Snow Sculptures, Clay St. Door Trim

Saturday February 3, 2024 

Snow sculptors at work in Watertown, NY during annual Snow Town USA festival.

Today I finished trimming out the new door at our Clay St. apartment house. 

After that I swung by the Watertown Fair Grounds to see how the snow sculptures were doing.

The snow sculptures are part of the annual SnowTown USA event. Scroll down to see more snow sculpture photos.

Finished putting trim around Clay St door today. 

Snow Town USA 2024 snow sculpturing at Watertown NY Fairgrounds 

Snow Town USA 2024 snow sculpturing at Watertown NY Fairgrounds 

Artist Jerry Merrill at work, Snow Town USA 2024 .

Snow Town USA 2024 snow sculpturing at Watertown NY Fairgrounds 

Snow Town USA 2024 snow sculpturing at Watertown NY Fairgrounds 

Snow Town USA 2024 snow sculpturing at Watertown NY Fairgrounds 

Clay St Door Trim, Jigsaw Puzzle,

 Saturday, January 27, 2024

Eggs & Croghan bologna for breakfast. 

Weather was nice today with sunny afternoon and high of 38 degrees.

Cut & placed pine trim boards around stairway door, Clay St.

Worked on door repair project at Clay St apartment house. Cut some pine boards to train around the new door. Took them inside and coated them with some white shellac to block stains from knots in the wood.

Took trim boards inside vacant unit to prime them with white shellac.
Blotch on floor caused when I knocked shellac can onto the floor.

Spilled the shellac on the living room floor. Not big deal. Carpet is horrible and needs replaced. 

At home worked on a jigsaw puzzle with nice fire in wood stove. Later watched Walter Matthau & Goldie Haun movie from 1967 titled Cactus Flower. Very funny & enjoyable. 

At home worked on a jigsaw puzzle with nice fire in wood stove. 

The Better Half has been sick all day & evening with stomach issues. Hopefully she is better in the morning.

Flowers Doing Well, No Frost Here Yet

  

Flowers purchased back in the Spring are still doing nicely here in October. I snapped this shot this morning.

All of the flowers and plants we bought in Spring are still doing well in October. Very often by now we have had a frost that kills them off. It was a lovely day here in Northern NY, sunny and some gentle wind. I spent the bulk of my day at our Clay St. apartment house in Watertown. Cleaning a vacant unit. It will be ready for rent soon. About all I have left to do is replace the bedroom carpet. I have thoroughly cleaned the kitchen, appliances, and bathroom. I have been there a total of three days, about 5 hours each. 

Trespassers at our vacant Clay St Apartment Arrested August 25 2022

 

2 of the trespassers at Clay St apartment house. Girl talking to police was one of those arrested. My daughter that lives close by is on the porch in the background.

About 10;30 this morning I got a call from a man that lives next door to our Clay St, Watertown apartment house. He saw people entering the only vacant unit. I called city police and headed there. It seems a man somehow pried the door open. He then told his girlfriend that he had an apartment and she could move in. A friend of hers dove her over there and proceeded to move in a few boxes of her belongings. UNREAL! I have no idea who these people were, never saw them before. I insisted upon them being arrested for trespassing. Well, police told me 2 of the three were. The man & the girlfriend. 

When the police arrived all three were in the apartment. The man got spooked and jumped out a back window. Police chased him down, capturing him a few blocks away. 

I believe this miscreant is a homeless person and has been visiting the fellow in the adjacent apartment. He saw the apartment had been vacant for a couple of months, so this morning he decided to let himself in.

After the dust settled I replaced the lock set and put a lock on the rear basement door. 

2 of the trespassers. Woman at left was charged with trespassing. Woman at right wasn't charged.

Unbelievably to me is girlfriend of man that broke into our vacant apartment started moving stuff in.

Unbelievably to me is girlfriend of man that broke into our vacant apartment started moving stuff in.

Unbelievably to me is girlfriend of man that broke into our vacant apartment started moving stuff in.

When I got home to Chaumont I had a beer and then mowed the backyard.