web Sunday progress

Posted July 13, 2008 • Comments Off on Sunday progress

Two more van/truck loads of stuff moved. Lisa unpacked a bunch more kitchen stuff. Not sure I know where any kitchen stuff is.

Second coat of Chai Latte. Much edging; two of the five wall sections in that color are done. Cleaned the goddamn paint roller.

Disassembled/spackled insides of crappy closets.

Lin met some neighbors. Turns out the “Russians” next door are Albanians.

Neva learned the word “graffiti” (apparently, there is an A-for-anarchy on my back gate) and wrote her initials in chalk on the sidewalk out front. After asking Lisa what her initials were.

Lin decided “Max’s room” is her room, and her room is Max’s room. She painted a bunch of trim in her room (the trim that was the awful mustard color of “Max’s room”).

It poured down rain (we brought stuff in to avoid it getting wet). We discovered there’s a gutter/soffit problem that causes a small trickle of water down one wall. Of course it’s in my bedroom. It’s the wall we haven’t painted yet (the Mulling Spice wall), so maybe we’ll be able to do something.

I went up in the attic (eek!) to make sure the problem wasn’t the roof. Max came up into the attic with me, and the histrionics were far fewer than expected when it was time to go back down. The attic over the leak was bone-dry, so I’m fairly well convinced the problem is outside. Which is good, I think.

Dinner at Denny’s. Then a quick grocery trip to lay in snacks at the house. Bought a box fan to help dry the joint compound in the office.

I yelled at Neva and Josie for playing in the hammock chair. “Get out! That’s not secure! It will fall down,” I said. “No, it’s fine,” they said. “GET YOUR ASS OUT OF THE CHAIR,” Lisa said.

Lin sat in the chair.

The chair fell down.