Day 1352 Stroking the weed.

24th April 2021

I lay awake most of the night thinking that I should have laid up and clamped the walnut veneer on the dresser top differently. Of course it was too late, it was laying on the garage floor with every conceivable item of weight I could find including the three bags of mulch I bought yesterday.

I couldn’t wait to rush out to see how it was.

I started to remove all the things stacked on top, it must have taken me fifteen minutes to move everything. I had realised one error at the time, because using carpenter’s glue it was difficult to spread evenly, I should have used a standard PVA that would spread with a brush or roller.

As I removed the boards my fears were realised. There were a number of ridges, let’s be honest it was like a ploughed field.

I’ve had this happen before, that time I removed the veneer and started again.

I remember watching a video where this guy used an iron to smooth out the ridges.

So I grabbed Kelli’s and proceeded to smooth out the wrinkles.

Miraculously it worked, I followed the iron with a block to add pressure, but I was happy with the final result.

I trimmed the veneer to the final size and gave it a light sanding, then put it aside to see if the wrinkles re-appeared.

I wanted to weed the back garden. There were hundreds of them, and they had grown a lot in the last week, but this was the day they would be gone and dumped in the bin.

There is a sense of satisfaction in pulling them up, and the sandy soil makes it very easy.

I could grab a whole handful and pull them out roots and all.

“At this rate it should only take half an hour” I thought to my self.

It took me much longer than that, I would pull out a bunch, but more weeds appeared, where did those come from? maybe there is a weed dimension just to taunted me.

I was filling up large plastic bags, the garden waste bin was full, so now we were in an overflow situation.

I noticed many of the weeds were coming under the fence from a neighbours garden, bastards!

I was tempted to throw them back over, but I didn’t want any confrontation, well at least until I get my residency.