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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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…
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It Liiiiiiiiives!
via GIPHY It has been one hell of a long day. Which is funny, because it’s not been that long-a day overall. I mean, I work 12 hour shifts, and I only put in 10 hours at the house today. But it felt long. ‘Our’ plumber came by today and let me know that: Our…