Summer stuffering...

There is stuff that needs doing around the house.  Always is...

That's the thing with houses.  You always have stuff to do.  Whee!

I got some railroad ties to help de-grass the lawn slope on the North side.  We also need to move some stuff from Diana's room.  We would use the patio, but that has become a problem.  The roof of the patio is leaking.  So I got some nasty black tar stuff to seal the roof, so we can clean up the mess so we can move the stuff.

This black satanic mess is going to cost you clothing and shoes, not to mention any equipment needed to apply.  I am not sure how it got on various locations upon my body.  I am thinking it hid and jumped at times.  In my mind the job should have gone pretty quickly.  It was cloudy so I climbed up and began.  The sun broke out of the clouds about the time I was covered in so much junk I could not apply sun-screen.  Also climbing up and down the ladder was not an easy option either, as Connor was happily using said ladder to observe my work.

Finally the bucket was well short of the 300 square foot roof.  Even short of the 250 square foot promised.  so I had to clean up and drive out to get another bucket.  Finally finished, I started the chore of using petrol as a cleaner for the sticky mess that I had become.  It seems I had carefully spilled blotches all over the greater Pacific North West.  I got my hands pretty well then arms then legs and finally feet.  I jumped into the shower with a bottle of dawn to clean off  the gas smell.

Then I found several large black area's on the back of my legs and eyelid....  Ugh!  Another round of gas followed by a shower later and I thought I was cleaned.

I went through the backyard and pulled up piles of tar grass and spread some dirt on other tar messes.  During this I got a bunch on my nice shorts... Not even sure why I wore them...

Tina found a few more spots and cold cream actually worked.  That stuff is just scary...

So now the patio should be rain proofed...