3-26 Wonderful Saturday

Larry's Suspenders

It was another beautiful day and the wind was down. We started the day out by working on the project we started yesterday of building a better method of storing Larry's belts and suspenders. Larry cut the wood and dowel he needed and now the pieces are ready to be stained and painted. I stained the dowel and a strip of trim with Miniwax Wood Finish Provincial, which is a brown. While it was drying I painted a piece of board with Behr Semi-Gloss White. After fifteen minutes Larry took a rag to the dowel and trim and blended the stain in. I cleaned up my mess. Last night Larry called Louise and invited her over for Easter lunch. While on the phone she told him that Autumn has been escaping from the backyard and the neighbors have been putting her back in the backyard. One neighbor told her that Autumn was climbing up on top of a board that was leaning on her fence to prevent her from squeezing through an opening. Once she got on the board she climbed over the fence. She was worried about Autumn getting run over by a car. Larry and I went to The Home Depot to see what we could use to help her out. Louise had measured the area and told him how big it was. He thought about a couple of things but he decided not to buy anything until he had a chance to go over to her house and look at the problem area. He decided he would give her a piece of wood from the house to take with her to use for a temporary solution. When we got home I put another coat of paint and stain on the pieces of our project. While the second coat was drying Larry treated the entire yard for weeds and I read. A few hours later Larry was going to assemble our project but the paint was tacky and the stain wasn't completely dry so he decided to wait until the morning.

Cutting the dowel to the length he needs

Sawing a piece of aluminum to keep belts from sliding off

Tasting out the new rack for belts

Drilling holes in the board that is going to hold the dowel in place

The paint and stain we used

 In the evening we streamed a movie on Amazon called Temple Grandin. It's a biography about Temple Grandin, she is an Autistic woman that became one of the top scientist in the humane livestock handling industry. It was very good. Then we watched a couple episodes of Weird Homes. The seventh episode was called Funny Farms, which was about two farmers. One farmers raised dummies instead of crops. The other one built things that people only thought about. The eighth episode was called Yards of Fun, which was about three people. One was a lady that had a yard full of colorful stuff she painted including her house. One was a gentleman that welds and made giant structures made out of metal. Each structure had a story. The third one was a gentleman that collects pink flamingos and has them all over his yard. Each episode has cute stories about people and their home.