We’re also having trouble getting things finished like the shutters that need to be scraped, and painted, and rehung.
We’ve made some headway but there’s still plenty of stuff that must go.
And we’re having trouble getting our junk out of the Cottage so our friend can work on her renovation. Her house goes on the market soon so I know she’d like to have it cleared out.
We’ll be bringing the trim back into the house very soon.
After the floors are installed I think we’ve found the right guy to install the baseboards and finish the door and window casings.
Sigh.
Birthday flowers.
One thing I’m having no trouble with is wishing my sister a great birthday.
Welcome to The Glade, where the second generation of renovations has just begun and the mania about our home, music and other passions fill our days and nights.
We’re Charlie and Jo in the music world; Mary Jo and Charles to family; and JoJo and Charlie to each other. We are renovating a midcentury house in a Victorian historic district where we want to live there the rest of our lives. It's a 1946 house located in Maryland. We were married in this house.
Thus far (pre-blog) we refinished cabinets, added a window seat (still working on the cushion), rearranged a wall in the guest house due to sink/vanity replacement, planted a vegetable garden, and other quick and not-so-quick fixes. So this latest zeal for construction is the result of my having lived here since 1997 and feeling a need to ready the house for the next chapter and beyond.
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6 thoughts on “Having Trouble”
Thanks for the birthday wishes!! Nothing special planned, and I am having “no trouble” with that. Lisa
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Thanks for the birthday wishes!! Nothing special planned, and I am having “no trouble” with that. Lisa
Finishing is always problematic, isn’t it? What happened to your friend, the Viking? Is he ok?
We don’t know. He doesn’t return calls. We are concerned. Jo
Oh no! I know he hasn’t been mentioned in a while. Hope he’s ok. Seems he’s knowledgeable about almost everything house related.
You are so productive – don’t let these troubles get you down. You will get everything done. I totally get your frustration because I feel it myself.
I don’t know why we put such pressure on OURSELVES. Jo