Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Painting...Walking...and Windows

I finally got to use my sander...I sanded the swinging bench on the back porch and painted it with some white paint i found in the garage..I got a lot on the ground but it looks good....YEAY MATT!!

Yesterday Sarah had her first day of school and took the car until 2:30pm. Knowing of nothing else to do i decided to get the true New Orleans Magazine St. Experience. So i began walking at 6020 Magazine at 12pm and experienced all the shops and houses as i made my way to the end of Magazine st (6 miles later) and a way cool Salvation army...where i bought 2 books for $.50. One of the books I bought was The Natural. By this time it was 2:30 and Sarahd had gotten out of class so i sat on the curb reading my book and asked her to come pick me up. Thanks Sarah.

Sarah had asked me to get her a window so that we could paint new orleans stuff on the glass and hang it out front of the house. She has a vision...and i can not wait to see it :c). Anyway, I was driving back from a 2 hour Wal-Mart experience by myself with the girls and I saw a pile of old doors and windows for a gutted house. So i pull a U-Turn and go to the pile. I discovered that there was no complete window with all the glass in tack so i grabbed 2 windows and a pane of glass and have been putting all the pieces togther the last few days. So far i have the outside frame of the window done and just need to put in the cross peices and panes of glass. Its quite fun but its hard to sit outside in the heat for more than 30 min so its going to take some time.

1 comment:

Kelly said...

Aww Matt... You've been working so hard on that house! I probably won't even recognize it when we come again! You should start taking before and after pictures of your projects!