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Monday, March 26, 2007

Busy Weekend

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CC is listening to: Roberto Michelucci--The Four Seasons, Op. 8: Concerto No. 1 In E Major, RV 269 "Spring": 2. Largo (Vivaldi: The Four Seasons / Violin Concertos From "L'Estro Armonico")

Things were pretty busy this weekend. The biggest thing that happened Saturday was that I decided that it was time to finally put up some sort of screen that covered the entire back porch.

It being spring, and a warm spring at that, we've got bugs and birds starting to form nests. We don't mind the birds so much; it's the wasps that make us nervous. It seemed silly to me that we don't get to enjoy sitting out on the porch because of a few insects.

Our first instinct was to look for mosquito netting, but nobody sells just one long sheet of it (we needed one about 12 feet across and 8 feet high). They're all fashioned into little tents or canopies for when you go camping. Smart ideas, but none really that we could use.

Then one of the store employees, after we told him what we were looking for, suggested nets used for fishing. I wasn't too sure that would work, but we took a look anyway.

Turns out it was perfect :-). Well, almost perfect :-). The netting was small enough to keep the big bugs out, but not so small as to keep you from enjoying the view. It also had weights that would help hold the net down even if there was a strong wind.


So why almost perfect? It had floaters at the top of the net, and the nets themselves were only 4 feet tall. Nothing that I couldn't take care of, though. All I needed to do was cut off the floaters, then connect the two nets together to make them 8 feet high.

That actually works out even better, because now there are weights holding the net down at the bottom *and* halfway through :-).



It works out great--makes it nice and stable :-). Now I can sit out on the porch any time I want, at any time of the day, even when there are bugs keeping the *other* tenants indoors (so far we're the only ones that have been able to successfully net their back porch :-)).

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