One of my girls told me all about ‘Daylight Savory Time’ where ‘you wake up in the night’.
That’s about right. 🙂
by Lauren 2 Comments
One of my girls told me all about ‘Daylight Savory Time’ where ‘you wake up in the night’.
That’s about right. 🙂
So, to recap the center’s basement goings-on: In January, work began on a new bathroom in the CDC. The art that was stored in that room needed to move, but there wasn’t a place for it. Lloyd, Sam, Gracen, Anna and I hurriedly put up some shelves in the server room (‘computer brain lair’) and moved the art over there.
A couple of weeks later, sewage flooded the basement and they had to rip out a foot of drywall everywhere to clean the poop out. Ugh.
This past weekend, we moved the art so that the CDC staff could help move a ton of paperwork into the server room. A section of the giant storage room had been walled off for the new space. It’s much smaller – by about 30%.
(Blerg. I’m having so much trouble uploading photos. I think this next one is going to be very small. Sorry about that.) Anyway, we bought some shelving on Saturday and called to the troops to please come help move art. Deborah, Sam, Beth and Curt were great. We put up shelves, moved tables, and moved the bulk of the art into or nearly in the room. Everything was so dusty from the drywall removal and repair (after the poop nightmare).
Sunday after church, Lloyd and I worked for a bit. I hung some pieces from the wall while he did some thinking and shuffling, thinking and shuffling.
It’s nowhere near done, but after a couple of hours I was DONE. We hurriedly moved all of the art into the room so it could be locked and went home.
See? Not a great story.
Lloyd is already asleep, so I can’t upload art photos. Sorry ‘bout that.
We had a workday today, and I am a little discouraged. Some of my coworkers were wonderfully awesome and helped with a lot of paperwork in the basement. Some did not.
I’m not bitter. Yes, I am being vague.
by Lauren 6 Comments
By Friday night I was pretty wiped out. Lloyd had mentioned earlier in the week that he would not be opposed to camping in the shed, but I was too tired to try and set anything up.
Saturday morning I was up at 5. I made a quick fire and then planned to get to Lincoln and back before the big rains hit. Lloyd came along, and we spent too much time running too many errands, then we came back to move the art around in the basement of the center (another post). By the time we got home, I told him he was off the hook for camping, but when I went out to set up my cot, I found the saddest thing….. a leak!
My window was leaking! I did a bunch of stuff to try and stop it – I screwed some plastic over the window outside and tried smearing some caulk around lots of places, but that doesn’t work really well in a rainstorm. Quite discouraged, I didn’t camp Saturday night, either.
After church on Sunday, we went back to the center for a little more art shuffling and for me to observe Lake Sandbox, which will need to be siphoned after the rains quit.
Back at home, I went to check the other window, which I thought was not leaking, and discovered that I was very, very wrong. All the garbage insulation on that side had just soaked it up. There was an actual drip coming from the top of the window, so I cobbled a thing together to divert it into a bucket.
It has caught a fair amount of water.
Lloyd’s going to contact the company. As we look at the profile of the shed, they put the roof on wrong. There is supposed to be a little overhang on that side and there isn’t. There super isn’t.
We’ve had sooooo much rain. As I write this, I think we’ve had 4 inches of rain with more to come. The wind has whipped around a fair amount. A significant branch (not a giant one – 6 feet and 3-inch diameter?) fell on the shed roof when I was dealing with the water and scared the bejeebees out of me. Lots of branches are down all over town, and a third of a neighbor’s tree. The bulldozer in the street is what alerted us to that situation.
All in all, it has been a bit of a weekend. I think I’m ready for the week to begin.
by Lauren 5 Comments
She's so awesome, She's so nifty! Rockin' those rebates - she's quite thrifty! Her friend's cheap, This is the gifty. Hey, there, Deborah - Happy Fifty!
The college students are on Spring Break, so the regular staff are pulling some long days at the center. I am usually there a long time anyway, but let me just say that it makes a big difference being WITH THE CHILDREN for all that time. At the time of this writing, the week is 40% done.
It will be fine. It will be fine.