Busy on the Home Front

We live in a home that needs a little TLC. It’s been about ten years. It still seems to be suffering some self-esteem issues.

As the Pages grow, the main living space seems to shrink. We’re trying to get serious about finishing off the basement. It’s hard though. Life intrudes, and really, who wants to demolish and rebuild a forty year old home when there are Fringe Festivals and Ballet in the Park waiting to be enjoyed!

Today, however, we put noses to the grindstone and hit our ToDo lists:

MrPages:

• cut melamine for three sets of drawers for the new cabinet he built last Saturday
• hung four new lighting fixtures in the basement
• replaced the front door hinges and screen that were wounded in an encounter with small boys
• cleaned out seven or so dead PC’s, two boxes of recycling, and a bag garbage from the home office
• designed and partially built a new cross-cut sled for the table saw in anticipation of future cabinet building
• a few loads of laundry
• vacuumed up after MrsPages’ mess (He’s my hero!)

MrsPages:

• completed the scraping of the peeling paint in the back hall (This is an entire separate saga in and of itself!)
• spackled the damaged areas in the back hall (Who attacked the ledge with a machete?)
• sanded the back hall
• re-spackled areas that didn’t pass my hyper-sensitive inspection
• re-sanded the back hall
• removed old tiles off the back hall landing
• removed sticky vinyl squares off the back stairs
• removed some indestructible linoleum that was hiding under the sticky tiles (Can you still buy this stuff? I need some for my kitchen!)

Together:

• Took the LittlePages out for ice cream!

All in all, not a bad day!

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