house repair – Ink, Yarn & Beer

How incredibly silly, perhaps, to write about a shower stall. But here it is, in all its just-finished glory! Our tile setter did a great job, so impressive in fact that when the shower door came out, he asked for the tile setter’s name. We plan on using him in the guest bathroom, which has a bathtub, when we re-tile it in the hopefully not too distant future!

The tile setter has a hard job to do, I think. I sure couldn’t do it – not as patiently or as well as he did. Paying him was worth every penny. I am looking forward to the house repairs being done – let’s just hope there isn’t an earthquake any time soon, as we won’t recover that loss as easily as we did from the flood.

The agenda for the repairs moves forward. Flooring tomorrow. Painter starts Thursday. Pick up vanities Saturday, and buy some new toilets, too! (I am excited about new toilets! Ours are not the most “effective” you might say.) Vanities go in after the painter is done. Tops are cut and placed. Shower door placed last.

Maybe it will all be done by our wedding anniversary mid-May – that would be cool!

The house is torn up. The studio is empty. The living room is filled with boxes, one corner for Josh, the other for me. The shower stall will be done Monday. The shower door will be measured and ordered on Monday, too. The dogs will be boarded out Monday through Tuesday night because of the fact the flooring is going in on Tuesday day, starting at 730 a.m. Thursday the painter starts. Saturday the vanities arrive. Wednesday next the painter finishes and the new toilets are installed. Then the vanities are installed and the template made for the counter tops. We will have a shower that works – finally! hooray! – but we will not be able to use it until the door is installed. We will be brushing our teeth in the kitchen sink (ewwwww!). I go back to the doc on Tuesday to have my wrist and finger checked 3 weeks after my fall.

And . . . we have been packing, eating junk food, brewing beer, trying to have a life, and painting in between – pictures and samples of paint on the wall.

I will post photos of the new house stuff sometime later, but today, here are the things – little things, no bigger than 7×10 at the most – I’ve been painting and drawing, just to stay sane. The painting of the barn needs a bit of help – the roof is too white, and it looks like the windows are some strange eye infection. The meadowlark needs more contrast. I could go on, but I need to go to work on my other stuff.

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