I'm almost done with the last window for Ian's New World Dutch building in Ghent NY. It's a cousin to the very first leaded window I ever built. The end of a very long chapter.
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| Actually made and used a cartoon for this one. (A paper template that goes under the glass you you get the spacing right.) |
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| Got over my apprehension of the grinder. I effed up with a friend's once, and it slammed in place a mental block that was difficult to get over. But I was able to make the edges curved and smooth, so good job, self. |
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| This was soooo close to done, but I messed up a cut and was a pane short. (lower right). I had to go to my old window supply pile and get out another sheet of old glass. |
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| Finally! All the pieces in. |
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| Soldered and washed. |
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| Soldered, washed and wired. All I have to do now is cement it. |
Ian has a lead on someone who wants a custom window locally, so we'll see where that goes. Price of all the materials is going up, so if they are serious, I'll have to look into re-pricing what it would cost per square foot.
Still no movement on the bathroom.
Still no movement on the front step, but I think weather delayed them.
I'll give them a call tomorrow end of day if they haven't turned up.
I have the driveway sealers coming on 7/18, so SOMEONE better start getting their act together.
I'm not your wife.
I'm not your girlfriend.
I'm not going to nag you to do the work that you said you were going to do. I'm going to rely on you to be grown-ass adult human beings and do what you say you're going to do.
(Or in the bathroom guy's case, we're going to land in court.)
I'm tired and done being everyone's polite, understanding, never-making-waves pushover. That hasn't gotten me anywhere but cold all winter.
In other news, the lawn mower needs help. I had a feeling something was going on with it, but I cleaned it really good and the self-propel worked again. Then the belt gave out (I was in the middle of mowing the lawn and it spit the belt out at me). I have all the parts, so that will be this weekend's project.
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| By the power of YouTube, we will fix you! |
Garden is coming along. Got a good crop of peas already, (by my standards). Picked and put up some strawberries and rhubarb too. I've managed to exclude the bunnies who don't bother to run anymore, but we can life and let live outside of the garden. I've gone on a rampage because chipmunks moved into my walls. For some reason, this summer has been terrible for mice and chipmunks in my house. In the last week I've trapped 4 chipmunks and 5 mice from traps set along my foundation. Covered tunnel rat traps seem to work the best. I refuse to poison because of the high potential for secondary poisonings. It's possible my cat Red died of rat poison a number of years ago because of a unthinking landlord. I'm very conscious of it now.
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| The carrots attracted Black Swallowtail Butterfly caterpillars. When they get a little bigger, they look a lot like Monarch caterpillars. I let them be. |
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| My aunt gave me this great garden chicken for my birthday. It's currently protecting the carrots. |
Hopefully more news soon when other folks show up and start doing their jobs.