My dear husband is a wood turner . . so he says! He hasn’t done much wood turning in the past 15 or so years but he has every piece of wood working equipment you can imagine.
There’s brown wood trim around the outside windows . . not functional shutters but I call them shutters . . don’t know if that’s right or not. On two back windows, there was no trim on one side each, because of the way the former owners had the outdoor shower set up. I wanted those put back up. When we looked at the house, I told Vince . . it doesn’t look right without those shutters there. “Oh, I can fix that. It’s just boards!” That was over 4 years ago.
When Chad and Nicole were here this past June, Chad said “Mom, want me to make those two shutters for you?” Yes, I do! Vince said NO! I don’t want Chad messing with my tools and I don’t want him drilling into the rock exterior to anchor the wood.
Nicole’s dad is a builder and Nicole has worked with him and is pretty handy with that kind of stuff so I didn’t mind at all if Chad and Nicole did it. Vince had the wood . . he’d bought it several years before. We had the paint from when the painters painted the exterior trim. So . . it would have been a piece of cake. But Vince said no so we didn’t do it. He promised me “I’ll have them up by Saturday” and that was in June.
So, Chad and Nicole are coming in a couple of weeks and I said “Vince, if those shutters aren’t made and installed when Chad and Nicole get here, they’re doing it!” NO!
Vince Working On Trim
Remember the Google Earth picture (2008) from Missouri with my trash can sitting out in front of the house?
Trash Can
Now, we have 45 acres and there it is . . in the picture . . that nasty trash can!
Last week while Vince was of, and while the weather was good, Vince got out there and got those shutters cut, painted and up!
Done!
One more item off the Honey Do List! Just as Vince knows, you all know there are plenty of other things on that list though. Poor Vince! 🙂
Rosalie says
Great Job Vince!!
Carolyn says
Hooray! It looks good. Vince surely knows that one thing off the list makes room for another thing on the list. That principle sure works in my craft room.
Sherrill says
Shutters-check! HA Hey at least that trash can is closed. How many times do you see them full to overflowing? Now that’s nasty!! LOL
Sue in Scottsdale, AZ says
They look great. Vince did good!
Jean Truchan says
Oh Judy! My husband is also a ‘wood worker’ with lots of tools and machines in our garage. In our other house I waited 8 years for some towel racks he was going to make & I finally went out to Home Depot and bought some! Now we have been in this house over 10 years and I’m still waiting for the circular stairs to our basement/wine cellar to get done. He finally got the hand rail up and he does do a beautiful job but sometimes I wonder if I will live long enough to see it all done! ps. We have a pair of beautiful beveled glass doors (well, the wood frames are junk but the glass is awesome) that have been propped up against a wall in our bedroom for about 5-6 years waiting to be made into doors for the wine cellar as well!!! Lord give me patience!!!
Penny in So CA says
Wood trim looks great! Just like at my home when I schedule a party or event projects that have been on my “to do” list for months get done! Eager to see what’s next before Chad, Nicole & Addie arrive!
Remembering that I also wanted to comment about “homemade” referred to in post from yesterday! My grands & I enjoy making skin care or facials from ingredients from the kitchen & we call them homemade. When I cook or bake most are considered homemade by me yet again they are ingredients from the kitchen that I bought at the grocery store. I also like to craft, bead, sew & make quilts all from supplies that I mostly purchased yet I consider them to be homemade/handmade.
Robin F. says
When frustration reaches too high just go quilt or knit. The ‘shutters’ look lovely.
He must be attached to that trash can. LOL
Linda in NE says
Shutters look good…yay, Vince!
We’ve come up in the world, we now have a trash can just like that! Our previous trash haulers didn’t provide bins, but the current one does.
Jackie says
It may have taken some time but ohhh does it ever look nice. My husband is one of those starters not necessarily a finisher so I’m always having to either finish it myself or nag to get it done but it does eventually get done sometimes quite quickly if I say I’ll do it myself or my son will do it.
Deb says
Tell Vince it looks great!
Bon says
Nice job, Vince!
Dar in MO says
I think the procrastination gene runs in most men – I know mine has it BIG TIME. I don’t have the luxury of giving him a deadline by threatening someone else to do it. lol Sometimes I will start to do something I know nothing about and he will finally come help or take it over. Lately though that does’t work because he just doesn’t care to do it. I will be paying others to do things in the future it seems. Vince did a nice job and I’m sure he is happy with his work too.
Dottie N. says
Very nice!
Ranch Wife says
I don’t know about you, but around here, every time we cross something off of the honey-do list, we add 2 more to it! Well done Vince!