Archive for November, 2001

attic, etc.

lisa November 25th, 2001

Mark is currently engaged in trying to insulate the attic. It’s a ton of work. First, we have to pull up the boards, then put down the insulation, then put the boards back down. And pulling up those boards is hard-ass fucking work. And the insulation is prickly and gives you a rash. And if you don’t wear breathing protection, you inhale all these horrible microscopic fibers and when you breathe, you feel like your lungs are on fire. Not pretty. I helped some today, but Mark did most of the work. Poor baby.

I dug a couple of holes today, one for the hawthorn that my step-mother-in-law gave us, and one for the mums my mom bought us. Then I cut down a few trees, and raked (of course) and that was about it for this weekend. Last weekend was a lot more work: I took down all the wallpaper in the hallway upstairs and in the upstairs sitting room, and stripped paint from the wood trim on the doorways and baseboards upstairs. It’s a pretty wood underneath the paint: fir or pine, probably.

We have a small, live xmas tree that I cut down from our back woods today. It’s some sort of spruce, about four feet tall. Unfortunately, we can’t have it in the house, becase Toby, the new cat, wants to climb it all the time. So we’ll put lights in it and keep it on the front porch and it will all be fine.