Thinking Travel

After a running start on home projects, we’ve slowed to the pace of mold, which I’m sure is growing somewhere in our over-heated house. (Last night I discovered a half-full sack of potatoes that I’d stashed in a rarely-accessed cupboard. Not the most pleasant discovery.)

Right around the 4th of July we stopped doing much to the house. There are two good reasons for this:

1. Who wants to work on a house when it’s over 100 degrees in said house?

2. Who wants to work on a house when you’re not finishing the work-that’s-paying-for-the-home-improvement until it’s late enough that you don’t want to do anything but try to sleep in a 100 degree house?

So it’s been hot and we’ve both been working many extra hours at work.

So this means that our guest bedroom has newly painted walls but still needs new carpet, new trim, the closet organizer installed, and curtains. And furniture.

And the hallway needs cicada-sized holes patched so it can be painted. (A cicada flew into the kitchen last night so I now know what size they are. I don’t think they have those things where I’m from.)

And the den needs the boxes covering the floor to be unpacked and the Carolina blue walls need to be painted…

And, and, and.

I could go on because our “we really should finish this before we start another project” list is growing.

But we made a little progress yesterday. In a fit of home-improvement-productivity I changed the bathroom and den door handles and I soaked the guest room carpet in pet-oder-remover spray.

Motivated to more, Aaron and I shut the power off in the kitchen and dining room so we could install the new dimmer and light switch we bought.

Then, as we were lighting a candle and looking for the flashlight, we re-thought our decision to change light switches for the first time at 8:30 pm. (Hey, we didn’t realize how dark it was outside until we turned out all the lights.)

Now that we’ve lived here for three months (!!!) and have a much better sense of the scope and cost of our intended projects we’re re-evaluating some of our original intentions…for example…

May 15th:

Let’s put in a whole new bathroom!

August 15:

The bathtub works, the toilet works, the sink works, the floor works. Pass.
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