OMG.
So busy.
I mean, I like to be busy, but this is a little insane. Since my last day at work on Wednesday I have:
Wednesday night:
- Celebrated with friends.
Thursday:
- Walked Franca to her last day at daycare. Jogged home.
- Sanded, patched and cleaned kitchen windows.
- Trimmed out kitchen windows with new wood. [FINALLY!]
- Caulked under window.
- Painted kitchen windows and installed new hardware.
Friday (while Franca napped):
- Dug up all the plants I want to salvage from the soon to be leveled backyard area.
- Saw one snake INSIDE the basket I was carrying. Screeching and running around in circles ensued.
- Dug up areas in the front yard to plants these plants. Then the rain hit.
- Made Franca run around with me doing a little shopping.
- Bought bras in the kid's section at Old Navy. [I wish I was kidding.]
- Installed panels under the kitchen island on the dining room side to eliminate the hazard of the open back of the dishwasher and the open spaces behind our cabinets that kids should *not* have access too.
- Painted these new panels will the oldest, nastiest, thickest black paint. It was all we had. Could not run to store because FC was sleeping.
- Cleaned house because Marc's parents are coming.
Saturday:
- Worked a little on an architectural project.
- Ran a million errands.
- Ate at Jason's Deli. [Yum!]
- Replanted the salvaged plants in a new area in the front yard with new mulch, some other new plants, and rocks salvaged from the backyard.
- Went to dinner with Marc's parents. [Vinnie's - delicious.]
Sunday:
- Up at crack of dawn with Franca.
- Put Marc and his dad to work in the backyard. [I kid you not, I said "Mush"!]
- Tore up all the railroad ties.
- Discovered 3 MORE snakes. Only screeching this time. No running.
- Marc bought a wheelbarrow.
- Dislodged and carted to the back of the yard all the stones.
- Dislodged and carted to the back of the yard all the concrete pieces.
- Salvaged a couple more plants.
- Moved those huge, heavy old sinks to the back of the yard.
- Worked on an architectural project.
- Worked on a rendering for Touch Graphics...... which I am still doing right now. I'm writing these between test renderings. UGHHH. I want to go to BED!
But because I have more tests to run, here are the photos from Thursday's Items 2-5:
Kitchen Window Trim-out
Note: This is a long-term temporary solution to these open, gross, trim-less windows. They will probably get fancier trim work if we ever finish the kitchen. I just couldn't stand to have Franca (and any other kids) sitting below this mess, so I went to work trimming:
Before
Yea, nice right? Disgusting old yellow sponge paint. Exposed weight boxes. Spray foam insulation. Spider webs. Klassy. A good friend of mine spent a whole night last month thinking that those weight boxes were just open to the back yard and the elements. (They are not, the windows are trimmed out on the outside.)
Step-by-step
[click on any image to enlarge.]
First, I had to "furr" the windows out to make the trim overlap the drywall. This was pretty tricky, and complicated because I insisted on only using scrap wood and of course, nothing is level or plumb in this house.
We are thinking we will be eventually replacing these two windows, so I didn't want to deal with the hassle of removing the sashes and the million other steps required to make the weights function, so I just cleaned the weights, put them back at the bottom of the weight boxes and stuff the cavity with nice, clean, white insulation!
[Um, yea, that is all one sentence. It's 11:36pm. Deal with it.]
[Um, yea, that is all one sentence. It's 11:36pm. Deal with it.]
Then, I trimmed out with nice, clean wood we already had in the basement (yea, thrifty!). Save for the middle piece, for that I had to run to Home Depot mid-project (boo). Click on that first image to see a ridiculously huge caulk joint. 1/4 inch at the top, 1-1/4 inch at the bottom. Stupid old houses.
After
Franca can now eat and play without being grossed out! Yippee!
I'll post the stuff from Friday-Sunday. But I'm tired now. ;)
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wow, and i thought i've been busy!
ReplyDeletethe window looks great! i did the same thing with the trim on our bathroom window and i'm also wondering if i should have put an apron under it. it's been a couple of years though and it doesn't bug me anymore (it's amazing what you can learn to live with!).
and snakes? um, yeah, i'm glad that i haven't seen any of those here in stl!
I noticed there wasn't an apron....but maybe that is just because DH just trimmed out my favorite window in our house and didn't put an apron which I was expecting him to. Leave it until you are less busy!
ReplyDeleteI think the window looks great. I'm impressed with your energy, too. Totally relating to the bra situation, but the good part is - no sagging! Yay for us!
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