It’s been baking in the sun unpainted for most of four months while I concentrated on the addition. Always intended to paint it green, just didn’t get to it.
It’s further from green than ever this morning, but that’ll just be incentive to do it right. I expended a gallon of Kilz I’ve had squirreled away for a couple of years, because it needed a primer coat. I’m not exactly overloaded with green paint at the moment and there are still cabin surfaces that need a second coat. This construction stuff is expensive; I need more paint, but I need drywall and insulation more and only hope I have cash enough to get it.
The primer reminded me how much I hate hate hate working with oil-based paint. Shoulda worn gloves. Even if I had paint remover I wouldn’t douse my hands in it. And I refused to even consider priming the woodshed till I’d acquired a disposable brush and roller cover, because I ain’t cleaning them.
Next chore:
Before I started painting I washed my flour buckets and left them in the sun to dry. When I get to the cloth Bluebird sacks in my long-term stash, filling the buckets becomes rather more of a chore than it used to be…
Because I give the empties to Neighbor L, who makes dish towels out of them. She also grades me on how carefully I cut the thread-and-not-the-cloth when I open them.
Seriously, it’s gotten to where I’m happier when I can buy paper 5-pound bags of Gold Medal from the dollar store. Nobody cares how painstakingly I open those.
So what you’re saying is, you need a seam ripper?
That would probably work better than my knife, yeah.
And before everybody sends me a seam ripper care package, I have one already. Probably a couple. Of course they’ve migrated to the bottom of my sewing kit, which I’d have to empty to find it if I wanted to use it. (toes the dirt) And if I’d thought of it…
Joel – Those bags should be sew closed with a chain-stitch machine which means if you cut the right end of the stitching off it will unravel/unzip. Then you have a nice long piece of cotton string for trussing-up birds and roasts for roasting or BBQing. The same for any of your feed bags. Some days I would guess right and snip the right end off pull the string and it would unravel lickety-split. Other times, I would have to work both ends before I got it started right and then the string would unzip from the bag.
Oh! Another use for the string is to crocheting doilies or tatting ;>)
Oh Joel, tatted edges on your pants bottoms, underwear edges, pillowcases and handkerchiefs…what could be better? And there are so many uses for lengths of chain crochet. Looking forward to photos, will check twice a day at least.
“Looking forward to photos, will check twice a day at least.”
Oh, yeah . . . me, too!
😉
If those are the real old-school floursack fabric bags, they do indeed make wonderful dishtowels… lint-free and surprisingly absorbent, so they’re particularly good to use on glassware.
The “floursack” towels sold nowadays aren’t close to the same thing — they’re more like cheesecloth and wouldn’t hold flour worth a darn, nor are they soft or absorbent like the old ones.
Where did you pick up the bags of flour packed that way? Me like!
You guys make yourselves comfortable, might be a while. 🙂
Crocheting doilies or tatting. Yeah, that. And underwear edges too.
“Might be a while”. Tomorrow, with pictures maybe?
( Now going to go look up what tatting is…)
Free.and.true, that’s the way Bluebird flour still comes packed, in 10- or 20-pound sacks. It’s sold locally, at the crappy food store. When they have it. Which isn’t right now.
Blue Bird flour . . .
http://cortezmilling.com/
🙂
Food City stores in AZ carry the large cloth sacks of Bluebird Flour. Walmart carries the cloth 5 lb sacks.
Thanks for the leads, Joel and Kentucky and Matt. Must practice my flour-fu soon!