Sunday, April 18, 2010

Spring Cleaning

Winter around here just sucks. Fortunately, I had the good sense to prepare for the inevitable Spring season by gathering gear for yard and house care. While the snowblower still sits under my carport, inoperable, I have plenty of time to work on it so there's no hurry. The other stuff, however, is best done as soon as possible before the hellacious summers are upon us again.

Enter the pressure washer. I bought a decent Karcher pressure washer for $15 last year and was bummed out when I found that the internal water channels of the wand were cracked, preventing pressure from building up. I set the machine aside and picked up a universal wand back in November. I put it all to work today, cleaning windows, yard tools and the driveway and blasting horribly damaged paint from the East shed. The system was powerful enough to tear off the grey layer of the wood and leave the natural colored stuff behind. This was some rather welcome destruction.

The window AC units are going in a bit early to make room for some stuff from the house. It's a welcome change.

I've still got to put the AC unit back in the Fragwell workshop and that will require moving some gear around as the Dashcat supercomputer is occupying the spot where I had the AC unit last year. I do believe it's time to move my desk.

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