Before going any further – I received a very sad email this morning from my friends, Heidi and Monica Narr. Heidi was reporting that Monica is back in the hospital after a terrible fall from her bed. She has broken an arm and a leg. Doctors are in the middle of deciding whether or not she can handle going through surgery for repairing the femur in her leg. I’d like to ask everyone to add these two ladies to your prayer list. Heidi continues marching on with her commitment to taking care of her sister. Here we have one more challenge that she faces with her sister – despite her own health issues that continue to add to the struggles. However – this is living testimony to the truest depth of love one can feel for another!
We have dropped everything to focus on our issues with getting the house resealed. We got the deck of the front porch finished. The staircase is all that’s left to the front of the house. Dwayne is doing some reconstruction on that during his next round of days off before we reseal it. We don’t know what the previous owners had in mind when they built it. But right now – even after requesting another handrail for the top steps – I have these vicious thoughts of somebody falling through the mangled mess. We’re not happy about it. So Dwayne’s gonna make it right.
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It’s amazing how time can help you see all the “brick walls” that actually exist around this fiasco! You would be surprised at how many things you are unable to do around this crazy mess – above – below – around – all the above. You can't tell from this view - but there is about a 1.5' space of wasted area on the landing between the landing rail and the railing for the top steps.
He dismantled the outside railing for the top steps so we could finish the porch decking. But here you can see how the top steps to the porch are actually eating up the landing. The remaining intact rail for the steps really shows the difference in the finished efforts with resealing! To the left of that railing is that area of wasted space between the top steps and the landing rail below – which makes absolutely no sense.
Dwayne is going to move the entire landing and bottom stairs out further. The top steps will meet the landing properly - and he'll be widening the top set of steps. He may have to cut the support posts from the pads – if the same ignorance was applied here, as was done so with the piers for the back porch. But I think it will look and function so much better after he gets it all corrected!
I’ve been watching Craigslist like a hawk, lately. Came across a queen-size headboard and footboard for $125.00. We drove all the way up to the Halls area in Knoxville to pick it up. Without being fore-warned about all the road construction in that area – we ended up going through a maze of roads that had the feathers coming out. The map guidebook I bought a few years ago - and got teased for buying - turned out to be our saving grace - once again! The new find looks great in the guestroom! Needs a little bit of cleaning up. But the Old English is on my grocery list. So that little job will have to wait a day or two.
Beyond that – I’m in the middle of trying to situate a few things down in the basement during the evenings while Dwayne’s at work. However – this evening is one of those time-consuming jobs. I usually mop the wood floors with only water – damp mop at most. Tonight’s job will consist of using the wood cleaner and hitting all the rooms in the house – except the bathrooms, of course.
So – if you go to any of my two farms at FaceBook and you see plots not planted – now you know why. LOL
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