We are officially moved into our new office! It's actually finished! Well, as much as we can finish this time of year, anyway. We do still have one door that needs to be trimmed out, but the door itself needs to be taken off, sanded & urethaned, which we can't do until spring, so that will wait. And, I need to order a blind for the window - couldn't do that before the trim was up. Neither of those two were something to keep us from moving in.......it's been a looooong five months!!
We spent last Sunday and Monday moving furniture....some of it more than once! Because of necessary changes in construction (and a couple of small changes that I didn't approve but were done in my absence and couldn't be undone), we couldn't set the furniture as I'd originally planned. So.....I'm not happy with the furniture arrangement - it's not exactly efficient for me. I need to find/make time to sit down and see if I can find a better one, which may not be possible - in which case, I'll just have to deal with the existing one. It's still a whole lot better than what I had!!
Now that the office is done, we've been able to make great advances getting the new stock shed set up and moving stock into it from other areas. If we can get the hobby room sort of back to normal within the next couple of weeks, we can bring the guest room furniture home and store it in there and not have to rent the storage unit downtown - freeing up a little bit of cash each month....only, I'm sure, to be spent elsewhere!! Ahh...such is life!
Ok......just ran out of steam for the day, too tired for more.
Done ramblin
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Sunday, January 11, 2009
We have heat!!!
After months with no heat in the new office area and future guest room (which is the current office), we finally got enough done on the new office area to get the heat back in there - am I ever glad!! I've been heating the office with a little ceramic heater which I only used when I was in there. And, with half the house not having heat and the outside temps between 10 below and 30 above, no matter that we've got sheets/blankets blocking openings and doors shut between room.....that cold air filters through to the heated part, so the whole house feels cold. Aargh!
So....we're all set to get the trim up around the ceiling, doors, closet and window, then the floor can go down. Once the floor is down, the mopboard can be put down and then we can MOVE IN! WOO HOO!
While Ed was getting the heat in I was doing the quarterly sales tax reports and figuring the tax due. OUCH! Sigh...ahh, well...the price of doing business. It's all done and there was enough money in the check book to pay for it, so that's a good thing, right?
One of our new cellular window shades broke yesterday. Bought them at Lowe's - they've got a 90 day return policy, so I dug out the receipt and will take it back for a replacement when I go that way on Thursday - which will be day 89 - PHEW!
We had 6 or 8 inches of snow last week, so I'm betting the snowmobile trails are good - unfortunately it doesn't look like we're going to see that for ourselves any time soon. Sigh. We were supposed to get 1 to 3 more inches overnight and thru this morning - we got just a dusting midmorning - guess the weatherman was wrong!
My finger is feeling much better, so I may actually get some crocheting done this week. We'll see!
Done Ramblin
So....we're all set to get the trim up around the ceiling, doors, closet and window, then the floor can go down. Once the floor is down, the mopboard can be put down and then we can MOVE IN! WOO HOO!
While Ed was getting the heat in I was doing the quarterly sales tax reports and figuring the tax due. OUCH! Sigh...ahh, well...the price of doing business. It's all done and there was enough money in the check book to pay for it, so that's a good thing, right?
One of our new cellular window shades broke yesterday. Bought them at Lowe's - they've got a 90 day return policy, so I dug out the receipt and will take it back for a replacement when I go that way on Thursday - which will be day 89 - PHEW!
We had 6 or 8 inches of snow last week, so I'm betting the snowmobile trails are good - unfortunately it doesn't look like we're going to see that for ourselves any time soon. Sigh. We were supposed to get 1 to 3 more inches overnight and thru this morning - we got just a dusting midmorning - guess the weatherman was wrong!
My finger is feeling much better, so I may actually get some crocheting done this week. We'll see!
Done Ramblin
Monday, December 29, 2008
Close call!!
Well now......will the fun never end??? After last week's snowstorm, the weather changed.....got warmer and we got a little more snow, then sleet and freezing rain...stayed warmer (30's & 40's daytime) and drizzly/misty. Everything turned icy, of course. Saturday we were going to have someone come sand, but realized that the drizzle was just freezing over the calcium we were putting down to melt ice, so it would do the same with sand.....it'd be a waste of money until the rain stopped.
Yesterday the yard was so icy that DH had trouble getting his van and empty trailer out of his parking area to go to the storage unit to load it for today's work. Hmmmm.....well.....my parking spot is on a hill (next to the house) and it was not so icy, so we decided that we'd park my truck down in the other area and back his van and loaded trailer into my spot....even if my area got icy, he'd be headed downhill to start. If I have to get out, I should be able to do it with some ice melt and 4wd...or just call for the sand guy to come.
Now....we had high high winds in the night, but didn't really think much about it....until this morning.
When I got up and looked out the window I sayLook at this picture......see that small blue speck waaay over at the bottom left of the picture? (it's actually a water bottle with a blue label). Well....when I parked that truck last night, that's about where the front passenger tire was sitting...and it was parallel to the Buick....you could have parked another vehicle between them. Darn good thing we didn't, because what you see in the picture is what we saw this morning.......the wind really was strong enough to blow that truck across the ice to where you see it in the picture!! Talk about shocked!
And, of course, from the house we couldn't tell where it was in relation to the car, so didn't know whether or not it had gotten close enough to hit it until we went out and looked. They're actually about a foot apart.....PHEW!!
Done ramblin!
Yesterday the yard was so icy that DH had trouble getting his van and empty trailer out of his parking area to go to the storage unit to load it for today's work. Hmmmm.....well.....my parking spot is on a hill (next to the house) and it was not so icy, so we decided that we'd park my truck down in the other area and back his van and loaded trailer into my spot....even if my area got icy, he'd be headed downhill to start. If I have to get out, I should be able to do it with some ice melt and 4wd...or just call for the sand guy to come.
Now....we had high high winds in the night, but didn't really think much about it....until this morning.
When I got up and looked out the window I sayLook at this picture......see that small blue speck waaay over at the bottom left of the picture? (it's actually a water bottle with a blue label). Well....when I parked that truck last night, that's about where the front passenger tire was sitting...and it was parallel to the Buick....you could have parked another vehicle between them. Darn good thing we didn't, because what you see in the picture is what we saw this morning.......the wind really was strong enough to blow that truck across the ice to where you see it in the picture!! Talk about shocked!And, of course, from the house we couldn't tell where it was in relation to the car, so didn't know whether or not it had gotten close enough to hit it until we went out and looked. They're actually about a foot apart.....PHEW!!
Done ramblin!
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