I must apologize for not writing much lately. Things have gotten a little out of control. I took on a second part time job as the secretary at my church. It is much harder than what was explained to me and I have had to put in more hours than expected. Hopefully things will settle down soon with that. Meanwhile at the water district, we are in the midsts of changing over our billing system. This means the regular secretary has to be holed up in the back room manually entering all of our customers into the new system. Then I get to learn to do the billing. So I have been going in 3 or 4 days a week to watch the front office and let her work in peace.
We are also getting ready for my daughter Emily’s 13th birthday party on Sunday. There is nothing like people coming to your house to get you up and doing some much needed projects. I re-grouted around the kitchen sink, the toilet and the bathtub. I put in a new rug and some new jars to hold Q-tips and cotton balls. It is finally starting to look half decent. I still need to finish painting the ceiling and hopefully before winter comes again, get a new heater in there.
My husband has been working on trim. I finally, after 3 years, have baseboards and trim all around the doors! I cannot tell you what a difference this makes in the house. It now has a finished look as opposed to a project half way done look. This meant I could finish putting up the wall paper border in my kitchen. It feels so great to have the kitchen almost done. I am hoping he will install my new faucet this weekend. He was working on the new tub fixtures we bought, but as per usual, ran into a snafoo. The hot and cold water faucets fit fine, but the one you turn to put the shower on is a completely different size from the new one. Go figure. In a normal house, all 3 would be the same size. Now, since we aren’t plumbers, we don’t know what to do. DH is going to talk to someone and see if we can just install the shower handle but get a new faucet with a diverter and use that instead. Honestly, it is always something.
I will try to catch up on our homestead happenings by making several different posts.
