Weekend Recap

In my last post I told you about our family gathering on Friday. Following that there were several things on the to-do list for the weekend.

Saturday after the party Sandy was feeling a little rough. Yeah, she had a good time! We had a late breakfast then went to Debbie's cafe for latte, followed by a few errands. When we got back Sandy went to work in the garden and I spent time working on the barbeque...

The "winter months" were pretty mild so over that time we had decided to barbeque a few meals. But whenever I put it on it wasn't getting hot enough. A few weekends ago I spend several hours taking apart the burner units and giving everything a good scrub and polish, then put it all back together. But I still wasn't getting enough heat. On Saturday I disconnected and cleaned a few fittings in the propane line, but when I started it up again it still didn't get hot enough. Disappointing. So Sandy ended up doing dinner in the oven. I'm not sure what's wrong with the damn thing, worse still it's a blow to the male ego since I pride myself on being able to fix just about anything around the house.

Barbeque=1, me=0.  For now. I puttered around the yard here and there then called it a day.

On Sunday I helped Sandy get our shed ready for Spring (she did most of it)...

(winter tires ready to go back in storage!)

I also decided I was going to repair a crack in the foundation of the house which had been there for, well, years...

I moved the concrete slabs that the rain barrel sits on...

...and began digging. (The shovel is resting on a limestone foundation that I poured a couple summers ago. Over time it can get almost as hard as concrete and I had to take a pick axe to it in spots).

As I dug further down it became apparent that the crack was longer than I had first thought. It turned out a piece was actually loose, so I gently removed it...

I cleaned both pieces and let them dry while we had lunch but when I went to get the repair kit that I bought last Fall it wasn't where I thought it was, which prompted me to make this face...

Not to fear, within a short time my lovely assistant Sandy found it...

This called for a happy dance...

I covered the face of both pieces with a waterproof sealer, then applied the epoxy filler along all edges of the cracks...

Note that I've braced the loose piece on either side with pieces of garden mulch, which as I understand it is what cavemen did when they repaired cracks in the foundation of their caves. (Okay that's probably total crap, but it could be true).

Last thing was the lawn mower, which needed a little work. I removed the blade and cleaned out all the grass which was caked inside it...

So there you go, another restful weekend! Alright maybe not so much, but it's all part of getting the property ready for Spring. For those of you not into this kind of thing I highly recommend a condo. :)