Category: lakehouse

Chilly and damp.   MAY get some rain, but I hope not.

Yesterday’s rain continued until about 10am, then it was part sun for the rest of the day.  Around dusk, I drove through some very light drizzle north of Houston, but it didn’t get the stuff in the bed wet.

Did my pickups.   Made it here and had a relaxing movie  night with the family.

I was listening to a couple more episodes of The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes on the drive up.  These are recordings of the radio show from 1946 starring Basil Rathbone.  It’s surprising how good they sound, how BAD organ music sounds on the recording, and how different the world was.   The sponsor, Petri wine, has to basically teach the audience about wine, when to drink what, and even what “dry” means.  The only wine they are selling is port, sherry, and muscatel.  But ‘every Petri wine is a good wine.’   It was a simpler time.  But, it was also a time when the audience had a much better vocabulary and understanding of the spoken word.

Today, I think you’d be hard pressed to find 3 people in 100 who could listen to a half hour radio show and understand it.

Speaking of today, the turkey started defrosting last night and will go into some sort of brine today.  If I have to head to town and the grocery store for anything I’ll be looking for cheap whole chickens or cheap ribs to throw in the smoker with the turkey.  If I’m going to run it for a day, I should fill it.

While the turkey is thawing, I’ll be working on the master bath, plumbing first, then popcorn ceiling and more carpentry.  It would be nice to get it back together and working (albeit without floor covering) this week.   Some more plumbing in the kitchen would be nice too.  And a myriad of small things might get done, or not, as the spirit and time move me.

Stacking up the improvements.   And sand bags.  For some reason the universe is putting sand bags in front of me this month.   So I’m buying them.  I’ve learned not to ignore something like that.  I’ve picked them up at Goodwill, and at auction.   I’ve got plenty of sand here…

If you see something you don’t usually see, especially if it’s something out of the ordinary, take a good long look, and see if there is a message there.   Could be coming from your subconscious, or elsewhere, but it’s always worth paying attention,  especially if you notice it more than once.

Maybe it’s something you need to stack.  There are lots of things I’m sure.  Or maybe it’s just someone you need to call, or maybe something you need to avoid, or embrace.   Live in the moment, you can sleep when you’re dead.

Stack stuff.

nick

Cold and wet, with a chance of cold and clear.    National forecast says we’ll be clear, and it could warm up, but it was 48F when I went to bed.

Spent Friday doing my pickups, then finding the stuff I wanted to bring to my meeting to try to sell.   I had lost a thing that is bigger than a breadbox…   found it though.   Looked in three places before looking at home.  It was sitting here all along, not even hidden, just in a bin I didn’t think it would be in.   I was looking for it out in the open.  You always find it in the last place you look 😉

Today I’ve got my meeting, then load the truck and head out.   I’ll get some stuff moved up there, do a chore or two, and spend some time there.   All wins.

I have plenty to do at home, but I need to keep moving at the BOL if we’re going to do Thanksgiving there.

And I’m moving stuff there and building the stacks.  If I have enough time, I’ll divide my OTC drug bin and take half to the BOL.   I’m taking most of the food I bought yesterday too.  One of the deals at HEB yesterday was “buy a ham, get a free turkey”.  I’ve got freezer space at the lake, so I did.    Even though the ham was a dollar more per pound than Costco, the 12 pound turkey for free more  than made up the difference.   A couple of years ago that deal didn’t save any money over Costco.  Now it does.

If you aren’t normally a “deal” shopper, a coupon-er, or an ad shopper, this would be a good time to start.  Get a jump on the coming hardship, and practice saving money.  Learn the rhythm of the sales, and what stores have better pricing on what items.   It’s not yet a matter of eating or not eating, so you can make mistakes and climb the learning curve.   Going on as you’ve always gone, is not going to be an option forever.

Preps will help ease the transition.  So stack some stuff.

nick

Cool and clear.  After a night of storming and rain.   Temps dropped 10F between when I got home and midnight, with the rain starting right around midnight.  The front is supposed to move through though, and leave a gorgeous Saturday behind.  We’ll see, is about all I can say so far.

Did my pickups and none of my errands yesterday.   Forgot about two of them and ran out of time.  I’ll be trying to get them in before I blow town today.  I need to pick up some liquid slab sealer/vapor barrier.  I plan to just use the same stuff we used under our hardwood here in the house.   It wasn’t cheap but it was easy to install and I’m familiar with it.  I already picked up a structural crack repair epoxy.   Might be overkill, but where I did it here we haven’t had issues.   Where I didn’t, we’ve had moisture under the floor.  Store opens at 10am and is a mile from my house, on the way toward the BOL.

That is the big goal for this weekend- get the middle bedroom floor sealed, so my wife can put the floor back next weekend.

Wife and kids are at Girl Scout camp this weekend, so I hope the weather clears.   I can work indoors if it’s raining at the lake.  I don’t want to drive up in the rain, or have the stuff in the back of the pickup truck get wet, so I REALLY hope it’s clear later.

If I can’t work on the floor, I’ll do something else.   And on the way up, I pick up the new freezer.  Getting that up there is a secondary goal all by itself.

I’ll have the dog with me this weekend, so that should be interesting.   We’ll see how he behaves without his girl along, and if I can keep him off the floor goo.

Exciting times ahead.

Stack some stuff, you know you wanna.

n