Monday, November 10, 2008

Mancave Door Installed

Kian's bedroom door from before the remodel has been placed in its new location, the man cave entrance.

Passages 1

Steve framed up and covered the future concrete walkway with OSB today.... One of his last items to do. I just noticed it looks like a long unrelenting straight shot in this photo; you'll have to come see it in real life.

Passages 2

All good things must end- Steve's packing up tools, loading them into his pickup truck today. He might be back later in the week to finish the walkway, weather permitting.....

Spent the day moving lots and lots of little things from the rental house to our house today. Heather says it's time to do what Frank Lloyd Wright recommends and just lose a bunch of stuff. If it's been in a box for 6 months and you haven't needed it, and in a box for 3 years before that and you didn't need it then, you don't need it period. Value Village here we come.....

First Morning Musings

Wow!
Didn't freeze our buns off.
Daniel and Kian took showers simultaneously and got out of the house on time.
Wookie (our orange tabby) didn't sleep in our room; he was out on the green sofa all night.
The adhesive on the paper pleated shades didn't fail all night.
The hydronic pumps kept clicking on and off throughout the night; didn't really notice it until the morning as I lay in half-sleep.
I need to put in the plug strip in the south kitchen wall; too many appliances on the peninsula and sink area.

For the move yesterday, I had to put some plywood down over Steve's sidewalk excavation so that we wouldn't get our shoes all muddied up and track it into the house. I had to pile some dirt back in there so the plywood wouldn't cave in, messing up Steve's great work. So this morning, before Steve got there, I went out and reexcavated for him so he wouldn't be upset. Finished just in time. Whew.

This week will be largely about moving all the remaining stuff from the rental house back to our house somewhere, in the man-cave basement for the most part, until we can figure out where it all goes. It turns out that the closet space in Kian's room will go largely unused since he never hangs anything up, so that whole thing can be used as mass storage. I also have to finish sweeping out the Kayak Storage Facility and building the plastic storage shed in the back. Sooo much still to do, and only a week to do it.

I'll get off my buttoski now and go get it done.

Ciao!