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| 08.02.04 (9:14 pm) [edit] |
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posted a BLOG - no doubt this seems strange to those of you who became accustomed to me never missing a beat for several months. The bottom line is, I'm currently just swamped in the joys of house ownership. There has been a series of events that have all had to fall into place in a fairly exact order. Much of the activities center on the kitchen renovation. The cabinets are in, waiting for me to be ready for the installer; I'm now committed to let him do his thing on August 11. First though came the need for storage of excessive stuff that most of us just don't need, but we seem to hold onto anyway. That prompted the building of the mini-barn. As my regulars know, I fell off scaffolding a month back building and cracking some ribs in the process, that put things behind schedule. When my two oldest sons came in town they finished the roof for me. Although the shed isn't 100% finished yet, it is dried in and it is now crammed full with three pickup truck loads of goods from the old $90/month warehouse and much stuff from out of the garage. That made room to get to all of my tools and store stuff from the kitchen into other regions. Next came the gutting of the kitchen. It is now an empty shell with all the cabinets and the old pantry torn out. However Murphy jumps into almost all of my projects. That hideous pink tile back splash would not come out without pulling the drywall with it; so, I've had to cut it all out. Next step is to move some wiring and then patch up the walls once again. As much as I hated to remove the drywall, it turns out it was a good thing to do. One section of the vapor barrier had condensation on it. Why? Because, the roof has a leak! Now the house has a roof replacement coming up too! However, I'm not a glutton for punishment and someone else can get paid to do that job. After the cabinets get installed on the 11th, it will take three weeks for the granite people to add the counter tops, so I will be making a makeshift one out of plywood. While delivery of the counter tops is being waited for, I've got three rooms in the house to put laminate flooring down. Also the front door is rusting out, so it also needs replacing and a storm door will be added. At this point Margo and I will once again be out of money so projects will come to an end until the next windfall of cash comes along. So you see, I've been rather busy, literally working 12-15 hour days to get all this wonderful stuff done. I did manage to take a day and a half off last week in order to spend some time with my son that came down from Canada for a visit. There is no end in site to home projects, so don't expect much from me in the way of post until about September at which time I get laid off work for four weeks. Even then, I'm planning to escape form here the last two weeks of September for at ten days and maybe go up north and catch some fall colors. I sort of miss posting at time and especially miss the interesting thoughts that you folk express from day to day, but once I broke my BLOG compulsion it has been much easier to just ignore it when other priorities come into play. |
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