out basement door. We ordered that up at Lowe's last Saturday. The one on there now is a real piece of crap, that the previous owner apparently put in himself. It's missing the lower panel for some reason. It is also so out of square you can't even raise or lower the glass to use the screen.
So ... we looked at a few at Lowe's and found one we liked. It's a nice heavy duty storm door, wood core under the aluminum cladding, and is one of those with the disappearing screens. Installation was pretty reasonable, so we went with having it done by one of their contractors.
I'm meeting him here this afternoon around 4:30 so he can get measurements of that door, the entry door on the garage, and the front door and side glasses. The entry door on the garage and the front door don't have storm doors on them, so we'll have the measurements on file at Lowe's if we decide to put storm doors on those doors as well. I'm thinking one on the front door might be a good idea for energy efficiency, although the house seems pretty "tight" as it is.
As for weekend plans, there are still a multitude of bare spots in the front yard for overseeding, so if we dodge a bullet and don't get too much rain, I'll be doing that. Janice will continue with the door-painting work and get some more "Posh Red" on the exterior doors. If it does rain (and probably even if it doesn't) we'll continue hanging artwork. That's a two-person job anyway ... me doing the hanging and my supervisor telling where things should go. ;-)
Anyway, that's it for now ... have a great weekend!
posted by Lee at
9/22/2006 06:55:00 AM
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