The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #155422 Message #3669658
Posted By: Stilly River Sage
16-Oct-14 - 11:59 AM
Thread Name: Autumnal clearing out and fitness 2014
Subject: RE: Autumnal clearing out and fitness 2014
Busy day, Michelle!
Yesterday I mailed one more small eBay parcel that sold this week. I have more to list over the weekend, but the weather is so lovely that I won't feel bad if I delay it until cold rainy days and simply follow my own advice to Linn.
It's a celebrate your boss day today (another informal Internet holiday, I suspect) but as I was looking through a drawer this morning at home I came across a small pair of pierced dangling earrings with a small black fossil in each. I have never gotten around to wearing them myself despite having purchased them over 10 years ago, and my supervisor loves rocks and fossils (I've brought her several in the past). So these are now wrapped in a small box on her chair for whenever she comes back from the meeting she is in. A very nice way to declutter!
Susan, it sounds like you found all of the working parts for your little home theater there in the garage - is that the case? The items were left behind by the previous owner? I always like to reuse things found in situ to build something new. For example, there was a falling-apart redwood picnic table and benches in my back yard. The previous renter's dogs had chewed it a lot, but I took the planks and built a work bench in the garage, attached to the back wall. As battered as it is (but still strong and durable) it looks like the garage has been in place for a lot longer with this weathered work bench. I used part of a heavy-duty plywood plank for the top, left over when my contractor used part of it for a window seat in the house) and held the whole thing together with carriage bolts and little angle supports. This is the time of year when I get charged up about working in the garage, when the temperatures are nice, so I should go clear that off this weekend so I can work on it. With the tile project coming up, I'll be getting out the wet saw and tile cutter, and I can use them in there. (First I have to scrape up the old vinyl linoleum and adhesive. Maybe next month I can start the new tile? Or buy paint? This is a bit run on . . .
SRS