It’s early Sunday morning and very quiet. We had a very full Saturday. We had a garage sale in the morning. After 30 years of marriage the only thing we still fight about is all the crap that get’s thrown in the garage and stacked on my workbench. I’m more than a little possessive about the garage. This is where I go to do projects and work with my hands. Since I work with engineering software all day everyday, I need sometimes to see something get accomplished. I enjoy making things and seeing things get made. Perhaps this is why I’m a manufacturing engineer by trade. At any rate we successfully cleaned out the garage, including getting rid of the lawnmower and weed whacker. Last year Dale hired a lawn guy to take care of the lawn. It has worked out well. We still plant the gardens and planters, but leave the dull tasks to him. Dale arranged this last year when I was traveling quite a bit and she grew weary of me coming home on Friday nights and spending Saturday mornings doing yard work. With my increased travel schedule this year, this has been great.
While Dale and girls ran the garage sale I got to spend a lot of time on a refinishing project that I’m working on. We bought an old beat up dresser last year for Heather to use in her apartment. It had the distressed look and she liked it. Now I’m stripping off all the paint (3 layers) and will stain it. The paint was being really stubborn to the paint stripper so I bought a new belt sander and it really speeded up the project. All the drawers (6) have some more intricate details in them that require that I sand them by hand with flexible sandpaper. My dad came over to help and he spent most of the morning with me sanding. We have about 95 % of the paint removed, only about 80% of the time used to do it, as the rest is all hand sanding. I’m hoping that next Saturday I’ll be able to stain it. After sanding, I’ll need to build a new top for it and build a small fence around the pad since this will be used as both a dresser and a baby changing table for Susie’s baby, due in December.
About 1:00 we took all the garage sale leftovers to the Goodwill and bought some more flexible sandpaper. We then gave away a dryer to the Roney’s daughter Connie. This was in the storage unit, so I had to drive across town, but it was worth it to get something else out of the storage unit, making room to get more things out of the garage. Late in the afternoon my dad and I went to see “Swing Vote” with Kevin Kostner. It was pretty good and really pointed out our civic responsibility in a humorous way. It was better than expected. For the first half of the movie I really thought that Bill Engval would have been more appropriate for the movie that Kevin Kostner, but It turned more serious and I’m pretty sure that Bill Engval could not have pulled it off.
Dale, Heather and I went out to out favorite Italian restaurant in McKinney, Amados (misspelled, I’m just sure). It was delicious and we ate more and spent more than we should of. Anyway maybe I’ll get back to this later today. Saturday was busy but we accomplished a lot.
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