Cold fingers
All last week it was too cold to do much up at the river, but here in town, we scored big at the ReStore in New Brighton: a 7-foot-long wicker (well, plastic wicker) couch. We’d admired it on a previous visit and then, out of the blue, I got a text message from ReStore offering a VIP 50% off sale. We hopped on that one, boy. Had to rent a U-Haul trailer on a 10-degree morning to haul it up to the house, but even without cushions and in the midst of a frozen construction zone, it looks great (and Sammy looks cold, even in the Bernie mitts):
There was no sign that any workers had been onsite in the week since I was last there, and I hadn’t expected any. It’s January, after all.
But the forecast for a stretch of warmer weather meant that it was time to get certain things done before we get a really big snowfall. First on my list was to schedule delivery of the big door for the back of the house (the split entry), which arrived today:
By the way, those are the new gas and electric meters in the right photo — at last! Alas, there’s still no power upstairs, but the electrician has started connecting house circuits to the (also new) service panel in the basement.
According to the contractor (currently on vacation), a bunch of stuff is about to come together this week—maybe: the basement slab may be poured, and the well may finally get finished and piped into the house (goodbye creepy drilling rig). As soon as that’s in place, the electrician comes back to finish connecting the household circuits, plus wire up the water-well pump and the septic pump. Then the plumber with a list of more more more—-
It’s fixin’ to be an action-filled season.
Meanwhile, in the quiet after the door was delivered, I wandered around the battle-scarred front yard. The still-frozen puddles from the last well-drilling attempt had some fantastic textures (click to view bigger images):
Almost forgot: after the door arrived, I drove to the county government office in Center City and got a remodeling permit for the kitchen & bathroom. No dramatic changes to the layout of either, but with new fixtures and thus plumbing connections, they want a permit.
Readers have asked for more details on The Plan — next time (promise!)
