House update: Friday (and bits of Thursday)

[electricland]

My aunt reports:

Today for lunch, brother Bob, Calypso, Cordelia, John and I had pistou soup and French bread with cheese (including Stilton) and meat. Yesterday, I was downtown.

So, William has been doing doors and doors. He's almost through. John has been finishing Jen's kitchen base cabinets.

But the epic story of the two days is the pulley. At one time, the sash weight went up so hard it broke the pulley. Evidently, someone slammed shut a window --hard. ((Tekka and Borislad?) So John went to the East End Garden Store (the tough ladies and they know everything) to ask. They directed him to an old hardware store near Jones. Then he was directed to Peter's Aluminum, who said we take those things out of house of every day. They said, we throw them out. Another guy in a truck said go check to store this side of Leslie: sells funny hardware. Then John went and there was a sort of an antique store with a guy playing solitaire on the computer. Looked at John's sample. Looked at his varnished catalogue drawers, reached up and said this is it. $10:00.

Cheers, Helen

And now I am off to the fan store in search of a ceiling fan that (a) isn't hideous, (b) will fit in the space I have for it. Wish me luck!

Comments

[jenlev.livejournal.com]

yay stilton. er, i do think it's one of the best things on the planet.

and i'm sending you good thoughts and hugs about this amazing project. i love your posts about it.

and how pathetic is it that when i read "fan store" i thought it was a place for scifi magazines, books, and gadgets? *headdeesk*

[electricland.livejournal.com]

sounds perfectly logical to me! and thank you!

Stilton has been somewhat ruined for me -- I hope not forever -- by Mary Wesley's Harnessing Peacocks, where two characters eat Stilton together and one of them eats it with his knife and the other one (and original owner) then puts the rest out for the birds because "he didn't fancy Mungo's spittle."

I hope to get past this one of these days.

[jenlev.livejournal.com]

hee! good it make sense.

and eeewww...that's a scary stilton story. suddenly i'm not quite hungry anymore.

;)

[electricland.livejournal.com]

oh dear! I realized right after I posted that I should probably warn you not to read it! Forget I said anything!

[jenlev.livejournal.com]

hee! no worries...i laughed and went off for a lobster dinner. :)