Ready Strip

April is a month of eleven days I will be flying solo.  Let me tell ya, I like having Richard retired but there are times I need to have the "me time" and do what I want without being questioned then told how it should be done.  Remember, I am not good at taking or following orders!  That's the truth.  I get down right ornery, even if in my mind I know there is a better way.  Since Dick will be subbing at school for eleven, yes.....eleven days I will be doing little chores and projects with a smile on my face, a song in my heart and happy as can be.  For about a month I have been mentally lining up my to do things, buying a few tools that will make it easier and just plain googling the projects. 

This morning was a leisurely cup of coffee ( or 2 or 3), feed the horse and chickens, and one last google.  Coffee Up, Farmer Brown!  The weather couldn't be any better today and tomorrow to do a couple things in the basement.  This morning I worked on "Monty's Door".  It came from a room that Monty Hathaway had built on his home which we bought in the fall of 2015.  It is an exterior door that I really liked and convinced someone to let me have it.  There were so many coats of paint on the outside but the "Ready Strip" that I bought is amazing and so nice to use.  This is the first time I had tried this brand and continue to use it unless someone can tell be a better stripper to use.  How about it, Barb Maxson Adams?  I know you strip a lot  and I am just a once in a while stripper............any better recommendations? I like Ready Strip for the fact, put it on one day and take it off the next.  It does not dry out, run and when it is scraped off it comes off in long strips with a rubbery texture.  There were a few areas that did not all come off so this morning when I was done scrapping I took a small brush and brushed it on just in the areas that needed it.  Tonight or tomorrow it will come off and I will be ready to sand, prime and paint.  The door is going to be hung barn style on a dark brown rail dividing the living/kitchen areas and the bedroom/bathroom areas.  Not going to say the color, Dick just looked at the sample and didn't say a word.  We shall see.  There will be a little plaque that will be inscribed "Mont's Door" and the date he built his home.  Just a simple little memory for others to see.

When the Ready Strip is ready to come off it turns a dark green.  No smell to it!

The glass will be etched with a design.

You can see the spots that didn't come off the first time.  Nice that it stays where
it's put and doesn't run on the wood already stripped.

As long as I was in the basement.........time to organize the canned goods. 
Soon it will be garden planting, harvesting and canning.  The Melamine dishes, from Monty's place.
I had to keep just a few, there were dozens of them.  The rest went to the thrift store.