Saturday...

Saturday morning, Luanne took me to see her latest find: A large table (probably originally sat eight people) and four chairs at the Salvation Army for $40.00 US. I couldn't tell, but I suspected, it was pressboard and a veneer. We went back to my house to rent a U-haul trailer.

Problem! A Ford Explorer is the ONLY vehicle that U-Haul will NOT rent a trailer to! Something about insurance issues. Luanne was going to go back with tools and disassemble it. I asked my neighbor if he had an open trailer (he's a builder) and he said he had a flat snow-mobile trailer (with no license!) I could borrow. Figured it was a short trip, so...

Picked up the table and got it home without incident. Luanne was all fired up to begin refinishing it. - well, I do have the tools and (more importantly to her) the space. So, she left to go buy belt and orbital sandpaper, stain, polyurethane, etc.

Meanwhile, I began my project: horseshoe pits. I've had a set of horseshoes (lost the stakes somewhere, years ago) I've moved from house to house for years. So, started off using my drill and a wire brush wheel to get the years of surface rust off them. Then painted them with Rustoleum (one set red, one blue) over and over throughout the day.

Started the hard part: laying it out and digging the pits. For stakes, I used two 3-foot 3/4 inch black pipe, each topped with a cap. Once they were in place, I started spray painting the top with a fluorescent orange paint (so the lawn service won't screw up their mowers by accidentally hitting them).

Cut out the sod, shook off the dirt from each piece, then used my compost to fill the pit back to ground level. Used the paint to show the out-of-bounds markers for now (when I have the time, I will cut out that sod and refill with sand - yeah, that's me, Mr. Natural, LOL!) By now, my back was killing me!

Finished up the day by watering everything behind the house (took about two hours!) Luanne had completed her sanding and had stained the table. So, we called it an evening. I made some seafood sauce for the shrimp I'd thawed out earlier. She had some leftover cheese pizza and I made myself a big salad. Watched some TV.