housekeeping...I eliminated some broken links in the side bar. Seems like a lot of my goth friends have given up blogging. 'Tis a shame. If you are a reader of What a Sad Old Goth and I don't have a link to your page, please let me know, I'd be happy to add you.
other stuff;
I'm tired of politics already. I don't know if I can make it to November in a sane state. I'm getting to the point where I think that the President should be decided by
The Magic 8 Ball... I think I have one laying around the Manor somewhere...
Speaking of the Manor (Stately Sad Old Goth Manor, that is), I'm still dragging myself through the endless kitchen remodeling project from Hell. Every task turns into ten more. I had to halt the work on the new ceiling, as when I was putting the plywood up to anchor the tin ceiling to, I discovered that the beams make a sharp upturn about two feet from the eastern wall. I had to run lenghts of mason's cord along the bottom of the beams to create a level line, then build up the base of the beams with cedar shake shingles to make them true. Not as easy as it sounds, but I finally got that straightened out and can proceed with the plywood work this weekend. I also had to re-route some electric cables and move the ceiling fixture to the actual center of the room, where, unfortunately, a heating duct was already in residence. I had to create a bracket to hold the box for the fixture that would bridge the duct without touching it. Don't want to turn the heating system in the Manor into a live circuit...
Once the plywood work is done, we can start the walls. Of course they all need to be sanded and primed before we can do the rag painting we're planning on. That in itself is almost amusing... when we moved in here the first room we did was the kitchen and I very carefully installed sheetrock over the old plaster walls. Now we're going to paint the sheetrock to look like old plaster. Go figure.
After the walls are painted, we can put up the tin ceiling panels and then pull all the floor cabinets out of the kitchen and put in the new floor, which will be laminate flooring that looks like old, rough slate. Then put the cabinets back in, put up the new pressed tin backsplash, the new range and refrigerator and then decide what to do with the counter tops. We can't decide what color they should be until we see it all together. I'm sure I'll have some interesting tales of working with laminate and contact cement...
The very last thing to do will be the ceiling fixture. We're at loggerheads over that particular point. I want to search out a genuine vintage fixture that will complete the sort of "twenties" look we're going for, a hanging fixture, to be specific. The Mrs. wants one that hugs the ceiling. I'll let you know how that turns out, too...
And... when the kitchen is all done, we start of the parlor; then the bathroom; then the bed chamber; then I can turn my efforts to the outside of the Manor, which is in need of some serious restoration of the Yankee gutters and the huge corbels that hold up the eaves. And, one of these days, I have to get the gargoyle back up on the roof. He (it?) took a tumble during a windstorm and had to be rescued and safely placed in the garden for the summer. Looks kind of cute with the morning glories rambling all over him.
So, that's about all I have to say tonight. Candidate Kerry is about to take the podium. It's time to turn off the TV and go outside to enjoy the night.
be well.
pearls before swine...
