{"id":41694,"date":"2021-12-27T20:37:34","date_gmt":"2021-12-28T02:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/?p=41694"},"modified":"2021-12-27T20:37:34","modified_gmt":"2021-12-28T02:37:34","slug":"a-full-cart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/a-full-cart\/","title":{"rendered":"A Full Cart"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Post 145 of 263. Thanks again to those who participated in the Fundrazr. As I mentioned in the post announcing Bast’s passing from COVID, I thank everyone for your generous donations to the original Fundrazr campaign, which resulted in sponsored 263 posts. I will continue to honour the commitment to write those 263 posts, but I will not commit to more. The link above is to a new campaign to help Bast’s family.)<\/p>\n

I was really blessed this holiday season with some very generous gifts from a few of my clients. I was able to clear both my Amazon US and Amazon MX wishlists of things I would never have otherwise bought for myself, and I still had enough left over for a Home Depot run this morning. I\u2019m tired of not having tools and relying on workers for everything. I\u2019m done mourning the workshop I left behind in Canada and ready to start anew here. Most pressing was getting over my fear of concrete walls so that I could learn to hang pictures properly!<\/p>\n

My budget today was fairly generous, $7,500, and I put everything on my list in my cart except a saw as I don\u2019t have a project yet that will help me decide if a jigsaw or mitre saw is more pressing. I added a few extras.<\/p>\n

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I was a bit stunned that my total came to $7,800 after I added in the extended warranty for my tools. I would have been right at budget without it.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019ve been wanting mats like these to put outside the kitchen door to the service corridor and the laundry room door for AGES. Those are low spots where water collects and the sun doesn\u2019t hit, so they take a while to dry. I tend to be barefoot all the time and it\u2019ll be nice to not step into gross puddles after rainfall!<\/p>\n

Here is my entire haul, minus the mats. Good thing I like orange and lime green \u2014 must be because I was born in the \u201870s!<\/p>\n

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First project was to use my new sander on two of the three doors of the master suite \u2014 that of the bathroom and closet, then apply a first coat of paint. Very messy and surprisingly a lot of effort. I\u2019m so glad that this project is finally started. The paint is very plasticky and takes ages to dry in this climate, so I\u2019ll do the second coat on Wednesday (Monday today). I am so glad I went with the dark grey to match the blinds and the headboard.<\/p>\n

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I then took out my new hybrid hammer\/\u2018normal\u2019 drill to hang a couple of pictures. Lots of folks told me a regular drill with a masonry bit would serve me just fine, but my mother, the expert in my life on all things tools, told me that unless the price was significantly different, I should consider a hybrid model. Turns out this unit was super affordable, only about $1,000, and it was also the only one to consider as it was the only corded model.<\/p>\n

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This past summer, my contractor made me buy a jumbo pack of picturing-hanging screws to use in the future. They come with the plastic anchor you need to screw into concrete. So I had their diametre, three-sixteenths, to guide me in buying a masonry bit. I was surprised by how hard it was to find a masonry bit \u2014 you\u2019d think that would be the most popular option!<\/p>\n

The drill and bit pierced my wall like it was butter. The anchor fit perfectly into the hole (with some gentle taps from my new hammer) and the screw was easy to screw in using one of my new screw drivers.<\/p>\n

My laughing horse has a new home by the entrance:<\/p>\n

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And my flamingo moved to the stairwell as it is the first thing you see coming into the house and provides a transition from the exterior pink to the inside green.<\/p>\n

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I have to repair the frame on my calla lilies and then I\u2019ll be rehanging that one above the sofa. I then have a few more pieces that need new homes\u2026 and huge expanses of walls that need new art!<\/p>\n

By the way, the new green is\u2026 perfect. My entire house feels like MY home now. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Post 145 of 263. Thanks again to those who participated in the Fundrazr. As I mentioned in the post announcing Bast’s passing from COVID, I thank everyone for your generous donations to the original Fundrazr campaign, which resulted in sponsored 263 posts. I will continue to honour the commitment to write those 263 posts, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[895],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-merida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41694"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41705,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41694\/revisions\/41705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}