About a month ago Lillian was standing on one of the kitchen chairs and leaned back on it and it tipped over. A scary moment but she was fine, it just frightened her but the chair must have hit just the right way and one of the main arms of the chairback cracked in half. This wood is hard, heavy, thick wood so I was pretty shocked that it broke. It actually cracked along a grain line so the crack at least made sense how it broke but it was still surprising. My mother-in-law brought me over some gorilla glue and I took a shot at glueing it back together. There was also a little chunk of wood that broke off when it cracked. I held onto it and hoped I could work that back onto the chair again also. So I cleaned the area, glued it, and clamped it and let it sit for 2 days. After that I removed the clamps and lightly sanded any rough areas and touched up the wood with a wood stain marker. It's not perfect but it is repaired and seems sturdy.
Time: 2 Days of drying, 15 minutes of gluing/clamping/sanding
Difficulty: Easy/Medium
Cost: A bottle of Gorilla Glue (thanks Debbie!)
Here is the link to "Bookie's Manly Tasks to do... Eventually - The List" if you are curious about other to-do adventures I have done or have in plan.
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From now on, I would appreciate it if you did not take pictures of our pile of swept up nastiness on the kitchen floor.
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