I hope y’all (technical Texas term) had a great Thanksgiving.
We did. We spent Wednesday stuffing family full of food!
Friday…well…we spent Friday lazy-ing about the house, basically recovering from Thursday. Well, that and eating leftover turkey and ham sandwiches and pumpkin pie.
Mmmmmm…
BUT…we did head up to the Old Vic for the weekend to get something [...]
Y’all might recall this post a few days ago about an attic hatch and some lights in the sunroom.
The mentioned LIGHTS in the Sunroom from the previous post.
Well, with my new found attic hatch-e-ness I got more wiring done this weekend.
There’s a LOT of attic in this house. I hope I don’t ever get stuck. [...]
The attic over the sunroom and utility room had a very small opening, rudely hacked into the beadboard ceiling. It was so narrow I couldn’t even get my shoulders through it without contortions…much less the rest of my rather rotund self… The hole wasn’t square either and simply had a wood piece that was pulled [...]
Y’all might recall my very favorite splice (story at this link).
Here’s a picture of the offending electrical monster:
Well, I’d like to introduce you to my second favorite splice…or perhaps it is actually My Very Favorite Splice, Part Deux, The Sequel…This Time It’s Personal, The Revenge…or something like that. Yeah, okay, so I’m carried away with [...]
I sure am going to have strong arms when I finish scraping the Sunroom ceiling though!
Got the wiring in (mostly), and the cans in…and the ceiling repaired…now I just need to scrape every surface in the entire room, prime and paint. Phew! That scraped area represents about an hour’s worth. Very hot this weekend…temps in [...]
Interesting weekend!
Between 6 and 8 inches of rain fell in 24 hours…Saturday afternoon to Sunday afternoon.
This is, of course, because I really, desperately, needed to mow the grass. I even had the mower key with me this time!
So, no use crying over spilled water…and I got tired of watching the animals march by two by [...]
Our good friends Dean and Cindy came up to see the house last week and volunteered some labor (we have very good friends).
The coolest thing about an old house project is that there are so many things to do that if you don’t feel like doing one type of thing, just turn in a different [...]
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