I am still here

For some reason I felt like adding an article to the blog even though I do not have much to say. I am still working on the garage. I have been taking lots of things to the Goodwill donation station and putting all that I think I can get away with out for the trash pickup each week.

 

I moved my patio furniture out of the garage and put it on the patio. When I finish with the garage cleaning project, I want to paint my patio furniture. It is cast aluminum and looks like the heavier cast iron furniture in the grape and ivy pattern. I have an umbrella table with four chairs, a coffee table and two chairs, a settee and four planters. With a decent coat of paint it will be quite attractive again. I have a Wagner spray painter that I bought twenty years ago and never used. I hope it is operable after all these years. It is brand new and in its original box. I painted the furniture one time with Rust Oleum paint in the spray cans. I had carpal tunnel syndrome after I finished shaking all the cans while I painted. I gave the patio table umbrella to Goodwill. I guess next year I will be shopping for a new umbrella.

 

I hope I can finished the garage cleaning and patio furniture painting by the end of March. After that, it is going to be too hot to work outside. After thirty plus years down here, I still have not developed a tolerance for the heat and the humidity. When the hot weather arrives, I will start cleaning out the closets and cabinets in the house.

 

Next weekend I will be in Frisco, Texas, for the Del Webb seminar on their Frisco Lakes retirement community. I got an email from them this week that said the floor plans and pricing would be available. I am hoping they will have a floor plan that is similar to the Lexington model that they have at Sun City Texas. I have mentally arranged all of my furniture in that house.