Home Repair

Thank God(dess) I took a shower this morning because this place is filthy with people crawling around doing home repair.  Well, OK, not really filthy.  People are “here” and there are multiple types of “people”.  And it just seemed like it would be a nice visual contrast of me all clean and other people all filthy.  Kind of a play on words with “filthy” if you were paying attention. 

Of course, now that I’ve beaten all cleverness out of the horse of that paragraph…

Stuff’s going on around here!  We’re getting our rotten siding replaced!  It’s just a little bit of siding, but I feel like the house is house is getting its teeth flossed.  And Tommy the bug man stopped by this morning to lay pesticides down to kill the evil cockroaches trying to enter our house.  Yes, I’m supposed to be all natural mama and whatever.  But when you live in old houses in old neighborhoods and bugs are the size of mice, you call in the professionals.  In any case, the organic vegetables will be arriving soon, so the pesticides goodness/badness will cancel each other out.  (Like the calories when you eat a salad and French fries in the same meal!)

We’ve also improved the home on our own.  Dave put insulation in the “attic” over the home office and we’re both stunned with how well it holds heat now.  I’ve also figured out how to set the thermostat in the portable heater, so funny how that helps too. 

And you will note if you go here, that Dave has again been handily working around the house, building a new cabinet in which to store my collection of (artsy) coffee mugs.  A few gift occasions ago, Dave got a router (some sort of important and useful power tool thing).  It’s one of the most selfish gifts for me that he’s ever received.  It’s sort of along the lines of me getting a stove for my birthday, that’s how useful it’s become around the house. 

Back to work.  But I did get up at 5:30 and go running this morning.  Yay for me. 

12:27:25 PM