It is Starting to Look Finished Now!

I woke up early again this morning; I must be starting another trend. I kind of like getting up early as the house is quite and peaceful and now that I am sleeping better I am more wide awake earlier.

Since I was meeting with the guys this morning I had a light breakfast and while I was doing that I read the paper and drank my coffee. When I finished I loaded up the dishwasher and started it up. Then I went upstairs, told Kathleen that I was going and then took off.

There were only four of us there this morning, usually I am the one missing, but today I made it. I finally left around 1100 a little later than I had planned, but I had not been there for a while so I guess that I needed it. When I got back home Stan was already there and starting to put the molding around the doors.

I changed clothes and asked Stan if he needed me for anything and he said not now, so I went outside and worked in the vegetable garden. Most of the seeds that I had planted did not germinate; not a big surprise as most of the seeds were between fifteen and twenty years old.

I planted them when I did because if they did sprout I would be ahead of the game, but if they did not I would still have time to plant what I wanted because June and July is when I normally do my garden anyway.

When ever I have tried to start planting early it is so wet that the seeds just rot in the ground and I have to do it again anyway. I went through each row and hand weeded just to see if I could see any plants coming up that I had planted but there were not enough of anything to make it worthwhile keeping any. Now I will just re-till the rest of the garden and plant what we really want instead of just what we had laying around.

By the time I finished weeding it was 1500, so I put my tools away, cleaned up and made myself some lunch. While I was eating lunch I went through the mail; not much there, a couple catalogs and the bill for my long term care. I had thought that I had made arrangements for my financial advisers to take care of it so I called them.

They were not available to answer the phone so I left a voice mail; they returned my call about fifteen minutes later and said that indeed they would be taking care of it and for me to disregard the bill. It is a good thing as it was for almost $3500 and I would really have to make some serious adjustments in order to pay it.

Since Stan did not need me today I emptied the dishwasher and flipped through my Jeep catalog that came today. Kathleen was planning on going to a sewing seminar at Montivilla Sewing Center tonight so I made dinner; I made some Spinach and Mozzarella Ravioli and topped it with some olive oil, Italian herbs and cheese. There was enough left over so that when Kathleen come home she can have some also.

Well we now have molding around the doors, along the floor and around the rail at the top of the stairs. Tomorrow I think that we are going to put the hand rail up, we have not had one for six months now; of course the old one had the center bracket broken so it was not very stable anyway. We are also putting up a sill for the window and the molding around it. Now Kathleen and I will have to pick up some door knobs and I will have to install them.

That should just about finish this phase of the remodel; Next up will be the downstairs bathroom, kitchen and then refinish the rest of the floors. I think all but our bedroom will get wood floors, the bathroom tile, the kitchen maybe cork, we have not decided yet and then probably carpeting for our bedroom.

I am tired just thinking about all that we need to do yet. We probably will not do much more until this fall when Stan has some more open time, so I hope to get a few things done around here and enjoy the summer.