7th August 2022
The predicted storm and rain was pathetic, I was excited to get the garden soaked maybe even saving the grass. There was a sprinkle of moisture and that was it. I raised my fists to the heavens, it made no difference.
There were a few jobs to a dresser that we had already posted. I was concerned about a smell inside, the carcass was made from cedar, but this was not what it smelt of.
There was a lot of heat gun action trying to extract any essence from the timber, and a lot of sanding. The finishing touch was a coat of beeswax that I applied into the grain with a stiff brush.
It was a great improvement, not perfect, if I had noticed it before, I wouldn’t have taken it, a lesson for the future.
Kelli was keen to get at least one coat of final coat on a large dresser, that we agreed we’d paid too much for, but it will be okay, and we should get a good price for it.
On a completely different subject, we were both shocked at the size of one of the daughters of the family that live across the road. Both the mother and father are on the large size, so it seems inevitably that the children with have little choice. Cheap food is evil laced with sugar and corn syrup young Americans are doomed. As a late night TV host noted “You never see a ninety year old fat person” of course he meant that all of them would be dead.
Another Lifetime to go 