Scattered Thoughts . . .

Ceiling planks laid out on the floor for staining and polyurethaning... I needed to do this in two batches. Our day was a busy one today! I spent the morning staining the second batch of planks for a new ceiling in our new bedroom. Then, after my usual (and very necessary) 2-4 hour after-lunch nap, I managed to put a coat of polyurethane on all the planks just as the kids were arriving from day-care with Gee.  We had a nice dinner... watched "The Santa Claus" (the kids were glued to this movie from the very beginning)... the kids had some ice cream cones... then the kids helped Gee make some dark chocolate chip cookies... and I managed to get a second coat of polyurethane on all the ceiling planks as Lukey watched from the doorway.  All in all, it was a busy day and a very productive one at that! Tomorrow, I hope to stain and polyurethane trim and/or our nightstands.  Little by little... things are coming along... Shot using one of my manual f

All these delays in our home renovations has really snowballed at this point. My health and the weather were nowhere near in sync and, as a result, so many projects were delayed. Whenever the weather was good, my health was miserable so I could not accomplish anything. Whenever my health was well enough to accomplish a few things, the weather was so lousy that we couldn't get anything accomplished.  Now, the temperatures are below freezing every night and not much higher than freezing during the days. These cold temperatures makes finish work such as staining and polyurethaning impossible to do outdoors.  Unfortunately, I have a lot of wood to stain and polyurethane. Since I can't move all this wood outdoors, I am stuck trying to get it all stained and polyurethaned indoors without ruining our floors, walls, furniture, etc. This means I am stuck inside the small room I am currently renovating. I started staining wood today... I managed to stain half of the wide planks f

Today, I installed a new dimmer that has a remote which we can access while in bed... plus, this dimmer turns on the lighting smoothly and slowly... and smoothly and slowly when turning off. Today we backstepped to an old, unfinished project... our new bedroom. Health problems and inclement weather had caused a lot of delays. Health problems are simply a fact and seem to be more of a problem in recent months but I'm still getting little things accomplished whenever a good hour or two presents itself. Trying to get the weather to cooperate with my health is a crap-shoot though and this causes significant delays. Today's task in moving forward with this bedroom project, however, was to jockey things around the house in order to make a clean spot in this room. I had finished quite a bit of work already but the room was filled with tools and leftover construction materials. We needed to find a place(s) to put all this stuff. I had already demolished the old closet and bu