Ernie and I worked from 11am till after 5pm and the following is a note that I sent to Janny on Tuesday morning. Apparently Melissa brought over a peach pie and some sweetcorn Monday evening and Janny asked me to stop by late Monday, but I was still working at Westview.
Sorry to miss the get together, but yesterday I worked right thru until almost six o'clock and then hit the club.
Ernie (and I) were able to put up the wall section in the living room (I put the books on the shelves and connected the stereo), mount the TV Monitor, and he fixed a small leak in the bathroom faucet. I also had to rearrange and move two bookshelves in the bedrooms. Now, the two bookcases in the study are the same height. It doesn't sound like much, but all things dealing with moving or renovation seem to move slowly and require a maximum of effort.
The drywall was hung by late afternoon and it will be another couple of days before the 'mudding' (I don't really understand what this is) is complete, and then Anderson Construction can finish on the room, and Ernie can begin to hang the shelving in the renovated area. 2 MEN AND A TRUCK are coming on Monday, 8/10, so that will be my first night at the new house, and Eric says that he will be 'almost' be finished with the work. We'll see, but I'll be in the front row.
I also have contracted Ernie to paint the downstairs of the condo, and he'll be starting Tuesday, the eleventh. It will take two days and he's only going to charge two hundred which is reasonable and he does good work.
The electrical work is not complete and yesterday I noticed that I have no power to half of the living room and both the study and the bedroom. However, the computer is up and running (no internet, but it is picking up wifi connections, but all of my neighbors have encrypted their signals). I can watch DVDs and listen to CDs on the computer. Ernie is from Waverly and he's an authentic 'country boy', and while we were working I was playing Jimmy Dale Gilmore, George Jones, and Merle Haggard, and this was from just a few random CDs that I'd brought that happened to be on the computer table. He was amazed.
I hope that the power issue is just that the electrician hasn't completed work on the new electrical box. I think his biggest concern was to provide power to the new area in the basement. He works until 330pm and he'll be getting a call from me. Oddly enough, he is working on installing the electrical system at the new Calvary Temple on the south edge of town. He was saying that when the electrical boxes were installed at that location the inspectors didn't even open the boxes, but at my house, they went through everything with a fine tooth comb.
Today I'll be moving the final few boxes to 940 and then I want to transport the six hanging bookshelves. Each unit comprises six, six foot long boards and three vertical shafts with the brackets attached. This kind of a move would be impossible if I lived any farther away, but I can get to the house in about three minutes. But unfortunately it takes much, much longer to drop off a load.
I'm hoping that by the end of next week I'll be settling into my 'New Normal- Life On Westview'. My next anxiety issues will probably center on the sale of condo which will involve me calling Joe daily, and asking, "Are we there yet?, Are we there yet, Are we there yet?" seeya kw
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