UMTravels

This is beginning to feel like a full time job. Out of the house in the morning, work all day, collapse in the apartment in the evening falling asleep with the television going. Today’s progress: the flooring is in the kitchen with only a few places buggered up that will require some putty. The base [...]

Many thanks to Mr. Whitaker who has been putting in a couple of hours each day while Alice is taking sailing lessons. He keeps me motivated. By the time he showed up today I’d gotten the everything cut in, and headed on to the roller painting of the one kitchen wall, and the rest of [...]

OK — so it’s one countertop. Whitaker delivered the first of the countertops today. Black locust is what they are made of. It’s been a bear for him to make these without modern jointers, but they look great. Guess I’d better get some cabinets in to put them on. Guess I have to get the [...]

What a day. Work at the house patching the floor where we shorted to wall to the bedrooms, then off to Olympia for a hot dog, some paint (robin egg blue) to hopefully match the ceiling in the living room, then off to the escrow company in Oly to sign papers selling the rental property. [...]

Prosecco, eggs, keilbasa, orange juice, asparagus makes an Easter Brunch. Seems that the Easter Bunny came last night and took a dump on the apartment — there are eggs and rabbits and chicks and ducks and lillies everywhere. Chris does love his holidays. He has a tub for each holiday in the storage closet downstairs, [...]

More messy chores on the new house. Those damn ceiling cans. Nothing like drilling large holes over your head and getting black wool and plaster dust raining down on you… but the last of them are done, and the mess is cleaned up. They aren’t wired in yet, but that’s an attic chore, with more [...]

Thankfully the papers weren’t ready so I didn’t have to take the 6:40am ferry. Marybeth and Thomas were up early so coffee was ready for me. Yikes — Thomas at 14 is taller than I am (and way cuter with that long blond surfer hair. Uneventful drive back to the city other than the car [...]

A little work at the house this morning. Laying blue tape out where all the cabinets go so I can plan where the rest of the cans go. Got to make the 12:35pm ferry to the island to pick up mail, get a dryer from Lynn’s Used Appliance Garage (she gave me the Fisher Paykel [...]

More work on the house. Got holes patched and the two cans installed in the kitchen. Only five more to go.� Three more are going over the counter with the stove on it, and two will be going over where the dining table goes. More dust and mess with all the black wool insulation in [...]

Up early, with Chris and coffee. Allows me to get an early start on the house today. Today’s progress? Got the cans (lights sunk into the ceiling) in the laundry/furnace room and the pantry. Got the holes cut for the two cans above where the sink is going. The evening is the symphony with SpaceOtter [...]

Up at 7:30am though Mark’s alarm is set for half eight. Shower, reading, easy morning. Out of the house at 9:45am when Mark leaves for work after two weeks of holiday time. Three and a half hours to the airport, need to be there at half three for bag drop and security, though really need [...]

No breakfast, just a cookie and coffee… we have a noon reservation at the Waterfront Cafe so no big breakfast today. Lots of sightseeing today. Out of the house around 10:30am, off to the Plymouth Steps (where the Mayflower left from headed to the New England), which turns out right around the corner from the [...]