Day 73, "Every picture has a story"
From a full tread, to about a third tread to one that fit into the very top of the stairs. One can ask why is this the subject of my picture stories today? Well on the bottom 11 1/2" tread I made the wrong cut and it cost me a week delay and $70+ so this top tread was VERY important. It needed to be only about 4 1/2' deep and 38 3/4(-)" wide. It needed to be notched on the back to a depth of 5/16" as that was what met the wood on the second floor and it needed to fit under the door trim. The notch in it was necessary because there was a nail under the floor trim that was not possible to get out. Now I talk about all that and I am guessing a REAL wood worker would have breezed through the challenge with no problems BUT I am who I am. What did I do? Well I took one of the old treads that was marked for "throw away" and made a template out of it. When I got it to a good fit I then copied it onto the new tread. Maybe I should mount the template with an explainion as to the importance of it!!! Anyway the new one went in like a charm and now I only have to wait for that 11 1/2" one to come in and I am guessing it will be here Friday.
We had a wonderful rain yesterday. It only rained about .2" but it came so slowly that ALL soaked into the lawn. No watering yesterday or today.
If I were a Manuel transmission car I would say that I was stuck in 1st gear yesterday. Maybe even worse than that as I took a nap. Anyway I did get one very important question in my mind answered. The pictures tell the story.
The question that has been in my mind for some time is what is the best buy? The XL eggs for $1.89 or the jumbo for $1.99. By the way they both went up $.10 last week. Well I just had to buy a cartoon of both and find out. AND the answer is the jumbo eggs. The jumbo cost 6.51 cents an oz and the XL cost 6.75 an oz. So I encourage all to go out and buy the jumbo eggs if you want to save money except if you at not a big egg eater then buy the XL or maybe even the L or M or S. I really do not know! As I think about it I now have a question that I will not bother to get an answer to. The jumbo eggs have more shell so maybe the yoke and white of the egg is not the best buy! Actually I guess I really do not care at this point, I will just go with BUY jumbo eggs.
We now have the task of clearing out most things from the living room/dining room so it can be painted. That needs to be done before the floors are redone towards the end of next week. What the heck, this house will look so good soon I may never want to move to an assisted living place. If I want to be honest I HOPE that never happens. I hope I can go the way of Mom who feel asleep in her favorite chair after breakfast and then went to live with the Lord. I would take a slightly shorter life to avoid any kind of OLD people living situation. BUT on second thought I need not worry about all that until I get old. Did I really say that?
No there is work to be done, FP to finish and I think Travis is coming over after his work to help with some moving of furniture. The FP with heavy cream today was heavenly.
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