crowbelle's Diaryland Diary
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Smile for Tile
Smile for Tile
The slate tiles are done. These are some photos I took after Chip left the other day. The duct tape has since been taken off, but was there for the photo-shoot unfortunately.
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The colors seem brighter in these photos than in real life though. We are very pleased with the way they came out. Of course, the balusters on the stairs have yet to be done. Paul will try to finish those off before the spring - I hope! They are white and are ready to go. The next job will be to rip up that beige berber carpet which is just a 2-foot wide strip going from the front door to the kitchen. The rest of the dining room has hardwood flooring, so we'll take up that carpet and install new hardwood, then we'll have to have that whole floor sanded and refinished so it will all match. That should be a horrible mess! I'm not looking forward to that at all!
And then, after that sometime we want to do the same with the living room, but it's just too much for me to get my head around now. Moving everything out of this room would be monumental, and I don't even want to think about it now. If it goes anything like all the rest of our home-repair projects, though, it won't happen for many, many moons yet!
Paul is all set to have his thyroidectomy this week. He is out on the ocean today pulling in the last of the traps he plans to keep in for the winter. That's a full time job all by itself. He pulls in about 30 traps at a time, has to stack them up on his boat, unload them onto the float in the harbor, go get his truck which is parked far away due to hardly any parking in a crowded small New England fishing/yuppie town, and then load the traps onto his truck, drive them home, unload and stack them here...then it all starts over again. He's been doing this since the end of December, and he only has one more load to go. He's leaving a few dozen traps out there to continue fishing thru the winter. Every little bit helps pay the bills.
Once he is over his operation, and has gained some strength back, he will start in on his deep-winter job - of repairing all his buoys, rope, brick, heads, and traps. He has close to 400 of these to do each year, so it all takes time. He makes his own brick. He knits his own heads. He paints (3 coats of 3 colors) his own buoys, and he assembles his own traps from kits.
I just keep typing for dollars, and trying to keep the home fires burning the whole while.
For the next week or so, I'll probably not type an entry here, seeing as how I will have to add "nursing" to my regular duties here. Keep your fingers crossed for Paul this week, if you think of it. And prayers would be greatly appreciated for a good pathology report on the thyroid resection.
Cheers,
Bex
8:47 am - 09 January 2006
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