Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
This is the Wakefield Doctrine’s contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. To that end, the following is a list of the people, places and things that elicit, stimulate, inspire and otherwise leaves a hand-written-note on a 4-times-folded, half-of-a-full sheet of white letter paper. (It goes without saying that the first fold is bottom edge to top, then left side over to right.)
1) Una
2) Phyllis ————————————→ catching up to Una as they walk the bike path (2012)
3) the Wakefield Doctrine
4) something, something
5) the Six Sentence Story bloghop Six Pick of the Week: ‘House of Cards‘ (Frank Hubney)
6) the Unicorn Challenge Read this one! ‘My Story‘ (from Keith)
7) New project (while we await warmer weather for the bridge reconstruction to begin) re-stain the deck. (photo detail: mostly done scraping the old paint)
8) the Meadow matures: Amber Wavelets of Grain
9) alas, This week we register a hypo-grat: The start of Winter. (New Readers? Check in with Mimi. She is our resident expert on grats/hypo-grats. While technically, a hypo-grat is in the category of life events that includes: broken shoelaces on the morning of the big interview, watching the other person get the promotion that everyone knows you were a shoe-in for and hearing, like the air breathing it’s last as it is cleaved by the blade descending in the hands of the executioner from X-Chromia who takes the dreams of adolescent Y-Chromians and stops them forever with the phrase: ‘But we can still be friends’. And, as she, (Mimi, not the Executionerette (shame on you for even thinking that!) will ask you, ‘But look at the parts of your life that were enhanced by them/it. That can never be taken from you. It is their gift to you. There is a positive in the negative. It ain’t easy to see. But worth the effort when you do.’
10) Secret Rule 1.3
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A most excellent picture of Una…no doubt telling Phyllis to take her time, she’ll wait…or! hurry the heck up! we’ve got so much more to explore!
Scraping is the worst part!
#9, #9, #9…indeed. Absolutely, the gifts are there.
this is true
The thing I’m most thankful right now is getting a mention in your thankfuls!
you’re totally welcome
That is a great picture of Una – it was taken either on the way to work , or after work.
There is a nice walking path on the Lebanon Green ( historical CT location of a revolutionary war battle).
Always there is something. I’m glad you are awaiting the weather with another project, it’s good to keep busy.
yeah, and the exercise has become the point of the projects (‘specially since we’re not mowing this year lol)
I have some questions about your project: am I understanding correctly that you are staining a deck that previously was painted? I’m asking because my back steps are currently painted (or, more accurately, have remnants of paint on them) and I would love to find a way to make the paint (or stain, if that’s a possibility) last through more than one winter. If so, do you need to completely remove the paint before staining? Does the stain last longer than paint?
the (lighter color) material is what I am scrapping off. it is a type of paint for old decks that tend to splinter, as ours did. kind of a vinyl/paint mixture. lasted for about ten years. not sure about paint v stain, though I would think that a stain, penetrating into the wood should last longer than a paint (which, all things being equal) tends to me more of a surface coating