Entries from March 2009
I know, people are saying, didn’t that whole pipe burst thing happen many months ago? Well, yes, it did. But after getting everything settled with the insurance company, and then getting it settled again after getting a repair quote, I was finally itching to get some work done on it tonite.
My accomplishments:
- Remove drywall between joists in effected area (10ft x 16in)
- Remove old (and now slightly modly) insulation
- Place new pipe insulators on the pipes to prevent this from happening again.
- Place two overlapping layers of insulation
- Staple it all down.
Pretty much, the only thing left to do is to remove some popcorn around the hole. Replace drywall, then mud it , sand it, and replace/blend popcorn.
Not so much to look at...
I would like to thank Josh Fry who gave me the awesome “Laser” Saw that was used to cut into my delicate cieling. I am sure that the cieling felt nothing Josh.
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Greg and I have been working hard around the house lately. I have been posting regular updates on our garden on my other blog. Its been lots of very hard work excavating the rocks in our back yard to prepare the beds for planting. Plus, the winter leaves its mark on the lawn, so just getting it back to looking well-groomed for the Spring takes lots of work. So between that and our stressful and busy jobs, we were more than due for a little vacation. I proposed just taking some time off to do some hard-core Spring cleaning and gardening, and Greg countered with the offer of driving to Denver to see some friends. Guess whose idea we liked better?
We left Thursday morning and stayed until Sunday. In that time we ate at some wonderful and quirky restaurants, did some shopping, saw a movie, watched some basketball, and visited with some of our closest friends. We also got to stay in some really nice hotels. G did the Priceline thing and got us an awesome deal for our first two nights to stay downtown at a super swank hotel. We could pretty easily get used to that kind of treatment! We also loved being in downtown Denver because (and I didn’t know this before) its very vibrant and fun. Lots to do and see. Unfortunately, I didn’t take a whole lot of pictures. Any time I started to pull out my camera G gave me a dirty look because for some reason he hates having his photo taken. But I did convince him to take one photo at our hotel in front of the fancy waterfall!
Relaxed and Happy!
We enjoyed watching KU kick some butt over the weekend, there are lots of KU fans in Denver!
Well, it was a short trip, and we’re happy to be home safe and sound (and out of the car). The kitties are being a bit clingy now, but we’re not complaining!
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In the interest of keeping this blog more about Greg and my life, and less about my hours of experimentation in the kitchen, I have started a new blog. I am always thinking…I want to blog about this recipe or that dinner I had, or this yummy dessert. But then I stop myself, because for some reason, I just don’t see it fitting in with the theme here. So now I get to post all of the crazy domestic-related stuff that I do to keep myself entertained and mentally healthy.
So I am now Doctor Domestic (sounds rather super-hero like, no?) and will blog about anything domestic, especially food related, starting from growing food in our garden, to preparing and preserving the food in our kitchen. I’ll post recipes I invent, recipes I find from other foodie bloggers that I love and recipes from my stacks of cooking magazines and cookbooks. Successes and failures, beautiful and trash-worthy, they will all have their moment of glory. So please check it out if you’re into that kind of stuff!
And a totally random P.S. – I find it a bit funny that the WordPress dictionary flags “blog” and “blogger” as mis-spelled. I’m just sayin’…
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