Back to our Roots

I woke up this morning to the sound of Snowplows in the neighborhood. They (the city road crew) have been in a snowplow emergency mode since Wednesday. It has been very warm the last couple of days so a lot of the 12 inches of snow we had is now down to three or four inches. I broke out the snow blower this morning to clean up the berms they left and tidy up my corner of responsibility a bit.

There has been a lot of talk on this blog of late concerning the weather. It is not the mission of this blog to spend long drawn out narratives detailing snow fall, temperature fluctuations, and wind chill factors.

And so today, I return the reporting back into our remodeling efforts...which is good because we actually have actual remodeling efforts to report upon.

While Phil our paid slave is finishing up the tile in the shower, we started work today on stripping the many years of paint from the bathroom windows. We were very successful with this in our bedroom and returned those windows to working condition. But not without a great deal of stripping and scraping. Also, some cussing. An occasional scrape or deep gash.

The same thing is in store for these windows. The one thing we kept asking ourselves today is, "Why didn't we do this before all the sheet rocking and tiling?"

It's one of those items that we have seemed to kind of gloss over. We knew we wanted to do it. We just never felt a great urgency to begin. Now we are mostly done with the bathroom, and we are starting this messy mess.

Logic was never my strong suit!

What you see pictured above are my efforts to repair the weight within the window frame that allows the window sash to move easily up and down. The rope had long since broken and the weight had fallen so I had to open up the window frame to get to it.

More details to come.