screwdriver…

04 Sunday Aug 2024

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well, I pulled out those big girl pants and installed two glass shelves in the bedroom…

both shelves had been broken during cleaning over the last few years but I had one available to replace the first one…

after the second one broke, the cleaning company was able to find some that were similar, but they used different hardware than what was on the wall…

the shelves have been sitting in the box they arrived in for quite a few weeks, but today I brought out my screwdriver and the drill and went at it…

took awhile because I had trouble with getting just the right screw head for the screwdriver…

but I persevered and did it and they look good;-)…

I am very pleased because the bedroom has been looking untidy, which makes me a bit crazy, and I have spent a lot of time in it over the last week, with another one to go…

copper…

05 Tuesday Sep 2023

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big girl pants, blessed, chimes, copper, drill, family, garden, masking tape, memories, moments, pipe, plexiglass, sound, widow

months ago I put the copper pipe chimes together, that my beloved had made, using masking tape…

finally, I brought up the drill and found an appropriate bit…

took off the ugly green tape, put the top plexiglass piece into the clamp, and drilled six holes…

then I attached the six pipes to the top and hung it back up…

way to go me;-)…

warped…

24 Thursday Aug 2023

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there has been a loose board on the lower deck for quite some time now, which has tried to trip people up for ages…

it was a bit warped and we had tried screwing it down at the two ends, but clearly the wood underneath was not in good condition in those spots… recently, the hose got stuck in it, lol…

finally, I lifted it right up and checked underneath only to discover that the screws in the middle were too short, so I brought out the drill and screwed in much longer ones…

and now it is no longer moving… yay me;-)…

slamming…

15 Thursday Sep 2022

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big girl pants, drill, family, moments, online, patio door, repairs, slamming, son-in-law, Spring, Technology, widow

while he was here, my son-in-law searched online for a spring for the patio door to replace the one which had broken ages ago…

he found one, ordered it, and it arrived on Friday, well after he left for home… there were no instructions, but I figured out how it should work…

it came with stickers to hold it to the wall and door, but they wouldn’t work for my situation…

I dug out two screws that were just the right size… from all the containers in the garage, lol… then I found a drill bit to start the holes so the wood wouldn’t split…

used the sticker as a template and made the holes… then was able to get the screws in and the hook as well…

it is working well, although it makes quite a slamming noise when it closes, so I will have to get used to that;-)…

going to be fun to see how the kids react😁…

combining…

23 Tuesday Aug 2022

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started the morning gathering up all my bouquets, combining a few together, and tidying up another…

a bit sad as the glads were done…

then I took out the drill and put the second screw into the motion sensor on the deck… angling it as my son-in-law suggested… and it worked perfectly…

the rocks that were holding it up are now back in amongst the trees…

shim…

14 Sunday Aug 2022

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moved the backyard wifi camera down a bit… also put a shim in so that it points down a touch more…

now it gets a little more of the area in front of the pond… may see critters as they wander past the pond, lol…

getting quite handy with the drill… no trouble to remember how to have it reverse when taking out the screw;-)…

what a pro…

bottom…

29 Wednesday Jun 2022

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two projects were completed on Monday…

the first involved putting a new bottom piece on one of my favourite bird feeders…

it is made of copper and the bottom rusted out… I found a plastic saucer and with a great deal of effort… including hammering and drilling… was able to attach it to the bottom of the feeder… it is going to work perfectly…

looks good and got hung up in a great spot that the birds like…

then I moved the one that had been there previously over beside the pond… and the one that had been by the pond over to the new hanger I attached to the garage last week… phew 😅…

I spent half an hour standing along the edge of the hot tub trimming the Virginia creeper, which was trying to cover the den window…

pleased with how it came out… this time I was clever and moved the hot tub steps over to make getting up and down much easier, lol…

always happy after a productive day…

pruned…

18 Saturday Jun 2022

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was able to complete a few jobs in the garden although not the irrigation system… I am going to need a second pair of hands for that one…

using landscape fabric, I was able to turn a very cute, but not useful, bird feeder into a little planter… think it came out rather nicely… found a couple of morning glory plants, a sweet potato vine and a spider plant to go in it…

then there was quite a production to get a hook up on the garage and put up the planter… the drill, ladder and I had to sort through some stuff, but eventually it was up…