a long weekend and a big party
It was a long weekend
Yule party weekend is always long. I would really like to be able to have two full days to get ready for these but instead I get friday night and Saturday. Suprisingly it went very well. 30 or so people showed up, a bottle of Absinthe got used up, along with a number of bottles of wine, and a lot of beer. I even managed to cook some pretty damm good party food before the partyy started.. Of course I was finishing my shower and getting dressed as people started showing up.. For some folks the Yule party is about the only time of the year to actually see the work in progress. It was pretty cool this time around as the progress is pretty noticable.. Wait till next year though, I will finally have the third floor uber living room.. 8^) Last year, the second floor bedrooms still looked like they were going to fall apart, and the ir was no downstairs 1/2 bath from hell. 8^)
I got up on Saturday morning and had a sudden urge to get my lighter out of the wall.. Yea, its been there since July along with the beer bottle. So, some folk had just gotten over to help with the pre-party clean up and saw me pulling out the baseboard and powering up the sawzall.. Yea, all things on this house concidered probably not a great idea.. But for once a project started finished and cleaned up in a whopping 10 minutes. I have my lighter back and have retrieved the beer bottle. Its a bottle of gettelman 1000$ Dollar Prize Natural Process.. I know this because the paper lable is intact.
8^) So, so far the house has ponyed up a indian head penny and a old beer bottle. 8^) I am still looking for the sack of gold. 8^P
The windows in the old bedrooom had not been plasticed up yet. We were running out of time on Saturday to go get any so opted to use some of the radiant barrier insulation from this summers project on the windows. Ok, the stuff is not see through. But wow.. The room stays warm now.. Overall I have to say that this summers work on stopping drafts and insulating those two rooms has had a fairly dramatic effect on how well the house performs thermally. Also, I will be useing this radiant stuff everywhere I can… It is plain old too good not to use. I cannot wait to get the attic roof foamed and a layer of this added to that.. The results should be really really noticable. Looks like the attic project will be starting March 1 which really only gives me 9 weeks or so till the big dumpster gutting of the attic. That just seems awfully soon from now.. But the attic will be a more easy going project as there wont be huge messes in the living parts of the house and nothing we are currently useing space wise will go away.. So, I will be taking my sweet time on the attic.. Ok, the spending per square foot will also be higher than it was this summer and there are more square feet to spend on.. 8^P I suppose I should exptect it to be pricey.. I have pricey taste and its a big room that needs well, everything.. 8^( At least I wont feel any urge to burn myself out on this one. The main goal for next summer should be to actually enjoy meself and spend some quality time doing nothing.
Ivan