Small putterings

It's time!

The Fall Shed Square

The foliage is not cooperating for a nice picture, but I put the new Shed Square up on the first day of Autumn. Now I have to start contemplating the Winter one. I think there will be a winter specific big square, with little holiday specific side panels. We'll see how much free time I have.

I'm still waiting on Bathroom Guy to be able to start. Living with a half-demo'd bathroom is starting to get old. A large spider had to be evicted earlier in the week before I could shower. I'm also starting to get a little worried because part of this requires the roof to come off over the bathroom.

One night a few weeks ago I started to feel restless, so I ripped the trim off from around one of the windows in the living room to see what I was dealing with. It's SO mush easier to take the trim down to strip it, rather than trying to strip it up on the wall.

Before.
(Actually the window right next to it, I forgot to take a real "Before" picture.)

After.

Someone was cutting corners.

You might have noticed in "After" that there's big weird patches of brown paper now exposed. That's because someone decided to caulk down Every. Stinking. Edge. of the trim. Not to original walls - this has been replaced with drywall. (see in the cutting corners picture.) At some point, someone gutted this room. Sort of. And then put the trim back up, without stripping it, but not before painting it with incompatible paint and basically gluing it to the wall. Which I've now ripped off.
I'm grateful they kept the trim.

Ian helped me out big time by cutting me a new window sill to match the existing one, since the old one was sort of beyond saving. I might wind up having him cut new ones for the other 4 windows in this room, depending on how much they fight me and what sort of shape they wind up being.

This weekend - Big plans!:
• Going to try to finish sanding that first Office door, so I can bring it in the house to prime/paint it.
• I've stripped the trim, now I have to sand the trim from this window, get it in the house to be primed and painted.
• Pull trim from Window #2 and strip it.

As well as:
• Pull the majority of the screens off the house and store them.
• Kill more worms (377 yesterday!)
• Repot a few plants that are coming back inside for the winter and get them upstairs, beyond the reach of the cat.
• Clean out the flower beds (may wait a few weeks for things to really go to seed)
• Start Tall Window #1 for Ian's shop

This girl knows how to have a Good Time.