{"id":2519,"date":"2011-01-29T10:21:44","date_gmt":"2011-01-29T18:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.wavewithoutashore.cwgservices.org\/?p=2519"},"modified":"2011-01-29T10:21:44","modified_gmt":"2011-01-29T18:21:44","slug":"heavy-work-this-weekend-literally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/heavy-work-this-weekend-literally\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy work this weekend: literally"},"content":{"rendered":"

I got the finished text of Intruder<\/em> ready to send to my agent, who will transmit it to DAW.
\nI have already transmitted the galleys of Betrayer<\/em>.
\nWe….are getting a new kitchen countertop. Ours had lost its finish, and is white, which means Jane has scrubbed every time a coffee cup drips—bigtime. It stains. It stains when you look at it. Hours spent on this damned countertop.
\nSo—we tried to figure what’s the most urgent repair, besides the plastic-sheeting huge 5×5 hole in the bathroom shower wall, which we were supposed to fix this winter!…and it’s the kitchen counter. We found some in-stock imitation granite (labrador granite is the pattern) at Lowe’s, and we can save 300.00 by taking out the old countertop ourselves. This is going to entail lifting out a cast iron double sink and decoupling the garbage disposal and the dishwasher.
\nWe’re starting today, and by Sunday will no sink and no dishwasher—bathtub water only. Monday the guy comes to put in the new countertop: cutting the hole for the sink is our sticking-point, or we could REALLY save on this operation. The countertop is not that pricey. We’ll let you know how many fingers we have left after getting the sink out. OSG is coming over to help us lift it.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile it’s also tax time: year end stuff for us, just another month for the corporation, except that the corporate reports are on the calendar, not the fiscal year (the arbitrarily chosen year-end for a corporation); so I have to turn in the calendar year stuff, such as the employee and wage stuff.
\nWhich means I also have to fight my way to the desk. And that means doing an office cleanout so I can get to stuff!
\n Jane is doing triage on the kitchen cabinets—and meanwhile found out we have a massive mold\/leak problem in the mudroom, read: back kitchen steps and short tiled area. It’s never just one job—it’s got a way of becoming, now, a massive find-the-leak-and-fixit on a room of the house! I think it’s the door—another thing we’re not comfortable DIY-ing, because it’s like—if we have to call an installer, we have no back door for a week while they set up to fix it. So…we’ll probably have to pay installer costs on that, too.<\/p>\n

At least we will save an hour a day that it now WON’T take to clean up after meals, thanks to shedding that detestable white countertop. I have set my sights also on that white kitchen floor, but we can live with that. Next up: I fear it’s going to need to be the mudroom, not the bathroom. And I bought some Formby’s stuff that will let me refinish the doors and fronts of the kitchen cabinets, so it will look much better in there! I have to wait on warm weather for that, to get ventilation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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