Howdy,
Just finished unbelieveable few days--but now all is well with a crimson sky and the beautiful blue of Lake Michigan in the corner of my eye. Thursday got to Findlay and packed until 3 a.m. Got up Friday and then packed the U-Haul with Lorhel's stuff for her new apartment at college and did chores around the house and headed to Cincinatti. Got to Cinci about 6 p.m. with a U-Haul full of furniture, tables, mattresses, etc. and parked on an incline hill, with THREEEEEEE flights of stairs to Lorhel's room, TWOOOO flights to the kitchen, ONE to the entry and NOOOOOO friends to help us as promised. Not to mention it was STINKIN HOTTTT. So, I'm sitting there in the U-Haul dripping wet with sweat, looking at the full truck and notice that accross the street are 4 college boys on the porch drinkin Pepsi, seriously, not beer. Now, I'm lookin at the three flights of stairs to my left, and the 4 college boys to the right. Next, I look in my wallet and see I have FOUR twenty dollar bills, yep, Uh, Huh:"Hey Guys, you want to make a quick 20 bucks???" I didn't even finish the sentence and they were at the truck. Man, could I move like that when I was 20? Truck was unloaded in less than a half hour and all I did was point and say take this, take that, here, this one takes two. I was rather pleased with myself of course. Lorhel's apartment is very cool---old solid wood floors, split level, lots of character.Well, the night was just begining, trip to Wal Mart and back $184 poorer with toilet paper holders, toilet cleaners, trash cans, etc. The caulk in Lorhel's bath tub along the tub edge was disgusting---so, I dug it all out, dried it with a blow drier, and laid down beads of new caulk. Yes Ed, I put chlorine bleach mixture in first. Put up her bed, pictures on the wall, etc. Back to the hotel. Next morning back to shopping for Lorhel, then back to Findlay. Got back to Findlay around 4 p.m. just in time to meet the two guys from "E-Movers"---a service U-Haul has for local help. They loaded the freezer, leather couch, chairs, multiple boxes cabinets and tools and even removed and replaced doors as necessary to facilitate moving. Second best $164 I ever spent. They even moved the old couches up from the basement to replace the leather ones that are now here at the Nook. Still, up until 1 a.m. packing more small boxes and tools. All the while I'm thinking, how in the heck am I going to unload this stuff? The Marine I know in Naubinway will be working, where am I going to find a few good men on a work day? How will I unload this stuff????Sunday morn get underway about 1100---stop at Cabelas to get a new fish finder and trolling rig, then Lowes in West Branch for extruded foam for insulating the crawl space. Get back to the Nook about 2100 and Jeffy's already in bed. Up until 0300 unloading what I could, small boxes, etc. Dead beat tired.Monday morn I am awaked by voices walking around the house, two men, masons here to pour the concrete for the footers for the additions. I walk outside, how ya doin? Good, can't start yet though, boss ain't here, delayed. Oh, really? Say, would you mind helping me move a couple things? Yeah, short order made of leather couch, freezer, 4 drawer Oak File Cabinet---and they wouldn't even let me help---I'd try to grab something and they would say, no, let me get that, OH YEAH!!!! They wouldn't take a dime, so I gave them each 20 bucks under the guise of buying them lunch, probably the best 40 bucks I ever spent. Then, to the storage unit to unload some small stuff, drop off the U-Haul. Back to the Nook and into the moldy nasty crawl space under Jeffy's room. I haul out rotted timbers, old lead pipes and SIX 45 gallon contractor garbage babs of nasty old insulation. I cut away the insulation from the heating duct work, glue extruded 2 inch foam to the block walls and lay down a new vapor barrier and duct tape it to the extruded foam now glued to the walls. I put fiberglass insulation along the outer joists and voila, the crawl under Jeffy's room is clean, dry, heated and insulated.Then I haul all the waste back to the dump pile and right now I am so sore I can barely type. Good news is, they were able to dig the big rocks out away from the dining room addition area, dig out the soft dirt, and fill it all with pea gravel and then lay the forms for the foundation. Then, the cement truck came and they took a front end loader to the cement truck, filled the bucket, and made multiple trips to the forms. So, now, the forms are laid and they start the block tomorrow. Decided on a vaulted ceiling for Jeff's room with a skylight and will build him a loft for guests too---will be an awesome room. My contractor is going to cantelevier the floor out and add a foot all the way round his room, and the laundry room. Wow, haven't been this tired since I was a college student and stayed up all night with Ed, Phil, Kevin and the FRAT. The Geothermal heat pump is sitting in the small garage awaiting installation this week. The gas company brought a brand new tank out to the big garage today---and I have the sub-panel sitting there to install. Thus, it looks like my salmon fishing guests will be rather toasty out there. In addition, I have couches and easy chairs out there that were replaced by the Findlay furniture inside the Nook. You should have seen this place about noon. I had the gas company truck lifting the tank with the crane, the cement truck on the road pumping cement, the guy with the front end loader going back and forth---the contractor barking orders, all the grunts with shovels and block, the U-Haul being further unloaded and to boot---I managed to find time to go to Jeffy's school in Engadine to take him his football cleats he forgot---and to the post office. I was almost as multi-tasked and brilliant as Ed today, well, a close second at least.Fishing is awesome right now, they are catching COHOS like crazy at the mouth. Holding off on fishing though until Monday when Eddy gets here, then I'm fishing like mad!!!See you soon!Jeff
Thursday, September 18, 2008
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