I guess that calling a grumpy midget from so far north a south pole elf doesn't work as I wanted.
It was rather windy at Lowe’s and I struggled horribly with the 4x8 foam board. I thought that I would just cut it in half, but that was still too big.
I cut the foam, but left the plastic intact, so it just folded, but it kept peeling off, so I should have cut it.
I had almost finished cutting the last piece of foam when my sister finally arrived. I had planned on making yet another birthday cake earlier in the day, but when Mom kept saying that my sister would get here later and later I focused on the shed.
The thirteen-year-old Alaskan didn’t want my birthday cake because she only eats chocolate cake.
Who turns down cake?!
I had wanted to mix a box of Jiffy chocolate cake mix and a vanilla one of Duncan Hines, fold up some foil, and make a 3-layer cake that was one-third chocolate and two-thirds vanilla.
However, I cannot find Jiffy cake mixes anywhere around here.
I planned on buying a box of chocolate Duncan Hines and chopping it in half with my machete, but we walked to Dollar General after I dropped off Mom’s car.
They kept sending me texts, but nothing important.
However, I received a notification that they called, which was weird, because it never rang.
They also didn’t leave a message.
I received a text that Mom’s car was ready before we reached Dollar General, but when we walked back they said they needed to replace the tire.
Huh. I had planned on saying “Don’t worry about it. I have an old can of knock-off Fix-a-Flat. We will be fine.”
So, they didn’t do anything while we walked to the store and back.
They changed the tire while we waited.
My brother wanted confetti cake.
He isn’t choosing the next time!
Anyway, I hugged the kids and mixed the cake with my 8-year-old niece on my shoulders, then once it was in the oven I blended the watermelon chunks that I cut up and froze earlier in the day.
I don’t think it was a particularly sweet watermelon and somehow I didn’t realize how expensive a $1-per-pound watermelon would be.
Hint: It weighed 19 pounds.
I worried that it wouldn’t be sweet enough, but I didn’t boil it like a purist would.
I mixed it with one of those packets for flavoring a half-liter of water.
I bought every flavor that Dollar Tree had, but they didn’t have watermelon, so I may have made watermelon lemonade sorbet or something.
I was trying to split it six ways when my sister rushed her kids out to the car. I brought their cups to their vehicle and they rushed off.
I told her that the cake would be out of the oven in a minute, but she just drove off.
I came inside, had a small taste of my watermelon lemonade sorbet, and the timer went off.
However, it wasn’t cool for quite a while, although putting it in front of my fan would have sped up things.
They stayed a little over an hour and I went out.
All that I wanted to do was put up the first sheet of drywall. I had wanted to put in the first 2 boards on each side, which I wouldn’t need to trim, but I need to start with the back.
I think that I needed to use much more spray around the old dog entrance and then since the foam board needed to be in front of 2x4s, I needed to seal more still.
I sprayed the right side and, as fast as possible, went to spray the left, but right then my headlamp died!
I just changed those batteries the other day!
I didn’t have the time to run inside and change the batteries because the straw would become unusual, so I removed my glove, turned on my cell phone light, put my glove back on, and resumed spraying as fast as possible.
I worried that I hadn’t been fast enough, but I was running out!
I tried to keep my bead thin and even, but ran out after doing the long side and the top, so I did a little more than half, except there is a big gap in the outer corner.
I rushed into the garage and removed the straw. I had another can in there, so I shook it as I rushed back, put the first straw on the second can, and stared disappointment in the face.
I tried the second straw. I squeezed until I broke the trigger.
My Great Stuff expired!
I may have another can or two in the garage, but it wouldn’t be any newer, and I wasn’t running to Walmart that late.
I just needed to spray the corner, the shorter side, and the bottom, then cut a sheet of drywall, and put in some screws.
I could have put in the rest of the screws on Monday, but I needed to call it a night.