Tuesday, May 15, 2001

 

1:16 a.m. So, the stuff comes out of the can and it starts out all soft and mushy and if you're shooting it up into the top of the window it falls down on you in bright yellow fluff balls that you try to brush off and then you get it all over your fingers and beeeetweeeen your fingers and ...

... many hours have passed. The stuff has hardened. The arrow points to the stuff and somehow the stuff has grown and pushed out past the sill and now I have a Situation to deal with.

So, I've been sawing the stuff with a serrated steak knife and next I plan to tape and spackle the stuff and in time, I'm hoping to have a sort of smooth white sill up there at the top of the window, the way it was before I started poking around with a butter knife just to see what I could see.

Thus goes the day, most of the day.

In the late afternoon I had to go back to the dentist for the actual real crown-jamming procedure and the whole time they were leveling and sawing and grinding and smoothing and mashing it into place, all I could think about was that window frame.

We do like our surfaces smooth and white and flawless. Lucky for me, there are plenty of products that will produce said effect.

If you decide to practice deferred maintenance, you're going to have to lay in a stock of scrapers, probers, putty knives, and possibly even wrenches. And then you're going to have to grit your teeth and scrape up the dough.

Anyway.