What is on your Spring Chores List?
Mates,
Besides the televised practice session later today, we are firmly at the doorstep of OT season. We are also at that time of the year where many of you are in a warm enough climate such that it is time for 'Spring Clean-up' or 'Spring Projects'. That can mean lawn stuff, gardening, planting trees, cleaning up, putting away, building that deck, getting your boat or your driveway figured out and any other of a number of worthwhile endeavors - and now there is no football, basketball, NCAA or most anything else to get in the way.
So the question today is: What is on the schedule for your Spring Chore/Project list?
Enjoy your weekend,
XM
My wife and I bought my parents house around 2 years ago and we're finally gonna rip out 3/4 of the flower beds my yard mom put in. She's a gardener and we are not. Frankly I'm sick of weeding 9 flower beds that are decidedly not small. That being said I'm also going to try to get my basement in order for next year's football/basketball season. Go Blue
Removing 800sf of brick from my lawn and planting grass in bare patches.
Have a birdhouse on a pole I want to remove as well.
You should confirm that the birds are able to find comparable housing in the area, or you could face a lawsuit
I didn't realize that was a thing. Figured it is fine to remove an unsightly pole from my yard.
April 13th, 2019 at 12:19 PM ^
Pro tip: move the house and pole out to the road so you can receive airmail.
Two things, 1) canned or homemade gravy; 2)what left-field OT can I start to see the great creativity of MGB in all it’s splendor!
Homemade, it's what Keith Jackson would've wanted
Whoa, doctor!
“would’ve” ?!? Did I miss something?
April 13th, 2019 at 10:54 AM ^
Never bring canned gravy to a memorial service. It's like killing the person twice.
April 13th, 2019 at 10:58 AM ^
As for #2, I'll selfishly plug a classic. My wife wants to update our kitchen countertops.
Quartz, butcher block or granite?
April 13th, 2019 at 12:16 PM ^
Quartz is maintenance free, easy to clean, etc. We put it in our kitchen 5 years ago and it still looks brand new.
April 13th, 2019 at 12:21 PM ^
Granite shatters the hell out of anything glass or ceramic that hits it too hard. Butcher block requires some maintenance to keep it from soaking up e Coli and other such critters that live in raw meat, eggs, etc... Quartz sounds really cool! Me? I have Corian...
April 13th, 2019 at 12:27 PM ^
plywood works. OSB is really nice....
April 13th, 2019 at 12:30 PM ^
Would upvote you for the Corian reference, but my account doesn't work!!!!
Very happy with the quartz, would definitely recommend.
April 13th, 2019 at 12:45 PM ^
Had granite, just put in quartz, whitish with streaks of grey...it’s cool, but not quite maintence free. Red wine and rust can spot it (it can be removed if done quickly).
I was just at a friend’s, they had something called quartzite, had a sort of rough, pebbley finish, it was pretty nice; would hide any sort spill, crumbs or stains.
Use a scotch-brite pad and work gently in a circular motion. Just water and the pad takes out most of the stains. For tough stains, use a little bar keepers friend with warm water and pad.
I’m a home builder and I’ve had to test this method several times. Not to mention I have quartz throughout my house and I have 3 little monsters at home that attempt to test the “maintenance free” claims. We made cherry jello the other night and the quartz still looks brand new after some some light buffing.
Will Scotchbrite pad damage the surface? I have polished surface...
Spring? I’ll let you know when it gets here.
Gotta refinish and paint the kitchen cabinets but I'm contemplating running away from home instead.
Maybe whomever the bank sells my house to when I default on my mortgage will have better luck
I want to paint my kitchen cabinets too. That project keeps getting put off though.
April 13th, 2019 at 11:11 AM ^
I'm a bit OCD by nature and the intricacies of the project keep driving me to do the same. Obviously I want it to be perfect, I just don't know if I can achieve that with my level of handiness without a massive time investment
April 13th, 2019 at 11:30 AM ^
as a wise man once said, perfect and done are frequently enemies. just go for it, get 'er done.
full send, good advice. Going to Sherwin Williams here shortly to get some paint!
