WHAT DID YOU DO TO YOUR HOME TODAY?
 

We talk about our car events, but it'd be nice to see what people are doing to the place(s) they live in after parking their car.

LET'S GO

First mow of the year! Forecast still has lows in the 30s but later this week we should start seeing highs in the 60s! Need to oversees and lay lime down

Finally sold it. Buyer signed yesterday and closing today :happyanim:

Cut my grass and opened pool.

There'd be a pool in my photo if half of that space wasn't septic tank territory. Much envy!

Funny that topic has come up twice in under 24 hours!
https://www.ft86club.com/forums/atta...1&d=1620342953

All the trees to the left of the pool have been gone for two years now so the yard is much more open.

That's funny because if my yard had a pool in it I would spend the day filling it in with dirt.

Wasn't today, but was a week ago today....

Called the local recycler/junk hauler and had them come pick up some things:

About 600lbs of T6061 aluminum, including two airplane wings, a rudder, and a fuselage (got rid of my 1:1 scale aircraft after I couldn't find a builder club to take it for learning, and decided the potential liability was too high to sell it).

Several CRT TVs that were basically doorstops, including one 35" widescreen Philips HDTV that weighed almost 200lbs.

5 large boxes of computer, network and electronics mostly cables, pieces and parts.

A lot of scrap wood that I probably should have saved as it may have been worth a small fortune, but none was big enough for any real purpose.

What i got back was a 20x40 room in my basement that I now can fill up with other junk!

We got the house dirt cheap because it had been on the market for 3 years since nobody wanted the pool. It does get used so is worthwhile having especially since it would cost more to get rid of it and fix up the lawn than it does to run it.

Well is more about what I have planned to do.



Trying to regrow the grass in my backyard, I already threw seed and grass food to speed up the process, we've had a lot of rainy days so it has helped a lot.

Cut the grass in front of the house.
Need to fix my flower beds, and add a few other spots for plants.
Need to get rid of old lumber that was left when we built the deck not too long ago.
Need to cut a bunch of branches and weeds that are surrounding the perimeter.
Need to get about 2 yards of gravel to cover spots around the house.
I would really love to get a paved driveway, instead of gravel. I get extremely nervous working underneath the car because of it, plus is uncomfortable.

Need to clean the gutters this weekend.

Need to finish painting one of the guest rooms, we painted the whole interior and by the end I didn't even want to think about paint for at least a couple of weeks, so we left one room without paint.

Clean the basement and start looking for dehumidifiers, its gets pretty MOIST down there (gigitty).

Just got my pull-behind spreader fixed, getting ready to seed the lawns.

I bet that felt liberating.

Why did you get rid of the plane? No plans to finish it?

It did, but was also bittersweet. I started to keep one of the wings to polish and make a desk out of, but then decided against it.

Since I purchased a (flying) plane about two years ago, I decided I probably would never finish it, and if I did, I'd want to build a different one that was more modern. I'd had the kit for over 20 years and hadn't worked on it in probably 10. It was a case of life getting in the way.

I decided I needed the space and needed to just rip off the Band-Aid. I could have moved it to my hanger at the airport, but it definitely wouldn't have gotten finished there.

:bellyroll: Yep, funny how quickly that stuff grows back.

Ain't that the truth.

About a 1/3 of it is already claimed as a "SonCave" with a 55" TV and two old recliners plus a wooden shipping box being used as a table between them. There was a bit of a turf battle going on between MomHawk who had claimed a finished room in our basement as a makeshift "yoga studio" and my two sons living at home who were used it being the "game room" when they were younger.

Part of the driving force behind me finally pulling the trigger was I was tired of them fighting over who "owned" the space and what state it needed to be in. Now, everyone is happy until next week....

I need to do some final straightening and cleanup on what is left, then I may set up some space for a flightsim I want to build and maybe set up the small scale slotcar track we have boxed up. As long as I keep the floor and walls unfinished it won't be annexed into MomHawk's nest.

Yep, this morning I vacuumed our house. Yes sir, the whole damn house - all in one sitting - believe that or not - now, I'm all tuckered out - :sigh:

Redid the front flower garden at the house!

Of course this uploader makes it sideways...

I've never been one for dusting but I had a spider that was getting on my nerves so I bought a cheap duster from amazon with a giant reach and dusted every corner of my house (walls and ceilings) and the edges of all of the windows... home ownership is great they said!

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Took advantage of a nice Saturday and got the front of the house done. Shout out to my wife for doing most of it while I was down all morning with Covid shot side effects.

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Me and my husband build a house , end building a house yesterday))) im happy!

You built a house in one day?

Seems like someone just wants to build up enough posts to get into the classifieds...

Mowed the lawn.

Damn that looks good.

Still working on the little garden! Wife joined me, which is a humongous feat for a variety of reasons.
Admittedly, digging trenches on a Friday after a long week of work wasn't my idea.

Every accomplishment adds up :cheers:

Blew the pine needles off my front walk and driveway - that freed up my whole weekend - :thumbup:

Maybe it was one of those "tiny houses" they move homeless people into - :iono:

Well now, I finally got off my lazy butt and went out and sprayed some weeds. Yep, I used Roundup, so now, over the next few days, I'll have something to do by just watching them die. - :happyanim:

I miss spraying Paraquat, why, because on a hot sunny day you could watch the weeds start to die within minutes.

Yes, I NOW know that Roundup and Paraquat are bad actors (non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and Parkinsons disease), however, back in the day I sprayed hundreds of gallons of each one or those and we didn't know - :sigh:

After looking at my firewood pile out back and seeing all of the molting shells from teh cicadas, I'll officially be doing nothing outside of my house for a month. I'm dreading washing my car this weekend. BroodX is back already.

We have heard one cicada. That's it. Knock on wood.

I love that somehow the states below me get wrecked and I've never heard of this before.
I'll ask here because it's more fun to talk to people I know than to read Google articles-

What is the big deal with the cicadas? I know nothing- teach me

Lucky you :cry:



I hate bugs. I just remember the crunch under my feet as I ran to my car every morning in 2004. I lived in a condo in the middle of a national park forest so it might have just been extra bad there. At my current house, I see about 2 dozen "shells" hanging on my grill and firewood covers. *shudder*


They're not aggressive bugs. Just big, loud, dumb, and (if you hate bugs) haunting.

Is more of a nuisance. They make quite a bit of noise and they cause some damage to young trees. They are harmless since they don't bite or sting you. They're just annoying. I used to collect their shells when I was living in Honduras, it was just cool.

Cicadas live most of their lifecycle underground and emerge every 17 years to mate, shed and die. There are different broods so areas of the country see them at different times.

They are harmless other than making a mess everywhere.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/16/world...scn/index.html

I remember the first time I saw a cicada in NY. Apparently there is only one brood that extends that far north and it was a big deal because it only happens once every other decade or something. I was like wtf is that thing!?! If you are not used to seeing bugs bigger than your finger it kind of creepy.

I couldn't imagine riding my motorcycle with cicadas around. The first time I saw one was about 10 years ago during a trip to MI. I was like WTF is that thing.