Our Middle Name Is Nail

I've just spent about an hour Spackling again today.  I am sore from my chiropractic treatment yesterday, but my back muscles aren't in rigor, so it was effective and it has been more pleasant to work. 

I think I probably have done all the Spackling I intend to.  If I proceed with my plan to close off the door on the west and put a door in the south instead of the existing window, much of what I'm doing will get destroyed anyway.  I'm not sure I'll do that at all--I won't if my name comes up on the senior housing list for an apartment in Boulder--but if I do, I may not get it done before my sister and her husband come out for vacation in July.  I think I'm going to proceed as if I'm not going to move the door and go ahead and paint so things look nice when they arrive.  Since this is a family vacation home, I've felt obligated to vacate it when they want to vacation here.  I did so last year...left it absolutely spotless and empty of all my belongings and drove three days to my brother's in Tacoma...only to find out the day of my arrival that my brother-in-law was going to have to have a heart valve transplant and they weren't coming after all.  Well, I came back to a very tidy cabin.

This one section of wall has always been the only place to hang clothes. 

The abundance of my clothing--most of which is not even here-- is embarrassing when I realize how few clothes my folks probably had during the Great Depression when they were living here.  Of course, I started university with two homemade dresses,  two skirts and two sweaters so...

There were three of these hooks screwed into the wall...

 and, of course....nails. 

 
I think my family's middle name is Nail.  Need someplace to hang another towel?  Drive in a nail.  The entire family is here and you need a place to hang all those wet wash cloths?  Drive in some more nails.  I think some of these nails I pulled out today probably have been in place since 1939.

I'm planning to substitute this...

I've had this for probably a couple of years.  It appears from the tag that I purchased it at Savers for $4.99.  It's expandable and had sixteen hooks.  I may need to spray it with a clear fixative to prevent rust transfer.

I've run out of Spackle anyway and I'm not ready to start sanding.  I've had my eye on a little electric sander that has a container to hold the dust.  Sounds like just the ticket.  So I may let this Spackle continue drying and go out in search of the sander.  I had seen one at Ace, but I want to do some comparison shopping.


It's about 42F degrees at 2:15 p.m. and it has struggled to get that high.  I don't know if there is any way our high is going to reach the predicted 47F degrees.  It had been quite windy....we had gusts as high as 55 mph last night according to NOAA....but it has just grown absolutely still in the last few minutes...so maybe.  It is sunny,  and Easter Sunday should be beautiful with a high of 54F degrees, winds only gusting to 17 mph and sunny.

Are you doing projects this weekend or just celebrating?  Teddee