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I have been sick for a couple of days and have tons of work today, so blah on that. In happier news, Debby bought a new-to-her car today!
No more Big Red, her ginormous red truck, and we’ll miss it, but this Forester is pretty sporty.
In an Aaron’s Garden update, the impatiens didn’t make it. I’m hell on plants. I’m going with succulents for a while as replacements. And this rosemary. The last rosemary was dead in a week. Wish this one luck.
Now it’s framed for windows and walls and there is a bunch of plastic and black paper up–it won’t keep out Pollocks or palmetto bugs. But it will be this way for a few days while we wait for the electricians to do their thing.
Unrelated side note: There’s a song by Dan Fogelberg called “Windows and Walls” that our friend Rob M used to sing while he played guitar. It always makes me cry.
No more windows!
This is the 1910 door we found that our contractors have converted into a Dutch door for us. It will still be sanded and painted and fixed with door knobs, but right now, it separates the rest of the house from the room where construction is going on.
Interior side:
Office side:
First two floor-to-ceiling windows are OUT!
The city issued the permit to our contractor, and the last phase of our post-Harvey recovery can finally begin. Here’s the room as it is now, so I can show the progress as it happens. This is a HUGE relief.
The corner of the room that “leaks” whenever it rains.
…but it’s all in the game…
Or a pile o’ games.
Brought into a little order. Who’s ready to play something?
It’s great to see some of my little treasures back home.
A few boxes have come home from storage and been unloaded, though not really put into great order. Some stuff in two of the dining room cabinets:
There are boxes of games that go into a cabinet in the living room–not yet unpacked. I think I’ll be culling them, because they are wanted for a yard sale/fundraiser. There are several versions of Trivial Pursuit that are just too darn hard!
Then boxes of things from the two living room curio cabinets that Lynne packed. Wonder if I can talk her into coming back and unpacking them! (Magic 8-Ball would say, “Outlook not so good.”)
BUT… there are things on the Woof Wall above the dogs’ dining area. That dachshund is a chalkboard. If only the dogs were tall enough to write messages there. Or had opposable thumbs.
And the larger guest room is starting to come together–with a bed for the first time in months!
We’ll get there.
Something else I took off the patio table.
Okay, eleven months past Harvey, I cleared the patio table of all the stuff piled on it and cleaned it. We WILL be enjoying the outdoors again eventually when the mosquitos go away and the temperature becomes more reasonable.
Some of the things I took off the table used to hang on our fence. I FINALLY persuaded myself it was okay to put a few nail holes in the new fence. Now the city has decided to work on the neighborhood sewer lines. I hope they don’t rattle the stuff off the fence, dig up the yard, or have to take down the fence. My grip on “normalcy” is tenuous, at best. I don’t need “at worst.”
