Thursday, August 4, 2011 AM

I don't post so often anymore.  I know I say this a lot, but it's ever so true.
The house is coming so slowly!  It seems like we (Penny, myself, Randy, and Kerry) work on a project for a month, and then Steve comes home and commences to tear it apart.  It's almost like we're going backwards.
This time while he was home, he cut a window opening in the dining room wall to install a window that Penny and I had selected for that area.  Then, instead of installing the window, he started re-wiring the overhead lights in the living room and on the front porch.  He got the front porch hooked up to two different light switches, and they both turned on and off the light on the front porch.  One of them was supposed to be used for the living room light.  They are side-by-side next to the front door.  So that had to be done over.
He left last night with the hole still in the dining room wall, and no window in it.
I just hope we don't have bad weather.
I tried to work on the plaster upstairs yesterday evening, but it was so hot up there.  The portable air conditioner cut itself off.  I don't know why, it just wouldn't work.  I was bathed in sweat, so I quit after a while, but got some done.
We now have all the lathe and plaster torn off the wall on the front side of the living room and the ceiling.  I noticed that there was a rather flimsy electrical box for the ceiling light, and commented about it to Steve.  He told me that I had not told him I wanted large light fixtures anywhere.  I had, and had shown him the light fixtures I intend to use.  Many of them are hanging from the ceiling in the downstairs sun room.  Several more of them are setting on the floor in our living room at home, and have been there for several months.  I think he has his head up his backside.
It is becoming really tiresome and tedious to have to repeat so many jobs.
I would really like to get the plaster work done upstairs (in the areas where there is sheetrock hung), but there's so little time, and my efforts cost me so much energy.
I took the nails out of some trim yesterday afternoon in the dining room, to be where it is some cooler.  I don't know if we will re-use all that trim, but we will have it stored more easily, and it will be there if we decide to use it.
I insulated the outside wall of the library day before yesterday, and used four batts for each cavity.  It should be much easier to heat and cool.  I want it to be a nice room for Elaine and her family.  I have a neat idea for an old window opening in that room.
There's much more to tell in an up-date, but my typing is terrible this morning.  I'm trying to correct everything, but I'm sure I will miss something, and Barbara will 'launch' on it.
I feel like I need to go back to bed, but duty is a hard master, and it calls loudly for me.