some of you have been asking what we’ve been doing and where the posts have gone… now that popo has moved in the focus has changed slightly.
we’ve spent a lot of time finishing popo’s space, hanging photos and making adjustments for her. mathew created built in shelves for her dozens of photo albums in the living room.
here mathew is hanging her very large chinese painting.
last weekend we got to do something we hadn’t done in a long time, we continued working on our unit upstairs.
mathew climbed into the crawl space to check on wiring.
our living room upstairs had one electrical outlet. one! so mathew cut some holes in the baseboard. (left) yes, those are christmas cards. no, they are not from this year. i never took them down from last year…
and together we worked on the wiring and put in 2 new outlets and rewired the old one. hopefully soon we’ll work on adding outlets on the other side of the room. this will involve cutting a hole in the wall so mathew can climb through. previously we had access to that side before the bathroom walls were done so we were able to insulate that side of the house but didn’t have time for the electrical work.
and we finally finished insulating this one side of the living room. we cut fiberglass insulation down in the garage, carried it upstairs in a big bag and i passed it to mathew through the opening. it was a tiring, strenuous, dirty process. in some places mathew was dangling over the rafters sliding insulation under parts of the living room floor. at some point i couldn’t even see him because he was lost in some tiny crawl spaces. (right) he was extremely happy when he was done! he had bruises and scrapes all over his body but was ready for dinner and a good night’s sleep.
is it winter yet? the temperature has really dropped. hope everyone is staying warm and well.
