Okay: I got everything set up before the 8 o’clock Ghost walkie. Then we ran home and tackled the two projects that needed to be done this morning before it gets hot: Bread and stucco.
Yes, I know those things don’t go together. This morning they do, because yesterday I was lazy. So I got the dough kneaded and rising, then brought the kitchen timer outside where the wheelbarrow and mortar were waiting.
Worked for half an hour till the timer dinged. Peeled off my gloves, washed my hands, got the dough going on its second rise…
…reset the timer and ran outside to finish stuccoing the piers*.
And I just finished cleaning tools when the timer dinged, and it was time to run inside and start the oven.
And I slid the bread into the oven just at 10, which means it’ll come out of the oven and onto the cooling rack just in time to run over to S&L’s for the 11 o’clock walky.
Score!
BTW: If you hate the brand of nitrile gloves they sell at the hardware – and I really do, they tear constantly – get on Amazon and buy yourself a box of these.
Far superior. No, nobody paid me to say that.
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*Yeah, it’s silly. But they really did look like shit. I could just slap a coat of paint on them and forget it, and normally I would. The problem is that once I get the floor done it’ll be time for the framing, which is when Neighbor D will be here, and Neighbor D is a perfectionist. He’s a polite perfectionist, he won’t say anything, but he’ll know. So stucco.
“So stucco.”
🙂 🙂 🙂
And then take a Sharpie and write “Stucco” on each pier!
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Poor old Ghost, it’s starting to sound like he not only has a bit of arthritis but may have some kidney issues. Sucks getting old.
BTW those pylons sure will look pretty.