house rules no. 9
Jul. 16th, 2004 06:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
truepennyToday's Revelation (not recommended): Oh fuck it has feet.
The optimal moment at which to discover you have a dead and dessicated frog in your living room is not the moment at which it gets stuck in the vacuum cleaner attachment.
I had just been assuming it was a hellacious dust bunny.
h.l. and I went down today. We have decided the house is Eeyore, glum and neglected and badly needing appreciation and TLC. She spackled ceilings; I dealt with the plaster part of the ghastly wall (learn how to drywall in your free time!). The drywall part is just going to have to wait for Mirrorthaw.
I sanded down all the spackle in the house I could reach. (I normally don't mind the fact that I'm only 5'4", but it's really starting to get on my nerves.) Then we prepped the dining room for painting. h.l. most valiantly cleaned all the lintels, which I would guess is the first time that's been done since Eisenhower was in the White House (where are the Ikes of yesteryear? beware the Ikes of March? I'll stop now). We masking-taped everything in sight.
And, as mentioned above, I did some vacuuming.
Tomorrow: primer.
The optimal moment at which to discover you have a dead and dessicated frog in your living room is not the moment at which it gets stuck in the vacuum cleaner attachment.
I had just been assuming it was a hellacious dust bunny.
h.l. and I went down today. We have decided the house is Eeyore, glum and neglected and badly needing appreciation and TLC. She spackled ceilings; I dealt with the plaster part of the ghastly wall (learn how to drywall in your free time!). The drywall part is just going to have to wait for Mirrorthaw.
I sanded down all the spackle in the house I could reach. (I normally don't mind the fact that I'm only 5'4", but it's really starting to get on my nerves.) Then we prepped the dining room for painting. h.l. most valiantly cleaned all the lintels, which I would guess is the first time that's been done since Eisenhower was in the White House (where are the Ikes of yesteryear? beware the Ikes of March? I'll stop now). We masking-taped everything in sight.
And, as mentioned above, I did some vacuuming.
Tomorrow: primer.
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Date: 2004-07-16 04:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-07-16 05:15 pm (UTC)(Our good step-stool was not so expensive at Lowe's.)
Good luck with the primer. If it's oil-based--hats and goggles for the ceiling, or you'll never get it off.
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Date: 2004-07-16 06:39 pm (UTC)When I bought this house, a good deal of dunging-out-of-storage-spaces had to be done before the pest and dry rot inspector dropped by. I hired a friend to help me, and he was almost finished emptying the shed-like space beneath the back porch when I heard him exclaim, "Oh, shit!"
A few seconds later he emerged brancishing a shovel full of extremely mummified possum.
Once we both got over the "ewwwwwww" response, it was kind of cool, in a creepy skin-and-bones sort of way. I thought briefly of keeping it, but settled for photographing it instead.
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Date: 2004-07-16 06:41 pm (UTC)