Oh what a beautiful morning

Oh what a beautiful day.

I accomplished many things today. In fact, I accomplished so much today, I'm not sure what I'll do tomorrow.

First, I put the semi-gloss top coat on the primer on the side door frame. I had scraped and primed that a couple weeks back, but didn't get to the actual paint until today. Paint goes on so well over a good coat of primer.

Then I caulked the threshold, as water would come into the garage under it when it rained from the west.

Then I caulked some holes in the stucco at one of the back corners of the house. Just the corner was worn off, so it didn't require stucco repair. Just a little caulk on the corner. I had a color called "Aluminum Gray" that matched the house almost exactly.

The next thing I did was to shoot weed killer on every weed in the grassy area of the yard. This started out slowly, as MaxieC wanted to run the sprayer. So I walked around carrying the tank, pumping it up when necessary, and pointing our weeds for him to spray. This slowed progress by about a factor of 4. Then, of course, MaxieC blasted me in the face, including my right eye. I had to go inside to wash out my eye and contact lens.

This kind of weed killer doesn't really burn all that much, as it turns out. This was Ortho Weed-B-Gon, so in case you're ever thinking of spraying the weeds in your lawn, and you think there's a chance you might get some in your eye, this is your best bet. RoundUp burns a lot more.

As soon as I had my eye all taken care of, HannahC came out to take over the spraying job. She managed not to spray my face at all, though she caught my big toe once. She got bored when we were about half done.

I finished up over the course of the next hour or so. Used almost five gallons to hit all the weeds. And my lawn isn't all that weedy.

Then I got out the RoundUp to kill the weeds in the landscape rocks. It kills better and faster than the Ortho stuff, but it also kills grass, so you can't use it on the lawn.

After that, I mowed the lawns. It was actually a number of hours since I had put on the weed killer, so it was OK to mow. I cleaned the air filter of the mower, cuz I crossed 50 engine hours, and that needs to get done every 25.

Then I cleaned the hot tub filters. The hot tub is in tip-top shape, as I've been keeping up with the chemicals much better since I moved them out to the storage counter on the deck from the garage. I really wanted to get in it, but there was more work to do on such a sunny day with a nice cool breeze.

I then took down one of the back light fixtures that had been coming apart. I had tried to JB Weld it back together while it was hanging on the wall last year, but I couldn't get the clamps to stay, so it fell apart. JB Weld is great if you can clamp. If you can't, it might as well be toothpaste.

This time I decided to do it right. After removing the light, I took it all apart until I got to the one little piece that had broken. I ground off the old JB Weld using my Dremel tool. Then I drilled a hole in a piece of plywood scrap so that I could use it as a clamping jig. I used wax paper to keep the JB Weld from sticking to the plywood.

It needs to set overnight.