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A small sample of the things he did over his three day 'weekend':
-Purchased second hand chainsaw and snowblower (from a local small engine repair guy).
On my car...
-Stopped the rust with tape and paint. (I did the taping off for the painting, what little help I can be).
-and got the door back in one piece (Apparently leaving the window open even a little lets rain get down inside the door and causes rust. I assumed there was some draining mechanism, because who doesn't leave the window open in the rain, sometimes? Only I guess most people don't keep their car for ten years.)
-and fixed the speaker on the driver's side (involved soldering wires together. I was his third hand for that).
-and replaced the cable for the MP3 player. (Instead of a plug-in-the-front radio we have a fixed cable that is wired in under the console.)
-ETAand ordered new hubs for the back because the brake assembly on the back is part of the hub. No, he just reported the price to me, then decided to pull the hub assembly apart and fix it himself.
-Put up the new sidelight curtains in the front hall.
-Built another frame (or several?) for interior storm windows. [ETA: I just did my storm window painting for the day and realized that yes, there are two new frames, and one is for the outside of the front door.*]
-Fixed the squirrel-baffle on one of his bird feeders.
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*In Discworld witches never enter through the front door, but in older Maine houses nobody enters through the front door. Sometimes it is openable, but often it's really not, and most are not in the winter. Usually there is a solid storm door over the fancy front door, which may be propped back to show the front door in the summer if it's openable. I particularly like the way some people will put something decorative in front of the front door just to give people a further hint that you should not go there, like a runner sled leaned up against it. And of course there's usually no path to that door.
-Purchased second hand chainsaw and snowblower (from a local small engine repair guy).
On my car...
-Stopped the rust with tape and paint. (I did the taping off for the painting, what little help I can be).
-and got the door back in one piece (Apparently leaving the window open even a little lets rain get down inside the door and causes rust. I assumed there was some draining mechanism, because who doesn't leave the window open in the rain, sometimes? Only I guess most people don't keep their car for ten years.)
-and fixed the speaker on the driver's side (involved soldering wires together. I was his third hand for that).
-and replaced the cable for the MP3 player. (Instead of a plug-in-the-front radio we have a fixed cable that is wired in under the console.)
-ETA
-Put up the new sidelight curtains in the front hall.
-Built another frame (or several?) for interior storm windows. [ETA: I just did my storm window painting for the day and realized that yes, there are two new frames, and one is for the outside of the front door.*]
-Fixed the squirrel-baffle on one of his bird feeders.
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*In Discworld witches never enter through the front door, but in older Maine houses nobody enters through the front door. Sometimes it is openable, but often it's really not, and most are not in the winter. Usually there is a solid storm door over the fancy front door, which may be propped back to show the front door in the summer if it's openable. I particularly like the way some people will put something decorative in front of the front door just to give people a further hint that you should not go there, like a runner sled leaned up against it. And of course there's usually no path to that door.