Late morning I decided I needed to take care of the snow in the driveway, on the sidewalk and steps. I hunted high and low and tore this house apart for: my coveralls - couldn't find them, my icky snow boots - couldn't find them, my really old and icky coat I used to always wear when shoveling snow - couldn't find it. I have no idea what happened to all of these. The coat and boots may have gone the way of the trash a few years ago but my jumpsuit coveralls???? So I bundled up as best as I could and went outside.
Primed the snowblower, turned the choke to full on, pulled the cord - nothing. Primed and pulled two more times and on the second time the blower started up. The snow wasn't very deep but it had blown and drifted to one side of the driveway where it was as high as my retaining wall. I learned a lesson - watch where you blow because I blew most of the snow onto my steps - wonderful. Actually using the blower wasn't that bad and turning the blower directional dealie was pretty slick - I had to do that each time I turned around so I wouldn't blow snow onto my neighbor's driveway. But it was a little challenging right by the garage door because there is really no where to point the snow to go, so I ended up shoveling that out - along with my very deeply snow-filled steps that go up to the front lawn. Needless-to-say I took 4 Advil when I came inside and have been taking them every four hours to keep from getting stiff and sore.
I had to run out to mail Mom and Dad's Christmas letter and labels at Dahl's and thought I'd hit True Value to see if they had bathroom caulking compound - yep. I asked a kid about using it and he showed me I had to put the tube of compound into one of those caulking gun things - great - why can't they make things in plastic tubes you just squeeze? I knew Mike had two gun things downstairs. Then he showed me the Caulking Buddy which takes the place of your finger - you know when you run your finger down the bead of caulk to make it look pretty - they have this plastic buddy deal - I decided to buy it. And then Merry Christmas to the dogs - they had decent sized dog pillows for $9.00 which were regularly $21.00 each. I also bought an all weather mat to put inside the front door for wet boots and shoes to go on. I figured I can carry all this out to the car no problem and there wasn't until I went around the corner of True Value and hit the wind from H-E double toothpicks. I think the only thing that didn't touch the snowy parking lot was the tube of caulking compound......
I ate my piece of pecan pie (that I had bought at Dahl's) and then decided to caulk the shower so it would be ok to use tomorrow morning. I put the tube in the gun and wracheted (sp) it into place. I take my box cutter to cut the end of the caulking tube off. I prime the tube and prime and prime and ..... no compound - evidently I had to break the seal to the tube. Who in their right mind puts a seal to one of those tubes clear down at the end of the squirty outy end?! I had nothing to pierce it with and I had some long nails upstairs too - don't ask why I had those nails in the bedroom - long story. Anyway I take the box cutter and end up cutting about half that squirty outy dealie off so I can pierce the poo out of the seal to get compound to come out - and come out it did! I put a huge bunch of compound down and take my Caulk Buddy and run it down to make the seal look pretty like Mike used to - and decide it's picking up too much compound so I start to put some of the caulk back down with my Buddy. But I decide that's not working too well so I glop it all on my finger and start finger painting caulking compound all over the place to make sure there will be NO leaking tomorrow morning - check out the photo below. It ain't pretty but I think it's solid.
Tomorrow night after work I stop by the eye doctor/contact place to see why my contact doesn't sit correctly on my eye. I order my contact in a six-pack and the first two contacts worked perfectly for two weeks, then the next two contacts I could barely wear a day or two. I've been wearing my glasses an awful lot the past month. We'll see what the contact lady says.
It's not pretty, but let's see any water get past this :)
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