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Archive for September, 2009

In which I present my first weaving projects

Posted in Uncategorized on September 30, 2009 | 7 Comments »

Instead of rushing out the door today to go to my regular S&B, I am, once again, waiting for the tradeguys to show up to stretch the carpet.  I have amused myself so far by doing the dishes, drinking coffee, taking copious pictures of my first children woven scarves, and posting the projects on Ravelry.  [...]

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Normal? What’s Normal?

Posted in Knitting, Ripping apart the house and putting it back together on September 27, 2009 | 6 Comments »

Now that our contractors have managed to cram a six week renovation into 4 months, I can almost imagine a day when everything will be done.  I thnk it’s this coming-up Wednesday.  That’s the day the upstairs carpet gets stretched, and then we are done.  (Well, I have a few little details like throw rugs, [...]

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and to the patient comes good things…

Posted in Knitting, Ripping apart the house and putting it back together, Uncategorized on September 11, 2009 | 9 Comments »

and that’s “patient” as in “not impatient”.   My little reward of the day was seeing a little bit of Darwinism at work.   I was in the parking lot at Home Depot, and walked past a guy who was trying to load two garage doors into his minivan.   To his credit, he was at least [...]

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Installing the bathtub, take 2

Posted in Knitting, Ripping apart the house and putting it back together on September 3, 2009 | 3 Comments »

The rumour du jour is that the tile setters will be back next Tuesday to do the tub and the front entryway, so I think that’s progress.  The deck this time doesn’t look like someone’s grade 8 woodshop project, and it’s even level.  Yay.   It’s amazing what can be accomplished when you ply the carpenter [...]

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Two steps forward, two steps back

Posted in Ripping apart the house and putting it back together on September 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »

So much for progress.  At least there seems to be some sort of urgency with today’s proceedings.  The plumber is coming back at noon to reconnect the plumbing, so that must mean that something constructive will be happening  before then.
In an effort to feel like I have some sort of control over the situation, I [...]

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September 1st and all is not well…

Posted in Rant, Ripping apart the house and putting it back together on September 1, 2009 | 5 Comments »

I spoke too soon.  The progress in the bathroom yesterday was all for naught.  Turns out that while the tub was level, the tub deck itself is not.  The tilers can’t get the tile under the tub lip on the far side of the deck.   After much hand-wringing, here’s where we’re at.
The taps must be [...]

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