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Happy Friday everyone!   I hope you've got the day off to enjoy.  I would really appreciate the weather dialing it back from Satan's taint to dryish heat please.  I'm not even asking for much.  Like 83 degrees would make me happy at this point but there's no end in sight to the 90's.  The Mr and I have both been plagued with migraines this week.  He had a two day event and I had an ocular migraine which is just so crappy to deal with since you can't read or do anything until your vision isn't screwed up.   I got to wait on hold for an hour Tuesday with the state tax department so I decided to sand and prime the newel post while listening to hold music designed to make you hang up.  To quote Bugs Bunny "he don't know me vewy well, do he?"  I got that squared away and later went out between pop up storms to deadhead some zinnias which you may have seen in Wednesday's post.   Speaking of Wednesday, it was a busy day in the ga...

Welcome August!

Happy August everyone!  How the heck is it August!?  I know I say that with every month but this time I mean it.  Another day, another step in the process.  At this point, we're almost a month into the basement being ripped up.  Yay.

Tuesday night, the Mr was at a dinner and I took it upon myself to do the second coat of mudding on the seams after I sanded.


I used a few different techniques I saw on YouTube.  I used the 6" knife to do a slap a big glob on the seam going sideways, then horizontal, which everyone says is wrong but I saw quite a few people do it.  Then I used the 10" knife to smooth off the excess, feather the edges and keep the hump toward the seam where I was trying to cover the mesh. 

Yesterday, it was time to sand and assess.


My assessment was I needed to sand the edges, ridges and slap some more mud on the mesh parts that are being a-holes.  I patched those places and any dips that needed filled.

It was quite a dusty undertaking.


Needless to say, even after sweeping up most of that dust, I was having a hard time working out.  It was coating my throat and going into my lungs.  If wearing the dust mask without my face melting off during our workout was an option, I would've gone for it.  Shaun T Dig Deep and LIIFT4 Leg Day.  Jerks.

I'm really hoping that I can sand today and see that I only need a final thinned out finishing coat.  So we can paint in the next day or two.  Then we get to move on to a door trim issue and figure out how the heck we're going to rig that so it doesn't look like a hot mess. 

Always something new on the horizon!

Do you have anything on the horizon for the month of August?

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  1. Great job on the mudding and sanding! I am studying for a test and feeling the crunch since it is now "next month" and not 2 months from now like it has been. So August will kind of suck at times for me but hopefully there is a big payoff at the end.

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  2. I can't believe its August either! Busy month! We have a bridal shower, a wedding, a boating day, a Bears game, and my sons will be home. Will be fun but exhausting. Have a great day

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