Thursday, October 12
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gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
A reasonably nice day. I love this wonderful weather we've been having.
The disruption of the contractors wasn't...unlivable. I just have to keep telling myself there is an endpoint to all of this. At least for this winter there will be. Fairly soon.
The contractors got here around 10 am, not ungodly early. I needed to put the cats in the sun room for my own peace of mind, because the contractors needed to be in and out of the house, and I worry about cats getting out, or being in the way of work.
First, they put big sheets of styrofoam in the window area from the inside, so that the opening would be closed when the pulled out the old window.
Then they had a lot of work to do to adapt the window frame for the new, vinyl windows. It is not going to be an easy job, to do all of these windows.
It took them all day today to do two windows side by side in the kitchen, and the frames are not "finished". The windows are sitting in their spaces, shimmed into place. The area inside the frame is pretty raw.
I had to go into town, mainly to get cash for the contractor's wife who is "unofficially" working for us.
I did get to the bank for her pay, and while I was there, I stopped to talk to the woman who has helped us a lot with other banking issues, to ask her again if there is a better approach to our need to bring my husband's stocks from the U.S. to Canada. So far, the person assigned to our account has done nothing put play e-mail tag with us for two months. Enough is enough. Either he can help us NOW, or he can't.
She said she would try to find some answers for us, and likely someone will call tomorrow.
I paid the bills, got the mail, and then did fun shopping.
I found two items at the second hand shop, the one with kind of nicer things.
I went to Micheal's to see if I could get what I needed to do acrylic pouring.
I went to the thrift store and found a nice satchel and some DVDs.
I came home, and talked to my sister E for a while. Just nice chatting about how Thanksgiving went, mostly.
I mucked around with the acrylics again, and did not get nice results. Just a mess again. I am finding this most frustrating, as I have bought the specific paints, the additive, etc. and all I keep getting is a mess.
Today I learned about the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica. A region so dry that there is no snow, and it is estimated that it has not rained there for two million years. The only vegetation is lichen.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMurdo_Dry_Valleys
A reasonably nice day. I love this wonderful weather we've been having.
The disruption of the contractors wasn't...unlivable. I just have to keep telling myself there is an endpoint to all of this. At least for this winter there will be. Fairly soon.
The contractors got here around 10 am, not ungodly early. I needed to put the cats in the sun room for my own peace of mind, because the contractors needed to be in and out of the house, and I worry about cats getting out, or being in the way of work.
First, they put big sheets of styrofoam in the window area from the inside, so that the opening would be closed when the pulled out the old window.
Then they had a lot of work to do to adapt the window frame for the new, vinyl windows. It is not going to be an easy job, to do all of these windows.
It took them all day today to do two windows side by side in the kitchen, and the frames are not "finished". The windows are sitting in their spaces, shimmed into place. The area inside the frame is pretty raw.
I had to go into town, mainly to get cash for the contractor's wife who is "unofficially" working for us.
I did get to the bank for her pay, and while I was there, I stopped to talk to the woman who has helped us a lot with other banking issues, to ask her again if there is a better approach to our need to bring my husband's stocks from the U.S. to Canada. So far, the person assigned to our account has done nothing put play e-mail tag with us for two months. Enough is enough. Either he can help us NOW, or he can't.
She said she would try to find some answers for us, and likely someone will call tomorrow.
I paid the bills, got the mail, and then did fun shopping.
I found two items at the second hand shop, the one with kind of nicer things.
I went to Micheal's to see if I could get what I needed to do acrylic pouring.
I went to the thrift store and found a nice satchel and some DVDs.
I came home, and talked to my sister E for a while. Just nice chatting about how Thanksgiving went, mostly.
I mucked around with the acrylics again, and did not get nice results. Just a mess again. I am finding this most frustrating, as I have bought the specific paints, the additive, etc. and all I keep getting is a mess.
Today I learned about the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica. A region so dry that there is no snow, and it is estimated that it has not rained there for two million years. The only vegetation is lichen.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMurdo_Dry_Valleys
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Date: 2022-10-15 07:06 am (UTC)I'm afraid we lost momentum here. I did chop down the floppy peony branches in the garden, and pile them in the yard. Tomorrow I will bag them, hill the roses, and remove old planks of wood that magically showed up around the treehouse.
I'll pry open the milk box door and stick in the styrofoam insulation.
Paint for the kitchen? Dunno when.
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Date: 2022-10-15 07:50 am (UTC)As I mentioned, I really hope we have the money to pay them to finish the inside frames.
Then, I imaging winter will be a much slower pace again, since it will be a bit of me painting things, and some other work when my husband is home. It won't be much. Work takes a lot out of him.
How did more wood just show up around the tree house, after all your efforts to clear it? Do you have an infestation of carpenter gnomes or something? Hoarder fairies?
I'm pretty sure I have hoarder fairies. They like art supplies, books, and scarves.
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Date: 2022-10-15 07:50 pm (UTC)When the weather turns cold, I'll start painting the kitchen. It's too late in the year to begin sanding and painting the front porch. There had been talk of hiring a painter, but if I do it, there will be money saved. Maybe I'll do the steps and leave the porch ceiling for the spring.
Hometime takes a lot out of spouses. I'm not sure why this is so.
How did this wood appear? Beats me. It may have been stuffed in the rafters of the garage and is being naturally weathered by leaning up against tree trunks.
I wouldn't mind being a carpenter gnome as long as I was an efficient one.
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Date: 2022-10-15 08:12 pm (UTC)What I do not want, is for the windows to remain half finished. As in, installed, but just held into place with shims, and no proper finish to the frames. That is the kind of thing that can languish for months, because it doesn't affect function.
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Date: 2022-10-15 08:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-10-16 01:44 am (UTC)As for finishing the frames inside, I am going to lobby for them being done by the contractor, but if we are out of money, then not much I can do. We have a budget for the work being done, and when that is gone the work is done for now.
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Date: 2022-10-16 03:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-10-16 06:21 am (UTC)It's just the usual issue of Sweetie only being home for four days out of two weeks, being exhausted, and probably only actually devoting one day to working on the house out of that. So, IF he is dedicated, maybe only one window frame every two weeks.
There are 19 window frames.
If we have enough money to pay the contractor, likely less than two weeks.
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Date: 2022-10-16 07:05 am (UTC)