We’ve made less progress on the house than I’d hoped this week, but I think that next week some things will get done. For your amusement, the following is a list or our steps forward and back:
Ed glued new formica on one counter
Ed started learning to use a router on the new counter, necessitating the gluing of
more formica onto counter
Ed took old formica off kitchen counter near sink and discovered the remains of a
colony of ants (or termites?) in the wood. Need new wood.
Lowes called to say that special order commercial tile flooring has come in. Ed
brings the boxes home, then discovered that, instead of Antique White, we
have Ghastly Green.
We hire a man with a Bobcat to compact our enormous brush pile. At least four-
fifths of the pile burns, leaving us with a much more manageable pile. Yay!
Ed has great fun with the leaf blower he bought from Dan, adding lots of
leaves to the pile and burning them.
The window guys come and install the back room windows. The windows are
beautiful! The window guys prepare to install our new exterior doors and notice that
the new doors are about six inches shorter than the old doors.
This is very bad. The frames have to be rebuilt, and, they tell me, they are
not carpenters. I look very sad, and they have a go at installing one of the
back doors. They succeed in getting it in, but it still doesn’t have a frame
when they leave, and they don’t know when they will be back.
Dan was sick all week and so didn’t finish waterproof painting the basement. It
looks good, though, and no water leaked in during the rain. The slugs are
depressed.
Ed says he will have the counters done Tuesday. What with the Pumpkin Festival, community “Chicken Stew & Hot dog Dinner,” and church, I’m a little skeptical, but at least it should be a nice weekend! 
I took the picture of the field behind our house in the morning, which was the Wrong time to show the leaves to proper advantage. There really are gorgeous orange, red, and yellow leaves all around.
** I tried to make my list with indented lines for clarity. Obviously, something went funny, and I've no idea why. I thought maybe we could pretend that I Meant to do it, and it is written in some modern style of poetry?
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Aren't the leaves gorgeous? I know what you mean about the photo. Out any given window in the house is an explosion of color. It's breathtaking. The photographs, however, look like I've taken pictures of trees... for absolutely no reason.
Well, it sounds like you have progress of a sort, at least. Are they going to switch out the ghastly green, or are you going to use it? The rest really does sound like it's coming together. You know, I was surprised to find that the dimensions of a door do not actually represent the dimensions of the framing around it. Who knew, huh? All the bedroom doors in this house were 27" wide, but when we took out the jambs, we discovered 38" openings and a whole lotta shims! WOW! Keep plugging away, and enjoy all the festivities coming up - that sounds like such fun, even if I did misread it as a "Chicken Stew & HOG dinner". :-)
Dy
We are exchanging the floor tiles (the ghastly green is so awful that guests would run away in terror when they saw it, thus defeating our efforts to create a warm and friendly ambiance.).
You Did have a lot of shims! Did you keep 'em?
We are off to enjoy the festivities (despite the 50 degree weather!), cheerfully abandoning our shambles of a house for the day!
Uhhh, no, didn't keep the shims. Didn't keep anything in the house at all other than the ceilings (which, honestly, I'd love to have replaced, b/c there's suspicion certain chemical activities took place here before we bought it, *ahem*, but we ran out of cash if we also wanted insulation). So, the shims, door trim, jambs... all of it went up in flames. :-) It was a big fire.
Dy
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