Tag Archives: windows

Thank goodness for friends.

December 9, 2020 Rivergirl 18 Comments

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When your ceiling looks like this?

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And your fireplace looks like this?

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You call in the cavalry.

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Or rather two friends who aren’t afraid of heights.

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Then you buy lots of this…

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And hope they can find the source of the leaks.

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A full day was spent searching, stripping, caulking and replacing shingles….

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In less than balmy weather.

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The view out my window was interesting at times :

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And 7 chilly hours plus one large spaghetti lunch later? They think they solved the problem…. but I guess time will tell.

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The end is in sight. I think…

November 27, 2020 Rivergirl 22 Comments

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A few more windows needed trimming…

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Which meant a lot more measuring, cutting and cursing…

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Why the cursing?

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Because the last window was not what you… or any semi sober person… would call square.

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Oops.

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Cover the gap with quarter round, trim…. then call it good and move on to the porch door.

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Yes, the porch is my domain … so the porch door has a seasonally appropriate wreath. Man cave be damned.

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Trimming this slapped together frame for a door that came from the dump proved challenging.

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And yes, the language got as colorful as the wreath.

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But it was only when the husband looked down…

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And realized the floor moulding should meet the vertical door trim… not the other way around… that he knew he had some tinkering to do.

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But viola!

Adjustments were made and everything that needed to be trimmed was finally trimmed.

Is this the end of the Barn Mahal interior construction?

Only time will tell.

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Winter blues….

March 29, 2020 Rivergirl 23 Comments

No, not the depression.

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Sorry, not the brothers either.

I’m talking about the colors.

Living in Maine, most of our winters are white. But there’s also a lot of beautiful blue…

And when a storm is moving in?

It’s really quite lovely.

These were all taken through my dirty winter windows last month, so be kind.

But spots and all..

You have to admit winter blues are pretty.

Even the ones that turn out kind of weird.

Window – 1. Bird – 0.

September 30, 2019 Rivergirl 20 Comments

We live in the country with a large back yard…

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A field….

and some woods.

This leads to a lot of avian visitors.

Some of whom sadly commit suicide on our windows.

I wasn’t here when this particular bird went splat, but it did leave me a rather prominently placed clue in our bedroom.

A perfect dead bird body print.

Complete with wings.

RIP little one.

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