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I have to go clean at the new place by myself, today, and I have to admit I fear it greatly. I took Eor to work and then came back and had breakfast, and while I was doing that the sun came up and is brilliant, so maybe that will help. :) I don't want to be by myself in that huge place, but I guess I'm going to have to get used to it. The previous owner, Nancy, lived there alone for 20 years after her husband, Don, died. Eor refers to Nancy and Don almost as though he knew them, commenting on things they did or did not do with the house while they had it. :)
Anyway, some quick updates which I've posted on Facebook over the past week. (Sorry, I feel like a sleaze not keeping up with everyone, here, but FB is so much easier when I'm exhausted.)
- Our couch is in our new living room. :) There's a back door directly into the room that we call the living room, although there's no particular back yard, no step up to the door, and it was pretty difficult to get it open. But carrying the couch around the back of the house through the snow was a LOT better idea than trying to get it through all the narrow doors and the tiny hallways, inside. :)
- We cleaned a lot of rotting scrap lumber out of the cellar, and removed the dirt which had been produced by its process of rotting. Hard work, but happy we did it. That's the kind of thing that invited the bugs that eat a house.
- The leaks in the roof and around the front door captured Eor's attention, and he spent an evening up and down ladders, spraying Great Stuff in holes and stapling plastic over doors (the grand front door which we don't use and that back door into the livingroom, which there would be no other need to use at this time besides getting a couch in), to hold off the weather until we can get some proper roofing people in and such. He thinks the roof leaks are fairly recent, since the last shingling was done, but someone he wrote to who does restoration work advised him he best get them covered right away.
- Of mice, there have been but three slaughtered, and we're not seeing signs yet of more, but we still intend to buy more good food containers.
- I posted to my Mom on FaceBook and sadly informed her that those beautiful black leather gloves she gave me a few years ago... I think I loved them too much. I wore them all the time and they're about worn out. They've been pressed into service as work gloves on numerous occasions because that was what I had on. That will give her something to buy for me next time she feels she needs to give me a present, and she can get nice leather gloves fairly cheaply in Korea. :)
- We built our first fire in the fireplace last night, and sat on our couch for a while when we were exhausted, watching it die down. :)
And now I have to go back over and build another fire to help keep the place a bit warmer while I work. It's quite cold here, today.
The subject line is something Eor often says, but one of my coworkers said it yesterday when I was telling him about the house. He's fixed up two old houses and he says you should never look at the big picture, it's too depressing. "Just fix what's in front of you. Put your head down and go."
Anyway, some quick updates which I've posted on Facebook over the past week. (Sorry, I feel like a sleaze not keeping up with everyone, here, but FB is so much easier when I'm exhausted.)
- Our couch is in our new living room. :) There's a back door directly into the room that we call the living room, although there's no particular back yard, no step up to the door, and it was pretty difficult to get it open. But carrying the couch around the back of the house through the snow was a LOT better idea than trying to get it through all the narrow doors and the tiny hallways, inside. :)
- We cleaned a lot of rotting scrap lumber out of the cellar, and removed the dirt which had been produced by its process of rotting. Hard work, but happy we did it. That's the kind of thing that invited the bugs that eat a house.
- The leaks in the roof and around the front door captured Eor's attention, and he spent an evening up and down ladders, spraying Great Stuff in holes and stapling plastic over doors (the grand front door which we don't use and that back door into the livingroom, which there would be no other need to use at this time besides getting a couch in), to hold off the weather until we can get some proper roofing people in and such. He thinks the roof leaks are fairly recent, since the last shingling was done, but someone he wrote to who does restoration work advised him he best get them covered right away.
- Of mice, there have been but three slaughtered, and we're not seeing signs yet of more, but we still intend to buy more good food containers.
- I posted to my Mom on FaceBook and sadly informed her that those beautiful black leather gloves she gave me a few years ago... I think I loved them too much. I wore them all the time and they're about worn out. They've been pressed into service as work gloves on numerous occasions because that was what I had on. That will give her something to buy for me next time she feels she needs to give me a present, and she can get nice leather gloves fairly cheaply in Korea. :)
- We built our first fire in the fireplace last night, and sat on our couch for a while when we were exhausted, watching it die down. :)
And now I have to go back over and build another fire to help keep the place a bit warmer while I work. It's quite cold here, today.
The subject line is something Eor often says, but one of my coworkers said it yesterday when I was telling him about the house. He's fixed up two old houses and he says you should never look at the big picture, it's too depressing. "Just fix what's in front of you. Put your head down and go."