I was just thinking the other day how I don't have the mental power right now to plan big projects but then I realised that apparently I
can do projects without realising it's a project if it doesn't
feel like it involves much thinking, and apparently that actually works?
In a spur of the moment I started cleaning up the neglected front garden a while ago and now that's all as good as finished I realised that in hindsight it really was a project. But one where the steps were so obvious that it didn't require much planning and material I didn't have available, that it felt like no (mental) trouble at all. So I'm kinda double-pleased with myself: for making the front garden look so much better, and for realising a project in these rather trying times.
Onward to the next project, whether I realise it is one or not!
Thanks. Things have been angsty here. I injured my shoulder weeks ago--very painful and, Ford, the county where my chiropractor practices is second highest in coronavirus cases. 516 cases in a county of about 2,000 square miles and less than 34,000 people. So I am not going there. This county has just one doctor and he is overworked in the best of times. In the end I did what my grandmother used to do for her bursitis--don't use the dang arm! Seems to have worked. I can prune and plant small things now. No digging and no big projects.
Aw, that sucks. Good thing that just keeping it still for a while worked. Just don't try to go too quickly now that it feels a little better. So easy to go overboard and having to go back to square one.
Once the saplings are cut I will poison the stumps and hope that takes care of it. I can buy the stuff at the Lumberyard here. Have to be careful because there are iris and old roses growing in between the piss elms. I promised the lady I bought the lot from not to kill off the old roses because she took great care to nurture them when she lived there. I have fertilized and watered them and they are budded out. Love old fashioned roses.
Not too keen on having to poison something in your garden. But I reckon digging all the roots out is quite impossible.
Yeay for irisses (I'm a fan) and old roses. Sounds like a lovely place indeed.
Then the fabric sat in the bag, right next to chairs, in my spare room, for months. (You know how this happens, right?) However, when they announced the lockdown for the corona virus, I had something of a mild panic. Not over the virus - over the fact that the hardware store would closed. Talk about bulk-buying. I bought a mouse sander (best buy ever!), oak-stain varnish, brushes, turpentine, staples, screws, a new bit for the drill, upholstery tacks and a ton of other stuff. So far, I have removed most of the old fabric (it kind of fell off), sanded down the wooden arms and legs, removed the huge springs in the seats and all the old coir that they were stuffed with. I've made new bottoms for seats out of board and given the wood parts a first coat of varnish. Sheesh. There's nothing like being stuck indoors with two hideous old chairs for getting the DIY juices flowing!
At least you had some time to bulk-buy in advance. The first two weeks of our lockdown all I could think of was projects I needed stuff for that I didn't have and therefore couldn't go out an buy it.
I swear, that brain of me sometimes...
Sounds like a very satisfying project, though. I sometimes watch a show on the BBC called The Repair Shop and I am always in awe how they manage to restore objects to former glory. They did some chairs too, it must be so much harder than it looks to do!
What will you use for stuffing?