CoTT 2 House of Cards

[Valkyrie]

12 minutes ago, dughlas said:

You might not be a football fan but I know you're a fan of the tight ends in tight pants.

 

[dughlas]

30 minutes ago, Drew Espinosa said:

Howdy y'all!

 

Damn but you look hot in your current avatar ... like a good bourbon you're maturing very nicely.

[Albert1434]

Aloha Dughlas hoping you feel better today

[Drew Espinosa]

57 minutes ago, clochette said:

Kids go to bed early

I'm nearly 26, which means I ain't a kid!  

[Marty]

3 hours ago, Albert1434 said:

Aloha All

Greetings, young Albert!

[Marty]

4 hours ago, Timothy M. said:

I prefer the part of the wall behind the derelict sheds where the stones are visible, rather than the covered section. Can you leave the stones exposed or will they have to be treated ?

 

3 hours ago, Headstall said:

I agree the stone wall is better than the parged part, but the parging does protect the mortar between stones... if there is any.   It would be awesome if the entire wall was exposed stone.

I had to look up the meaning of parged (and parging) there, Gary!  

I see it is what I would call rendered (or rendering). Indeed my spell checker put squiggly red lines under your terms when I just retyped them. Which is strange, in a way, as when I googled the word one of the first sites suggested was the British Gypsum website. So the words are obviously part of the British English lexicon. It must just be an obscure technical term this side of the Pond.  

I'm not really happy with the rendering (parging) that has been done to much of the wall, as I would also prefer to see the exposed stonework. But I'll probably leave what is already there in place, at least for the time being. The exposed stonework may need a bit of mortar added between some of the stones; especially where the ivy has loosened the stones in a few places.

 

[Marty]

3 hours ago, Headstall said:

Happy Sunday, all! 

You deliberately catering to my armpit fetish there, Gary?

If so, thanks!

 

[Marty]

1 hour ago, Drew Espinosa said:

Howdy y'all!

 

Greetings, young Drew!

[Marty]

1 hour ago, clochette said:

Kids go to bed early

Is that one of the hogging the bed cats that Bucket mentioned earlier?

[Marty]

1 hour ago, clochette said:

Hey babe  how are you? Being good ?

Drew? Being good? 

Is that actually possible?

[Marty]

1 hour ago, dughlas said:

Of course I did 

Spoiler

 

[Marty]

1 hour ago, dughlas said:

Damn but you look hot in your current avatar ... like a good bourbon you're maturing very nicely.

It could just be a faulty memory due to my advancing years, but I'm sure that when Drew started using that avatar a while back that he said he was only going to use it for 24 hours...

(How much did you pay him, dugh?)

[Page Scrawler]

6 hours ago, Marty said:

Her parents named her Hayley.  

One of my nephews is named Haley.    Hey, Marty. 

 

4 hours ago, Timothy M. said:

prefer the part of the wall behind the derelict sheds where the stones are visible,

Hey, Tim. 

[Marty]

Just now, Page Scrawler said:

One of my nephews is named Haley.    Hey, Marty. 

 

Hey, Tim. 

Greetings, Page!

All good in Pageville, I trust? 

[Page Scrawler]

2 hours ago, Drew Espinosa said:

Howdy y'all!

 

Hey, Drew! 

[Page Scrawler]

4 minutes ago, Marty said:

Greetings, Page!

All good in Pageville, I trust? 

Yup, things are going swimmingly. 

[clochette]

44 minutes ago, Marty said:

Is that one of the hogging the bed cats that Bucket mentioned earlier?

I don't have a black & white cat (yet? )

[Albert1434]

Aloha Page

[clochette]

48 minutes ago, Marty said:

Drew? Being good? 

Is that actually possible?

Everything could happen 🤷🏻‍♀️ some people believe in santa or in miracles why not in drew being good

[Marty]

6 minutes ago, clochette said:

some people believe in santa

Are you telling me some people actually don't?

[Albert1434]

[Valkyrie]

  

[clochette]

2 hours ago, Valkyrie said:

  

At least those get new ones every times the old ones start to get soft and not good to use anymore

Edited January 17, 2021 by clochette

[Marty]

Because of another Zoom session today, I didn't get as much work done outside as I would have liked to. I did, however, move the ladder even closer to the unsafe gable wall of the first of the two stone sheds and continued cutting away some of the overgrowth...

And sure enough, a number of the stones on top of that wall collapsed as I was carefully cutting away the vines and ivy that were all that was really holding them in place.

I knew I was safe, however, as I had the ladder up against the main boundary wall, and the way the stones were hanging meant they would fall away from me, and into the old shed.

Here's a photo showing the current state of that gable. If you look carefully you can see I have since moved some of the fallen stones to just in front of the pile of cut branches outside the shed. Tomorrow (weather permitting) I intend moving the ladder to the other side of the boundary wall, and continuing clearing the overgrowth from that side. I think that will be the safer way to work at this stage...

[Albert1434]

I baked sour dough bread today so yummy