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I found a really cool-looking coffee table out by the dumpsters here. Me and my grandson carried it home on Sunday and I'm fixing it up to give to my granddaughter. She just moved into her own place.

This table has a very 1940s look. It has a glass top at the center with 4 small cubby spaces under it, and a large drawer at each end. One of the drawers is all wonky, beyond repair, so I removed both drawers plus the sliders, so now it has deep shelves at each end instead.

Today I'm going to touch up the paint. It's white (with wood-grain base). G-daughter's boyfriend will pick it up this evening.

Here it is sitting on my "worktable" (blurry, I know)

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Murrmurr said:
I found a really cool-looking coffee table out by the dumpsters here. Me and my grandson carried it home on Sunday and I'm fixing it up to give to my granddaughter. She just moved into her own place.

This table has a very 1940s look. It has a glass top at the center with 4 small cubby spaces under it, and a large drawer at each end. One of the drawers is all wonky, beyond repair, so I removed both drawers plus the sliders, so now it has deep shelves at each end instead.

Today I'm going to touch up the paint. It's white (with wood-grain base). G-daughter's boyfriend will pick it up this evening.

Here it is sitting on my "worktable" (blurry, I know)

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Great looking renovation of what someone else didn't want. Brings real meaning to "one mans trash is another mans treasure"
 
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Xrays of my back today, guess new Dr doesn't care much for our previous doctors pronouncement after the last xray "------- your back is a mess", then later he said "your neck is a mess" after I complained of a sore neck.
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No need to be sad folks, there were 4 xrays taken so new Doc will probably go into detail telling me about my back. It will go in one ear and out the other. Mess I understand. She may decide to repeat the original xrays of my neck, and do the same thing. Some doctors feel the need to go into great detail. New doctor is Chinese with a very heavy accent, so I'd never understand the details anyway.
 
Good Morning!

Today I will do the laundry that I did not do yesterday. Make some phone calls. Routine household chores. At five is my book discussion live on a YouTube channel I follow. It has been pretty good and I don't want to miss it. I have learned to put the "out" sign on my door when doing this or I will be interrupted.

Looks like another beautiful day! Enjoy your day!
 
Laying new carpet... !! Well , it's really a huge rug.. and it's been really difficult to do on my own because it means lifting up each end of a sofa.. which is extremely heavy.. and I can just lift the end by 2 or 3 inches . It took 2 of us last time we laid a rug..
So, trying to work out how I'd manage to slip the rug under and hold up each end of the sofa at the same time.. I got 2 pieces of kindling and raised each end on them by an inch or so which was enough for me to get the rug under... However frustratingly one end has gone under too much and is leaving a bare space between the rug and the Hearth of about 2 inches.. , and now I can't get the rug to pull out from under there... 😖...so I'm having a rest and a cuppa tea while I decide what to do..
 
Wooohoo...done it all by myself...managed to use a heavy wooden walking stick as a prise tolift up the corner of the sofa enough for me to get over the other side and pull it just that inch or so to line up against the hearth..

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Got some wood chips spread around the hosta I transplanted ,last Fall.
Made lunch,, hubby was in & back out wanted to get a drive way finished.

So I should fire up the weed whacker as its turned overcast,, sort of cool out.
IF I knock down the weeds maybe hubby can dump of wood chips on those areas?
 

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