Anyway we were having a replacement window sales person come by this morning at 1000 to review our window situation, give us his sales pitch, measure our windows and write up a quote. So after I ate breakfast, I read the paper and then vacuumed the downstairs floors, both the carpeting and also the kitchen floor. My new vacuum really does a nice job of the carpets, of course, but also on the non-carpeted floors as well.
I also gathered up the trash from around the house and put it into the bag to go out to the can for tomorrow’s pick-up. The mail came, but there was not a lot of anything there, so I added to the paper recycling.
The salesman arrived right on time and by the time it was all done it was almost 1500, that's right five hours. It was not a high pressure sales pitch, but rather a lot of information and story telling. We also do have a lot of windows in our hours, probably more than twice as many as the average house so that part alone took well over an hour.
By the time he left I was rather hungry, so I heated up the left-over barley and ground turkey dish from the other night. After that I loaded up the dishwasher, there was just enough space left for dinner dishes, so I did not turn it on yet.
I then went into the living room and sat down and took a nap for about an hour and a half. I seem to do a lot of sleeping in that chair. Anyway, I called up to Kathleen and asked her if she was planning to do dinner tonight. She was trying to stay awake at her computer, so it took her a while to come downstairs.
She had planned on making some rice earlier, but forgot to do it so she asked me about noodles; I like noodles, so it was no sacrifice for me to have the noodles instead of the rice. She put the left-over stir fry on top of the noodles, and it was a pretty good meal. She had some sliced up tomatoes and cranberry sauce on the side which helped round out the meal.
After dinner, I finished loading up the dishwasher and turned it on. Well, I did not get a thing done today, but I feel like I worked all day. I think that I covered all the "exciting" things today, so I will just wish everyone a good night!
Monday, July 23, 2007
Missed Monday
I did not get up this morning until after 0700, and again this morning it was darker than it usually is this time of year. In fact it was pretty much overcast all day. So I guess that my getting up does have a lot to do with just how light it is outside.
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4 comments:
Are you replacing all your windows? What are you replacing them with? Vinyl? I'd love to know what it will cost...our windows were so drafty last winter. You could feel the cold air blowing in...and our electric bill was about 5X what it was in our other house!
We are not sure what we are going to do, we just wanted to get an idea of how much they would cost.
The quote we got for all of our windows was about $31000, so it is probably something we are not going to rush out and do right now.
The windows were really nice and I am sure that they are probably worth the price, but I am not sure that this house is worth that much in windows.
Yikes! you could remodel your whole kitchen for that much!
Exactly, your mother would like the two bathroom, the kitchen and the downstairs floor covering replaced if we are going to spend that kind of money.
We will probably replace the bathroom window as we redo the downstairs bathroom and the kitchen windows as we remodel the kitchen.
We will just need to prioritize what we want to do first, second and so on. But at least this gives us an idea of what it will cost.
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