FEB-A-2
RE-ENTRY PROCEEDS APACE;
I WARM UP DERWOOD AND CONTINUE
THE RESOLUTION
OF THE PAST DUE MAIL, BILLS, CALLS AND REAL ESTATE SETTLEMENTS,
WHILE SORTING OUT TWENTY PLUS ROLLS OF PRINTS,
FIVE SLIDE ROLLS AND FOUR MORE
ON INTERNET AND DISC
February 4, 2003
I am back, and trying to get out from under. One of my principle activities has been to sort out several dozen rolls of good prints and show them to a few folk who could appreciate them. The New Year is hardly a month old, and there is already a push through the second photo album and into the third for the 2003 series!
I have completed one transaction in the real
estate business and am awaiting any notice of the next one. I have also had to thaw out pipes and look
into leaks. The upper floors had ice in
the toilets, and a small stalagmite under each faucet, and after they were
warmed up slowly by just letting the house heat, there was a bit of a leak
where there had been before in the dining room ceiling. But, after that was resolved, I cam upon a
new problem,
The furnace did not come on. After working on the cycling of it in time
to my coming and going, it did not come on.
So, I opened the relatively new furnace and tripped the starter. I fond the pilot light lit, and still
nothing started up. I left the panels
off and called the postponed Gardener’s Remodeling service for a review of the
house and its remodeling, now with a new set of objectives in addition to the
plans which they hold---I need new plumbing and new bathrooms. The pipes and faucets were rather decrepit
when they started running again and now it is the case that they should need
replacing before rather than after any major remodeling is done.
By the way, might you please look into
re-starting my furnace? We played with
it for a while before it was found that the fuse box (all of which will be
replaced by circuit breakers later) had blown a fuse even though it did not
look to be bad, and after it was replaced by a 20 ohm new fuse which I just
happened to have form a stock the Bennett’s had put there, the furnace started
up and the house rapidly re-heated again.
So, now I will get a new estimate and a still
further series from Bubba Farnsworth who will contact me a full week later
before I turn back to D G Liu with the now additional request for two items not
originally put in—new plumbing and bathrooms and a security system for the
protection of the house in absences.
There is now one more item on the equation---if the kitchen and all
three bathrooms are torn out—that means a move out, and it will probably be
extended for at least as long as the “twice the length of the estimated time”
predicted. So, I see a move in my near
future. And what else is new?