I sleep late and then do some work in the kitchen before logging on, and this place explodes! Everyone has a lot to say today. Love that.
Jen, have fun berry picking! The strawberries are in bloom there but we rarely see any. All the wild critters love them too. We do get some wild raspberries sometimes. Our house is surrounded by them.
FW, we've picked up several metal garage cabinets from the metal pile at the dump. One is an old exam table, like a medical clinic would have. It's on really nice wheels and has lots of good storage. Someone had put a thick wooden top on it, so when I get that far I'm going to put my drill press and router table on it. Or maybe the chop saw. I like cabinets on wheels because then I can easily move tools to the center of the garage floor so there's plenty of space around the tools for long pieces of lumber or pipe or whatever. We might have been interested in the metal cabinet! Jurassic Park does look interesting but we'll wait till it comes on the regular channels on Dish. We'll have to watch reruns of the first three till then! LOL. We could fish off the bikes. People do, and there are accessories for fishing from them. We just can't get into fishing though. I know, we should have our Minnesota citizenship revoked and be forced to move off the lake.
We're a disgrace as Minnesotans.
Hikr, I'm so impressed with the progress you're making on the painting. You'll be able to move in in no time! If it was me, I'd be moving stuff already because I wouldn't be able to stand waiting.
OM, we are having fun! I've been worried all winter we wouldn't like the bikes once we could really use them. We don't have a good track record with outdoor toys and usually end up liking the idea of them more than the reality. Which is why we had a runabout, a canoe, and a paddle boat we never used and finally got rid of.
ILC, I love that phrase: Reset the house. Let us know how you like the new steam mop. I've looked at those and think they're a great idea, but never have heard from someone who actually has one how well they work.
Rabbit, yes, I had my shoes off in the pic. The Crocs just weren't working for me. They felt like they were going to fall off for some reason, so I beat them to it and took them off. The bike pedals are comfortable and I'm sure there will be times I pedal barefoot when the weather gets hotter. I'm not a person who wears shorts, so when it's hot out I like to put my feet in the water to cool off, so that's the plan. Although I wore one of my pairs of Keens (the cheap thrift store ones
) which are meant to get wet last night, and those were very comfortable to pedal in so I might designate them my official bike sandals. The bike pedals are flat with ridges on them for traction, but they're not sharp or anything. There are instructions online for painting different surfaces, so I bet your entertainment center can be painted. Taking the top of it off sounds like a good plan if you like the bottom. Maybe the top would make nice storage in some other spot. You know me, not afraid to slice and dice if something isn't working for me, so I'd go for it of course!
I'd love to see before and after pics when the time comes, if you want. I love a good redo and it doesn't have to be mine for me to love it!
Husby agreed with me that moving the rocks he moved Monday improved the problems with our lake shore and makes it easier to lift the boats out, so for now, we don't have to do any more with the project. Things are always subject to change due to erosion, but for now I'm very glad we didn't waste any more time trying to figure out what to do down there. The new dock box still has to be bolted to the dock, but I don't expect to do that till next spring because I think we'll have to get underneath the dock to do it, and I'm not very interested in doing that with the dock still in the water. My luck I'd lose a toe to a snapping turtle or be attacked by a giant muskie and need 900 stitches.
My eye surgeon's office called me yesterday afternoon and SURPRISE! they want me to come in today to measure my eye and make sure the new lens they ordered for me will fit. I love how doctors assume we can just drop everything to make these last minute appointments. So yippy skippy, we get to make a 100-mile round trip on a June Friday afternoon, when northbound traffic is always crazy. At least it's not a holiday weekend and hopefully all the boat-pullers will have gotten a little practice already after not towing anything all winter, and nobody does anything too stupid around us, like pass on a blind curve while towing a huge pontoon or camper and yes, that happens more often than I really like to think about. I just keep reminding myself we chose to live in a town without all the medical services of a bigger place, and are choosing to stay here now because of all the other benefits we have, and chose to live in a tourist town, too. I'm sure it'll be fine. I'm just grumpy about having to go.
I got salads made for supper, so when we come home hungry, it'll be ready to eat. Fast food at its best, and I used up a bunch of stuff from the fridge and some cooked chicken I had forgotten about from our over-stuffed freezer, which is actually beginning to show some empty spaces, finally. I'm trying to figure out what to take in the cooler for snacks because I'm sure we're going to be hungry. I'm hoping we don't go anywhere but the eye place. That would save time and money and general grumpiness.