NEW DUNBURY

Not Bad for a Sickie.

I’m still snurfling so I’ve been hanging around the house this weekend. And doing stuff.

The garage doors are now washed and stained. We now have a shelf in the office nook/closet. And we have a stone step at the bottom of the west deck stairs — no more plywood to prevent those muddy landings. And the LBC stuff in the garage is re-arranged so I can get the van in again.

In the “not as good as it could have been” department: The countertop guy was supposed to come and take a look at the now re-cracked fix he did weeks ago. It was supposed to happen Saturday AM. He didn’t show up. He called mid-afternoon while I was in the garage and said he’d try again later. Which AFAIK never happened. Follow-up time.

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Or more like: Non-Progress Report.

Last weekend we did a living history show downtown. While getting ready for it I thought I seemed to be coming down with something. I was. It didn’t really hit until Monday, but it has meant that this week has been pretty unproductive.

However, the house survived its first major over-nighter with multiple guests. We relied heavily on air mattresses since every guest was a singleton, no couples. We let them draw lots for the actual bed. The one problem was a leak from the guest shower. We had used it ourselves for months without an issue, so it seems to be a combination of the new shower curtain and user error. It was caught pretty quickly so we’re hoping there’s no permanent damage.

The window seat remains unfinished and will probably stay that way for a bit, as more pressing items that need good weather are needing to be done. I’ll need to be healthy to get some of that accomplished.

Yesterday, the landscape guys came by to do remedial seeding for our grassed areas and to plant our first chosen tree: the holly for the “planter” in front of the house.

I have managed to get the pads on the new dining room chairs replaced. Here’s hoping it’ll end those annoying “scraaaapes.”

Before taking down the plywood cutting station I had established in the garage, I rough-cut sections for the closet/home office shelf and shelves for the pantry. They need priming and I’m hoping to get that done today since I’m feeling a bit better.

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