Challenges

So I am now in my new office. For two days I have not had access to my computer while I moved the furniture around once again.... for the millionth time! Friday morning I got up early to beat the heat. I wanted to get some painting done. All the pine paneling in the office has now had two coats of Diamond Clear Coat... a product I might add, that I have good satisfaction from. Then I painted the new desk top after removing the old one and finished the second coat yesterday morning. It is a challenge to figure out where to put things while you work in that space. I had to move the dinette set out of the sunroom so that I could clear coat the walls. But the desk and computer needed to be in the new office in order to fit the dinette in the living/dining room. Eventually I decided to make the living/dining room a heap of everything while I worked in the office. It worked. Now I just need electricity (I am using an extension cord to one of the outlets in the living/dining room), and I'm too chicken to try to hook it up myself. But it does look really great so far. Phase 1 of the office is done. Yippee!

Friday I had a check up on my eye and things are good there too. The doctor said that my eye was still experiencing some inflammation and to keep using the drops for another week or so. That my vision might take six months to return to normal so to be patient.... like that's my strong point! Still I can't complain.... I'm just glad he didn't say there was permanent damage.

I have prepped the floor of Daughter #1's bedroom because today I will be staining her floor. I am glad it has cooled down today as for the last two days it has been obnoxiously hot. If you worked you were sweating, if you bent over you were sweating, if you breathed you were sweating. There was sweat in places I didn't think was possible to sweat. Did you know that your head could sweat??? I was glad to go shopping yesterday in the air conditioned stores just to get a break.

We went shopping yesterday because Hubby drilled holes in the new tub for the new taps (I think I might have mentioned this) in the wrong place. He boobooed big time. So now we have to cover up his mistake and that can only be done with a new set of taps or new connectors on the inside of the wall. We went into FSJ with the hopes of finding taps that would cover up the booboo, or at least see if we could possibly fix the mess in some way. We did... to the tune of $117.00. An expensive challenge I assure you. But honestly I can't fault him.... I might have done the same thing..... as a matter of a fact I probably would have done the same thing.....

Poor Hubby! He has been hard at it too.

He has the new toilet installed in the downstairs and the old toilet is soaking in vinegar outdoors (that is to remove the hard water crud). We discovered that the new/old vanity that we salvaged from someone else's bathroom renovation, and has been stored in the shed for the last year, is sitting in the back of the shed buried under twenty feet of household furniture and junk.... all the stuff we moved to the shed back in April.....!!! And so the hunt is on to move the junk out of the shed to get to our new/old vanity. It needs a paint job and so that is another job that I need to do, but I can't do it until I get the da-- thing out of the shed. Hubby will be installing the old toilet upstairs if we can get the rest of the crud removed from the old toilet.... and he will be removing the old vanity for a move to the upstairs bathroom. Hopefully E/P will be back on Monday to work on that plumbing. There will be a new wall built in the bathroom to divide the bathroom from the kitchen pantry with the new door being cut into the bathroom and the door installed at the bottom of the steps. Phew! He's getting there.... I think!


This is where the new door will go.


At least today is going to be cooler. Already it is 8 a.m. and I can sit here and not sweat to death. There is definitely a fallish look about things. I am looking out my new window to the south as I write this and the grass has a serious tinge of gold to it. The leaves have lost their fresh green look and the wild flowers that are blooming are the ones that bloom in late summer. There is a haze from distant forest fires and everything looks pinkish golden..... that's not to say that summer is over but that the summer is closing down and even the birds know it. The humming birds have not been so active and I have even seen a few flocks of warblers on the wing..... everything is preparing to head off south. Their young are hatched and raised and now the emphasis is on feeding up before they fly south. I love fall and it is my favorite time of the year....but I'll be honest.... winter scares me and fall is the harbinger of worse things to come. Why can't fall be for three full months rather than the short five weeks that it is?

Anyway the challenge today is to get floors stained without passing out in the heat, and to find the vanity in the shed. One thing is for sure.... I'm going to enjoy writing for the blog in this new office.