The bathroom has sheetrock!

The only glitch was that I bought inside corner metal sheetrock trim and I needed an outie—but the job was excellent: Jane produced diagrams they could follow, with measurements, and we are well on our way to having tile tomorrow.  

Hallelujah!

…the 8 pieces of tile strip we needed—came in. Jane pitches a good fit. The person who did it admitted the mistake, the tile made it on Monday after a Friday order, which they assured us was absolutely impossible, and we have our tile in time for the tile...

Locked out of the bathroom with glue on the floor…

We’re sticking down the tiles. Put glue down—you have to wait for it to cure, it has to be seen to at that point—and an accident locked the bathroom door. We—own no key. Help is at hand, however—I have mad burglar skillz. I found a cheap...

Construction hell.

Our bathroom has no tile in the tub enclosure, just plastic sheeting. Dusty plastic sheeting on the floor. A patch of concrete ‘leveler’ where we had to replace the subfloor. We have no cabinets, just a hole in the wall. No tp holder. More holes. Our tile...

Another fun Chinese Astrology site

I’m apparently Red Snake born in the year of the Black Horse, and my element is fire, my ancestral element is water, and my lucky element is wood, green my lucky color, East is my lucky direction, and Rabbit or Tiger is my fortunate match. Jane is Black Rabbit...

Happy Chinese New Year

I believe it’s the year of the Dragon. Jane is a Dragon. I’m a Horse, myself. In the first comment—a link to the chart. 😉

Threw my back out…

…yesterday, shoveling snow. By noon, I was walking like the witch in Sleeping Beauty—could not straighten up. Didn’t hurt too much if I just didn’t straighten up. On the bright side, it was the opposite side from the sciatica in my right...

Snow. Lots of snow.

Our Toro electric is our friend.  We now have about 5″ of standing snow, as opposed to what melted while it got started. It’s powder, where we live. And rain can just wait, thank you! I established our back walk and the half of our double driveway we use...

And just to put a cap on the evening…

Jane dropped her laptop, which is now wheezing, and has discovered a red line running up her slashed finger. Sigh. I will be going to the pharmacy tomorrow earliest to get antibiotics…she is now soaking the finger in Epsom salts. Did I mention a snowfall is...

All is in readiness for the tilework…

We (and the Rotozip, an excellent tool) got the section prepared for the new floor insert: we found plywood in the basement; and Jane brilliantly used tinfoil to make a pattern which we will cut out and drop into the hole atop the floor decking, before restoring the...