…6 pm and Jane’s in there under the sink battling the extra piece of board the installer put in to make the top meet the backsplash—it’s in the way of tightening the grippers on the installation rails of the new sink. Jane is working upside down under the sink with a splitting headache and won’t let me touch it because she knows I’m blind as a bat at close range in the dark. On the other hand, the bat is used to working by touch. I don’t know if I could help, but I wish I could.
Six pm and the cabinet tops are in: they were in by noon, starting from 8:30 am—but…
by CJ | Jan 31, 2011 | Journal | 14 comments
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You could take notes on colorful and innovative descriptive language. 😉 Sympathies to both of you.
If I disappear for the next few days it’s because we’re expecting 12-20 inches of snow, starting tonight. West of here, down I-44 towards I-35 it will be even more with a minimum of 15 inches. Nasty.
Glug—I hope the roofs hold out! That’s always the worry for record snow.
The NEW roof over the poker tables at the Hard Rock Casino collapsed. No-one hurt. Guess which building contractor is hastily reviewing the specs and his contract?
It’s still coming down; heaviest up around Bartlesville; 50-60 mph winds west of Chickasaw.
Still got power
Yep, city code in our area specifies withstanding a 3′ snowfall, I think, but that doesn’t cover how ‘wet’ the snow is, because 3′ of really soppy snow is really heavy, powder, not so much. We got 5′ in our last really bad winter—this one has piffled, mostly, because of the Atlantic Oscillation or something of the sort, combined with La Nina—which has delivered OUR weather to you guys. We’d accept it if you shipped it back (our roses need a snow coat for current temperatures) but we understand it’s kinda messy to ship.
They told us in the last event that code had loosened in Spokane: WE were built in 1954, so we’re under the old code, and we withstood a 5′ snowfall with no problems at all. But businesses all over were having issues, including several collapses on large roofs. Now I’ll bet the rebuilds will be a bit more robust!
It’s heavy wet stuff, which is why I worry about the power lines down the street. I’ld happily ship it back but the airport is closed.
I bow down to you two and your DIY. I could never take on any of that stuff. can’t even screw anything into a wall with security … 😀 (I think I can only work with soft pliable things like clay and textiles) … and it’s not as though you have nothing else to do!
by the way I ordered my Kindle, a 3G one for traveling … 😀
I think you’ll love it!
Um, did you get it in?
We got the sink in. On the other hand, Jane got silicon glue on her favorite sweatshirt (alcohol is the solvent for getting it out of fabric, but it’s thick fuzzy fabric and the cure didn’t work that well)–and is going to be sore. Not mentioning she fell down the final steps of the basement stairs with her hands full and landed on her knees.
Jane could try her sweatshirt again with “GOOF OFF” or putting it in the freezer in the hope that the silicon goop is of the indoor type and might get brittle at low temps. BTW, freezing is also the easiest way to remove chewing gum given that the object fits and will take no damage from cold.
Thanks! Worth trying!
Owie, owie! Hope she’s OK.
I remember my mom (she was our fixit person, not my dad) working on the kitchen sink, which is in a bay window so the underneath plumbing is even less accessible than normal, stuck out in the bay cavity. She had her head and shoulders in the cabinet, and needed to look “up” past her forehead to see the work. But her bifocals were of course designed with assumption that close work is “down.” …language… ensued. I think she finally took off the glasses and balanced them upside down on her nose.
The arctic air mass got here at dawn. Brother! it’s maybe 20°, which is the warmest it’s gonna get, and they forecast 6° tonight. Six!!!! Last Saturday it was close to 80°.
Big old drafty Victorians don’t do this well. My joke of a furnace, fire in fireplace, AND Presto Heat Dish are not really keeping me warm. Of course, it would help if I had a little bitty fan, not enough to make a cold wind but enough to stir some of the heat down from the 11-ft ceiling…
Glad you got most of your plumbing done with a minimum of hassle. We manage to do everything ourselves except major electric stuff….. very satisfying, not to say *much* cheaper, to DIY. 😀
@AbigailM, you have the right idea about a fan. We managed to put a small one on a ledge in our living room with it’s 12 ft ceiling. We aimed it at the ceiling to drive the heat down. I notice it most when I get up between 5 and 6. Temps are six to ten degrees higher than when the fan is off, which means NO ELECTRIC HEAT coming on. A difference of $100 last month.