I have finally been able to put together the blog with the kitchen remodel and published it – you can find it at eekplanian1.wordpress.com It is more pictures with a bit of description or commentary. I have the before pictures first in the Kitchen Remodel and then under that (I hope) I have labeled it Day 1. I also plan to do a category that shows the outside of the house and some of the interior, then another with pictures of the “garden” – I use the term loosely since it is more bare ground or weeds rather than garden.
UPDATE: I can’t seem to get the link to work and I don’t know what is wrong. I thought it was publishing but it sometimes goes to something odd. Well, let me know if you can get through in spite of the frustrations.
It is strange to find myself doing two blogs at the same time, one will no doubt be a bit behind – it may go back and forth. I appreciate your patience while I catch up. Now that we have been doing it for a week, I am surprised I don’t feel terribly stressed out – tired, you bet! But it has seemed to take so long to come and now at last the remodel has arrived. Dealing with no water except in the bathrooms turns out not to be so bad – we seem to eat a lot of sandwiches and don’t use a lot of plates. Eddie uses the downstairs bathroom while I find upstairs more convenient. We trade off who does the dishes, so no one is stuck doing it all the time.
We really enjoy Brad and one thing we notice is that at the end of the day, everything is cleaned and vacuumed before he leaves. He has also been using the vacuumed right up close when he is taking something down or cutting somewhere since there is lead pain all over the house. He did that when did the bathroom for us. This time he isn’t taking out all the walls, so there is less work in that area.
Thursday this week the plumber came and turned the water off just as I was leaving for my massage, he said he would have it back on about 2:30. So I decided to entertain myself until 3. I had a lovely massage and Debye said that Spirits were telling me to go out in Nature and breathe it in deeply. Also, they told her I had already decided, so they were validating my inclination. Wow!
I stopped for some lunch to go at Subway – not a smart choice and will not go there again. But I took it over to the park and hoped there would be a parking space. We have been having lovely warm weather and figured everyone would be there. As I drove down, all the places by the beach looked full – then I saw an empty space. A handicapped space just where I wanted to be because I planned to go down to the south end of the park. They were looking out for me. I walked down quite a way and found a place I could go down the shallow few steps and over to a log with only a small stretch of sand and stone. It faced west and the sun hadn’t come around all the way, so I had a lovely time eating my salad and my drink while reading my book. It was amazingly quiet and peaceful most of the time, it was what I had in mind.
Around 2:15 Brad called to let me know the water was back on, so I cleaned up things and came home. I was surprised to find myself so tired, I had no energy to do anything but relax. Greg was gone and had no trouble doing the plumbing for the kitchen sink and Friday the inspector was due. I have been taking pictures of the progress, so he was kidding me a bit about it.
Friday the electrician came – Bret has down things here before so he is familiar with the house. He is a hoot and does an excellent job, I am glad he is doing the work. He asked what we wanted for outlets and such 0 he said he could do anything we want. I thought he was going to turn off the power, but that will be Monday. So I was able to write my blog and work on getting the remodel one going. I also went to see my Mom, she was kind of tired and when I asked about her bears, she wasn’t sure where they were. I pointed out to her and asked if she would like to hold a bear – she was very happy to hold on to the big bear, her favorite. I noticed she kept closing her eyes and so I asked Judy if she had slept the night before – Judy said she woke up quite early. That may explain why she was nodding off. So Judy helped her to get ready for a nap and I left.
Today we have taken our time doing things, I even had plenty of time to look through 3 quilting magazines. We are both tired from the week and the weekend of moving stuff. We slept well last night and probably will tonight as well. Sorry, no pictures for this post – you will find a lot on the remodel one.
Gift of RA 