The dining room is coming right along! Tuesday of last week they tore out all of the remaining wallpaper and paneling! Underneath is the most wonderful old siding on all 4 walls! Then they took out the ceiling tiles and uncovered an old bead board type ceiling! Then on Thursday they came over and patched damaged places and spackled holes. The next step will be sanding and then painting. I'm having the ceiling and trim done in a semi-gloss white and the walls a sort of a paprika color. I'm thinking it'll be quite striking...if not, I can always repaint!
The animals are going to hate when the dining room is put back together! The dogs romp in the empty room daily and at any given time you can find 1 to 4 cats lounging in it. Oh well, I'm looking forward to getting everything out of the rest of the house and back in place! It's mighty cramped in the living room and funny room!
My sister and I had brunch at Ruby Tuesday's yesterday. It was her treat for my birthday! It really was yummy and I actually got 4 meals out of it...1 at the restuarant and 3 here at home from my left-overs!
Today is my oldest grandaughter's 19th birthday! Where did all of that time go? It really seems like it was only yesterday that she was 5 years old and we took her to Disney World! Thursday I'll be 65! Ouch!
Monday, August 23, 2010
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
The Dining Room
The fellow who's doing my dining room came over Monday to check the room out again and give me a cost estimate. This house has been added onto and modified many times in its life time and the dining room at one time was a back porch. One of the things my contractor asked was did I know what was under everything...I didn't. He asked had I considered that there could be old siding...I hadn't. All I knew was there was the most awful wallpaper, a wallpaper support paper and wood panelling.
A few years back I ripped out the wall to wall carpet and pad, but only took the tack strips up from the doorways (3) and not from around the walls and there was still a large chunk of it under the hutch. Then a couple of years ago I tried to strip the wall paper out...what a mess! Uncovered a very heavily adhesive underlay and then paneling. That all came to a screeching halt and I've just been living with this horrid mess since then.
After he left I emptied the dining room of everything but the hutch, but did empty the hutch. Then my curiosity got the best of me and I wanted to know what was under the paneling...so I ripped out the trim from around all three doorways and pulled out the paneling and lo and behold there is old siding. It's in wonderful shape, dirty and stained and painted many times, but in wonderful shape! Pretty! So, I've opted to keep it!
Yesterday Rick and his helper were here from 10 until 3 (they were gone for about an hour and a half to go to the dump and to lunch). They got the hutch out, took up the tack strips from the perimeter of the room, ripped out the remaining carpet, tore out the ceiling tiles (pretty bead board underneath), and took out the paneling. It's absolutely amazing how wonderful it looks! The ceiling and walls will be scraped and sanded and painted and since the floor has also been painted many times I'm just going to have it painted also.
Now comes the hard part, color! I had thought of one color when I was thinking the walls would just have drywall, not sure that will be what I want on the siding, so last night I tacked up empty Meow Mix bags all over the dining room and I'm thinking I want the walls some version of the main part of the bags, the ceiling white and the floor a rich chocolate brown...sounds good to me.
They won't be back today as they were waiting for cement to dry on a rather large job they have...they'll be fitting me in and that's okay. I need to get paint, more chain for the light fixture as it's hung much too high and something else...can't remember what right now...it'll come to me. This is all much more exciting than the kitchen was because I'm not as disrupted as I was then.
The dogs go for grooming this afternoon...I wish I were!
A few years back I ripped out the wall to wall carpet and pad, but only took the tack strips up from the doorways (3) and not from around the walls and there was still a large chunk of it under the hutch. Then a couple of years ago I tried to strip the wall paper out...what a mess! Uncovered a very heavily adhesive underlay and then paneling. That all came to a screeching halt and I've just been living with this horrid mess since then.
After he left I emptied the dining room of everything but the hutch, but did empty the hutch. Then my curiosity got the best of me and I wanted to know what was under the paneling...so I ripped out the trim from around all three doorways and pulled out the paneling and lo and behold there is old siding. It's in wonderful shape, dirty and stained and painted many times, but in wonderful shape! Pretty! So, I've opted to keep it!
