New garage door

New door

I have gone several years with a door to my garage that doesn't lock and doesn't even latch. I have never had anything stolen but there have been so many posts on the NextDoor website where people have had their garages and cars broken into that I thought it was time to replace the door.

It wasn't just the door but the jam was also messed up. I found a complete exterior door at the Habitat For Humanity's ReStoreIt store. It was the correct size and opened the correct way. It only cost $45!

The locking door knob and dead bolt cost more than the door. The project came together without too much hassle ... which is a miracle at this place.

Old door

While I was working in the backyard, I repaired a couple of sections of the patio (not pictured) and replaced the pressure-treated wood mini-retaining wall with railroad ties that I found for free on the NextDoor website.

First Saturday Coffee and Church Bizarre (oops- Bazaar)

 I picked up James for first saturday coffee and took a couple of pictures of his newly painted house.  It looks so wonderful even on this overcast day.

 Congratulations to James, Habitat for Humanity and all the volunteers.

I was very proud to have played a small part in this project for such a deserving person

 After first saturday of the month coffee at Jack's the gang headed over to Rose's church, Incarnation Catholic, for their annual Christmas Bizarre.

In addition to great Christmas bargains there is homemade soup.  This is the clean bowl club.

Two of the basement church ladies (and friend) Jane and Diane.

A big paint project

My friend James was told by the city to paint his house. He was able to get Habitat for Humanity to take on the project. This is the Friday crew of volunteers who scraped and primed.

We scraped down to bare wood. The paint would buckle or peel so the Habitat for Humanity volunteer coordinator thought it best to go all the way to the wood so the primer and then paint would adhere better. JT happened to have this jackable scaffolding. Once we got that up, four of us were able to fairly quickly scrape this side of the house.

Everyone was tired out by the end of the day.