Fly the Flag (its finished)
Posted: Tuesday, 27 March 2007 |
Yes the floor is finished all we need now are walls, electric,water,a ceiling and a few doors but apart from that its done. The Rayburn has been polished and moved to a place nearby its final resting place and the heated floor is just waiting for the hook up and gentle filling and raising the heat in the pipes which can be done in a few weeks time. The next task will be the bedroom floor and then the shower room and bathroom, by that time the weather should be good enough for the rest of the roof to be exposed and the new roof completed. It all sounds so easy doesn't it.
Well another ton of sand has been delivered today along with more bags of cement so I can guess what I will be doing for the next few days. OH JOY !!!
Well another ton of sand has been delivered today along with more bags of cement so I can guess what I will be doing for the next few days. OH JOY !!!
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Exemplary grouting. Lovely shiny Raeburn. I hope you're going to have a pulley. A cat can enjoy many hours of harmless amusement watching as bipeds become entangled in the hanging gardens of babylon, oftimes entering Anorak Towers festooned in Large Knickers and other garments. But then, who would design a house with the utility room doubling as lobby.....
Flying Cat from lurking in the lobby
I'm really impressed with all the work you've done, and with the results. That kitchen floor is magnificent. It must have been really hard work moving the slabs. One thing puzzles me, though - where are you living at the moment while you're doing all this? Or is part of the house habitable?
Jill from EK
it looks lovely. hope your not doing what we done when we renovated our last house-we camped in it-by horrible
carol from france
Under-floor heating? Whatever next? They'll be slicing bread and opening pubs on a Sunday no doubt soon. Heaven Forbid...
Tws from Underthetablewithfear
Up until now we have a habitable part of the house but come spring when the other half of the roof comes off then we are having to move to the new part as long as its finished by then !!!
Barebraes from Shapinsay
Raeburn looks very well polished. I assume you do use it for cooking? Not just for show?! # Oh, they live in the open air, but it's all quite safe: Mr. B., he who perfected to one hand Clint Eastwood-like shot-gunning, sleeps with his trusty double barrel by his side. Mr. B. has been known reflexively to grab it when she nudged him to get down the decibel level of the snoring. I have all this from FC - of RadarVision - who does nocturnal wanderings/flybys.
mjc from NM,USA
Negotiations for 20+ acres of southern Indiana land, about 1/3 wooded, with arts and crafts cottage etc., set back on hilltop sloping to Blue River (we'll own 1200 feet of river frontage) have been successfully completed. Land, village life, yet modern amenities (running water, sewer, gas, electricity, central air and heat etc), and only about 45 minutes to Louisville, Kentucky (a 30 miles commute). I am flying over mid April with a friend to scout it attentively for planning purposes (renovations, garden development etc), check on tractor and other implements (my friend, who is a rancher/forester/water specialist and retired Washington bureaucrat will do that: I would not know the front of a tractor from its rear unless I look it up in a book first!). We'll close on the house early May. Wife and I will spend a week there mid May for visiting, for planning purposes, and maybe move there for good within a year. Wife has her parents there and three siblings, lived in the village until she went to uni., knows quite a few of the 1,000 village inhabitants. Word has come out that the neighbors are looking forward to us moving in already. There will be no requirement that we learn Gaelic, but wife says she'll be reverting to the local accent quite fast and unconsciously. I am particularly excited by the river frontage (it flows all the way to the Ohio, and thence to New Orleans and other places, Hyper-B.!!). Not quite the same as the sea many of you enjoy on the islands, but having been in the desert the past ten years, it will be a change. Quite a few hills ("knobs") in southern Indiana also, and lots of fun country roads. Should be different from Albuquerque, Nuevo Mexico. All those projects: different gardens, wild meadow, specimen trees galore, a folly (or two?), stiles (in the middle of the field, just for the heck of having them), garden walls, chicken laying brown eggs - preferably speckled, pond building etc. Ducks and geese fly freely along river, but no swans (perhaps I should introduce them? Anyone can have swans here, thank heavens and Viva la Republica!!). Wish us long life, and good luck, folks. No Tam's bookery, unfortunately; good cooking, if any, must be had at home; no Pier Arts center equivalent in the village or county, but the natives are friendly (and nosy! but it comes with the territory) - so my wife assures me, but then she qualifies as one. Heavens, I may even get to meet some of her high school dates, possibly even get to like them. Maybe.
mjc from NM,USA
Break out the champers then mjc , glad to hear that news. Sounds like you are fair excited about the move. Happiness and good thoughts are with you and Mrs mjc. Enjoy it
Barebraes from Shapinsay
Hooray for mr and mrs mjc!! A parental unit beside my left elbow is turning a bilious shade of green. I keep telling her envy is a deadly sin, but she's not listening. She would happily do without mr studmuffin's bookery for a garden with so many creative opporchancities. After all there's always Amazon. Who no longer accept Switch. She's fair scunnered with them.
Flying Cat from The Sunroom of Eternity
Sounds great mjc. Hope all the various elements drop into place. In my experience the small wheels are usually at the front of tractors.
Hyper-Borean from The little house off the Prairie
fc - female staff is confused, she has no problem using switch/maestro with amazon - has fpu had a new card and mebbe not updated details?
mia from pondering at the pc
FC and hi bipeds could come visit in NM or Indiana any time, and help with garden. So could Barebraes, Hermit etc. - but of course, don't expect to see any Aga or Rayburn, Doric etc. A canoe, or at least some pieces of wood strapped together and a pole, would be available to Hyper B for his one way trip down the Ohio, mighty Miss. etc. Y'all come!!
mjc from NM,USA
She might just be a bit thick mia....various bipeds have queried this state of affairs and also the dearth of fpu braincells. But the restorative nature of Tio Pepe could work wonders.....
Flying Cat from living in hope
What a way of talking about your bipeds! And they feed you? Take you to the vet? Let you wear a hat for Easter?!?
mjc from NM,USA
Dr Seuss I presume?
Flying Cat from a high bookshelf
fc - did your bipeds try the canadian ice wine with cognac? I've just had to watch female staff fussing because she only has one bottle left and no opportunity to fly to Canada this year to replenish stocks! Of course the stock of South African noble late harvest has much the same impact, but she's fussy.
mia from in a sunbeam
Out of curiosity, wife checked on aga availability and prices: available, exhorbitant prices (so extravagant in fact that she burst out laughing). She wants to know why you need four to six "ovens" for ... On the face of it, she says, there was no way you could roast a pig, whole anywhere in an Aga or Rayburn. I mean, you would pay all that money for some retro cast iron oven/s, and still end up outside roasting your pig over an open pit (a la Viking, eh Hermit?!)?!
mjc from NM,USA
mjc, wash yo' mouf out! The Aga is the epitome of stoves and the Rayburn the backbone of island communities...you're striking at the very heart and soul of Country Living! No, mia, not yet. They can't bear to open the second bottle yet....but there's a significant anniversary coming up soon, so you never know...
Flying Cat from the booze cupboard
Yes, yes, all to the good FC. My question: will the Doric follow the Elgin marbles back to Greece?!? By the way, what is the origin of the "Aga" name? As to Rayburn origins, I could venture a reasonable (but equally erroneous, doubtless) guess. Aga-Rayburn: like Daimler-Chrysler, eh?
mjc from NM,USA
We moved here in September 05 and have met many good friends. What more could you want from life.
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