Keeping Busy

The design work is slow, slow, slow. There was a week or two about a month ago when things seemed like they were going to start picking up. But no, no, no, it's slow, slow, slow.

Once things do pick-up there is potential for a downhill steamroll. I'm pretty good at delivering the goods. Then that person, tells another person, who tells another person and off we go.

But I'm not twiddling my thumbs waiting for anything. There's plenty to do around here - always.

We've finally settled on a general design concept for the front two rooms, living side and business side. So now we can officially start looking around for furniture to meet the gameplan. We still need to take a morning and run into the York Architectural Salvage warehouse. I'm sure we can find some items to add to the house here.

It took me this entire past weekend to install a blind for a skylight in the office. The sun made it impossible for Barb to see her computer screen from about 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. each day.

It took me one whole day to realize that the blind dimensions were wrong. Well they weren't completely wrong, the width and height were just switched around. It was a custom order so we were stuck with them. But the skylight is not on much of an incline so I installed them horizontally instead of vertically. Hey, it works.

It's pay attention to the yard time of year too. The leaves are already starting to slowly fall. And a recent storm has small limbs from the trees down all over too. The new leaf blower may make an appearance today.

I've got to climb back into mosquito alley some day soon to make some small adjustments to our rain barrel. The idea was to catch rain water in the barrel so the yard is less likely to flood during a strong storm. Then the rain water could be used from the barrel to water plants. So far the effect is mixed, mainly because the yard pouring into our yard from the neighbor's yard has not yet been addressed.

A lot of boring around the house kind of things. And the list does go on and on. But it keeps me active, which is very important.

And since the Bowflex 30-minutes of exercise was just finished, it's time to jump in that shower and get things underway. I hope everyone has a good, positive and productive start to the work week.