We’re more than halfway through Ramadan now… What have we done? How have we performed? Where have we fallen short? What can we do to improve in the next half? Well, I’ve lost my temper, lost my nerve, lost my focus, and failed in innumerable ways. I’ve spent most of my non-working hours trying not …
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27 Ramadan
Alhamdulillah, Ramadan is winding down nicely, if busily. Not much time to shoot today, so enjoy this quick grab from the car window earlier, processed in Oggl:
the doors
the doors episode vi: The End. With just less than a week until Ramadan, Allah enabled me to finish with the doors. As in episode v, I started by lightly sanding, then wiping down the doors, before adding a third and final coat of varnish. From a distance, they look good. Alhamdulillah. But don’t look …
the doors
the doors episode v: the Varnishing… After a week of curing the stain, I ended up with another day off due to overwork, and so dug into the final stage(s): the Varnishing. Friday morning (June 20), after Fajr and some time with the Quran, I cleaned the doors with mineral spirits (again; not pictured), and …
the doors
July 14 marked a turning point… we were finally going to start getting somewhere. the doors episode iv: sometimes a little stain is a good thing First, as it had been a week since the doors had seen any action, I Dyson-ed, then wiped down the doors with mineral spirits (and none of that synthetic …
the doors
the doors episode iii: sanding continues…
