I did something yesterday!
Remember this door?
I took it off its hinges and carried it to the back hall for stripping. That's as far as I got. Oh, well, actually I took the hinges off, too. And here's how grossly humid it still is here: I could scrape the painted-in screws clean with nothing but my girly screwdriver. I planned to hit the hinges with a bit of 5F5, but I had real work I was trying to get done and I decided that was more important.
(Didn't get that exactly finished, either. But I tried and, well, horseshoes and handgrenades, I guess... )
Anyway, that doot was heavy ("doot" = typo I like so I'm keeping. As in "Doot, that doot was heavy"). Johnny said it would be, but I didn't believe him. He said there was no way I'd be able to carry it by myself, so of course I had to. I damn near put gouges in the archway and the floor, until I devised a way to carry the doot by one knob and one window, and bearing a large part of the weight on the large part of my right hip.
And then of course when I got it to the back hallway it was facing the wrong way, and this doot -- being an outside doot -- is wider than the closet doot I had been working on, so there wasn't room to turn it around, so I had to carry it back out and start again, this time on my left hip.
Very good for a wonky back, this, what?
Oh, and speaking of that other doot? I am not fretting over this one. I'm painting it. It's already been decided. But, since I half-stripped it already I've got to go whole hog, because we've already seen how good I am with patching...
Yesterday: Accomplished (I've decided to quit counting days because I only managed to rack up like ten of them in the whole month of July, and that's just shameful).
Time: 45 minutes (I know you won't believe me, but those are the heaviest freaking screws I've ever seen, and they were painted in there...)
Cost: Nothing
Getting To Play With 5F5 Today Instead Of Heat Guns Because I Finally Finished (Well, Sort Of) The Work I Was Doing Yesterday: Priceless. Oh, you don't know the half...
