Nothing much going on this week. The weekend, however, will be busy. I have Plans. Today Tyler finally gets to go to the groomer (he's about 3 weeks overdue, poor dog - but they were closed for vacations, then I was on vacation). He'll be thrilled. I'm also hitting the laundromat while I'm out, to wash the mega sleeping bag from Pennsic that won't fit in my home washer.
There's a trip to a craft store to get some more embroidery floss; and grocery shopping. And house projects.
We've had a couple of water issues in the past two weeks. There's a spot on the basement wall where, during some torrential rains the first week of Pennsic, there was a bit of water on the wall. This had happened before, prior to our buying the place, but it was relatively cleaned up and we hoped it was resolved (the sellers had little to say about it). Turned out it wasn't, but it also turns out to look like maybe it was just the flashing around the furnace chimney leaking up at the top, causing water to run down the inside of the chimney and seep out around a small metal door in the basement wall that opens into the chimney. Greg patched the flashing leak, and I'm pretty confident that should fix the problem - we'll know after the next Biblical flood. If not, well then, we'll burn that bridge when we come to it.
There was a small amount of water puddling around the main water line where it enters the basement, but I have a feeling that had to do more with condensation than a leak. There was also a puddle of water on top of a capped drain of some sort in the bathroom, which I know for a fact wasn't leaking, but was from condensation, and the basement has been horribly damp in the last month or two. We need a dehumidifier, big time. There was one in the basement, but it was very old, and I remember my dad telling me when he used to run his that they really ran up his electric bill. I was going to hold out to shop around for a newer, hopefully more energy efficient one, but we finally decided it was so bad we'd at least run the old one for a little while. So it's been running, and has helped out a lot.
Then there's the slightly scarier one, there's a new water damage spot on the ceiling of the kids' room, which corresponds with the upstairs bathroom. It's small, and not getting any worse from when I first spotted it. I'm hopeful that it's not too disastrous - while it's going to be in an awkward spot (back in the crawl space), I believe it's accessible, as there is no plumbing upstairs that isn't accessible through the crawl space, so it should be reasonably fixable.
Just have to have time to do all this stuff.
When we bought the house there was some dampness in the living room closet by the front door, which was determined to be from ice dams in the gutter right outside that closet wall. The sellers did agree to have that fixed, and pre-paid a company to do it, but they had to wait till a thaw. We finally called them this month, as it was pretty apparent they'd never shown up to fix it, and we were right - they hadn't. So they're coming out tomorrow - but at least (a) that will get fixed by a professional, with a guarantee, and (b) we didn't have to pay for it.
Sheesh, this house has had some watery issues, but fortunately (knocking loudly on wood) nothing too serious yet. As Greg said when we bought the house, the place is solidly constructed and was always well maintained, so I think a lot of these little things are just from the place sitting empty for more than 2 years, and as we get the maintenance back up to par, I don't think we're going to have any major problems. (more knocking on wood)
As for me, I'll be focusing on continuing to put Pennsic stuff away, cleaning out the dining room (where most of my Pennsic stuff has lived for the last week), and cleaning out the garage. Oh, and cleaning up the Imaginarium, if I can get to it. It's become wrecked over the last few months, because that's where we keep sticking things we don't know what else to do with. But I want to start cleaning it up, because I want to start using it for it's original intention - the craft and hobby area. I have a lot of projects ramping up now, and I want a nice, organized place to work on them.
I'm going to start working on the mold for the Saxon Summer medallions this weekend. I have new garb I want to make (might as well jump on it now while I'm still psyched, before the mid-winter disinterest sets in). We've been wanting to make new sheet wall panels for several years. I want to do some more work on the priate coat embroidery, and I have other embroidery projects I'm really psyched about. I also have Librivox projects lined up, for which I need to tweak the recording studio area - it was giving me grief on the last recording, so I want to rearrange it a little bit before I start any new recordings.
I guess that's enough to start with. So ... that's my weekend. Busy, busy, busy.
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