Well, for the last couple weeks my focus has been anywhere but on the house. At this time please feel free to check the date on the last post and frown at your computer screen.
The only real work I've done since that last post was to begin repairing the walls and ceiling in the living room where I removed the extra walls during the de-duplexing process. I also started repairing some of the cracks in the staircase wall where the paneling (eck) had been. I read on someone else's blog (I forget who *sorry*) that there's always a reason the paneling is there. It's hiding something! In my case? Cracks. Lotsa 'em.
I'll throw some photos up soon but I can't right now since I'm at Studio and the camera's at home.
I'm getting my 1975 oil-chuggin' heat machine it's annual check-up tomorrow so hopefully it'll last through the winter. If that thing goes out it'll be my roommates and I huddled around a fire in a garbage can in the living room. No, I don't trust the fireplace; It needs to be checked out/cleaned and, last I checked, I don't have a money tree anywhere.
Oh, yeah, and the dryer broke this week. I think it's the heating element because it still runs the same as before, just without all of the 'hot' needed to actually make clothes dry. Of course I figured out this little problem when I went to pick up my clothes from the dryer before work. Yup, there I was ten minutes late for work because I had to dry everything with the roomie's hair dryer.
We had our first flurries of snow this weekend. No I haven't finished the storm windows yet. Yes I'm a bad little homeowner.
I'm going back to my parents' house in Wahpeton (40 miles away) for Thanksgiving weekend and I really don't even want to think about the house.
With the holidays aproaching, I think that I need to pick up some Christmas lights. I finally have a house to decorate for the season, so I'm pretty excited. I'm trying to decide if I want to go simple and understated, or be the obnoxious neighbor with blinky lights of every color running every which way across the house. If I take the 'what was he thinking' approach I know my coworker who lives across the street will have words for me at work. He'd appreciate the humor in it though.
That's all for now, sorry to all who have been checking back to see the same thing over and over. I'll try to do better!
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When you decorate your house, make sure you go Clark Griswold/Christmas Vacation on it. Light that bad-boy up so you could see it from space!
You better not light up that house like a Las Vegas casino. Neighbors, Nathan, neighbors across the street like to sleep!
Hey Nate...check out www.repairclinic.com. Pretty helpful for applliance repair. I replaced the solenoids in my ancient Maytag dryer when it developed the same problem you described. $30 bucks later and we were cookin' with gas again (pun intended)! Good luck!
Funny you used the phrase "there's a reason the paneling is there", my husband said the exact same words to me when I started asking about taking down the paneling in our kitchen!!! :) Really cool house and so cool that someone your age is doing a project like this...smart,smart,smart!!!
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