I'm sorry for my tardy posting here, but I couldn't bring myself to write on Sunday. I was depressed at the thought of another week without heat, but I'm thrilled to report that yesterday I walked into a toasty home!!! It was very, very exciting. I will never take heat for granted again. It took a lot of self control to turn back the thermostat to a reasonable 68 degrees. I would have sat in a t-shirt on my folding chair and smiled all night if I could have. For comparison, here's what my relaxing evenings looked like before Tuesday:
W improved the quality of living tremendously even before the heat was turned on. He created a little corner of plastic tarp heaven that kept in the heat from our propane heater. And despite very little help from me, he managed to bring our double mattress into the basement. It's so wonderful to sleep on a mattress, compared to the air mattress we were on for so long. I married a good man.
We did have a slightly unfortunate event on Friday night. W & I took off for a relaxing week at my aunt & uncle's house, and some neighborhood kids (assuming) came in with a paintgun and started off painting our living room walls royal blue. It's not quite the color I had in mind. Kidding aside, it could have been much worse and gave us the impetus we needed to install new locks on all the doors. I don't expect we'll have any future trouble.
Frighteningly little progress was made towards the end of last week, but they've been cranking this week. I'll have a newsy posting for this weekend, including pictures of the bathrooms being tiled and the front deck coming together. And we just learned that our kitchen cabinets are ready to be shipped. We just have to get that floor refinished in time.
That's all for now!
