Work Wednesday « Robin Writes

Well, while all this remodeling has just been a barrel of laughs, a super fun activity and all that, this week’s post is brought to you by Paperwork.

Sigh.

It’s not bad enough that January 1st brings the beginning of the month, which means a few hours doing royalty statements for RHP, but it also brings the beginning of the year or rather, in my case, the END of the year.

And that means accounting, personal and business, and taxes, and this year the FAFSA, and a health insurance issue—see last week—and de-decorating the house from Christmas.

Sigh.

So my husband is down at the farm, batching it and eating crap, but most importantly, he’s tiling the office and bedroom and finishing the last bedroom wall.

And that’s a big HALLELUJAH, but it also means that very soon I can start dragging some furniture down there so I can move down the boxes I’ve packed that are starting to fill up the garage again.

And the living room.

Yes, got a bit ahead of myself.

But really, I saw no point in putting non-holiday stuff back up on the mantel, etc., when I’d just have to take it down again. Besides, it’s almost time to put the house on the market and we’ve got a few minor repairs and things to do here.

Much easier without the clutter.

So, no pics, no exciting stories of my sorta/kinda ineptitude with paint and so forth, but just know that I’m thinking about all that endless tile while I sit here, buried in paperwork . . .

As you know, if you read anything at all, Missouri is rapidly becoming the new Sea of the Midwest. Forget Lake of the Ozarks, although they opened all 12 gates AGAIN this year and well, there’s flooding there as well as a house sliding into lake . . . the St. Charles area is flooding, the Mississippi is knocking, and the Meramec, well, it’s all over the place.

The plan, and of course you know all about those, was to drive down to the farm yesterday and stay a couple days, laying tile in the office and bedroom.

Our secondary purpose was to drain the pipes before temps dropped below 20 over the next few days.

Well.

Then it rained. A lot.

So my husband drove down yesterday; he may have to swim back today as I-44 is closed for about ten miles . . . lucky for us, we often/usually take the back roads so we know how to roll. Suffice it to say, there was no tile laying or anything else, although he did mention cement board . . .

Here are the pics from the still-almost-finished kitchen, and I guess you’ll have to wait for more “Fun with Tile!” The next two months are critical, because of, again, weather. Too cold, too snowy . . . hard to say!