After my last post Craig versus Gilda, he spent another full day “under the hood” so to speak with extra maintenance work making sure he was selling the best version of a 1957 tractor. He said he was done for the day and went out to close up the shop. The next thing I knew I heard Gilda and I went out to enjoy his farewell to Gilda ride.
Three days later, Craig had one more ride – driving her onto Patrick’s trailer. He was thrilled with Gilda and assured us that she would continue to be known as Gilda.
Now we have been able to move on to other projects. In order to expand our deck for the hot tub, some of the adjacent land on full of tree roots needed to be removed. A part to the project is creating better drainage for the rain spouts away from the house. This will involve building a retaining wall and we will likely continue our telephone pole motif. Thankfully, this will be way less complicated that the one we built the end of June.
After doing some digging for repair work on the foundation, Craig decided to see if Katie the Kioti could be of assistance in clearing the dirt/roots for the deck. Much to his surprise, she worked beautifully. So a many day activity of manually breaking through tree roots turned into an afternoon.
We can almost visualize the hot tub. While the outdoor work was proceeding I was working indoors to brighten up the living room which had a very brown wall. Ten years ago Craig did the painstaking work of cutting the brown against the white ceilings and adjacent walls. He carefully selected the shade of brown to match his brown leather furniture so I think it was bitter sweet to see it painted over. I expanded by spackling, caulking and painting skills. Below is just the base layer of white to cover the brown. While I am visiting family in Iowa, the final white coat is going on, including the wall that is 3 stories high in the entry atrium. I am kind of glad I was not there to watch him go up and down the ladder for the high areas. At least this time the wall and ceiling are the same color. It is highly unlikely these walls will need to be painted again.
Tamara Unleashed 