Just Another Work Day, April 16, 2010

So, did everybody get their taxes or their extensions taken care of yesterday?  :)  We did ours really early this year--we had a nice refund for the first time in AGES!  I pretty much have taken advantage of Rod overwithholding so I don't have to pay taxes for the business.  But for the last 4-5 years that hasn't worked and I have started paying in quarterly.  This year with some nice energy saving home improvements, we finally had a refund. 

We are now battling two more viruses on the other computer.  I have just turned it off while we work on some other things around the house.  Not sure what has happened to my usually reliable Kaspersky, but, I am not thrilled.  Luckily the backup computer is doing ok!

So today we started off where we left off yesterday--with the columns on the front of the house.  We patched, sanded and gave them the first coat of primer yesterday.  Today we primed and caulked them.  The caulk has to cure for 1-2 weeks before we will put the top coat on to finish up that project.  We also hit the new piece of fascia on the screen room with primer while the brushes were wet.  And, since we were priming, we got up on the roof and hit a couple other things that needed priming. 

While we were up there, we had a nice conversation with our great next door neighbor, Jim.  We also went ahead and took down Dad's CB antenna so we can get that back to them before we forget and sell it with the house.  Rod had that part of the job.  He really DOES NOT like heights, so, this part of the day's work was not his cup of tea. He is actually standing on the chimney cap.  Since he was such a good sport, I took him out to lunch at Ale House.

We did a couple errands afterward--Bank, Publix and Walmart before coming back to finish up the projects.  First was the caulking of the columns followed by some caulking on both ends of the house to use up what was left over.  The last job of the day, a haircut for Rod before he goes back to work tomorrow!  Phew...it will be good to be at a show this weekend to REST.  LOL  I added the ArtFest over in Port Orange (south of Daytona Beach).  I am also looking at a show the first weekend in May over in Brandon.  Stay tuned for that one--check the website or cal lme to verify that one!