Last night me and the girls stayed up to carve some pumpkins, Malia helped daddy draw the face on the pumpkin. Ella is giving the camera the cut eye
Enjoying apple cider.......
By the glow of the jack o lanterns.....
For Malias own safety daddy Dave finally found her a resting spot were she could see all the action but be out of harms way. She loved the big dump trucks and bulldozers all of which came very close. This area is grandpa Anderson's area of expertise I'm sure he would have a few pointers inefficiently, safety and possable a hand full of stories.
How to get in? Daddy Dave had a plan, it was a destructive plan but one which would work. The current knobs and locks needed to be replaced any way so damaging them didn't matter.
With the door open replacing the hard ware is a breeze. This was done to the front door also, much needed new keys and locks.
Well the cold weather is upon us which means firing up the old wood burning fireplace, those of which use one. Daddy Dave has had Grandpa Anderson's log splitter on loan for some time, being that time of the year grandpa needed this back in order to do some splitting of his own. Daddy Dave didn't really use this splitter last year being he was super busy and didn't have the time which wood burning requires(cutting, splitting, stacking, burning, cleaning, etc). Daddy Dave does have a sizable stack of wood which needs to be split, so before he returns the borrowed power house he plans to get what he has done.
When daddy Dave went to crank the splitter it fired up immediately but then cut off, after pulling the plug it was discovered there was a lot of gas behind it. It seems that the float in the carb was stuck causing the motor to flood out. This often happens when a carburetor sits for some time. Well this is an easy fix after pulling the carburetor some carb cleaner was used. In the pic above you can see some gunk in the bottom of the carburetor bowl.
You can't tell from the pic but this baby is purring like a kitten.......
After a test run.......a lot of splitting..... it was decided that this beast of a machine was again running like a top. Daddy Dave got about half of the amount needed split hopefully he can finish it up before returning it to its rightfull owner. An oil change and filters is next on the list. On further note daddy Dave often finds himself laughing as he visits local home improvement stores and sees their log spliters on display.......one word ....puny.......in comparison.
While working on the latest rental project I have started a collection of construction debrie. This needed to be addressed for the safety of renters and insurance purposes, so clean up was under way. Daddy Dave has an open trailer but it has no sides, this was solved by taking some of the debrie(old wall panels) and lining the sides to act as walls.
After the debrie was loaded it was covered with some tarps and strapped down, next stop the dump.
The other morning daddy Dave needed to clean out the back of his truck. He had cut a Costumers grass one of which like their grass bagged and removed from the premise. Often daddy Dave just dumps the grass clippings in the bed of his truck and empties it when he gets home, but he was tired that day and opted to do it in the morning. This morning it was rather cold and the grass had started decomposing causing it to give off steam and was very warm too the touch. Hence the title steaming pile of..........grass, daddy Dave thought the steaming grass was pretty cool.
The Marshall family is now home adjusting to life with an infant. Momma mandy snapped a quick pic after dropping them off after the hospital stay.
Here's a quick pic of newly Momma and Daddy Marshall, and baby Seraphina. The family tree continues.
Just a quick congratulations to daddy Dave's sister #5 and her hubby on baby #2 Isabel. What a cutie pie hope she's as sweet as she looks. Born on 10/17/13 welcome to this crazy world Isabel.
For this cabinet cluster daddy Dave opted to make his own cabinet counter top. First a cut peice of plywood was secured then some 1"1/2 trim was added along the edges to hide the edges.
A close up of the trim, now all the cabniets are in need of a good cleaning and wipe downward and paint. A couple coats of paint being cockroach poop tends to soak through.
Here we had a leak in the kitchen on the latest project. After pulling back some of the shingles the reason was evident.
This vent was not even functional so there was no need to leave it. First a old section of the roofing was removed.
The new section put in place and secured....
Then tar papered......
Here's a pic of the roof you can see the repaired sections, the smaller one was from relocating a drain line vent from a laundry room Reno. While daddy Dave was up on the roof top clickity click, he put new rubber boots on all the exhaust vents and re- gooped with roofing cement. Come rain or shine any tenants should be dry as an eyelash on a hump back camel in the Serra desert at noon during a sand storm on the forth of July.
Now back to the whole pops out tough me thing. Daddy Dave's Dad was doing some Paul Bunyan moves out cutting down some timber when he had a misshap with one of his devices leaving his hand in rough shape and of course being tough Grandpa Anderson he finished the task at HAND. Now many of you which take a gander at his blog would have seen his hand bandaged.........but did you see it exposed.......
Reminds me of hamburger meat............I'm about to pass out just looking at it.
While out working on my latest project i was doing a bathroom Reno ........
As I unhooked the vanity and pulled it out from the wall. I discovered a pile of combs, it seems that there was a space between the wall and the vanity which became the bramuda triangle of combs.
Free combs....hair.picks .......also some toothpaste caps and q-tips, if ya see one you like it's yours.
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