Sunday November 17th 2024

The last coat of polyurethane went on my headboard yesterday. One of today’s tasks was attaching it to the bed frame. There was one hiccup in that task. The bed frame I built with mattress in place was too heavy to move. On the carpeted bedroom floor it also wouldn’t slide. I made a run to Lowes for something thin and hard to go under the bed legs. My plan was to get a four foot section of Masonite, but found a better solution in a piece of hardboard intended to be used to make a white board. When cut into four strips about six inches wide and slide under the bed legs, I was able to move the bed frame away from the wall and attach the headboard. My bed is now finished and doesn’t look too bad.

Today’s other task was finishing the two dinning room chairs I bought from Amazon. Each chair came in eight pieces in need of stain and polyurethane. By the end of the day I had all sixteen pieces stained. Trying to stay out of the direct sunlight is a challenge. The stain drys fast in the direct sun and it is hard to see the areas that haven’t been hit with the stain. I need to stop staining or applying polyurethane by mid afternoon. The sun is too intense in the late afternoon.

The unfinished table gets the stain and poly treatment next. Rain is in the forecast for Wednesday, so I need to get stuff inside by then. The furnishing of my base camp is coming along slowly. I got a framed canvas of one of my Rambling Road Trip pictures via UPS on Friday. It was a test of the printing service. I hung it on my bedroom wall. It looks pretty good. I am going to have a couple of landscape photographs printed on canvas next and maybe a bird picture or two.

I keep waiting to see Christmas decorations around the resort, but so far the only decorations are the Thanksgiving style decorations that have been added to the front gate. It is basically a garland of fall leaves. My guess is most of the Christmas type decorations will arrive right after Thanksgiving.