The first three batches of concrete for the summer.

Now that midsummer has been and gone, and with it our obligations for folk dance performances we are finally free to return our attentions to the earth cellar in progress. We had planned to go shopping for concrete on Friday, but it rained all day, and we decided we didn't feel for bothering with tarps in hopes of keeping it dry for the trip home, nor did we want to re-assemble the trailer cover we had taken to Double Wars, but then had to remove for transport of other stuff locally.

Therefore we did the concrete shopping on Saturday, as well as purchasing a object designed to lure thousands of our least popular neighbours to a tedious death. I am not all that keen on killing over territorial disputes, and I have always believed the advice "eat what you kill", but dead bugs gross me out, so I won't even swat mosquitos, but lord_kjar is also willing to kill things that want to eat him, and mosquitos love him, so he was keen to see if we could thus reduce the local population, so that they would leave us alone while we work on the earth cellar. He is totally willing to be the one to clean and empty the trap, since, as mentioned I am totally grossed out by pretty much phobic of dead bugs.

Sunday he wound up having to work several hours during the day, so we didn't start on concrete till the late afternoon, but that still left us time to do three batches, and make some noticeable progress on the earth cellar well. I am delighted that the project is going once again—I like building in stone.

After that I suddenly got hit with an inspiration for improving the organization in the house: First I took the many boxes of larp stuff that linda_linsefors has been storing here since she moved to France out of the downstairs closet. Then I put the large pieces of the loom that has been standing in the downstairs hallway into that closet (the smaller parts have been living under the small guest bed in the boiler room for ages, and I left them there). Then I took apart the newer loom we were given this spring, which we had set up in the guest room to check to see if all parts were present and accounted for (they were) and put the large pieces into that closet, and put the smaller bits under the large bed in the guest room. This left the corner of the guest room for linda_linsefors's stack of boxes.

Having thus emptied the hallway downstairs I was once again struck by the fact that the fuse box, which is mounted on that wall, sticks out in a rather ugly manner. I hadn't much noticed it with the loom bits standing next to it, and taking up as much width from the hallway as the fuse box does. However, this time I also noticed that the wall would look much nicer if we built a set of shelves onto it, surrounding the fuse box. We have been thinking lately that it would be nice to have an over-flow pantry somewhere downstairs, where it is cooler, but we had been stumped as to where—the server closet would have been a good place for it, if it weren't full of SCA stuff, camping gear, and computer stuff, and all of the other rooms are also kind of full. But that wall is space that is available. Therefore we now have yet another largish home improvement project we have added to the list. It will be interesting to see when it makes it to the top of the list and gets done.