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The Lake House
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Hops: I'll do backflips when I get this site up and running.... working out bugs for the summer season and hopefully a few 5 star reviews in place. That's the plan. YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeees!
DD23 is safely eating Thai in Canada.
DD21 went to the school clinic, run by our GP practice, and received a benadryl and news she has an amoicillin rash.... THIS was necessary bc of a hot tub foot and ear infection (she wasn't the only one experiencing hot tub skin problems) and now she's home sleepy after a chicken,bacon, swiss sammy, having driven through this terrible storm twice. There was lots of ponding in the roads, water burbling up through manhole covers and a couple cars in ditches.... assumed they hydroplaned. It's sunny, just this moment, so I might travel to the Lake house. Can pick up the sheet rock and keep it dry... contractor can't with his pick up. I wonder if they're going to open all the airports... I think Charlotte closed down.
Amber: I'm glad B can nap and take that time without anyone reacting and worrying something's wrong. I know I did. Snow, baking, napping and watching a good mouser do their thing sounds very nice to me.
As for the storm here...not many limbs down, but I walked the property inthe rain and made sure all the drainage was running properly. There was one jammed up spot with leaves in the drainage creek,but it was easy to clear. Yards here run like rivers, as we're at the bottom of the nieghborhood.
I'm very tire...not much sleep the past 2 nights. I might nap, ready for the Lake and leave by 6... if I go. If I can find a good deal on a dryer, I'll pick it up on the way.
Enjoy the snow, Amber.
Snuggle your lucky pooch, Hops: )
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I'm late getting on the road for the Lake. Contractor expected me early this morning, but DD21 met me in the kitchen with her amoxicillin rash all over her body and worsening as we looked at it. She couldn't believe I was leaving her today, which startled me. I mean.... I sort of felt it was wrong/a mistake but I didn't think she'd consciously care and voice discontent like that.
I'm packing the truck now, which started with yanking out the Christmas trees and branches for the goats. Eventually, they'll get to eat them and I'll get to pet them. I love the smell of Pine trees.... so much.
I made food, to go with me, while going over symptoms and meds with DD..... cooking for her..... letting her be unhappy and uncomfortable and terribly itchy and hot..... generally "in a mood." Unhappy to be stuck caring for Pug while DD23 and I are gone,but there's too much mud at the Lake, so..... can't be helped.
I'm conflicted about leaving, conflicted about working at the lake in the mud and conflicted about being needed by DD21 and DD23.... Monday they both had Doc appointments and both wanted me to go with them. I committed to DD23 before DD21 asked, so that settled that....but it felt wrong and there was discomfort and I'm trying to notice it.... not judge it.... not get overwhelmed by it. Sometimes I still do, but it has the benefit of making other problems seem very distant and small.
DD21 eye balled me this morning, poined out her sister's anxiety problems and said she (dd21) was 50% sure DD23 would become overwhelmed at University and wash out UNLESS I made Therapy and doc appointments for DD23 and took her to them. I said I would have a talk about putting plans in place to better cope with anxiety, etc for 23yo. DD21 said it was a "bad idea and would fail."
I asked her what she felt I should do and she said she had no answers, which ws almost funny, and we laughed. As I said.... she's in a gernally discontented mood with this rash, but these are genuine concerns and she's concerned.
::Breathing::.
It would be so good to get to the lake before noon.
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Last year this time pipes froze at the lake house. I'm here now shoring things up for temps in the teens beginning tonight extending for days.
I don't understand the well pump or how to insulate it better outside.... inside? My brother has me following the220 wire from the interior pump thing y to stop it running IF the exterior pipe breaks? I'm not sure how to go about trying to insulate the exterior but I want to spray that crack filler around the little playhouse over the thing, add insulation and a light bulb under all.....but I honestly don't know if that will fix things.
IF I leave a heater on in the mechanical room..... would that help anything?
::Putting on coat::
I'm going out.
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An hour and a half spent insulating the pump house and installing a heating pad around the water pipe..... that sucker's not likely to break now. I feel better.
It's going down to 8degrees at home tonight. DD21 is going to pull her car into the garage and put a heater on low.... it keeps the garage nice and toasty.
Oldest DD23 is spending the night with a friend who lives very close to Univeristy campus. That means a short drive for her first class at 9am.
The pug is very depressed and I miss her very much. When i get back home I'm going to take her for lots of long walks. She has a little sweater that fits her well.
I caulked the new bathroom ceiling and will be ready to paint it in the morning.
I have caulking and some grouting to do..... trying to match grout color on old brick pavers. Will see how mixing paint into sanded grout works out.
Anyone have experiece with that?
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To post here or on the Mindfulness thread? Hard to say, realy.
So.... I've been at the lake for 8 days patching sheetrock, figuring out the trim list and how to resolve problems without trim where I can.... like around the stone fireplaces where the LVP leaves a straight gap in the master bedroom and jaggedy gap in the living room.
I mixed an insipid light brick grout color to patch the replaced paver (where Dad's wheelchair rolled over it for 20 years) and to fill the gap between it and new LVP. Wish I could make that decision again, but we march on. All will be well, yup yup yup.
A text from DD21 had me flinging myself around the house like Dianne Wiest trying to leave work bc her kids freaked her out in the movie THE LOST BOYS.... a conversation with DD21 reassured me enough......I leave tomorrow.
That means I'll try to finsih the sheet rock patches, paint them and do the figure on trim and draperies to put us over the finish line. I caulked and painted in the new bed/bathroom, fixed a lamp I didn't know I coudl fix, [aomted the laundry room, made lables for the light switches and fielded questions on Airbnb, which shocked me into dealing with the Lake calendar..... we're almost ready to go live,. but not quite.
The contractor I need is playing coy, so I'm goinjg to figure out how to use a miter saw to cut 6" crown and install it 10' up. Upside down backwards math seemed impossible yesterday.
Today....
I'm thinking....
maybe.
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