Baldur

Annie, you skipped some debris. There's something that looks like a deflated thong hanging from the ceiling fan.


"All Baldur, All the Time'

Baldur

I'd never seen one covered in metallic pink sequins before.

Baldur

Once again matthew is being frighteningly quiet

Baldur

Do you want the 'primo' spot matthew? , the unlikely chart position?

Baldur

If you can get the next comment in before anyone else it's all yours!
In the meantime Baldur is headed off to bed.
Until next time remember.

'All Baldur, All the Time, unless it's not'

goodnight

Qsilv

Nighty-night, Baldur.

fwiw, I'm neck deep in similar home projects, so long delayed by intensive business projects that I'd be embarrassed to hire anyone in at this stage... so the empathy -and admiration- factors here are way high!

...(scoops up a stray glittery bit that Annie seems to have missed... smiling...)

Dragon

I can also sympathize with home reno issues. I haven't done them myself but my parents have been in major reno mode for several years now (for almost a year they had no furnace - not a big deal in summer but fall gets darn cold here- and for an entire spring/summer they had no walls. The back side of their house was open to the elements and the rest had plastic poly instead of walls. They had to use the deck to get from their bedroom to the kitchen, it was a nightmare.)

Dragon

I remember my step-dad telling m about removing a carpet from someone's home once. It was an old, very stinky, large section of carpet he was taking to the dump. He said it stank so bad he had to hang his head out the window. The truck even stank terribly on the way back from the dump. When he got out of the truck he realized he'd stepped in a pile of dog poop and all the stink was coming from his own shoe. It make me chuckle every time I think of him driving down the road with his head out the window because of the 'stinky carpet'.

Robindcr8l

Dragon, you consistently entertain me!

IamAnonymous

No one here again?
This place could do with a makeover. I know Baldur likes bagels, so I'll put some on this wall. Mmm.. nice. Perhaps some shutters on the inside, to add interest. Now to paint it all red - very restful!
Hope you like it my friend.

Baldur

Baldur is scraping adhesive labels with bar codes off of enameled steel shelf support brackets. This should only take a week.

Qsilv

Baldur needs to remember to pre-soak those labels in WD-40 so they slide off like butter...

Baldur

Now you tell me.....

I had considered that method but it wasn't slow and torturous enough for Baldur.
Instead using my thumbnail I scraped the top plasticky layer of label off. Then is rubbed the paper and adhesive residue off using a bit of rag soaked in orange oil. It's sold under the name of 'Citrus-Solv' and works miraculously on gummy stuff of all sorts.

Baldur

Faithful listeners,
It occurs to me that I should add a link here to Tim42s old-school Forum on the adventures of Dr Bear. Ths would make it much easier to find.
Here it is:

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=12515

autumn

I miss Tim42.
Baldur I love reading about your projects and recipes, I'm a good cook but decorating is not one of my talents..I buy what I like, mostly at the junk stores, I call it early trailor trash. lol
I also have what I call a collection of collections...dolls, ashtrays, dachshund stuff, crystals, hmmm sounds cluttered its really not that bad.
I think that if you walked into my place you would break out in a sweat and throw up a little in your mouth. LMAO
I know who sent the package!

Qsilv

Once upon a time I actually telephoned 3M (masking tape makers) and Crayola, asking for their recommendations on how to remove their products from painted walls... especially in the dried/cured/as-one-with-the-universe state... imagine my startlement when each one's representative firmly said, "WD-40!"

Orange oil's not quite as good but it does work --and sure smells a whole lot sweeter.

Qsilv

One of the goofiest fixes I ever ran into was how to remove chewing gum from ...er... well, nearly anything. Satin comforters, for instance, or rough-out leather boots.

Peanut butter.

One takes a dab on one's fingers and rubs it onto the offending blob for several minutes... like 5 to 10. It helps to have a group of friends one is chatting with --or perhaps a tv show-- so one doesn't really notice the time passing.

Time does pass... slowwwwwly... with absolutely nothing happening at all for most of it... until... rather suddenly... something DOES begin to happen...

...the entire texture changes... and... over less than a minute... the whole thing ... just ...dissolves... and... dis a ppears.... into a mild smear of peanut butter

...which easily washes out with boring soap/detergent and water.

;>

Dragon

Hee hee, when I first read your note Qsilv I thought it said Satan's comforters. I wondered if Satan often chewed gum in bed

Baldur

Ahhh Qsilv, the wonders of chemistry.
Now does Satan wear rough-out leather boots while chewing gum on his satin comforter?

Qsilv

pfff... of course he does -- with chaps!