Doorstops! Glorious Doorstops!
There are no more 2×4 blocks behind doors keeping them from denting and making holes in walls in our home!
Kylene and I went to Menards, armed with a $10 off coupon, and outfitted all the doors in the house with doorstops. It’s amazing. I also picked up six 3″ wide white handles to use as pulls on the cabinet I made for the Jointer. I finally (after serveral years) have now used my Jig-It drawer pull jig. That thing is great!
Today will be a half-day, which means I’ll probably try to make up the hours later this week. I have a lot of irons in the fire at work right now… and will need to start getting a few of them done this week.
I’ll be spending this afternoon at the Doctor with Kylene, then I’ll be off to Northwest Lumber to get some wood. After looking at the poplar on sale at Menards last night, I figured out they wanted a 200% markup for something that had been planed and jointed. Two operations I have access to the machines to accomplish, and it’ll be worth the money for me to do the work.
October 29th, 2008 at 7:23 pm
I imported an old cat I grew up with as a teenager in Michigan to my house I had in the neighborhood there, and it’s important to note that the old house I grew up in had old fashioned plaster/lathe walls, and zero doorstops. Consequently, this cat had never had experience with a modern permanently mounted doorstop.
The result? One night I heard in the background “Booinginginging!” and when I got to where the noise came from, I noticed that she had found a new cat toy.
The moral of the story: where there’s springy doorstops, there’s a cat that needs to exist to work them out!