9 May 2016
Tim
got here this morning at 4 o’clock. Yes,
4 am!!!! Said he couldn’t sleep so he
figured he might as well be working. He
sanded eight of the interior doors (to a mirror smoothness!) and then applied
the third coat of varnish to their first sides.
The rest of the Ryan Quality Painting crew (Kaleb, Matt, Jason, and
Brett) got here, as usual, at 6. They
got most of the rest of the trim repainted and continued color-coating
walls. We’re pretty sure we like the
Nice Cream (which should be called Churned Butter) on the sun room, kitchen,
living, and dining room walls. Pretty
sure… Sonny and Brandon spent the morning sanding the boards destined to become
closet shelves. Brandon continued that
activity in the afternoon while Sonny started installing HardiBacker®
cement board on the walls behind where the guest bath neo angle shower is being
installed. Steve continued plumbing the
de-super heater tank. I installed
ceiling lights (and a few switches) all day, except for an extended break wrestling
with selecting window blinds… and a new paint color for the study. Janice Denu and Bri Desautels arrived at 9:30
with window blind, carpet, and paint samples.
With the exception of the study, the process of selecting blinds was
relatively painless. Unfortunately,
reaching consensus in the study took Chree and me a loooong time and was fairly
ugly. We finally agreed on Concord Ivory,
a much more muted orange, verging on Dijon mustard yellow, for the study
walls. It’s got to look better
than Squashed Pumpkin, or whatever the name was of the prior selection. The question is: how much better???? Tom Morrissey stopped by early afternoon,
only to find out what was going on, he thought.
I immediately put him to work troubleshooting electrical wiring
issues. He quickly pointed out that the
reason the miscreant shop light wasn’t working was because I hadn’t connected a
couple of wires. Ooops! By his normal 5 o’clock quitting time, we had
completely finished the electrical work in the two guest bedrooms. After dinner, Chree and I went to see a
wonderful performance by Amaryllis, a local group who sing madrigals. Might have been even better if I spoke
Italian…
