Busy Saturday
We got up and it was *cold*. It’s snowing, the wind is coming in off the lake, and while it is amazingly picturesque out there, you’d freeze your nose off in no time. So while we are filling the pellet stove and keeping the house warm, we also are working on fixing some issues at HSJ. Then, realizing the daylight hours are limited and we’ve got a pile of computer work, we deferred that until late so we could follow the wiring in our house.
We’ve narrowed it down and found a section of old wires. Problem is, we have to tear up floors to get to it to see if there are obvious issues. But we are finding nice floors under there. Not stellar, but bare unfinished WIDE plank floring. Ron and I take the tag-team approach when we’re not both directly involed in what’s going on - one of us takes a break while the other pulls nails or screws, someone spends a few minutes with Emma while the other check on supper slow-cooking away.
The snow falls, the wind blows, the fire warms. Loads to do, but it’s *fun* work and highly interesting. Meanwhile, I write really great entires in my head. We need a cameraman.
I’m being hauled away again.
Edit: under a floorboard, there was a hollow spot in the original floor. To level it out, someone stuffed in a folded up piece of junk mail. From 1918.
For supper we’re havign slow-cooked bbq boneless pork riblets & mashed potatoes, so the day has had very many high points.
3 Responses to “Busy Saturday”
that is so totally cool!! I wanna see this piece of junkmail!
Supper sounds so good. We had shepherds pie, it was pretty good too!
That is really cool! And do you care to share your recipe for the pork riblets??? Pretty please!
Nice original refinished hardwood floors sounds good to me too. We’re bracing for our first snowstorm.