New fixture.

Stepped outside yesterday

While I was at work yesterday Nat showed up at the house and went to work in the yard. The wooded area on the south end of the property has been the leaf dump area for years, the past few though not so much. The bittersweet has hit an epidemic proportion. The trees have been killed by it and more are under attack. Those the little vines run everywhere and where two run together more follow and the grow a single skin. over and over this happens until the vines have a tree bark look and are as thick as young trees. but unlike young trees, these grow like snakes wrapping around everything, and where they touch the ground the shoot out roots to grapple with other things like rocks, debris, other vines and more trees. 

Well, Nat went to work on them and by the time I came home at 6pm she had a large area cleared out, but still the vines are everywhere you walk and the few trees she left standing need to come down also, but their size makes it difficult.

I do wish she had taken some "before" photographs, because the difference is impressive and the amount of work she did, outstanding.

Bathroom sink and Vinyl

Had a plugged sink and a totally pieced together drain system in the bathroom. The drain mechanism was 1-1/4" plastic, with glued together pieces to adapt to the 1-1/2 inch metal pipe. I cut the old section out and went looking for a new 1-1/2" set up. No one local had it so I went to piece meal mode. I put it together and ended up with, well, a sieve, it leaked everywhere.  I was cussing up a blue streak and getting ready to clear the plog by using a 38, but Doug came over and saved the day. He crawled under the sink, removed all I had done, and started over. He also got the sink line unplugged. So no drips and no stoppage. 

he then went up into the south room and applied the vinyl he made me, it came out fantastic, well... the sheet-rock wall doesn't help much because it isn't actually flat. But I love the decal work.
He made it five feet long and I am thinking about adding a vinyl of apes and a headlight after it, or model names or the HD shield. I haven't quite made up my mind yet.