House update: Thursday

[electricland]

My 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:

Hello all, the much-talked-about winter snow seems to be coming on.

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

*I'm thinking: a lot.
**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.

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[raithen.livejournal.com]

{{hugs}} I forgot that was last night....

[electricland.livejournal.com]

((hugs back)) Thanks.

it will all get done, I guess...

[kendokamel.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

I was spared the brunt of the dividing after my grandfather passed this past spring. My mom and uncle went through the things - mainly because my uncle still lives in the house, and at that point, he was finally going to do some remodeling. (My grandfather refused to let him change anything after my grandmother passed away some 23 years ago. That, plus the fact that there hadn't been any remodeling done in ages at that point... well, the house was still stuck in its 60s/70s fantabulous decor.)

I did get some nice things, though - including my great grandfather's art-deco tiger oak bedroom set, and some of my grandmother's glas baskets and decanters.

It's kind of weird, having things that I've seen in someone else's house for nigh on 30 years... in my home!

[electricland.livejournal.com]

:D

Thanks. It will be odd! It's comforting to know that we can always go and visit most of the things... but we are so used to seeing things in a particular place next to a particular piece of furniture, it will be strange. (My grandparents were in their house for nigh on 50 years, and then in the apartment for about 8, and their decorating style stayed very similar the whole time, so there's a definite *look* to everything. It sounds like you had the same experience.)

[briasoleil.livejournal.com]

{{{{hugs}}}} I hope last night was more happy than sad. Though, I'm sure it was a bit of both.

[electricland.livejournal.com]

(((hugs)))

Thank you. Mostly happy (although I felt bad that we neglected to drink a toast...). But also mostly... odd. At least we're all being equally vulture-like. ;)

[jenlev.livejournal.com]

{{{hugs}}} it sounds like an intense experience with the distribution. sending you good thoughts. i'm glad that you'll be able to look at the pictures and remember them.

[electricland.livejournal.com]

((hugs back))

Thank you! I'll be glad when it's DONE... but I'm very glad that we're not fighting over stuff, because that's certainly the one thing Granny DIDN'T want to have happen.

[jenlev.livejournal.com]

exactly. when we went through my aunt's place after she died it turned into a celebration of her life and what she loved. :)

[electricland.livejournal.com]

lovely!

also, I keep meaning to say, but I loooove your winter icons!

[jenlev.livejournal.com]

the delightful frahulettaes made that for me. the snowfield with trees is by the wonderful destina. i do love icons. *bg*