The Adventures of a Middle Kid
  • Blog
  • About Me
  • Contact
  • Extra! Extra!
    • The War Between the States--A Journal
    • Book List
  • The Bee Project

Saturday; A Day in the Life of Me

2/7/2015

2 Comments

 
Well! Greetings, folks! I apologise for the lack of postings recently. I must be in a "blog slump".

Today has been one of those days where things got done...but via rather haphazard mode of accomplishment. I seemed, somehow, to get going crooked this morning--not that that makes any sense. For instance, it took me all morning to get part of two different jobs completed. 

I got my nuc hive glued together, but not nailed. (Wood glue is supposed to sit at least 30 minutes--and I figured I'd let it dry before banging in the nails.) Anyway, before I did that, I had to find the wood glue--which was in the basement, on the first shelf I looked on; only, I didn't see if the first time around. I only found it after I had crawled over the sprawling pile of wood in the annex room to the furnace room. I was careful, because the last thing I wanted to do was fall "Splat!" on top of a 3.5 foot high triangle of wood chunks. Ouch...that hurts just thinking about it. Once I came back over it, I re-looked on the shelf and after moving something else, there it was! Nice and snugly hid. 

Would you like to hear about how I went out and dug around looking for more nails and/or sensibly sized screws? (The nails came with the nuc, but not the hive body and supers.) I didn't have a jacket on, because it has warmed up significantly for today and tomorrow, but I got down right cold in the old garage!! I also found where Daddy had these really nice clamps (my guess would be that they are for wood working) that were perfect! So I brought them in, along with a small rubber mallet, and a box of screws which I may not see use, and proceeded to glue the nuc together. I put the nails in after lunch at some point.

The next thing I did was vacuum the kitchen and dining room. Singing 1940's songs at the top of my lungs (I'd guess off-key) the whole time. I seem to really like belting stuff out over the roar of the vacuum cleaner.

Then...I made lunch. It wasn't planned, but I did it anyway. Mexican salad anyone? (Minus salsa...and sweet onion, as Savannah pointed out.)

Over the course of the afternoon, I had a conversation with Savannah, washed dishes, got the upstairs vacuumed, and systematically got my hive body and supers glued together in the meantime (actually, at the writing of this post, I'm waiting for glue to dry. I'm not quite done yet). I can see how the wood has already started to warp a bit. So, even though they may not have the hardware in them yet, the gluing has taken place! (I have to get nails--soon.)

Since I can't get the living room cleaned up until I finish putting the hive together, so I really had to do it. ;) Also in the meantime, I hunted up the words and music to a Civil War song that I recently remembered and got them printed off...along with a handful of other things.
Picture
One happy girls with a completed nuc! Now all it needs is a paint job and some bees inside it. :)
Picture
Showing off the front-side, with the entrance reducer in place.
Picture
Hive body being clamped.
Picture
The mess--two suppers to the left; unassembled. To the right is all the frames (unassembled). That box also contains the top, bottom board, and stand.
I'm pretty sure I got some wood glue in my hair...but oh well. I'm glad that Go-Jo takes the majority of the glue off my hands...because I simply couldn't help getting it on me.

Well, I'm off to feed the chickens.

      Racheal

2 Comments
Mum
2/9/2015 08:51:06 am

Just for the record MOST people do not put together their wood working projects in the formal sitting room!


Reply
Racheal
2/9/2015 10:08:15 am

Well...true.

But then again, I'm not most people! *cheeky grin*

In all seriousness, I did not think it was going to take as long as it has (the wood glue has to sit for 30 minutes and I'm clamping each piece to ensure the tightest fit...and I only have three of those very nice clamps that I'm borrowing from Daddy. Not enough to do more than one item at a time.) I look forward to cleaning up the living room!!

Reply



Leave a Reply.

    New post on The Bee Project! 04/26/18
    Picture

    The Middle Kid

    I chose to title this blog "The Adventures of a Middle Kid" because that is exactly what I'll be detailing (mostly). I chose 'kid' over any other word, like 'girl' (I am the middle girl so it also would have worked) or 'child'
    (since I am no longer exactly a child).

    I am a middle kid and I will always be a middle kid--even when I'm 80!

    Picture
    Picture

    Archives

    April 2019
    March 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    July 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    December 2013
    November 2013
    October 2013
    September 2013
    August 2013
    July 2013
    June 2013
    May 2013
    April 2013
    March 2013

    Follow
    Picture
    The anti-Christ will not overrun Christ’s church or kingdom.
    Christ will win. He is winning. He has won. --Joe Morecraft, III
    Picture

    Categories

    All
    1942 Truck Restoration
    Accidents
    Agriculture
    Authentic Christianity
    Books
    Caretaking
    Cats
    Cattle
    Chickens
    Church
    Confederates
    Conference
    Cooking
    Costumes
    Cow Cavalry
    Family
    Farmers Market
    Filmmaking
    Food
    Friends
    History
    Holidays
    Horse
    Knitting
    Lyme/Co Infections
    Lyme/Co-Infections
    Mechanics
    Movies
    Music
    Musings
    Musket Echos
    Nonesense
    Pictures
    Politics
    Reenacting
    Rodeo
    Sewing
    Shooting
    Theology/Philosophy
    Video
    War Between The States
    Weather
    Weddings
    Work
    Writing
    WWII

    Picture

    Picture
    Picture

    RSS Feed

    Picture
    Picture
    FREEDOM'S LIGHT FILMS
    Picture
    Picture
    Reformed Reviews
    Picture
    Picture
    Picture
    Picture
    Picture
    www.fold3.com
    Picture
    Picture
    Picture
    Picture
    7 Lb.s of Bacon Mess Band
    Picture
    Picture
Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.