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Post by TheOtherMe on Jul 7, 2021 16:57:17 GMT -5
When I did the walk through before closing on the 2nd house I bought, the water heater was leaking. The realtor contacted the other realtor and the sellers paid.
It's raining right now. We need rain so it's beautiful to watch.
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Post by busymom on Jul 8, 2021 9:32:38 GMT -5
As I suspected, my entire week is revolving around DD's house. I'm meeting another electrician at the house today (the first electrician's prices were crazy-high), and tomorrow I meet with a different plumber. It must be nice to be in an industry where some companies gouge the customer...
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Post by TheOtherMe on Jul 8, 2021 11:15:52 GMT -5
They do it because they can. Both electricity and plumbing issues have to be fixed.
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Post by busymom on Jul 9, 2021 13:05:04 GMT -5
Good Afternoon Kids! I couldn't fall asleep after waking up at 4 am, so I got up early & drove to the meat market when they opened up. I've been spending so much time at DD's house, that I haven't grocery shopped all week. The good news is, the house has fewer plumbing problems than we'd been led to believe (an honest plumber--Hallelujah!). But, as I suspected the water heater, furnace and air conditioner are probably going to need to be replaced sooner rather than later. My guess is the furnace will fail first, closely followed by the water heater. But, overall it'll be thousands of dollars less than we were worried things could be. Gotta take the little victories where we can get them. Carpet stretching guy came out today, so that's done. Tomorrow, while we do more painting inside the house, we're getting gutters installed on the back of the house. Monday, I'll have to meet with another guy to get some more estimates. So, the fun will last for at least another week.
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Post by Icelandic Woman on Jul 9, 2021 13:39:56 GMT -5
Happy Friday Muffins!!!
This has been a long short week. We are back to the heat here for a while. 100s yesterday and today. But not as bad as the west coast. I am ready for FALL!
Have a Great Weekend!!!
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Post by NancysSummerSip on Jul 9, 2021 19:00:04 GMT -5
Hello peeps! Five days of back in the pool time has left me more tired than I thought. Foot is doing well, though. Next post-op is Monday. I got back to the specialty grocery store tonight; I really missed it. Got a few things, including some extra large flour tortillas for breakfast burritos Sunday. Might also use them for lunch tomorrow for BTLs.
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Post by busymom on Jul 10, 2021 19:31:16 GMT -5
Good Evening Kids! Had a very productive day at DD's house. Took a Tylenol before going there, and another when I got home. Hoping that'll be enough to keep my back from misbehaving...
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Post by NancysSummerSip on Jul 11, 2021 12:56:13 GMT -5
Sorry I am late peeps, but I did bring some snack and beverages.
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Post by ners on Jul 11, 2021 12:58:26 GMT -5
Thanks for brunch NancysSummerSip just the pick me up I needed on my short break from working.
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Post by busymom on Jul 11, 2021 14:56:08 GMT -5
Good Afternoon Kids! I DID make it to church this morning. Unfortunately, for some reason during church I got a "new" pain in my left hip, that I've never gotten before. I blame it on all of the time I spent on a ladder yesterday painting the wall just underneath the ceiling.
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Post by Sharon on Jul 11, 2021 15:09:50 GMT -5
I'm home, I'm tired. It was a long weekend. I ended up working way longer Thursday evening than planned and then the issues carried into Friday morning so I ended up working over 2 hours on Friday, yes my day off. Because of all the work issues I got thrown off my schedule for getting things done at home. As a result I packed my clothes for the trip but left them sitting on the chair in the bedroom. Fortunately I do keep a couple changes of underwear and nightgown/bathrobe in the trailer. I just ended up wearing the same shirt/shorts the whole time I was there. Since we were working on canning beans and making relish it didn't really matter other than the fact I felt really dirty and grimy. On Friday on the trip over there apparently the trailer lights came unplugged and I dragged the plug down the highway. It was over half gone. DSIL ran into town and picked up a new plug and fixed that for me, even though we was working super long days or I guess I should say nights. The past two weeks he has been working 9:30pm until sometime between 9am and Noon the next day. Also Friday because of all the work issues I was way later leaving than planned so hit the weekend traffic in Portland so it took 5 hours to get to DD's rather than the normal 4 hours. The trip home was super windy, which that area is known for, so I was hauling the trailer through 30mph winds with higher gusts. That was not fun. I'm mostly unpacked, the washer is going and I have had a much needed shower. Now I'm logged back onto to work to finish up some of the issues from last week and get a jump start on next week.
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Post by busymom on Jul 12, 2021 23:08:15 GMT -5
Good Evening Kids! Another long day here, starting off with getting more bids on repairs needed on DD's house. I also got Speedy's nails trimmed. He was SO crabby today. Corgi's can be kind of needy. And frankly, I haven't been around much lately, so I'm not sure if the dog is mad about that, or just in a bad mood because the heat & humidity are going up again. Even storm chaser Reed Timmer says we may be in for some bad storms on Wednesday. Not great, because that's the day I'm meeting carpet cleaners at DD's house. Oh well... Sharon, are you getting any forest fires nearby? We don't have any real close, but today we could really smell the smoke coming from Canada, and the northern portion of our state.
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Post by busymom on Jul 14, 2021 8:33:56 GMT -5
Good Morning Kids! I'm waiting for the call ahead from the carpet cleaning place that's going to clean DD's carpets. Judging by what other household maintenance was postponed, I don't even want to know what could be in that carpeting...
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Post by TheOtherMe on Jul 14, 2021 8:47:52 GMT -5
My only carpet is in the 3 bedrooms. Once the organizer and I get the 3rd bedroom cleaned out, I'm having the carpets cleaned.
