Going to friends tonight, the formal sit down dinner has been postponed, so we're doing potluck instead. We've got the bar mostly packed up and ready to go, just got to pull the stuff we need in the fridge out when it is time to go . We're taking the inflatable palm tree and the parrot for decor
Had some sun for a little while today, it's raining again I really, really miss my snow. What happened, we moved to the coast?!?!
Rum Tum has definately forgiven me for stepping on him yesterday.
The shelves are done, pics later. We had to go to TriState last night, the screws we bought at the hardware store we bought the extra 2X4s stripped, several when they were only half way in and this was AFTER drilling pilot holes. Hubby is not happy and will let that store know. We paid $9.00 for 40 screws and having most of them strip like that is unacceptable. So off to TriState we went. Looking for a clerk, hubby ran into the guy who stocks their nails and screws and such (not a TriState employee), who proceeded to help us find somthing that would work. It wasn't even his product! You gotta love living in North Idaho. Ended up getting a package of 50 screws that use a star shaped bit to drive them and got the bit in the package with them for a bit over $3.00. They also were self tapping, so no need for pilot holes. Needless to say, finishing up hte shelves went so much faster.
Got just about every paperback fiction book in the house on the new shelves and we still have tons of room. The one neighbor is taking 3 of the old shelf units, so those will be out of the house in a few days.
I'll start taking the tree down tomorrow. It will be drepressing, tho I'll leave the other decorations up for a while longer.
Had some sun for a little while today, it's raining again I really, really miss my snow. What happened, we moved to the coast?!?!
Rum Tum has definately forgiven me for stepping on him yesterday.
The shelves are done, pics later. We had to go to TriState last night, the screws we bought at the hardware store we bought the extra 2X4s stripped, several when they were only half way in and this was AFTER drilling pilot holes. Hubby is not happy and will let that store know. We paid $9.00 for 40 screws and having most of them strip like that is unacceptable. So off to TriState we went. Looking for a clerk, hubby ran into the guy who stocks their nails and screws and such (not a TriState employee), who proceeded to help us find somthing that would work. It wasn't even his product! You gotta love living in North Idaho. Ended up getting a package of 50 screws that use a star shaped bit to drive them and got the bit in the package with them for a bit over $3.00. They also were self tapping, so no need for pilot holes. Needless to say, finishing up hte shelves went so much faster.
Got just about every paperback fiction book in the house on the new shelves and we still have tons of room. The one neighbor is taking 3 of the old shelf units, so those will be out of the house in a few days.
I'll start taking the tree down tomorrow. It will be drepressing, tho I'll leave the other decorations up for a while longer.
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