The garden center where my wife worked wanted a fireplace for a Christmas display some years back. Some left-over lumber, left-over floor laminate, paint, stain, and VOILA! Still in use, year-round, to this day.

 

 

Edited September 17, 20223 yr by HARO50
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Most excellent John. Thanks for sharing.

Nice looking piece John, it's no wonder that they leave it up year 'round.

 

4 hours ago, Grandpadave52 said:

Most excellent John. Thanks for sharing.

 

Dave, that was posted around 3 AM?!?  Maybe you need to hit the sack and get some rest!

4 hours ago, Cal said:

Dave, that was posted around 3 AM?!?  Maybe you need to hit the sack and get some rest!

You know the routine, Cal.... Get up at 3, answer the call of nature, check on TPW, go back to bed, etc,etc!

3 hours ago, Cal said:

Nice looking piece John, it's no wonder that they leave it up year 'round.

 

 

Dave, that was posted around 3 AM?!?  Maybe you need to hit the sack and get some rest!

Had to get up and move around some Cal. I was aching pretty bad. Odd, as tired as I feel, not really sleepy so just thought I'd check in TPW to see what's happening at that time of morning. Official report, doors locked, lights out and everyone snoozing. Pretty peaceful.

24 minutes ago, HARO50 said:

You know the routine, Cal.... Get up at 3, answer the call of nature, check on TPW, go back to bed, etc,etc!

Well there was this ^^^^^^^^ too.

Hey @Cal...you up? @HARO50, @Gene Howe...you guys awake? Hmm, wonder what everybody's doing at 2:50A? Anybody here? This place is kinda spooky in the dark. Anyone want to come out and play? Oh well since I'm already awake might as well go to the bathroom....wonder what's in the frig? Dang it's dark...you stupid cat, I thought you could see in the dark...guess I'll just go back to bed...

I'm on MST, Dave. Was up at 03:00. Started the coffee brewing, relieved the bladder, let the pup out for her morning constitutional, had my Bandit style breakfast of pills. Now, on the patio, drinkkng coffee, awaiting Sol's appearance and, reading TPW posts and, Installation instructions for new smoke detectors. Gotta drill some holes. Gawd, I hate dry wall anchors.  Don't know why they don't use command strips. 

Just a normal morning, out here. 

 

I am a bit late this morning myself...

A good great day to set the tv up on the back deck and watch the UGA game.  BIL & SIL came over and we had a good time of it.

Later in the evening our daughter came in for a visit and the danged upstairs a/c wouldn't come on - it had been working fine when we switched it off a couple weeks ago for the fall.   BIL came back over and we fiddled with it until after 11 PM when we threw in the towel. 

 

Any a/c techs on board?  No power to the thermostat.  There is power to the unit, we tracked it down to a blown 3 amp fuse after the transformer.  I had a 5 amp that we installed, thermostat lit up but as soon as I slid the switch to a/c it promptly blew that fuse.  This is a Rudd heat pump, likely about 10 years old.

11 hours ago, Grandpadave52 said:

Hey @Cal...you up? @HARO50, @Gene Howe...you guys awake? Hmm, wonder what everybody's doing at 2:50A? Anybody here? This place is kinda spooky in the dark. Anyone want to come out and play? Oh well since I'm already awake might as well go to the bathroom....wonder what's in the frig? Dang it's dark...you stupid cat, I thought you could see in the dark...guess I'll just go back to bed...