Things my parents told me, pt. 2
Do they make stragglers stay behind until next year??
All the drywall is up in Fred and the first taping/mudding done. If there's time I'll go down tomorrow afternoon and put on the second coat, and then the third on Monday. More likely is Monday and Tuesday. I'll get some drywall primer on our way home from church tomorrow so I'm ready whenever.
I'd rather not put any texture on the walls or ceiling; I prefer flat smooth surfaces. But that will depend on how it turns out. It's been a long time since I did this much drywall work, and the settling that occurred over the decades has walls and ceilings pretty wavy.
I watched the pros who did the drywall for our church expansion at Celebration. Because we wanted wall sconces it was important to have flat walls without irregularities that would be very obvious with those lights turned on. When the guys were done the crew leader walked down the long wall with a halogen light in his hand, shining it on the wall at a shallow angle. Every flow was very obvious, he circled it with a special chalk pencil, and they came back and fixed it. I'll try doing the same on these walls, although it's not as critical. No sconces and the longest wall is only 13'. But better to see a ridge in the mud now than after it's painted.
If it were up to me (and it's certainly not) I would have a contested convention in Cleveland if the alternative is Donald Trump getting the nomination. The result of that chaos might be a split in the Republican party, but that might not be a bad thing. The party was highjacked by the Tea Party years ago, a group with valid issues that totally missed the axiom, "Sometimes how you do something is as important as what you do." And we thought they were crazies!
Call it the Establishment Wing, but for all their entrenchment in "the system" they have some sense of how the system works and how to work the system. The collegial days of Tip O'Neal and President Reagan hammering out deals, all the while denouncing each other in public, contrasts sharply with the line in the sand approach now taken over even the smallest details.
I loved what Sen. Graham said this week. "If Sen. Cruz was murdered and the guilty party put on trial on the floor of the Senate, you couldn't get a conviction." And this from one of his colleagues.
Yeah, I'd like a Republican Party led by the likes of Rep. Paul Ryan and Sen. Graham.
A whole new party that would be conservative in principle and reasonable, as opposed to strident, in its methods.
Just as we're losing "the greatest generation" we're losing those who survived the Nazi death camps. That's too bad, a loss to civilization.
I'd like to talk with one of those survivors to hear their story first hand.
The chicks remind us of teenagers, caught between chick and pullet, all gangly and awkward.
And noisy.
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