That is, my first (and Fishy's). Two weeks ago the roofers were still here, last week it was too windy. This week it was really too unwindy, but I did finally make it out (for the last two races--had to bake some cookies and drop them off at church, and Carl had an accident just when I was getting ready to go). Beautiful evening and good to be ( Read more... )

The hood itself is installed, as is the duct, though the two lower joints haven't been taped yet. The chimney has not yet been installed. There are a couple of issues there. One is the cord--the thing is really designed to plug into its own outlet concealed behind the chimney, which would look very neat, but which would require the services of ( Read more... )

I'm almost tempted to leave the extra one--it's kind of handy for passing tools and things up and down. It's a long crawl back to the attic entrance and I always manage to whack my head on a couple of rafters ( Read more... )

Was able to find the sabre saw in about two minutes, although it was under the armchair in the study.

At 4:45 this afternoon when the a.c. kicked on, the temperature in the house was 81. Outside temp 93 and the a.c. goes off at 7:30 in the morning (temperature of 78). And I haven't even gotten the solar screens back on the west windows yet, though the blind was closed on the living room window ( Read more... )

Took down the vent hood this evening, with help from my father. In addition to the problem I had thought about with installing the new one (it's designed to hang on the wall and won't really cover very much of the range, which stands out from the wall by the width of the gas line, minimum, and has the controls in the back), there are a couple that ( Read more... )

after a certain amount of lying awake fretting that the weather would change and I wouldn't be able to. That is, I got the fascia painted, primer and two coats of paint, and primer and one coat of paint on everything underneath the fascia that was bare wood. I still need to slap a coat of paint on the underside of the fascia and prime and paint ( Read more... )

My friends page refuses to do anything except let me search for friends, and actually I get an error if I try to do that. Useless.

I've got three sides of the house primed, one side to go (the front--I kind of did them in order of how much I like to do them, and climbing up on the roof ranks a little lower than painting around the electric cables). So I need to do that tomorrow, and then the real painting starts, and I plan to do two coats. I think I'll go in to work at 7 ( Read more... )

Current somewhat revised schedule has me painting the fascia tomorrow and/or Friday, with roofing to begin next week. I put the new ladder stabilizer on the ladder this evening and got the vertical seams in the fascia caulked, along with a pair of rubber gloves, the ladder, my pants, the stair railing, and who knows what else. I am a menace with ( Read more... )