Random has taken the opportunity of the chaos in the house to re-establish the chain of command. He used to stay mostly downstairs. He slept in the downstairs bedroom at night, rarely making it upstairs until the early morning when he got hungry. Now all that has changed. This is what I found Tuesday morning -- I know the blog heading says "Monday" -- when I went up to take a picture of what we (meaning Tom) did on Monday.
This looks like Random is declaring open warfare on Hobbes. Who will reign supreme?
You can see the curtains Tom was putting up at midnight. I, the lovely assistant and tool fetcher, fell asleep leaning against the door.
Earlier we had unboxed the shelves at the sides of the bed and they were the wrong ones. We had to go back to the store and exchange them. Aargh. Up the stairs and back down the stairs. Who needs Stairmasters. We've climbed up and down our stairs hundreds of times -- no, thousands of times -- over the past couple of weeks.
Dave, our general contractor, came to look at the soft floorboards in Ted's old room. Since the house is over a hundred years old, it's anybody's guess why the boards were cut so many times. The apparent flood from the shower at some point didn't help, I'm sure. He also took a patch of the floor covering to see if there's any asbestos in it. We are soooo hoping for a cheap fix: no asbestos and a quick slap of plywood on the weak spots. Cross your fingers!
"Our" general contractor makes us sound rich, doesn't it? It just means we have an old house that has needed way too many fixes over the years.
Sabbatical Useful Projects Running Total: Started-12, Completed-11.231.
