Canuxican

HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I must like my own jokes, because I keep kidding myself. Taking the faucets out of the house took pretty much the rest of the day. Credit that to it being an old house. The valves are not working for the individual sinks, so every time I had to pull one, I had to go shut off the water main outside, come back in, tackle out the old faucet, install the new ones, go back outside, turn on the water, come back in, check for leaks, go back out, shut off the water and then rinse and repeat (pun intended).
When I was finishing up plumbing, this MASSIVE moth flew into the house. Even the cats were scared, though Sundae did swat it out of the air a couple times. Silence of the Lambs style moth! HUGE! I ended up catching it inside a bowl and letting it go outside.
So anyway, I finished the faucets for the house. At 10pm, I decided not to go start on the condo.

Hall sink.

One of the master sinks.

Immense!

Gargantuan!

Was trying to show how big the moth was, but it’s on the other side of two layers of glass, and the other side of the door’s screen, so it’s about 3 inches behind my finger. Not too good for showing the size.

So today has been busy so far. So far, I moved stuff out of the way in the garage so the recycle folks could come pick up the old fridge. They give you $35 for it! Not bad!
After that, I mowed the yard, and then the alarm company guy came over to discuss our options for an alarm at the new house.
All this, and I haven’t even eaten yet! (1:40pm). I’m going to eat, pull the rest of the faucets, then head to the condo to install faucets, install thresholds, and finish what little painting is left. Tomorrow, Thomas and I are going to scrub the condo clean and then it’s done done done. And hopefully it will sell sell sell.
I’m off.. work to be done!

A freshly mowed front yard.

Other side. We have a few brown patches there.

Head on.

Backyard. The shady area is hard to grow grass in!

And the vast expanse.

This is where Mama hides when I mow the yard. See her ears?

Uh oh, now she knows I found her hiding spot.

Some new visitors to our yard (the roses).

A big rose.

Today was pretty uneventful. For me, at least. The condo however got a makeover. The carpet guys got it all installed. I really couldn’t get much done with them there, so I worked on getting the faucets out of the house, but discovered that some of the valves are bad. Then *gasp* I took a nap. I was exhausted. Then had a drink with Tausha and Chris to talk about Peru. Then BACK to the condo to check out the completed carpet (I didn’t have the camera) and to pull the tape off the trim. The trim came out really nice. I’m really happy with it.
That’s all folks.

The carpet guys are working.

Padding is on the stairs.

Trying to show the color difference on the doors.

Closeup. We’re just gonna live with it.

Today was one of those days where you never know when it’s going to end. I had no idea that finishing the trim would take all day. Now I see why it took the painters so long to finish the trim at OUR house. Tedious. Oh well. Done done done. Well not really. I still have the railing to paint, which I need to buy a small artists paintbrush to do I think, otherwise I’m going to have paint drips all over the place. And I didn’t paint the puttied nail holes yet. Frankly, I couldn’t even see them. But maybe that was just the fumes gettin to me Either way, I’ll do those with the small brush I buy for the railing.
Not a lot of pictures because pictures of painted trim are about as exciting as … watching paint dry.
So here’s a possible dilemma. The paintshop matched the paint of the old trim really poorly. So we ended up with much brighter, whiter paint. Which isn’t necessarily a bad thing since we had been wanting to do that anyway. The problem is that the doors are still the old color. So now they look kinda yellowish next to the new trim. I’m not sure if having the doors a different color than the trim is necessarily a bad thing though. You can see below, the difference. It’s pretty slight. (Though it’s more different in real life than those pictures below show.) So the plan is to give the doors a good scrubbing with Windex to get all the dust and dirt off of them, and then see if it’s going to be acceptable. I’m voting that it’ll be fine. If, for some reason, it looks odd… I’ll just remove the knobs and hinges, and hire my painters to come spray them because a) they were sprayed originally, so there are no brush strokes on them, and b) I don’t wanna brush them. If I got all the hardware off of them, it wouldn’t take the painters maybe 30 minutes to spray them all. Anyway, hopefully we don’t need to do that, but we shall see.
Tomorrow the carpet gets installed!!! Woo hoo. That’s pretty much it for the condo. I need to install the new faucets there, which I may do while the carpet guys are installing the carpet.
Despite today feeling long, I actually got home before midnight which was a real treat! My hand hurts from painting. I’m going to take a bath and relaaaaax.
G’night.

See the difference in color?

The daunting railing.

And again, color difference.

WHEW!!!!! Another LOOONG day. It’s now 1:32am! (by the way, I change the post times on these postings so it shows the correct date, otherwise it gets goofy.) Started over at Thomas’ place about noon. We knocked out his entire upstairs flooring in one day. This was pretty difficult because there were a lot of strange angles. We learned that making a quick template is about 100 times faster than sitting there trying to figure out the angles for all the strange cuts. Saves TONS of time. So we knocked it out. All done. All he really has left to do is the stairs and that’s down the line after he’s moved in.
My knees are KILLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLING me. sore sore sore sore sore.
Tomorrow I am knocking out the painting in the condo. Really not that much left to do. So hoping to finish painting the trim, glue down the railings for the thresholds, and hope to cut the thresholds tomorrow. After that, the carpet is installed on Monday, and then it’s a matter of putting in the faucets, and then just general cleanup. I will put a for sale sign up on Monday night and put up a craigslist ad, and get the ads scheduled for the Statesman and the Chronicle. And tell my realtor that it’s ready to go, even though we’re gonna try to FSBO.
Well I still gotta shower and eat, so I’m signing off now at 1:37am. See? So many people are telling me, “oh you have so much time on your hands to do a blog”. This took me 5 minutes. It’s a piece of cake. Anyone can do it.
Have I mentioned that I MISS Andrea!?!?! She’s been gone over a week.
Thanks for reading. G’nite!

Starting off the upstairs.

A little further along.

An hour later.

That’s all thats left.

Thomas with one of the more interesting cuts we ended up having to make.

DONE!!!!

Que bueno!