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Home renovations turn the corner. Literally…

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The living room floor is almost finished and we are turning the corner…

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Trying to save some money and move things along, my husband is staying ahead of the contractor with brute force prep work.

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Ripping out the old carpet…

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As the contractor makes his way into the hall.

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This particular area is two hallways.

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One short.

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One long.

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Both covered in nail ridden carpet strips and those nasty little sharp padding staples.

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When that was done my husband started removing trim…

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Which I really didn’t want him to do.

My guy is great with the rough stuff, but when it comes to careful finish work?

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Not so much. He broke off 4 small pieces and split the trim in 3 spots.

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This is the trim I’m trying to salvage of course. We’re putting all new in the living room but it’s priced by the foot and gets costly quickly.

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My repair skills only go so far.

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Don’t say I didn’t warn you…

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Gather round loyal readers and listen while I bang my AI war drum yet again.

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Ditch the artificial intelligence before it’s too late!

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Are you paying attention?

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I keep warning you…. but you’re not listening.

This is only a small part of that disturbing article but to add insult to injury?

The very next story I saw hit a little too close to home…

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Noooo!

Don’t click.

Don’t do it…

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Strawberries. They’re not just for daiquiris anymore…

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I’m not a big baker but I do make fruit bread now and then. Banana bread, apple bread… I’ve even made blueberry bread. But up until now I’d never made strawberry bread.

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And while I can’t say it’s my favorite…

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It wasn’t half bad either.

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I used the vanilla extract but next time I think I’d try almond for a touch more flavor.

I also had to add a bit of water to the glaze, it was too pasty their way.

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It’s starting to look like a floor!

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Things are starting to come together on the flooring project.

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And I’m almost afraid to say this lest something horrible happen….

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But work is progressing smoothly.

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It’s going to take us a while to get used to this type of floor as we’ve had carpet in here since we moved in, but I’m liking it so far.

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Lord Dudley Mountcatten’s jury is still out.

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Though he does enjoy the work table when our contractor goes out to the man cave/Barn Mahal for lunch.

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Progress!

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News you can’t use.

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Because there’s always plenty of it.

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If I remember correctly, I got a quarter. My how times have changed…

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I have no words.

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And from the look of those rats, they’re not thrilled to be living in Beantown either.

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A steady rat population is a beautiful thing.

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That may not be the only reason, but okay.

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It’s always the last place you look.

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No! Not the cheese…..

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Every day we’re bombarded with terrible news.

School shootings, plane crashes, natural disasters, war…. but this article I read the other day might be the one to push me over the proverbial edge.

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And it’s more serious than having an uncanny resemblance to our funky window insulation.

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Read on for some truly horrible news.

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Say it isn’t so!

I love Camembert, Brie and Blue….

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This isn’t bad news, it’s catastrophic.

My world will not be the same without the soft ripened loveliness of a creamy Brie or the pungent marbled goodness of blue.

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Dare I say it? Progress…

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There were a few men in the closet at Casa River the other day.

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My husband started there with a can of paint.

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And the contractor followed shortly after with the new flooring.

I have to say it’s a bit darker than I expected.

This was the generated image their website showed me.

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And this is what looks like in our house.

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The odd thing is it tends to change color depending on the amount of light in the room.

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Seen here with Lord Dudley in the bright light of day it has a warmer tone.

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And when the shadows shift, it darkens.

Either way, we’ll love it.

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We have to, it’s non returnable.

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Weird things Amazon thinks I should buy.

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I always get a kick out of these computer generated suggestions and wonder what the hell I’ve done to deserve them.

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Do I need to push a snail shell when I want soap?

I do not.

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Why are they still making these things? And does anyone still buy them…

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Again with the pickles.

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Okay, those could actually come in handy.

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Clearly their idea of magic mushrooms and mine differ considerably.

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The major, the minor and the furry inconveniences.

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This first picture is what I call porn for women.

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A man, using a shop vac to clean.

And boy do we need cleaning.

Dust?

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It’s everywhere.

And since my husband is retired again … (did I mention that? He went back to work for 6 months but decided to call it quits for good this time. Or so he says)… our contractor has put him to work with the time consuming annoying jobs.

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Like pulling out all the little pieces of old carpet trapped under the frame of the brickwork.

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So many little pieces.

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Of that horrible dusty rose crap that’s still in our bedroom.

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Its removal will be the next project we tackle after this one.

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If this one is ever finished that is.

And because you know nothing goes smoothly here…

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See the threshold piece wrapped in plastic on the right? See how it matches the flooring? There should have been 3 tubes of that, we got 1.

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The other 2 tubes looked like this.

Not even close… which means another delay and annoyance while we wait for the store to replace it.

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Furry inconvenience?

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We’ve got that too as Lord Dudley Mountcatten has developed a fascination with power tools.

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Dead mice, cellular shades and laser levels.

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When I was painting the living rooms walls, I removed all the light and outlet covers. That included the ridiculous switch on the right the previous owner had installed.

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It went to the hot water heater which apparently she shut off every night. We never do that and I was tired of looking at it so I had the contractor remove the annoying red light. This meant rewiring some lines in the basement.

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And the discovery of a corpse.

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Poor little thing.

Trying to keep my husband from talking to the contractor …. while paying him $55 an hour to listen…. I found a project to keep my spouse busy.

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Installing cellular shades on our new bedroom windows. He gave me the look when I told him that meant putting holes in the new trim but before long he was reaching for his hammer for some none too subtle adjustments.

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This job took the better part of an afternoon..

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And didn’t seem to bother His Lordship over much.

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When my husband started chatted up the contractor again, he was asked to help with some laser assisted measurements.

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And after the measuring?

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More talking…

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