a productive Saturday

[kareina]

 I went to bed early last night, which meant that I woke early, too. I started my day with a quick pilates session, and finished washing all of Reengarda’s black sheets that we use as tablecloths at events.

 

Once Keldor got up around 07:00, we noticed that one of the center bed legs had fallen down, so we took everything out from under the bed, fixed the leg, vacuumed under there, and put things back in a better order, so nothing will get pushed against that leg and knock it over again.

 

Then we did a quick game of Qwirkle over breakfast (he points out he slaughtered me), and then started working on the house.

 

First up, trying to solve the problem with the cellar floors flaking in a few ares. When we bought the house there were places on both the walls and the floors that had been flaking, due to too much moisture. We solved most of that by just opening all of the ventilation in the cellar, which the previous owner had blocked with newspaper. But the closet we had spackeled and fixed the walls and floor before painting it four years ago is starting to have flaking issues again.

 

So Keldor bought some vents for the various doors, which we installed this morning. By the time that had been accomplished the last load of shire tablecloths we dry and ready to pack, so we could start working on the loo, where we got a far bit accomplished:

 

• finish putting up the outer wall over the insulation on the laundry room side.
• then he put up most of the drywall on the bathroom side of the wall, while I spackeled the outer wall.
• he started working on the ventilation for the room, he installed the collection box, with its sound damping and one of the vents. (There was already a fan at the exit vent that the box now covers, but now it won’t be so noticeable)
• He drilled the large hole in the wall through which vent tube will run, to carry moist air from the laundry room and out that collection box (there are advantages to living with a partner who installs ventilation for industry buildings for his day job (he want me to add that he is also seriously cute, and talented at Qwirkle))
• eventually he reached a good breaking point and went upstairs to feed the fish in the aquarium, and I cleaned the bathroom and laundry room, not only getting all the dust from cutting wood and drywall, but even cleaning lint out of the dryer door beyond where the lint trap is.
• When I finally came upstairs, he was asleep on the couch.

 

I forgot to mention that our housekeeper made it over today as we were working. Can I just tell you how nice it is to have time and energy for doing these renovations because someone else is taking care of the basic “keep the house liveable” cleaning? We appreciated it extra this week, as they had a family medical emergency the week before, and couldn’t come, so we had two weeks worth of cleaning to be done.