Work...then picking up my daughter from high school and taking her to a farm for volunteer work towards her Girl Scout Gold Award...then home, eat, and vote on the school budget.
What are you doing today?
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SaparotRob
Unter Gemeine Geschwader Murmeltier XIII
Viking1066
Chief Master Sergeant
My son has his violin assessment tonight to close out the first quarter. He's gotten pretty good and confident in his playing skills.
Viking1066
Chief Master Sergeant
Found my kit after only three boxes of the downstairs stash pile YAY!
SaparotRob
Unter Gemeine Geschwader Murmeltier XIII
Sounds like you're running low. You might have to top off.
Viking1066
Chief Master Sergeant
It's become an issue. I have to really need it to get it
at6
1st Sergeant
Remembering friends and family who have long since departed. Lavon Prather died Vietnam in 1969, Ralph Edward Posey, died Vietnam may 1971, and my step-nephew Gary Wayne Walters. died April 2005 in Iraq. They gave everything so that others could have everything. What makes the death of Gary so sad is that he had a little daughter that he would never see or hold. Rest in peace.
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Viking1066
Chief Master Sergeant
Applying decals to my aircraft.
Flying back to the US from Germany.
Greg Boeser
2nd Lieutenant
Have a safe trip.
N4521U
Colonel
Someone turned the Sun off, it is night now!
But, painting yellow on my Mk.IX wings.
But, painting yellow on my Mk.IX wings.
Greg Boeser
2nd Lieutenant
Finished painting the west side of the garage. Put the downspout back on.
Still have the south and east sides to do, but they are not visible from the house, so...
Still have the south and east sides to do, but they are not visible from the house, so...
MIflyer
1st Lieutenant
I continued with painting the screen porch. I got the worst part of it done, where the paint was flaking off in large sections and significant corrosion was underway. When the structure was replaced after the 2017 hurricane the new aluminum sections apparently had a totally inadequate paint job. So I scraped off the flaking paint and as much of the rest of it as possible and also applied some of that orange paint remover. I then painted it with Sherwin Williams metal paint primer, which is rather thick and goopy stuff. The results look rather crummy, but still not nearly as bad as the flaking was and at least the things will not corrode away if the primer coat works. Today I started scraping on some other areas; fortunately they should be easier to paint. When I rescreen it one day maybe I can give it a better paint job.
My plan is to paint one wall of my house each year; I last repainted the whole house in 2007. Of course that plan was formulated before the porch started flaking so badly......
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GrauGeist
Generalfeldmarschall zur Luftschiff Abteilung
Aluminum is a beech to paint unless it's been prepped/etched.
Greg Boeser
2nd Lieutenant
We hired painters to do the house last year. Chose to do the garage ourselves because it's just one story. We're using the leftover paint.
I'm not a fan of aluminum. It seems to corrode too easily. The steel framed storms and screens on our old house were pretty much indestructible. The aluminum ones on our current house are pretty rough.
I'm not a fan of aluminum. It seems to corrode too easily. The steel framed storms and screens on our old house were pretty much indestructible. The aluminum ones on our current house are pretty rough.
N4521U
Colonel
Not much.
MIflyer
1st Lieutenant
My previous AL porch had a couple of areas that I had to strip, prime with Zinc Chromate, and repaint, but no where near as much surface area nor as bad as the present one.
On the last porch I had to reinforce the bottom of the screen door after my Mom kicked out a panel, but I primed the new aluminum panel and painted it white with Rustoleum products and it lasted just fine, even with the dog scratching on it.
Warspite63
Senior Airman
- 491
- Dec 8, 2022
Working. Sigh.....
