2020 Life Logs, Day 89: Working Sunday
Date: Sunday, March 29, 2020
Weather: Overcast and Rainy; High 47 degrees, Low 42 degrees F
Location: At Home in The Cottage, East Falmouth, MA
I’m sure the weather could be worse, and our work today was inside, but it was surely a most dreary, cool, rainy day. It didn’t help that Shadow got me up at 2 am and again at 5 am to go out in the rain. But at least after the 5 am get up and go outside affair, we then slept in until 9 am. Then it was time to get up and get ready to go to Heather and Jed’s new house to clean the basement and the garage. Those are the jobs I volunteered to do along with Jed and the boys. We started by working on the basement while Heather attacked the wallpaper in the master bedroom. She and Jed have given in on getting rid of the carpet in their bedroom and will do that later when carpet installation is once again allowed. But she really wants to get that wallpaper replaced with fresh paint. She has stripped wallpaper before, but this stuff is really stuck in many places. She has to get back to fulltime work at home starting tomorrow morning, so I will try my hand at wallpaper removal tomorrow. I also offered to pick the boys up tomorrow morning and take them with me to the new house to continue working. Yesterday they started stripping the carpeting out of their new bedrooms and evidently Sam and Jonah figured out how to remove those wooden tack strips that hold the carpeting in place. They can work on that tomorrow while I help Ollie turn cutting pieces of Con-Tact Shelf Liner into a math lesson. Hopefully we can get all of the kitchen shelves covered so we can begin moving the non-essentials from the old house to the new. The basement is ready to start ‘accepting’ deliveries and with a little more work tomorrow, the garage will be ready as well. The plan is to move Jed’s wood shop into the double car garage, along with all of the sports equipment. Hopefully there will be room left for a car or maybe two. And hopefully we’ll get periods of dry weather during the week so we don’t have to move things in the rain. Progress is being made, but there is plenty of work to keep us all busy full-time. And then, of course, Heather and Jed are working full time from home and the boys are supposed to be completing school activities at home. Those Goldpebbles are going to have to get creative and turn all their help with moving into school assignments. That’s my challenge to them!
