Conduit curtain rods

Finished my rods on porch finally.  I purchased conduit pipe and some large cup hooks to hang them by.    Much cheaper than purchasing metal curtain rods.  I just wanted something easy to go up and this was.  I purchased the little caps for the ends and to that I got a deal on Styrofoam balls, sprayed them silver, then gouged the center out to put the cap ends into. 

moving along

Got my table on the porch.  I finished putting carnauba wax on it.  Hope it protects it a little bit.  I was going to faux finish doilies on top in the middle of table but changed my mind,  maybe later.   Right now I like the look of plain white.  

Be plenty of room when the leaves are up for several people to sit and eat.

Now I need to get a carpet of some sort for the middle and some cushions for the settee.   

I have some chairs in the shed,  I will probably see if they will work for extra chairs at the table.

porch table

Getting things ready to put on the porch now.  I  need to get a sisal type rug for the porch.  I also love the rugs that have large floral flowers that look like needlepoint.  In the process selecting a fan,  as the ceiling fan on porch has a broken fan blade and it's ready to be replaced.   Every thing seems like it needs to be replaced all at once.  

A friend of mine gave me a vintage table that I am painting white,  it's a shiny white, but it's what I have and I am not going out to spend anymore than I have too.  I may do some work with some lace on top for a touch of whimsy.  Not sure yet as to what,  maybe some lace decal.

Picture of grand daughter with a pom pom dog that she helped make at her day school.   So darned cute.

It has marble eyes

I think I will get some yarn and make a few and put in a basket,  so cute.

getting there

Sunday,  took off to visit my Mother about 50 minutes away.  Steve decided to stop at McDonald for a snack at 3:10,  got out the car, I pushed the lock and Guess What!? The keys were left in it.
  Called the BP motor club, who are very good by the way.   Not their fault that the first two called to come decided that they couldn't open our door.    We decided to eat some burgers and I had an Egg McMuffin for a snack while waiting.  We hadn't had lunch anyway.    Coffee and a wait inside.

Finally from 315 to 510 some one came and opened up the door....  Didn't get to see mom, will go another day this week.  Two hours waiting.

On the way home we see this  pretty rainbow.

Finally some progress being made on out porch.   The sealer, then the plastic sheathing,  I don't know what it is really but will be another barrier from moisture on the porch.  The mortar and tile laid, then grout.


This picture before any tile laid - The leveler poured on the slab to make it as even as possible.

The silver lining to that rainbow.

Now if I could just figure out how to get my comment box put back here for blogger and comments.   If curser is held over the google plus button on bottom of post,  a pop up shows and a comment can be left for google plus.   I don't like google plus and want to  disconnect.   I will never mess with it again after fixing this ,  if I can that is.

Much Labor Day Weekend -

Our labor day meant manual labor.  Son in law John moved some dirt this week end.   Putting in a drain around our porch that was built about 1970, surprising the brick looked pretty good, but water seepage is a problem and this will help with some of that.  It's not a 4 season porch,  but we can enjoy it in spring and summer.  

John moving right along here

 

taking a much needed break

 

 

Annette and Seth

 

 

 

Seth washing brick for next step

 

 

Painting water proofing mix on

 

next the gravel and pipe.