Kate’s allegedly a human (although increasingly right-wing bigots would say otherwise). She’s definitely not a vampire, despite what some other people claim. She’s also mostly built out of spite and overcoming oppositional-sexism, racism, and other random bullshit.
So she’s either a human or a lizard in disguise sent to destroy all of humanity.
Either way, she’s here to reassure that it’s all fine.
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Well there goes the schedule
I mean, it’s not like we had a schedule. We have had multiple optimistic timelines, and I can’t help but feel somewhat disappointed by the gradual acceptance that it’s not going to be livable by the new year. I’d refused to say “we’ll be in by the New Year”, because we’ve missed every other deadline.…
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I’m just going to lie here going zootlewordle.
It turns out that loading 7 30kg bags of sand-mix (which is, sadly, a concrete based thing) onto a Bob trolley, then loading half that into the car (I got help with loading), then unloading 6 bags into the house (I realised I’d done my sums based on 60lb bags, not the 80lb bags they…
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Grrrrout! And other things.
Grrrrout! It’s done. Now there’s just the silicone to do around the edges, and the corners, and the shelf. And there’s a couple of spots on the grey grout that need touching up. Oh, and then once the floor is fully cleaned, I need to pour natural stone sealant on it… which will also seal…
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A plan, if you call it that.
As we wait on tenterhooks to find out whether our flooring material will arrive before our bedroom floors do, we’ve continued to work on a variety of projects. Kathryn’s been busy up making our skylights more pretty – waxing them with a substance which is meant to be low VOC and air-quality friendly, but which…
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The push for occupancy
Happy Thanksgiving, if you celebrate it! Normally, we have a nice day planned, and some really awesome food, and seeing friends. This year it’s not worked out that way. I guess, since I’m not working, we could have headed out, but since I have to be at work early tomorrow… it’s not ideal to need…
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Slightly more convenient convenience
Today did not go totally smoothly. In the end I think it’s worked out okay. I’m wondering if I should have wound the heating up a bit – for reasons that I’ll explain… So, I committed to installing the toilet today. I’d got my plan, I’d worked everything out. There is less clearance than I…
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That’s inconvenient for a convenience.
So let’s start with the good news. We finally have some actual, factual, running water in the house in a bathroom fitting that… can have the water left on and which allows us actual water we can use – both hot and cold – in the house. It’s quite exciting. Today I washed tools in…
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Drip, drip, drip
Today was one of those days where while things didn’t go terribly, they didn’t exactly go well, either. Having run errands (again….Did I mention adulting is really getting in the way of building?) I headed over to the house and thought I’d take a little time to get the sink taps working. This, of course,…
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Hewn!
One of our design elements is making it look like our entire roof is hewn from a single block of birch. That may not be the truth, and it doesn’t really look like that. But we’ve long talked about a plan to clad our skylights in wood veneer. When we priced it up though, it…
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Adulting is quite…irritating.
I hoped that today would be the day that I finished putting tiles on the wall. But it’s not turned out that way. I kind of suspected it wouldn’t when I got another chance to really thoroughly examine the early morning hours. For reasons that remain opaque to my waking brain, at 3am I’m suddenly…