Good morning

. I come to this
thread occasionaly to check on Miss
@Robino1's progress. Yeay on the earlier surgery. Good luck sweetie
And because I love your posts
@Bronze, after I checked on Robin I read yours. I've missed you my friend since I stopped visiting that other
thread. You make me laugh…a rare thing
Seriously though. If I had to quickly escape my house the only thing I would insist on taking with me is my revolver. I'd take that before I'd take my underwear. If that doesn't scare away the looters the revolver will.
And I too would make sure my hand guns went with me…although there are a few other things too.
One thing leads to another and it's never simple.
Hurricane taking dead aim on us.
Secure items on deck including turning the table upside down.
Look at the brackets that hold the legs together and it reminds me they are messed up and has been driving me nuts for 10 years.
Go to remove eight bolts. Two different sizes. Some english, some metric. All hard to get to.
Some rusted beyond belief.
Go to and from garage at least 12 times getting different tools and stuff to try.
Finally get them off after employing unconventional persuasion on the rusty fasteners.
Bang out the dents in the brackets.
Go to sandblast/repaint them. No sand.
Run to store to get sand.
Home Depot sold out.
Run to Lowes and they have it.
Come back, sandblaster gun is shot.
Rip it all apart, no go. It's finished.
Ordered another sandblast gun.
Sit and wait till it shows up.
I left out a whole bunch of other things on this list.
What started as hurricane prep ended in a table that is in pieces laying all over the place next to a million tools and gear and now I sit and pick my azz looking at the mess I made until the gun shows up. Nothing ever goes to plan no matter how simple. Nothing! Not ever!
Right, BK?
This sounds like us. Hubs and I are repurposers, builders and fixers. But somehow there are different types of screws on everything we fix/make/do because we recycle screws too from job to job. And your sanblaster story made me chuckle because that's so us too. There isn't a single project that has ever been simple from start to finish. Arghhh!
It keeps sprouting big green leaves every Spring for 12 years now.
Yup. These holes don't mean tree's duying. I worried about this one but a master tree guy said as the tree is regenarating bark it's fine but the hole may take years to close and maybe it never will. The hole is mine is over 5 years old and as you can see from the second photo the tree is happy