re: What are you doing today?

Did the Mrs this morning before church, then ate lunch with the in laws, then the wife and I hit home Depot and now we're waiting to get in to the John Crist comedy show in Little Rock. Productive Sunday.

Church, gas station, a little mowing, and worked on my calendar for the week.

Today, after church, my wife, MIL, and daughter hosted a bridal tea for my soon to be DIL. While they did that, my son and I went over to my brother’s house and used his range to go though about 20 5.56 magazines, about the same number of 7.62x39 magazines, 100 9mm rounds, 50 .44 rounds, 50 .357 rounds, an something like 200 .22 rounds. We just finished cleaning weapons about an hour ago and now he’s driving back to Auburn with his fiancée.

That’s a solid day right there.

Started repairing some 25 year old outdoor stairs between our upper deck and landing leading to a lower screen porch. Every nail and screw holding one of the stringers was rusted to the point of total failure with a poor design where the stringer ends were 100% vertically attached with no notched out overlapping wood. One stringer was only being held from falling to the ground by the deck boards nailed into the top of it. I'm replacing some boards and improving part of the design by adding additional wood support boards and 5/16" and 3/8" stainless steel lag screws, fender washers, deck screws and am repairing/reinforcing all of the stringer boards for the whole stair system.