Weekend damage report?
 

Well, I don't see any bad news this weekend from you guys here. I hope that means everyone had a decent week-end. No broken bodies, no hospital trips, things are looking up!

I'm good...actually got to work around the house today and got some of the Christmas lights up. I learned from Hank....stay off the ladder so everything is eye level this year.

I spent the day helping my brother with his "new" house. New meaning that he just purchased it about a month ago. This house was abandonded by people who were not happy. Needless to say, there were no kitchen cabinets, the bathroom was extremely nasty and the rest of the house needs extreme cleaning.

We, my mom and I, have spent many days cleaning windows, washing walls and just trying to clean up as much as we can. Today we were hoping was going to be a painting day, or at least primer on the walls in one bedroom and the kitchen. I don't know what the past owners did to the walls, but, even with us scrubbing the walls with scrubbies, we were still having problems with the primer on certain sections of the walls. Spent 8 hours and finally got the bedroom almost done, and the kitchen ceiling done. Time to rest, cause we will be back on Tuesday morning.

lol my back is sore but thats because i am old..lol

I just laid them on the grass this year. They look nice now, not sure what they'll look like covered with a foot of snow.

Didn't do anything dangerous and didn't break anything. Made new seat bottom and back and covered them for the lawn tractor. Skid plates on bottom of snow blower were worn away so welded some flat stock in place. Mounted the snow blower on the tractor and tried to get things adjusted. Belt that came with it is to short and the PTO pulley walks over and engages the clutch when the engine is running. Even though the clutch is disengaged. I'll sort that out later this week and we should have a nice tractor and snow blower for the winter.

Christmas lights,phone lines,cable tv,anything electrical or dangerous.Maureen is my go to person.Really.Waving

Spent most of the weekend working on the house. Could not believe how nice this weekend weather was. I was on a ladder a lot. Had to paint overhangs and put up siding before winter rains get here.

Sounds like everyone did OK. Ray, the house is looking good.

Looks like a new house, nice work.

I was down with a flu bug, but I'm better now...

We were in Nashville hanging out with the Midsouth Chevelle Club having a Christmas party ,got home about 2PM today.

Glad you're better Derek, the flu can really knock you out of commission for awhile.

I have people that do all that frivioulas stuff for me .... it is good to be king!

I can usually tough out some stomach pains, but I couldn't keep anything down... since I couldn't drink my daily overdose of coffee, I had a massive caffeine headache that lasted all day.

Glad to hear that you are doing better Derek. I still have a cough, the remnants of a cold I had about a month ago.

The flu, thank God I haven't it for a few years, can make me hurt so bad all over. I can't do anything for days but lay in bed. Glad you're over it and back among the living.

Hope everyone is well for the Christmas season, no fun being sick.

Hope everyone has a great weekend and be safe.

Off to do more damage this weekend at the beach. Hope everyone has a great weekend. Stay healthy everyone, little over a week til Chrismas.

Don't break any body parts Ray!

I really want a beach home.:(

My brothers house has so much standing water in his back yard right now, that you would think he had beach front property. lol

We have been having the driest December on record. Last year at this time I was trying to add a laundary room on in soaking rains. I have been able to do projects on the house I figured I would not be able to do it until next next spring. Made some progress today. More siding and reset the door today and installed the door trim and Barb (my wife) did the painting for me.

My week-end went pretty good. I bought an older Hein-Werner, 2 ton floor jack for 25 bucks. Put some hydraulic oil in it, cleaned out the check balls, and it works like new. Big old heavy monster, but shes a dandy. One of my friends, not so good though. He's a just retired Sheriffs Deputy, Sgt, and he went up a set of outside stairs to a second floor. The railing broke, he fell to the ground and landed in a pile of junk. Broke his right femur. Went to the hospital in an ambulance. They put a plate in his leg. Friday night, he dreamed he had a B&E call, so he got out of bed to go on the call. He fell and broke his left femur. They are doing surgery on that one in the morning.

OUCH !! What a bummer. Now he is going to end up being in a wheelchair.

Sorry to hear about your friend, and just before Christmas

Second wettest year on record around here and we didn't have any rain during the summer months. All of it in the spring and fall.

That really sucks, sounds worse than a broken pelvis. At least I still had one leg to use. Was that one of the 2 guys we met at your house a few weeks back?

weekend was good fixed the magnum now i have two headlights again..lol

Not one of those guys. If you remember Shawn, the guy with all the tattoos, he worked on the Fugitive Recovery Team. They captured the worst of the worst. He just lost a Federal court case that was filed against him and 3 of his team members. The dirt-bag claimed they used "excessive force" when he was arrested. Didn't matter that the criminal tried to run them down with his truck. The Court figured they should have been able to "jump out of the way" of the vehicle.

Shawn is the one that is been to Autofest, right, not the red haired guy? I do remember him, Henry and talked to him quite a bit when we were there. That sucks for him too. Send guys out to deal with the scum then hang them out to dry.
We have a scum bag, drug head around the corner. Arrested and imprisoned while a minor. Sued the state, won a bundle and bought that house. Was a real nice house, now there are broken windows, you can see cupboards hanging half off the wall. He should probably still be in prison.

More progress
 

Well it's been a year now on the project. Worked on it through some of the worst weather we could have had last year to some unusual nice weather this winter. Made some progress over the weekend

From this a year ago to now. Also got my blood pressure back to normal and felt good to do something this last weekend.

Threw my back out scooping up dog poop. I don't know why I threw it out,but I kinda need it.

Man,I can't go anywhere on here without hearing about or seeing that freakin' beach house.:eek:

Don't worry Gary it won't become a beach forum. Now that the wife is happy (and we want the wife happy Lol) maybe I can get back to my car.

My goal in life is to be a beach bum,selling grease by the shoreline.

You seem to do just fine selling cars but whatever your dreams are go for it.

Ray, I like reading and seeing your beach house...it's your passion and thank you for sharing. And you are correct, "when wife's happy, everyone is happy"

I would love to visit Ray's part of the country again one day as its very beautiful out there and Ray and his club are great hosts as well.

Ray's done a ton of work there, place looks great. Reminds me of when we had the place in Caseville. Wasn't on the beach but was within a short walk to it. Still miss having it, Wish events hadn't forced us to sell it.


Don't we all know that! Well they can make us happy too so I guess it all works out.

You guys are right, when the wife is happy it certainly makes everyone else happy. At least it's that way at my house.