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Post by busymom on Jul 14, 2021 8:57:59 GMT -5
My only carpet is in the 3 bedrooms. Once the organizer and I get the 3rd bedroom cleaned out, I'm having the carpets cleaned. Yup, she's getting her carpets cleaned BEFORE her furniture gets moved in. However, the master bedroom has hardwood flooring, so she's getting the wood sanded & stained next month. In the meantime, she'll be sleeping in one of the other bedrooms.
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Post by Sharon on Jul 14, 2021 9:50:28 GMT -5
I will hopefully have a contractor out here sometime this week to finish replacing the baseboards in the bedrooms. Most everything from the bedrooms is now stacked in the living room or kitchen. I have decided that since everything is moved out that I will paint the office/sewing room and the carpets are getting cleaned before everything is moved back into place.
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Post by TheOtherMe on Jul 14, 2021 10:58:31 GMT -5
My only carpet is in the 3 bedrooms. Once the organizer and I get the 3rd bedroom cleaned out, I'm having the carpets cleaned. Yup, she's getting her carpets cleaned BEFORE her furniture gets moved in. However, the master bedroom has hardwood flooring, so she's getting the wood sanded & stained next month. In the meantime, she'll be sleeping in one of the other bedrooms. House was new when I moved in, so anything that's in the carpet happened while I lived here. The two extra bedrooms have rarely been used, but I'm not paying to only have one room done. When they are here, they are cleaning all the carpet.
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Post by busymom on Jul 14, 2021 13:14:12 GMT -5
I'm back home. At least the carpet cleaning was completed before the rain arrived. Unfortunately, it looks like the previous owner spilled something red onto the carpet, and although the young man tried, could only fade it to sort of an orange color. The joys of buying an older house.
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Post by TheOtherMe on Jul 14, 2021 15:53:46 GMT -5
At least I know nothing like that is in my carpet.
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Post by skeeter on Jul 14, 2021 19:06:11 GMT -5
I'm back home. At least the carpet cleaning was completed before the rain arrived. Unfortunately, it looks like the previous owner spilled something red onto the carpet, and although the young man tried, could only fade it to sort of an orange color. The joys of buying an older house. Hopefully the stain is not in the middle of the carpet, but somewhere a piece of furniture or small throw rug would cover it up.
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Post by busymom on Jul 14, 2021 19:36:49 GMT -5
I'm back home. At least the carpet cleaning was completed before the rain arrived. Unfortunately, it looks like the previous owner spilled something red onto the carpet, and although the young man tried, could only fade it to sort of an orange color. The joys of buying an older house. Hopefully the stain is not in the middle of the carpet, but somewhere a piece of furniture or small throw rug would cover it up. I wish! It's actually near the path to the kitchen. She's got hardwood flooring underneath. When she saves up some more money, she could rip out the carpet, and have all hardwood, which would be nice...
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Post by Sharon on Jul 14, 2021 21:46:52 GMT -5
The contractor is coming tomorrow so I finished moving the last of the stuff that I could out of the bedrooms. My living room and kitchen look like I should be on hoarders.
I got most of the ceiling in the office painted tonight. There was one corner over the desk that I just couldn't reach and with all the computer equipment I have I didn't want to take any chance of falling on top of it, or having a major paint spill. I did throw a sheet over the top of everything but if I knocked the whole paint pan over a sheet wouldn't do much good. My back and knees are killing me tonight.
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Post by Sharon on Jul 16, 2021 19:51:31 GMT -5
The contractor is done and I will begin painting tomorrow.
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Post by busymom on Jul 16, 2021 21:48:20 GMT -5
Can I borrow your contractor, Sharon? Mine is supposedly mostly recovered from his surgery, but today he dragged out all of the supplies he'd stored in my garage to make a new railing, then said he had to leave, and never returned. Poor DH had to drag everything back into the garage. NOT happy.
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Post by busymom on Jul 17, 2021 9:06:03 GMT -5
Well, I'm off to try & do some more work on DD's house. Don't plan to be there as long as I was last Saturday...
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Post by ners on Jul 17, 2021 10:49:14 GMT -5
Can I borrow your contractor, Sharon ? Mine is supposedly mostly recovered from his surgery, but today he dragged out all of the supplies he'd stored in my garage to make a new railing, then said he had to leave, and never returned. Poor DH had to drag everything back into the garage. NOT happy. I would not be happy either, Sharon Good luck with the painting.
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Post by Sharon on Jul 17, 2021 13:44:56 GMT -5
The paint color is much darker than I thought it would be. I like the color but not sure about it in this small bedroom. The color is Sherwin Williams Sea Salt #6204. The room was also an antique white before so adding the color is a drastic change. I'm almost done with the walls but needed a break. Then I will clean up the green, have some lunch, and switch over to doing baseboards. If I can get two coats on on the new baseboards inside the closets then I can put away closet stuff which will help some with the hoarding look of my living room and kitchen. I'm not going to have the carpet cleaners do the inside of the closets, just the high traffic areas.
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Post by NancysSummerSip on Jul 17, 2021 14:56:55 GMT -5
Hello peeps. My bad for being late today. Just a busy day. Rode my bike on my indoor trainer, while watching a video of bike riding around a lake in Italy. Very nice diversion, and it felt good just to get back on the bike. Went shopping at CVS for a few things, including new makeup -- all my old stuff is pre-pandemic. Washed all my makeup brushes, too. Doing laundry at the moment. Dinner is shrimp with black beans and rice.
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Post by busymom on Jul 17, 2021 15:04:39 GMT -5
Good Afternoon Kids! After half a day at DD's, I'm done. DS & I baked up a quick batch of cookies, and I'm trying to see what else I can get accomplished here at home. I expect next week will be full, so the more I can get done now, the better...
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