Saturday

Today, I was out and about, albeit cautiously. I took along the zyrtec, just in case, but it was not needed. Who knows what instigated yesterday, but it was a baddie. It is interesting to me that in the last couple years, it seems like I have had increasing problems with allergies. I don't know why that would be. 

Tim's been having increasing problems with his phone. The charging plug doesn't fit tightly any more, and so I sat down with you-tube, studied the problem and the antidote. A couple 'plackers' and I was pulling dust and dirt out. We got a can of compressed air, and voila! The cord fit nicely. Problem solved! Except for one tiny thing...now the phone won't take a charge at all. (Yay me!)

So...there is a new phone in Tim's future, and because we are dinosaurs, we are dreading it. He asked for one exactly like mine, because he was always more comfortable with my phone than his. I'm going to talk him into getting a case for it. I blame plaster dust and pocket lint for the failure of this phone. 

This is Comet A3. I think the picture is hilarious. It is entitled, "Oh no. Not again."

We drove to Olean today to talk to a specialist about the very old plaster walls in the renovation. Because the house had a huge hole in the roof, there was water damage on the second floor and we needed to do some structural repairs in the attic, replacing beams and the like. Let us agree to say that the house was a bit damper than it should have been. But it has the old fashioned plaster walls that really are like rock. What do you do with those? Upstairs, we have been drywalling directly over top of those concrete-like walls, mostly because the ceilings needed to be redone anyway due to water damage.

Down stairs, though, with the coffered ceilings and the beautiful leaded glass and hardwood floors and all, there was not any real water damage anywhere but the kitchen which we did gut right down to the studs. The rest of it though, those lovely solid hard as rock walls...except for some cracking. We wanted to talk about someone about how to do those up nicely while still hanging on to those perfectly good walls...well. Except for some cracking. 

Turns out this place was in a very old building, and they were great. They had the same sort of limestone plaster walls, and they were able to show us exactly what they did. Their walls looked very nice. They used a paintable base wallpaper, with the very slightest of texture. They painted it and it looks like the walls of an old cottage. Kind of a limewash paint effect: 

Although we are using a different color, more like a light copper color to coordinate with the dark wood trim and the fireplace. 

We are not completely sold on this color and may change our minds before it is all done.

In any case, that was today. Tim went hunting, and there have been no signs of the little possums today, which doesn't exactly break my heart any, although the little fellow seemed quite comfortable trotting himself out and getting a nibble, and then trotting himself back in as Tim stood there gaping in disbelief. He had time to call me out to take a look. The little guy leisurely ate as we both watched. I find myself wondering if maybe he got separated from his family somehow, and is on his own. Maybe it is not a family of them. Maybe it is just one. 

Maybe. 

But in any case, we need to figure out how to handle this situation. 

So...that was today. 

The week coming up might bring us some very welcome news. We are keeping our fingers crossed, but I don't want to jinx anything until the deal is done.