Pellet heads!! What's up today?

Lot's of pieces parts , and the instructions don't make any sense either

 

About the only thing I'll run is to the fridge for another Smoothie

 

That be it, good thing there are pictures.

 

That helps because sometimes them drawings are confusing , is the washer on the inside or the out

 

I was wondering what was going to hold the porcelain grate over the damper in place, it must be gravity.

 

Oh the youngest survived yet another school year with the kids and is currently chilling at camp. I don't know when she heads to school for her classes but suspect it is soon.

 

Fairly certain the near-bulletproof 'Vettes will, but it's racin'....never know. Just hope the American contingent kicks all that Euro-trash crap's asses.

EDIT: Fords & Ferrari's hit with BOP (Balance of Performance) air & weight restrictions AFTER qualifying......seems some teams were sandbagging during practices.

 

Best of luck JT, both Saturday and fishin withJoey. Gonna try to get a little fishin time with my oldest son on Saturday, my younger son has to work all weekend.
May take a little scoot on Sunday morn before Father day BB Sunday afternoon.

Doggy

 

More baseboard nailed in

OH MY GAWD
Crooked walls with short pieces of baseboard are a real beotch.

Had one short piece by the front door that was only a foot long and the short wall section had a nasty curve in the sheet rock at the floor line.
The baseboard spanned the section with a 1/2" gap in the center

LONGER NAILS and suck the baseboard into the wall.

Really hate that type of crappy job.

Ahhhh well, the application of a little white silicone to the miter joints and it looks great.

Things are progressing slowly now.

A little here and a little there.

Today the last drapery brackets are in my gun sight.

Pretty quick and easy job.

Did I mention that I hate painting with 3 purple passions

 

I'm with ya on the painting. However, it is one of the few things that can be done that gives a lot of bang for the effort.

 

Pretty sure it's the sound of coughing & hacking turbo's with less boost and more vehicle weight, after sandbagging their way through practices and testing....very un-sportsmanship-like for Ford & Ferrari:

"For the first time in recent history, 24 Hours of Le Mans race organizers have forced several cars to adjust their weight and other specs just ahead of the big event to try and even the playing field. That means the blisteringly quick Ford GT and Ferrari 488 teams weren’t showing their true pace before qualifying began.

Sportscar365 listed the following modifications to the LM GTE Pro-class cars’ Balance of Performance today:

• Ford GT: 10 kilogram increase in weight over qualifying spec, reduction in turbo boost pressure
  
• Ferrari 488 GTE: 15 kilogram increase in weight over qualifying spec, 2-liter increase in fuel capacity
  
• Corvette C7.R: 0.2 mm increase in air restrictor size, 2-liter increase in fuel capacity
  
• Aston Martin Vantage GTE: 0.2 mm increase in air restrictor size"

And:
"Corvette Racing program manager Doug Fehan told RoadandTrack.com. "They repeatedly asked us to be as forthright with our speed as possible when we're on track. We give them a tremendous amount of data for which they make their [BoP] adjustments. I can only speak for Corvette Racing, but we have tried to comply with that at all times."

Without saying there's a belief the Ford and Ferrari programs have been less forthright in running at their full potential to then receive favorable BoP settings, Fehan simply stated the philosophy that drives Corvette Racing.

"We have always operated off three pillars: Honesty, integrity, and sportsmanship. And respect for the Le Mans race, and we continue to do that," he added."

"Honesty, integrity, and sportsmanship. And respect for the Le Mans race......" Ford and Ferrari, not so much.

 

Hope everything comes out well, bud. Thinkin' of ya today.

 

Same here Jay

 

Hang in there Jay, things will work out.

 

Yup.

A fresh coat of paint covers lotssa sin and the ravages of many years of hard use.

Finished the last of the drapery brackets this morning and got the valances hung over the Quad.

With the stove so close we can't have the drapes on the ends, so decided that the valances would give the area the finishing touches needed.

The next phase is to tear down the large drapes on the West end and finish the paint and do the final tweaks on the rod. (Need to insert the wood dowel and drill it to accept the oak finials)

After that work I will likely go after the Faux stone arch behind the Little Whit.
The top of the stove is bare in places, so will sand it good and give it a fresh coat of paint as well as the vent pipe.

That should get us looking really good in there.

With the paint close to the corner LR window finished, snapped a piccy.

DON'T WANT PAINT ON THE NEW DRAPES

 

wow Could not imagine 3 hrs. of laying in there. You better hydrate yourself.

doggy

 

I don't do MRI scans at all.

After my stroke they wanted to do a scan & I told them NO LITTLE TUBE TRIP FOR THIS CAT.

I hate small spaces.

They did not have an open mri available, so let it ride.

My hats off to ya for handling that many hours of that beast.