April 13th, 2019 at 12:48 PM ^
Exactly! I am confident I can do it, but not as confident that I can do it well enough for my standards.
Cutting firewood, getting the yard raked and checking my hunting property for downed trees. Today there is also Tigers/Twins on the radio, followed by Michigan's spring "game" online, followed by booze and Country Gold Saturday Night. It's going to be a great day!
getting mower ready and winterizing snow blower
1. Collect underpants
2.
3. Profit
April 13th, 2019 at 10:19 AM ^
Also planning a panty raid.
Yard work (edging the beds/new mulch), chopping firewood for the fire pit on the hill, new furniture for the patio, get the last of the winter leaves cleaned up, Caps hockey, spring football, Tuna steaks and Tuna Poke Bowl.
"To begin: In a medium bowl, whisk together the soy sauce, vegetable oil, sesame oil, honey, sambal oelek, ginger, and scallions. Add the tuna and toss. Let the mixture sit in the fridge for at least 15 minutes or up to 1 hour. To serve, scoop rice into bowls, top with tuna poke and desired toppings."
Love Poke! great stuff.
Same here! Healthy and so good!
Going to have a poke salad along with it?
gee, umbig, that sounds more like a 'what's in your glass/on your bbq' thread. how much cooking of the tuna do you do? seared? raw?
good luck with the chores.
Feels like a chore when prepping the food, but it is part of the spring clean up at the end of the day. Raw tuna in the Poke Bowl.
please post pics when done, or as they say, didn't happen. sounds great.
Will do.
Wash and vacuum the car.
Put away snow shovels.
Shake fist at clouds tomorrow (and also at local weather forecasters for predicting a couple inches of snow on Sunday).
Redoing the mini retaining wall between the lawn and the10" drop-off to mini flower bed and sidewalk in the front yard. Built the same thing 30 years ago as new homeowners and it finally rotted out last summer. But I've got two lacrosse games maybe a spring game, Montreux Jazz on tour tomorrow, taxes to do ... so maybe the timbers will sit for a week.
guessing that stuff waits for the entertainment to end.
4x4 pressure treated timbers? securing them with any kind of spikes?
Pretty much the cheapest I could could find, and predrill and rebar sledged into the ground— it lasted the previous iteration — why change.
I’m digging my own trench in the yard and installing 4” pvc pipe to drain to the street
by doing it myself I’m saving five digits.
Last night I had to replace ball bearings for my pool creepy crawler. The parts are so inflated but by doing my own repairs, I’ve nursed my $500 Polaris for ten years. There were times, trying to get the belt on properly, where I so badly wanted to feel the frustration release of swinging the POS into the ground and stomping in it for a blissful thirty seconds. I knew around a minute later I would hate myself if I succumbed to frustration. I had some choice words and completed the task.
you know, you can redrum a polaris and its not a crime. (internet law)
how long is the ditch and how deep the trench? would a ditch-witch help or is it not such a big job that requires that.
April 13th, 2019 at 11:24 AM ^
Maybe ten ten foot sections. I have to navigate an swerving drive way and what not. It gets me out of the house. I kind of like the work.
April 13th, 2019 at 11:40 AM ^
All work and no play make Jack crazy...
April 13th, 2019 at 12:28 PM ^
good for you, good exercise. but you know, these are fun too...
Install a storm door.
It's the worst kind of project in the sense that it seems like something I should handle myself, but I could equally see myself screwing it up.
April 13th, 2019 at 11:03 AM ^
That sounds like me repairing the kids' bathroom fan motor.
April 13th, 2019 at 10:14 AM ^
I serviced the lawn mower last weekend so I can mow today. Grass is taking off already. I’ll be spending the afternoon putting new line on my fishing poles. I’m so ready to go fishing.
April 13th, 2019 at 10:20 AM ^
Alphabetize my VHS porn collection