Yesterday Rick and his helper were here from 10 until 3 (they were gone for about an hour and a half to go to the dump and to lunch). They got the hutch out, took up the tack strips from the perimeter of the room, ripped out the remaining carpet, tore out the ceiling tiles (pretty bead board underneath), and took out the paneling. It's absolutely amazing how wonderful it looks! The ceiling and walls will be scraped and sanded and painted and since the floor has also been painted many times I'm just going to have it painted also.
Now comes the hard part, color! I had thought of one color when I was thinking the walls would just have drywall, not sure that will be what I want on the siding, so last night I tacked up empty Meow Mix bags all over the dining room and I'm thinking I want the walls some version of the main part of the bags, the ceiling white and the floor a rich chocolate brown...sounds good to me.
They won't be back today as they were waiting for cement to dry on a rather large job they have...they'll be fitting me in and that's okay. I need to get paint, more chain for the light fixture as it's hung much too high and something else...can't remember what right now...it'll come to me. This is all much more exciting than the kitchen was because I'm not as disrupted as I was then.
The dogs go for grooming this afternoon...I wish I were!
Saturday, August 14, 2010
Astonishing hair!
I probably won't recognize myself when I wake up tomorrow...I now have the most astonishing hair color! It's sorta a cross between fire engine red and sunflower yellow. It is, however, growing on me!
Ann came to town for a few days and we've done a lot of eating and visiting. She's staying with Leah Jane and will be going back to Carrabelle tomorrow. I really wish she hadn't moved.
Night before last I got up at 3am and sat on the patio until 5am watching the Perseid Meteor Shower. It really put on quite a show this year! One came over that seemed close enough to need to duck and it was so big and lasted quite a while! I tried it again last night, but only saw a few small ones. I really went out at the wrong time, about 11pm, the peak is between midnight and dawn. I'll meander out again tonight, but Thursday was the peak.
I started a jig-saw puzzle today. It's been years since I've done one...had forgotten how much I enjoy them! This one is an old ad for Winchester shotguns with two of the prettiest bird dogs I've ever seen in the ad. It's 1,000 pieces and I still am working on getting the edges done. This may take a while! I got one of those things that you can roll up while you're not working on the puzzle...I hope to save it from the cats!
This past Monday I went to Thomasville. I needed to go to Walmart for pet food and stopped at the Goodwill store on the way. I've been wishing for a lamp for the bedroom...found the cutest elephant lamp for $4.99 and the shade for $1.99! So for $7.00 I have just what I needed...you really can't beat the prices!
The weather's still a major topic of conversation around here...guess it is everywhere right now. The temp has moderated a bit, instead of the high 90s and low 100s it's low to mid 90s. Of course the rain is keeping the humidity very high. It's like being slapped in the face with a hot wet towel when you walk outside! This too shall pass! Next we'll all be moaning and groaning about how cold it is!
Ann came to town for a few days and we've done a lot of eating and visiting. She's staying with Leah Jane and will be going back to Carrabelle tomorrow. I really wish she hadn't moved.
Night before last I got up at 3am and sat on the patio until 5am watching the Perseid Meteor Shower. It really put on quite a show this year! One came over that seemed close enough to need to duck and it was so big and lasted quite a while! I tried it again last night, but only saw a few small ones. I really went out at the wrong time, about 11pm, the peak is between midnight and dawn. I'll meander out again tonight, but Thursday was the peak.
I started a jig-saw puzzle today. It's been years since I've done one...had forgotten how much I enjoy them! This one is an old ad for Winchester shotguns with two of the prettiest bird dogs I've ever seen in the ad. It's 1,000 pieces and I still am working on getting the edges done. This may take a while! I got one of those things that you can roll up while you're not working on the puzzle...I hope to save it from the cats!
