For a Fleeting Moment, It Was a Home
Last night I got a glimpse of what the project would eventually feel like as a home. Our extremely generous friends Mary and Eric brought a traveling dining room complete with tablecloth and camping chairs, and fed us with a four course Mexican feast! Not only that, but they ended up stocking our refrigerator for us with leftovers. There was one point after eating that we were all lounging back in our camping chairs, engaged in great conversation, and happy and content from our full bellies, that I realized there will come a day that we’ll be sitting in that very room actually eating at a table in what we hope will be a beautiful home. It was so fulfilling for a few moments- of course it all came to a screeching halt when someone needed to use the bathroom, which naturally wasn’t functioning at the time (we did warn them beforehand that it was rustic). On that note though, after three trips to Lowes (for this project alone) we finally finished something! The toilet is now no longer running constantly and Clint and I are practically experts on the internal workings of a toilet.
Later that evening while we were working on the toilet we heard a noise that sounded like two cats fighting so we quickly turned off the lights to look outside. Apparently in moving to a quiet dead-end street by a river we’re not only immersing ourselves in mosquito territory, but also the wild kingdom. There were at least seven raccoons that we could count combing every square inch of our neighbor’s yard- drinking from his fountain, standing on his chairs, crawling under his shed. Keep in mind this is at twilight where it really wasn’t even dark yet. We realized then that Chloe could NEVER get outside because she doesn’t seem to have the intelligence to know when she’s out-skilled, or outnumbered.
Billy also headed over a bit later which was nice to have it again feel like home, and I worked a bit more on the trim. We had the realization yesterday that if we ever want to strip the baseboards and trim, it needs to happen before we get the floors refinished because heat gun and stripper near newly finished wood floors doesn’t seem like the brightest idea. So I guess that’ll be the majority of my work for the next few days. I have no idea how long it will take, but I’m optimistic given the learning curve I’ve experienced thus far. And it’ll be nice because that was one of those projects I initially put off for “later” so maybe it’ll be good to have that immediacy because I’ll actually get it done. I’ll get pictures up here soon- our last few days have consisted of work all day, straight to the house at night, then back to the apartment to collapse so I haven’t been able to upload anything. We only have about one more week of that though before we officially move in. I'm not sure if I should be excited or frightened about that.
Later that evening while we were working on the toilet we heard a noise that sounded like two cats fighting so we quickly turned off the lights to look outside. Apparently in moving to a quiet dead-end street by a river we’re not only immersing ourselves in mosquito territory, but also the wild kingdom. There were at least seven raccoons that we could count combing every square inch of our neighbor’s yard- drinking from his fountain, standing on his chairs, crawling under his shed. Keep in mind this is at twilight where it really wasn’t even dark yet. We realized then that Chloe could NEVER get outside because she doesn’t seem to have the intelligence to know when she’s out-skilled, or outnumbered.
Billy also headed over a bit later which was nice to have it again feel like home, and I worked a bit more on the trim. We had the realization yesterday that if we ever want to strip the baseboards and trim, it needs to happen before we get the floors refinished because heat gun and stripper near newly finished wood floors doesn’t seem like the brightest idea. So I guess that’ll be the majority of my work for the next few days. I have no idea how long it will take, but I’m optimistic given the learning curve I’ve experienced thus far. And it’ll be nice because that was one of those projects I initially put off for “later” so maybe it’ll be good to have that immediacy because I’ll actually get it done. I’ll get pictures up here soon- our last few days have consisted of work all day, straight to the house at night, then back to the apartment to collapse so I haven’t been able to upload anything. We only have about one more week of that though before we officially move in. I'm not sure if I should be excited or frightened about that.
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