It is a pleasant morning but there's definitely a feel of fall in the air. This is my favorite time of the year. I love the last three weeks of August and the first three weeks of September, that sometimes stretch into the first two weeks of October. The air is warm but delightfully so without that hot sultry feel about it. There is a coolness in the evenings that make you put on a jacket but don't make you shiver from feeling too cold. There are still some birds around to make the early mornings pleasant with their calls but some of them are getting drunk on over ripe berries. There is a smell of growing vegetables of ripening tomatoes of berries and apples. It is by far the time of the year that I love best. I miss the dragged out autumns of the eastern part of Canada. I miss the richness of the reds of maple trees. I miss the sound of the foghorns late at night when the fog rolls in from the sea. But autumn is lovely where ever you are and there are other things to make up for what I miss. Either way opening that window last night meant that I woke to a happy morning breeze blowing across my face and reminded me that it is good to be alive. How can you not like autumn?
We made good inroads into the construction yesterday. Hubby installed the two false walls in the upstairs bathroom and got the toilet ready and the plumbing installed for that then just as it was almost supper time he discovered that the flange bolts were missing and so he has to go purchase them today. So no toilet but very close. I, on the other hand was able to finish clear coating Daughter #1's bedroom and got her bed put together. We still have two walls to complete in her room but they will wait till we are finished with the upstairs bathroom. I also have to install her lighting and electrical outlets and a switch. Then we will need to install all the trim and some shelves and we are done. On to the next room, but for all intents and purposes Daughter #1 can start moving her stuff back into her room.
Today, I am hoping that I can clear coat the two walls Hubby put up in the bathroom yesterday. He will start on the plumbing for the vanities both upstairs and downstairs. I also have some painting on the backs of the doors for the downstairs vanity. There is no point in putting in the door to the downstairs bathroom until the vanity is in since there are no walls and a door would just inhibit Hubby and his work.
The jist is though that we are making slow progress and hope to continue in that way today and tomorrow until Hubby leaves for his next Rangers recreation trip (recce). Then I'll go batty again waiting for work to get done. (There is a reason that I'm called Ye Olde Bat (oops Batt)!
Anyway here are a few pics for you all to look at of things coming and yet to come.
This is the opening in the wall at the bottom of the steps where the new bathroom door is going.
This is the opening in the wall where the new bathroom door is going from the other direction.
This is the vanity that is going upstairs in the ensuite bathroom but needs serious cleaning up. My job for today.
This is Tootie Wootie checking out the new john in the ensuite bathroom upstairs with paneling complete behind it. Another of my tasks today is to clear coat that.
This is Daughter #1's bedroom with the bed in but not the mattress and mattress support.
This is the wall left to be paneled in the background behind the foot of her bed.
So I am off to get back to the various jobs needing to be done. Hubby just left to go get the new flange bolts that he was missing last night and I am off to clean and paint and build whatever needs doing..... all the time I will be enjoying the sweet breezes through my many new windows!
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