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House update: Thursday
Dec. 15th, 2005 04:19 pmMy aunt has been working this week and therefore has not been updating. I've been bereft. But here at last is the roundup for the week so far:
**Considering we haven't turned the furnace on yet and are running the place on electric heaters, that's really not bad...
Hm. It occurs to me that I am not seeing any reference to the tinbashers here. Troubling...
My mystery parcel turned up, and is close to home rather than in the wilds of Scarberia.
Last night we had the Distribution of the Stuff. (Granny's stuff, that is.) There was a lot of it and it took a while, even though we had separated out all the stuff that only one person wanted. I seem to have ended up with a lot of chairs. Seriously, a ton. Probably more chairs than a girl can reasonably want or use. And most of the china. Also some etchings -- I glommed onto a fair bit of art, partly because, well, I'm going to have a LOT of walls, and partly because it reminds me of Granny and Grandaddy, and partly because I like them (although in the end, I decided I don't have enough of a sentimental attachment to the weird orange-and-pink naked ladies to actually have them in my house).![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
pariah_ink and I considered carefully and decided that in sober fact, neither of us wanted Moby Dick the sofa bed, and he has found a recently burned-out-of-house-and-home family that can use it, so that's good. So I am still sofaless (I think -- it's all a bit of a blur, frankly).
It was a bit weird and tiring. Took ages, too.
Hello all, the much-talked-about winter snow seems to be coming on.*I'm thinking: a lot.
Today for lunch, Dan, John and I had French onion soup, and fried ham and cheese sandwiches.
There has been a bit of a hiatus, as John is finishing up his term work at Centennial and I've had jobs.
On the weekend, Jen worked on stripping to floor air vents, which might a quite lovely brass. Robin worked on vapour barrier. Dan has also worked on vapour barrier. (How much vapour are we expecting, for Heaven's sake?!)*
Dan has been working on furring strips to look after the excess insulation, particularly on Jen's "goddamn bay window" on which there is no place to stood if you're working over your head.
John has successfully installed the halogen lights in Rob's pass-through; Dan found essential dimmer. And the boxes for the Rob kitchen ceiling lights have been installed.
The temperature in the house hovers at between 4 and 7 degrees Celsius.**
Cheers to all, Helen
**Considering we haven't turned the furnace on yet and are running the place on electric heaters, that's really not bad...
Hm. It occurs to me that I am not seeing any reference to the tinbashers here. Troubling...
My mystery parcel turned up, and is close to home rather than in the wilds of Scarberia.
Last night we had the Distribution of the Stuff. (Granny's stuff, that is.) There was a lot of it and it took a while, even though we had separated out all the stuff that only one person wanted. I seem to have ended up with a lot of chairs. Seriously, a ton. Probably more chairs than a girl can reasonably want or use. And most of the china. Also some etchings -- I glommed onto a fair bit of art, partly because, well, I'm going to have a LOT of walls, and partly because it reminds me of Granny and Grandaddy, and partly because I like them (although in the end, I decided I don't have enough of a sentimental attachment to the weird orange-and-pink naked ladies to actually have them in my house).
pariah_ink and I considered carefully and decided that in sober fact, neither of us wanted Moby Dick the sofa bed, and he has found a recently burned-out-of-house-and-home family that can use it, so that's good. So I am still sofaless (I think -- it's all a bit of a blur, frankly).It was a bit weird and tiring. Took ages, too.
