The day was going so well, after the first hiccup, the fillet I had made for the gazebo post, had to be scrapped, I had glued and screwed the additional piece to the wrong side, but knowing how I had made the first one, I had another made in five minutes.
Once the waterproofer I used on the wood had dried, I mixed up some concrete, poured some in the base of the hole, and then set the fillet in place, gluing and screwing it. That done I kept mixing up small quantities of concrete until I had enough, and the job was done. It was then a case of mixing up some glue and sawdust to seal the fillet to the original post, just to keep water out.
Once the glue has dried I will sand the post, and see if it needs wooden plates to cover the joint. I was going to take photos this afternoon, but events overtook me.
I was on the my ASUS computer, opening one of my programs, when I received a coded message saying there was a file failure, thinking it was just the program, I OK'd it, and it disappeared, I closed the program, re-opened it, got the same message, but then everything crashed, and all I had was a blue screen.
I followed the instructions to restore, but it told me that I did not have an operating system, in other words my Windows crashed beyond redemption,
Since I only bought the computer in April, it will be going back tomorrow, how long it will take for them to sort out I wont know until I get there, I am hoping I will have it back before Christmas, I'll just have to wait and see. I am just glad that I have everything backed up on an external serval, now will be the test, when I try to download it again, in the past I have used iDrive, but changed to Sync.com, which I have not had to call on for my backed up files, so we will see, my photos are not a problem as they are also backed up on Cloud, it is my documents that would cause a problem if they are not recoverable.
In the mean time, I have had to dig out my old laptop, and load essential programs needed to get me through the next few days.
The first three years of my Blog follow my journey settling in to life following my move to Colombia in 2012. After yet another a break from Blogging, I am back, but with a change of emphasis, due to health problems, I have been spending less and less time in the workshop, so decided I either had to close the Blog, or revert to it's original use...a diary! So thats what I am doing, it feels good to be back.
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