Well it did not rain today! It was windy and cold but no rain. I went out and worked on the outhouse/garbage can holder. I finished the trim and cut out both crosses for ventilation. This turned out to be harder than I thought it would be as I do not own a jigsaw, instead I used a Rotozip. Rotozips are not known for their precision. It was quite the adventure to attempt to get straight lines. I broke my hole drill so the hardware store was kind enough to supply me with a spade bit the appropriate size. Unfortunately, I was drilling through half boards and had to switch back to the broken hole drill after starting it with the spade bit. It worked and I got it done, but it took considerably longer. I had estimated three hours to completion the other day. I spent four more hours on it today and I still need to cut out the moon and one star in the front door. So according to Annmarie (2-3 times my estimate= 6-9 hours) I am right on schedule for completion.
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Front side all trimmed out, just need the moon and a star. |
Annmarie and I spent all day Saturday at an auction. It had been a decade at least since we had been to one. We forgot that it is an all day event. We did manage to get a few great snags. We got two old cast iron irons (yes the kind you use to iron clothes) and a handle! Picked up a couple of beautiful cobalt blue Salt and Pepper shakers. I picked up four old leg traps for $9. These got me to thinking what to do with them (after Annmarie asked me what I was going to do with them). I am going to put nails on the outside of one side of the chicken coop and hang all the traps from them as decoration/warning to all the predators to stay away from my chickens. I bought 50 1943 steel pennies. Yep, totally unnecessary but I couldn’t pass them up. I got three shovels for $5 each. Annmarie bought a cabbage slicing board (I don’t know why, she doesn’t like coleslaw or sauerkraut). She bought a manual crank old fashioned ice cream maker, but it had been added to a lot of four other boxes but the price was right at $2. We ended up getting some classic books in hardback and Sarah is going to read them. We got a cool rooster salt and pepper shaker, but the salt shaker was missing. I liked it anyway and am going to keep it. We ended up getting three more boxes of vases for $2 while I was paying our tab. I had to go back and give them more money. Good thing we were running out of room in the car!
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Some of our auction finds |