What would it look like if...

"OK," said she. "I wonder what it would look like if you painted the top rail dark grey, too?"

"Your wish is my command," said he.

"Looks pretty good," said she.

Hand Rails for the Front Steps

On March 3, 2015, Marcia had her left knee replaced. I decided that she needed hand rails on the front steps. I built new rails and let them weather some. On March 30, I finished the rails by filling holes, sanding, and painted them. On April 3, I repainted the treads. Now it is finished. 

March 7, I painted the porch step. That is the one on the porch going into the house.

To start with, there was one concrete step in front of our porch. The porch was 16 inch high and the step was 7 inches high. That meant that there was a 9 inch step from the step to the porch. Uneven, and of course, difficult for some people, especially of the older variety. I had cut a couple of one inch boards and put them under each end of the step which made two 8 inch steps, but that is stretching it for normal steps which are between 6.5 and 7 inches. So, on June 20, 2013, I made new steps.

I built two steps so that it would be three equal steps to the porch.

Here's the finished product. Two 6.3 steps and one 6.3 step to the porch. So, now three small steps to get to the porch. Easy for young and old alike.

Here are the steps after painting. This is also after we got our new siding.

February 2015 Snows

February 24

February 26

 

Yorktown, VA, Roes

Cleaning the Computer Fan

Last week, I decided it was time to take my laptop apart and clean out the computer fan. It had been running hot and would shut down from time to time because it was too hot. I had done this one other time and ended up with a couple of screws left over. I went on line with Marcia's laptop and got up a video of the process. Then I set up at the table and began.

Mother board on left, fan on right

Fan on left, mother board at top

Disk drive in middle, mother board bottom

The mess

I was able to get the fan out and take it apart to remove the dust bunnies inside that were blocking the flow of air. I also cleaned out other dust that had accumulated inside the case. I put it all back together and only had 6 screws left over. Oh well, it all works fine and runs cool.

Tree Day at Cumberland Village

Above All Trees was here at the village on Monday, January 20. They took out a few trees and trimmed up a bunch. Here are a few pictures I took that day.