This past Monday I went to Thomasville. I needed to go to Walmart for pet food and stopped at the Goodwill store on the way. I've been wishing for a lamp for the bedroom...found the cutest elephant lamp for $4.99 and the shade for $1.99! So for $7.00 I have just what I needed...you really can't beat the prices!
The weather's still a major topic of conversation around here...guess it is everywhere right now. The temp has moderated a bit, instead of the high 90s and low 100s it's low to mid 90s. Of course the rain is keeping the humidity very high. It's like being slapped in the face with a hot wet towel when you walk outside! This too shall pass! Next we'll all be moaning and groaning about how cold it is!
Wednesday, August 04, 2010
Old friends
"Make new friends, but keep the old, one is silver the other gold".
Yesterday five of us from the class of '63 (and one husband) met for lunch at Sage here in Monticello. Betty Hodge, Rachael Ward, Colleen Capps and her husband, Gene, Charlie Walker and I met, ate, talked and laughed for hours. We all just picked up as if yesterday was our graduation...such fun! You know, sometimes the smaller groups are better than the big ones, for one thing, it's much easier to hear each other! I, of course, forgot to take my camera, but all three of the girls had theirs and plan to post on FaceBook.
I roasted my Angle Foods chicken yesterday morning. I really needed to get it out of the freezer so I could tell what's in there! I made a rub with brown sugar, Kosher salt, cayenne pepper, black pepper, Cajun seasoning, fresh garlic and olive oil. Stuffed the cavity with fresh rosemary and onions...it was so big I had to roast it for 2 hours! Once it was cooled I cut it in half and put 1/2 in the 'fridge and 1/2 back in the freezer. Supper was a nice salad with cubed chicken breast...yum! This morning after feeding the animals I made a curried shrimp salad, ended having that for my breakfast, so good!
Our weather continues to be really hot and awfully muggy. We are back in our daily storm pattern (thank goodness), but that just adds to the muggy! The grass is so high that I'm afraid I'll lose Shirley in it...she runs and hops through it so I am able to keep an eye on her. She's escaping from the fenced area at will! I've crawled the length of the house and can't find where it's happening. She's so unstreet savy and that really frightens me!
The power bill came this week, $201.70! Wow! The water/sewer/garbage bill also came and the base charge has dropped $5.00, that's better!
Yesterday five of us from the class of '63 (and one husband) met for lunch at Sage here in Monticello. Betty Hodge, Rachael Ward, Colleen Capps and her husband, Gene, Charlie Walker and I met, ate, talked and laughed for hours. We all just picked up as if yesterday was our graduation...such fun! You know, sometimes the smaller groups are better than the big ones, for one thing, it's much easier to hear each other! I, of course, forgot to take my camera, but all three of the girls had theirs and plan to post on FaceBook.
I roasted my Angle Foods chicken yesterday morning. I really needed to get it out of the freezer so I could tell what's in there! I made a rub with brown sugar, Kosher salt, cayenne pepper, black pepper, Cajun seasoning, fresh garlic and olive oil. Stuffed the cavity with fresh rosemary and onions...it was so big I had to roast it for 2 hours! Once it was cooled I cut it in half and put 1/2 in the 'fridge and 1/2 back in the freezer. Supper was a nice salad with cubed chicken breast...yum! This morning after feeding the animals I made a curried shrimp salad, ended having that for my breakfast, so good!
Our weather continues to be really hot and awfully muggy. We are back in our daily storm pattern (thank goodness), but that just adds to the muggy! The grass is so high that I'm afraid I'll lose Shirley in it...she runs and hops through it so I am able to keep an eye on her. She's escaping from the fenced area at will! I've crawled the length of the house and can't find where it's happening. She's so unstreet savy and that really frightens me!
The power bill came this week, $201.70! Wow! The water/sewer/garbage bill also came and the base charge has dropped $5.00, that's better!
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