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Spiffing up the place
Finished re-staining both the back and front decks, including steps and railing. Added new spiffy no-slip strips to the steps and re-painted the railing so it's a slightly metallic chocolate brown instead of weird faded chipped peach and rust color. My guess is about 50 years ago when the house was built that railing probably was painted to match the cedar siding but time has not been kind to it. Much, much nicer now.
Between all that and the new mulch, the place is looking a bit jazzed up, I'm quite pleased.
My son is moving back in tomorrow, looks like he may be able to informally apprentice with our church custodian to learn custodial stuff, then hopefully get his foot in the door with the custodial company he works for before summer is out. Here's hoping! He's got to get started somehow and he hasn't had any callbacks on anything legitimate yet. Not that he's looking forward to helping strip the wax off the gym floor - the current project at hand - but at least he's still game to do what needs doing.
Between all that and the new mulch, the place is looking a bit jazzed up, I'm quite pleased.
My son is moving back in tomorrow, looks like he may be able to informally apprentice with our church custodian to learn custodial stuff, then hopefully get his foot in the door with the custodial company he works for before summer is out. Here's hoping! He's got to get started somehow and he hasn't had any callbacks on anything legitimate yet. Not that he's looking forward to helping strip the wax off the gym floor - the current project at hand - but at least he's still game to do what needs doing.