29 June 2023
I screwed up. I was supposed to pick Tom up and deliver him to Holy Cross for his surgery this morning. I was out of bed at 5:30 am, dressed at 7:30 and was killing time so I would be too early to pick him up at 8:30. By the time I left the house I realized I had not allotted enough time with morning I-95 traffic and busy side streets. I called him and suggested he call an Uber. He eventually made it to the hospital about 18 minutes after his scheduled time but in plenty of time for the surgery. I felt badly I miscalculated.
After returning home from the attempt to deliver Tom, I spent the rest of the morning raking leaves on the west side of the house where the mango seems to be in shed mode. I then cleaned the pool filter, the patio, and portions of the pool deck with iguana poop. There’s always iguana poop to clean up.
Chad, Eric and Rudy showed up this morning (unexpected) and started in on completing the project. Eric started putting baseboard down and Rudy emptied out the utility room to ready it for carpet.
Chad left to buy paint for the stucco and the interior. Apparently, Sherwin-Williams has a new product that allows you to put a primer on stucco that isn’t completely dry and then you can put the final coat on after the primer dries. Who knew?
Rudy painted the vestibule with my choice of Sherwin-Williams “celery.” It doesn’t look like there’s any color to the walls with the naked eye but when I took a photo with my iPhone, the color came out.
When Eric was putting down the carpet in the utility room, he put glue underneath. He discovered that the glue is coming up through the carpet in places. We’ll let it dry overnight before putting anything back in the utility room.
I don’t really care about the glue spots. The carpet will get a lot more on it as time goes by. I just like that it’s down and I can vacuum any dirt from the carpet. When it was bare concrete/glued paper like in the first photo, it was impossible to keep from getting gritty and dirty.
If all goes well, they may be able to finish everything up tomorrow and I can start putting my house back together again. One step forward….
Stay tuned!
