Hi CK [img style="CURSOR: pointer" onclick=url(this.src); src="vny!://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/more/bigs/a025.gif" border=0]
I'm around. You have my sympathies CK. Painting is a lot of work. Prep and clean-up taking up more time than the actual painting. I haven't finished my painting yet, but I had to switch tack for a day or two. I made a new hearth last winter, but it's a mess and I need to make another one. I dry set marble tile, and it didn't last past the first day. It's basically a bag of gravel now. Too soft.....what a waste of money THAT was.
I try not to do indoor projects in the good weather, but a buddy has a good set of bottle jacks to lift the woodstove and he's on his way out of town this week, so we are taking advantage of his jacks AND his mucsles before he leaves. I WON'T be dry setting the new tile.