What Manly Things Did You Do Today?

Literally!

 

I spent 6 hours designing and building a Doghouse, built for two of my rescue dogs(14yrs and 1yr). I also painted it, inside and out.

 

I raised the draw-weight on my bow.

 

Welcome to the gun show, Sara!

 

I wrote two letters to friends. I used Elco Prestige paper from Switzerland, which is one of my favourite papers.

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Pitralon forever - Real pens have a nib - If it doesn't tick, it's not a watch.

 

I power washed the driveway, and it was even before I got a letter from the Homeowner's association.

 

I helped a friend move some furniture. I also worked on repairing and restoring some much needed furniture for my wife and I. Lastly I visited my my parents and sister after being away for year and a half.

 

While doing a bit of handyman work for a Lady, I entertained her 9 year old Special Needs son. She was at her laptop in the next room, working on her Teacher's Degree. He and I were down the hall. Together he & I pulled up a bunch of 6" X 36" peel-n-stick tile, cut out the buckled, water damaged tongue and groove oak flooring and tar paper vapor barrier. Working our way back up we installed new 15 lb tar paper, then measured, cut and installed 3/4" BC grade pine plywood using 1-5/8" sheetrock screws, and replaced the tile.
My helper functions at around a 4-5 year old level, and is being raised by his single parent. He was hungry for the attention of an approving male. Being a warm day, I had a bandana around my head to keep sweat out of my eyes. My assistant like that, so I presented him with one from the stack I keep in my truck. After we cleaned up our jobsite mess, I presented him with a sheet of paper from my yellow legal pad that we used to take notes, a freshly sharpened carpenters pencil, and a tape measure of his own. As I was packing my tools up to leave, I thanked him for assisting me on the project and handed him a crisp $1 bill.
My grandfather did stuff like this. I'm pleased to have been there and like to think I may have left a positive impression on the young man.

 

Not liking the usual in life ...

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After ...


I built a lamp for the coffee lover; and no the coffee pot was non-functional. My wife that thought it was a crazy idea, even likes it.

 

Nice!

 

Started off the day with a good hot shower (didn't shave today) and spent the day cleaning guns (went shooting on Saturday and it was time to get them clean and stored). Then I put rear brakes on the wife's truck.

 

Produced 2 loads of mulch, using the vacuum/mulcher attachments on my leaf blower. We expect the temperature to dip below freezing overnight, so I needed enough mulch to cover my outdoor Bonsai.

 

I went to Menard's and got two new toilet seats. My wife even let me take off the old seats and put on the new. This is unusual because she's the "handyman" in the family. She even allowed me to use one of her screwdrivers. I think she was impressed at the end. However, she teased me because I actually looked over the instruction sheet before putting the new seats on. I told her, "Hey, it's impolite to NOT read the enclosed instruction sheet. If it were all that easy why would they put a little instruction sheet in the package?"

 

Installed a new toilet at the church today. Nothing says manly like being face to face with a toilet bowl.

 

Sounds like the story of my life.

 

lol

 

What better place to flush your cares away?

 

I ordered some new scissors, from Amazon. I didn’t realize, until they arrived, that thy were made by Vampire Tools.

 

Just don't let them taste blood and you should be safe.

 

I woke up and got out of bed!