Saturday, August 19
Aug. 20th, 2023 12:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
A nice day, cooler after the rain.
I talked with Sister E; it was their 50th anniversary this week. They are still moving, but now down to the last things in the house, the stuff they were still using. Kitchen things. Bedding.
My Sweetie decided to at least begin the siding project by putting some of the styrofoam insulation up (it has to go on before the siding). What's nice, is one of the things he thought would be really difficult (drilling into the existing concrete stucco to secure the wooden strapping that will support the siding) turns out to not be so bad.
He got a fair amount done, considering he only worked for a few hours. I'm hoping that this will break thorough his inertia on this project. I mean, he could have been putting up the insulation at any point this summer, and yet he only wants to work on it ALL AT THE SAME TIME. All or nothing mentality sometimes.
I worked on cleaning up another area to be mulched; pulling weeds. I am so tired of pulling weeds, I have already cleaned them off of this very spot thoroughly earlier this year, and last year a few times, etc. I am looking forward to finally having it mulched and DONE.
Then my husband biked to the park down the road, and I met him there with the car and brought my bike, and we biked around for maybe an hour together. He is pretty serious about biking, and when he goes, he likes to do about 20 km and FAST, I like to go for maybe ten tops (usually more like five or six), and a lot slower than his usual pace. So, instead of just not biking with him, if he does some biking first and we do a little more with me, then he gets his work out.
We came home and watched some more "American Gods". We're into the third and final season; and I hope that they were able to end it in a way that makes sense.
I learned that Grover Cleveland (U.S. President) was 27 years older than his wife Frances. Frances was even the daughter of Cleveland's friend Oscar Folsom, knew Frances at birth and bought her her first baby carriage. Cleveland often spent time with the Folsom family and was known to Frances as "Uncle Grover".
Cleveland became her unofficial guardian when her father was killed in a carriage accident, and they wed when Frances turned 21, and he was 49.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Cleveland
A nice day, cooler after the rain.
I talked with Sister E; it was their 50th anniversary this week. They are still moving, but now down to the last things in the house, the stuff they were still using. Kitchen things. Bedding.
My Sweetie decided to at least begin the siding project by putting some of the styrofoam insulation up (it has to go on before the siding). What's nice, is one of the things he thought would be really difficult (drilling into the existing concrete stucco to secure the wooden strapping that will support the siding) turns out to not be so bad.
He got a fair amount done, considering he only worked for a few hours. I'm hoping that this will break thorough his inertia on this project. I mean, he could have been putting up the insulation at any point this summer, and yet he only wants to work on it ALL AT THE SAME TIME. All or nothing mentality sometimes.
I worked on cleaning up another area to be mulched; pulling weeds. I am so tired of pulling weeds, I have already cleaned them off of this very spot thoroughly earlier this year, and last year a few times, etc. I am looking forward to finally having it mulched and DONE.
Then my husband biked to the park down the road, and I met him there with the car and brought my bike, and we biked around for maybe an hour together. He is pretty serious about biking, and when he goes, he likes to do about 20 km and FAST, I like to go for maybe ten tops (usually more like five or six), and a lot slower than his usual pace. So, instead of just not biking with him, if he does some biking first and we do a little more with me, then he gets his work out.
We came home and watched some more "American Gods". We're into the third and final season; and I hope that they were able to end it in a way that makes sense.
I learned that Grover Cleveland (U.S. President) was 27 years older than his wife Frances. Frances was even the daughter of Cleveland's friend Oscar Folsom, knew Frances at birth and bought her her first baby carriage. Cleveland often spent time with the Folsom family and was known to Frances as "Uncle Grover".
Cleveland became her unofficial guardian when her father was killed in a carriage accident, and they wed when Frances turned 21, and he was 49.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Cleveland
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Date: 2023-08-21 05:35 am (UTC)I am waiting for the ladder to be brought to the front porch so that I may begin sanding the ceiling before painting it. I was hoping to begin on the weekend, but tomorrow will be fine. I was able to work on a different kind of painting, a painting-painting, instead. I'd much rather be doing that.
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Date: 2023-08-21 10:32 am (UTC)It would also mean that the pile of building materials would finally be used up and not sitting beside the house. Two birds so to speak.
Nice that you got to do some painting that you enjoy.
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Date: 2023-08-22 12:59 am (UTC)I have a stepladder on the front porch, but the ceiling scrape is going to be hard work. I can't decide if Martha Stewart would have done the job herself or would have hired someone. I think Early Martha would have done it and documented it, so that's what I'm going to do.