So we’ve got our living room back together more or less… still have a lot of molding to put up, some cracks to fill, and the project of the two patches where the walls were removed, but the plywood in the addition part of the living room is now covered with vinyl planks we spent all day putting in. They look real good, are durable, and were cheap. A good solution for the time being.
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We had held off on doing anything with the rug while Lindsy was still around, knowing she wouldn’t be able to walk on bare wood. But since she’s gone now… Once I made the first cut, we were committed… A few hours later a bit more progress has been made. Finally we call it quits for day one. We’ve got about half of the area we’d planned on ripping out. The area around the fireplace will have to stay until we can get someone in to refinish the floors, as that area is just plywood. We’re going to clean it up as best as we can for now. Once all of the carpet shreds, foam bits, and wayward staples are picked up, it’s safe to release our pica-prone dog. The white speckles and smears are old paint. The black area in the kitchen doorway looks like linoleum glue. Another unanticipated surprise was the area where the original dining room walls had been removed, and instead of hardwood there is 2″ x 4″ for flooring. This is a LOT of work – pulling up the carpet and foam is the easy part; removing the nails, carpet strips, and staples is what really kicked our butts. After spending most of my early AM hours following my usual blogs, news sites, and feeds, I decided to look for the lyrics to “Aenema” by Tool to add a few lines to my quotes page. Then I wondered if it would be a copyright violation to add the entire song because it just so fits how I feel about the world in general. Then I decided maybe I need to shut down the computer and spend some time outside with the birds and plants and trees, since the Internet is definitely not improving my disposition this morning So I am off to garden a bit (and fling slugs) then spend some time volunteering at the shelter, and maybe after Joy gets off work we can sit out on the patio, watch the hummingbirds at the feeder and not think about oil slicks, wars, ecological destruction, the economy, genetic engineering, the decline of our culture, corruption, greed, corporatocracy, and things like that for just a few hours. But here are the lyrics anyway… From the lyrics page on Tool’s official site
http://www.toolband.com/album/lyrics/aenima.html
Yesterday we had some friends visit from Canada. Anne and pat gave me my very first job when I was sixteen, helping renovate their house, and I’ve kept in touch with them all of these years since then. It was great getting to see them again, and we all went to the Carl Sandburg House down in Flat Rock. We enjoyed the tour and seeing the house and grounds, but had particular fun with the goats. I wanted a close-up of a goat, and while I was hunkered down focusing, suddenly got even more of a close up than I had anticipated with another goat that came over to see what I was doing. I love the architecture of this bay window! Mr. Rooster gives us the hairy eyeball. There are 40 more pictures in the album I uploaded, including more of the grounds, the house, and of course, the goats. Woo Hoo! The WPG2 plugin has been restored so that the blog is back to it’s happy self. I haven’t had a lot of time to work on this, but it’s been nagging at me and making me crazy. I had posted on the WPG2 forum to no avail, and was going to contact my webhost and see if they had a fix. While I was driving yesterday, it occurred to me to try one last time to delete and replace the files themselves. I had done this before and it didn’t fix it, but this time it did. I don’t even care that I don’t know how I fixed it, I’m just glad it’s working. The problem is that WPG2 has been orphaned and is no longer being developed. I assume that at some point, a few upgrades down the road, I am going to have this problem again if Wordpress or Gallery2 significantly change their code. Gallery3 is out there on the horizon, and while currently there doesn’t appear to be support for embedding in Wordpress, maybe that will be added later. Or maybe someone else will pick up WPG2 and continue on with it. |
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