Today, as we have done in the past, we have called in the reinforcements. We have sent out the call for much need assistance to push us over the top of the wall. We have spent the last 5 months planning and doing all that we thought was required for us to get out the door and begin the Oddessy. We have done tons but we are not yet ready to go. The house is not in order to be rented which is an essential element to having this year work for us financially. We are close and we will have all spaces rented by the end of the year.
Today in response to our conversations and posted email, a group of people will arrive and give us the company and energy boost that we need to get the 2nd floor ready for the new folks moving in to that space. Even the new folks, Melissa, Jenn and Mike are coming to help out and be a part of the resurrection and refreshment of their space.
I have enlisted the skilled assistance of Hilton to get the carpentry things completed. Peter Krause is coming to lend a hand and WISDOM to the tasks at hand. As always Steve and Monica will be here; for they are our forever support team and thankfully are always there or here at the drop of and most times prior to the drop of a request.
Tuesday, Megan and I started replacing glass in the windows of the house. We started in the RED room as one of the windows had no glass in the bottom sash at all. We replaced the two front ones and as I went to glaze the side one I broke it and had to run and get a replacement for it as well. Since we had them all out we cleaned all of the storms and remaining window glass. That was transformation in itself. Let the Sun Shine!
Megan and I started stripping the stair treads and risers of 150 years of paint on Thursday. Actually, Megan started and I joined in, and we got nearly 80% completed before the end of the day. Brother, Peter Paglia, came on Thursday afternoon. Just as he got there Meg and I had to leave to go to Jasper's school to do his final report card evaluation of the year before our exit. So, we ran over there and he got started prepping the front left bedroom (formerly known as Drew's room or the RED room) for painting. While we were at school Peter attempted to begin the priming of the room only to find that the primer had magically turned to sour cottage cheese in the pail. While making his first swipe with the roller on the wall, he quickly and astutely realized, with the keen observational powers that only an accomplished weekend painter could, that this was not supposed to be TEXTURED wall paint, he stopped painting until we arrived home. Back to Home Depot - Tinted Kilz 2 - We then completed the priming together. That tinted primer looked so good we almost decided not to put finish paint on.
Today in response to our conversations and posted email, a group of people will arrive and give us the company and energy boost that we need to get the 2nd floor ready for the new folks moving in to that space. Even the new folks, Melissa, Jenn and Mike are coming to help out and be a part of the resurrection and refreshment of their space.
I have enlisted the skilled assistance of Hilton to get the carpentry things completed. Peter Krause is coming to lend a hand and WISDOM to the tasks at hand. As always Steve and Monica will be here; for they are our forever support team and thankfully are always there or here at the drop of and most times prior to the drop of a request.
Tuesday, Megan and I started replacing glass in the windows of the house. We started in the RED room as one of the windows had no glass in the bottom sash at all. We replaced the two front ones and as I went to glaze the side one I broke it and had to run and get a replacement for it as well. Since we had them all out we cleaned all of the storms and remaining window glass. That was transformation in itself. Let the Sun Shine!
Megan and I started stripping the stair treads and risers of 150 years of paint on Thursday. Actually, Megan started and I joined in, and we got nearly 80% completed before the end of the day. Brother, Peter Paglia, came on Thursday afternoon. Just as he got there Meg and I had to leave to go to Jasper's school to do his final report card evaluation of the year before our exit. So, we ran over there and he got started prepping the front left bedroom (formerly known as Drew's room or the RED room) for painting. While we were at school Peter attempted to begin the priming of the room only to find that the primer had magically turned to sour cottage cheese in the pail. While making his first swipe with the roller on the wall, he quickly and astutely realized, with the keen observational powers that only an accomplished weekend painter could, that this was not supposed to be TEXTURED wall paint, he stopped painting until we arrived home. Back to Home Depot - Tinted Kilz 2 - We then completed the priming together. That tinted primer looked so good we almost decided not to put finish paint on.
But, that would be too easy!!!
On Friday, Megan completed the final stair stripping and started getting her list together for the full out work party on Saturday. Later, in the evening, Steve and Monica came over and we prepared one of our infamous community meals together consisting of this really great chicken thigh recipe Mon found, I made some fresh cabbage slaw (Red and Green, YUM) and Meg peeled and prepared many fresh delectible beets. Simply wonderful!
In the middle of the prep, friend Mike Harris showed up to lend his personal support to our effort for the evening. He sat and broke bread with us and spurred on and informed our table conversations regarding solar and other alternative energy ideas. This was a good table, a really good meal and these are exquisite friends. These impromptu events will truly be missed as we travel but will remind us and call us forward to create these kinds of relationships wherever we are.
This love and connection is what actually feeds us and keeps us warm
Mike and I helped clean the table then hustled upstairs to the Gold Room to replace the ropes on all of the windows and reattach them to the weights and windows. (It's interesting how we do things to make the space ready for others when we were willing to tolerate the broken glass and propping up the windows with sticks for a few years) We shared some stories and talked about our love of writing and blogging and we talked about what we are specifically up to in our writing. Mike has completed a children's book and excitedly, it is ready for publishing. He is now looking for that publisher. He is also in the process of writing his second novel. I shared with him the premise for a story I believe I will turn into a novel as we begin our journey and a clearer space to write presents itself. It will look into the how people uncover their life passions in the midst of doing their lives and how the passion is always there regardless of the circumstances, waiting for the opportunity to be unfolded. We shall see what comes.
Friday came to a smooth and delicious end. We slid under the covers for an early winters rest in attempt to restore ourselves for that energetic push, over the Court Street Speedbump, from our friends on Saturday.
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