It’s raining today and neither the roof nor the gutters are leaking, so we’ll call that a win.
I busted butt over the weekend and got all of the garage door trim painted as well as the brick lintel. And, I patched the chipped concrete. I didn’t have much of a choice because the weather took a turn today and may not recover until spring.
Anyway, it’s good to have these projects wrapped up.
This was a pretty good action film starring one of my favorites, Chris Hemsworth. It was full of non-stop action and mindless violence, so if you’re into that sort of thing, you will probably like the movie.
My rating: 3.5/5
My house was in need of a new roof this year. So, I got one. This is the second roof since I’ve been here and hopefully the last. It’s a “lifetime” roof, whatever that means, so surely that will last longer than the last one (20-ish years). They wrapped up on Wednesday.
Mid-summer, I also got an estimate for a garage door, but there was a 6-8 week wait for that. Brian replaced the original garage door with French doors, way back when, but the doors were a little worse for the wear and needed replaced, too. Jake wanted to have a garage he could use at the house, so I had a garage door installed. Unfortunately, this project created some new projects for me…the installers had to add some new framing and it needs painted, as does the original trim that’s around the opening. No big deal, right? Well, the bottom of one of the original trim boards was rotten, so I had to remove it and now I need to install a new piece. Also, the metal brick lintel is all rusty, so I need to derustify that and paint it as well. All of this stuff was covered up by the French door trim, previously, so that is why it was all a surprise. And, there’s some chipped concrete that I’m going to patch, too. So much for relaxing this weekend.
The roof and garage door projects overlapped. Let me tell you, that was a fun day to work from home.
We finally got a day off from people working on the house and then I got notification that the seamless gutter guy was going to come today. He wasn’t as noisy as those other people, but I’m glad that he’s done. And, it’s going to be nice to have gutters that don’t leak.
Ralphie and I met up at the Windber Rec dog park with one of my coworkers/employees and her dog yesterday. They ran around like a bunch of loonies for about two hours. They had met before at the office, so we knew they’d play nicely together. When we were getting ready to leave, someone else came with their dog, which looked like a puppy, but was much bigger than Ralphie. Everything went fine, so I guess Ralphie gets along with other dogs.
Ralphie was pretty tired last night, but he’s back to normal this morning. I guess a walk is in order for later today.
Earlier today, I got my first haircut since the pandemic started (I believe I last went in February). Let’s just say I was way overdue. Well, it’s not like any of us could get haircuts for a while, but since my hair was growing anyway, I decided to grow my bangs longer before getting another haircut. Mission accomplished. With cold/flu/coronavirus season approaching, now seemed like a good time to get it cut. If I have to go 6 months again, I think I can do it.