The Aerie
Well, as free as I ever get. Nothing needs to be moved, as far as I am aware. The remodeling has (surprise!) encountered some delays, including the discovery that the attic drywall job I had done five years ago was a botch (surprise! -not). Turns out that at the end of the ceilings where they meet the walls, there was no stud underneath the drywall. So the contractors just taped the ends of the ceiling drywall to the tops of the wall drywall.
This is bad, since a good knock against one of these joins could snap the ceiling drywall off like, well like drywall.
So... BEFORE doing the painting (which was added on as an extra when we realized that we will never again have such an opportunity to paint this space), these drywall ends had to be cut off, studs inserted behind them, and then they had to be replaced, taped, and mudded. Basically this and the painting itself add up to over a week more delay in the project. And then there are all the access doors into the crawspaces, which were not included in the original planning. Can't leave those out, seeing as many of our possessions are IN those crawlspaces, so sealing them up would make retrieving the possessions a mite tricky.
So the remodeling continues to crawl forward or, in this case, backward. I got my application sent in to the U of MN, so that's off the plate. I think that this weekend I could actually do something of my own.
Cleaning my office will be job one: with all the moving and stuff the office has gotten quite messed up - never mind that all my clothes are hanging in the closet to boot. Somewhere in there the water company needed access to the meter... which is in the closet... so I had to pull out the shelves in the closet. It's just a mess.
I'd like to work on my book a bit, too - it's been too long since I've had any time for it. And then there's itinerary planning for the trip...
So I'm not busy this weekend... just busy!
Posted by Albatross at June 2, 2006 2:01 PM | TrackBack