Monday, June 5
Jun. 6th, 2023 01:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
Well, there were some serious looking clouds at the end of the day.
My Sweetie did the last small bit of getting tiles up in the bathroom downstairs. I think they still have to be grouted, but he did something towards it.
We trimmed Sasha's (goat) hooves. Hers seem to need a lot of attention. The goats in general do need regular trims because they are in a soft dirt pen, so they don't wear down.
He drove back to work today.
I asked him to take a fair amount of "craft" (broken bits and pieces) jewelry to a person in the city. She makes things like those pretty Christmas trees against a velvet back ground and sells them. I saw her ad on buy and sell, and asked her if she would like to buy my stash of craft jewelry, and she did.
My husband took her the jewelry, and apparently she was so happy with what I gave her that she paid my husband more than what I asked for it. I thought that was very nice of her.
I'm just happy they will be used. I bought this craft jewelry hoping to make something out of it, but it really isn't my thing. I feel good selling it to someone who is already doing that kind of thing.
I went to pottery.
It was nice to have a few things ready for Raku firing this next weekend, so the pressure is off to make something by a deadline. I could work at throwing today without concern about doing it NOW!
I need to use up all the odds and ends of clay I have sitting in bags and pails, so I re-worked some of it today and used it.
I managed to throw a nice vase and a bowl.
Clean up took a long time because I was actually throwing at a wheel. Lots to clean up when you throw.
I was just able to run into the grocery store with enough time to get more or less what I need for food this week.
I learned about saturation diving; how people have to live in a compression chamber for long periods of time to adapt to that pressure before being transferred to a diving bell, where they don suits and exit into the water to do their job.
The job is usually some form of maintaining oil pipelines, power lines, or communication lines, so they have to have other specialized skills like underwater welding.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturation_diving
Here is a fascinating video about the process. https://youtu.be/slq9lkHWs0I
Well, there were some serious looking clouds at the end of the day.
My Sweetie did the last small bit of getting tiles up in the bathroom downstairs. I think they still have to be grouted, but he did something towards it.
We trimmed Sasha's (goat) hooves. Hers seem to need a lot of attention. The goats in general do need regular trims because they are in a soft dirt pen, so they don't wear down.
He drove back to work today.
I asked him to take a fair amount of "craft" (broken bits and pieces) jewelry to a person in the city. She makes things like those pretty Christmas trees against a velvet back ground and sells them. I saw her ad on buy and sell, and asked her if she would like to buy my stash of craft jewelry, and she did.
My husband took her the jewelry, and apparently she was so happy with what I gave her that she paid my husband more than what I asked for it. I thought that was very nice of her.
I'm just happy they will be used. I bought this craft jewelry hoping to make something out of it, but it really isn't my thing. I feel good selling it to someone who is already doing that kind of thing.
I went to pottery.
It was nice to have a few things ready for Raku firing this next weekend, so the pressure is off to make something by a deadline. I could work at throwing today without concern about doing it NOW!
I need to use up all the odds and ends of clay I have sitting in bags and pails, so I re-worked some of it today and used it.
I managed to throw a nice vase and a bowl.
Clean up took a long time because I was actually throwing at a wheel. Lots to clean up when you throw.
I was just able to run into the grocery store with enough time to get more or less what I need for food this week.
I learned about saturation diving; how people have to live in a compression chamber for long periods of time to adapt to that pressure before being transferred to a diving bell, where they don suits and exit into the water to do their job.
The job is usually some form of maintaining oil pipelines, power lines, or communication lines, so they have to have other specialized skills like underwater welding.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturation_diving
Here is a fascinating video about the process. https://youtu.be/slq9lkHWs0I
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Date: 2023-06-07 05:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-06-07 06:31 am (UTC)It was about a twelve inch long section, and it required him to mix a small amount of grout. It would have been done in minutes.
However, it sat for several of his sets of days off, unfinished, because it seemed so insignificant.
BUT, if the tiling is not done, the doors for the shower/tub can't be installed, and the bathroom is not fully finished.
I think the grout BETWEEN the tiles is yet to be done, this "grout" was just fixing it to the wall.
Soon, perhaps.
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Date: 2023-06-07 06:44 pm (UTC)It's the one job I can do, as long as the surface has been prepared (i.e. an underlayment of 1/2 inch plywood, or cement board for a bathroom).
Read up on grouting, as I'm sure you'd be able to do it if spouse can't. The trick is to apply it evenly, wipe it off quickly, and clear away the haze promptly. People forget the last step and wind up with cloudy tiles.
I do not ever EVER recommend using white grout. It always winds up looking grimy. People shy away from using black grout, because it is messy. It is indeed messy, but if you are good about cleaning off the residue smartly, there's no problem with it at all.
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Date: 2023-06-07 08:56 pm (UTC)We did get a tinted grout, to complement the tiles.
I've been considering doing the grouting, will look into it.
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Date: 2023-06-08 04:58 pm (UTC)