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| Amy, almost 3 months! |
I thought I would put that little sweetie at the top of this post to get you in the right frame of mind! But to the point of this post : Renovations! Do they ever stop? Not bloody likely, but owning a building constructed when Calvin Coolidge was the president of the US, Zeppelins (remember them?) were flying between here and Germany, and 'Show Me the Way to Go Home' by Teddy Lewis and his Jazz Band was the most popular song on the old Victrola suggests that repairs and maintenance won't be ending anytime soon! So, (and here is where I get into trouble) to make Marie happy, I agreed to let her update the bathroom, making her promise that it would be the last major renovation that we would take on in this old duplex before beginning construction of our new home this summer...We started out by removing the crummy looking medicine cabinet that I'm sure was was designed when the only remedies available were snake oil serum, Dr Whatley's Memory Elixir and Lydia Pinkham's pink pills, and replaced it with a much taller cabinet from IKEA called Raatshoertlaanggen (or something like that) which can hold more medicine than I will use in a lifetime, moved the lights up above the new mirror ( Kraackenskaar ?), put in another cabinet and rectangular sink and tap (Rinnensloorpenn maybe), painted the walls a nice robin egg blue and voila: instant bathroom redo!
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| Now where the &%#@ does that wire go? |
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| when in doubt...call Phil! |
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| Please God make it fit this time! |
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| Hi! Its me again! |
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| Ta da! Thanks IKEA! |
Now to concentrate on finishing Phil's basement! I would like to see it completed by the end of May because as the Beach Boys said in
Surfing USA- "we'll all be gone for the summer!" I put in the rest of the insulation today in the ceiling so the driwall can now go up and, once the painting is finished, I can lay down the tile on the floor. It has been a slow process as Phil works most days and often on weekends but it will for sure add all sorts of value to this place. The duplex two doors down on our street this week just sold for $490,000 so that is encouraging! Tomorrow the four of us are off to the old port to see Cirque du Soleil's Amaluna under the big top. The story revolves around a mysterious island governed by Goddesses and guided by the cycles of the moon. Their queen, Prospera, directs her daughters coming of age ceremony in a rite that honours femininity, renewal, rebirth, etc etc which marks the passing of those values from one generation to the other. But wait! There's more! In the wake of a storm caused by Prospera, a group of horny young sailors land on the island and one of them falls in love with the daughter resulting in trials and setbacks that I'm sure we will marvel at as only Cirque de Soleil can make us do! Christina will be coming down to babysit Amy and I will report on the show tomorrow. Till then...
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