1. As I’ve mentioned, we are happily going to our oldest niece’s formal wedding in Palm Springs at the end of May. It is a costly endeavor however due to airfare, accommodations, new clothes, etc. Our older son and DIL are also going and used home exchange points to get a place for all of us to stay for just the cleaning fee. Saves us about $825 on hotel costs even with us offering to pay the cleaning fee. We will also be able to cook breakfasts, etc. and have more space including a kitchen. And it leaves feeling comfortable renting a car although we haven’t checked prices yet.
2. Our insulation & air sealing project is done except for the inspection. The only new discoveries of shoddy prior work were that the kitchen fan had a damper but whoever installed it put a screw right where it held it open all the time (hence the cold draft), there was a big hole around the vent pipe also leading from the attic to the kitchen (another cold draft), and the duct used to put a register upstairs is not to code and is a potential fire hazard. The latter was not fixed in this round but the first two were. We are getting permits for work but obviously not all work by the previous owners had permits, was done to code or even correctly. The story of our home ownership across 5 houses.
3. Hubby fixed a tiny problem with the shower doors (due to another poor quality installation prior to our owning the house) which made me very happy and saved money.
4. I tried a new recipe which we won’t make again but we finished it.
5. I was sick all day Tuesday and am grateful that was the extent of it.
Destination weddings can be such a hardship on family. Someone here was just talking about their grandson expecting everyone to go to New York city from MI for his wedding. Their only ties to NYC is they met there.
ReplyDeleteI agree but they live in Los Angeles so for many if not most guests it’s just a weekend away that they can drive to.
DeleteOld houses like mine(1949) and yours often had lots of non code things. Probably a different attitude toward renovations. We certainly have a closed in porch that was not permitted and I'm sure who ever buys this place when we're gone will roll their eyes at what was done. We are only the second owners of this old house and the old man lived to be 95 here and at the end of his life the house took a beating. Lot of water damage. I don't fault him at all, just getting old does that.
ReplyDeleteGlad you weren't sick too long.
So true. All of our houses have been old and that was certainly the case. This kitchen fan though was put in right before we bought the house so it is just shoddy installing.
ReplyDeleteWhen we put in our new windows we discovered that there was no insulation in the walls. Our house was built in 1921 and any insulation probably dissolved over the years.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
Ours was built in 1951 with the 2nd story added on 1965 and there is no insulation in the walls either. Adding it is a disruptive project I’m not ready to take on. It would make a big difference though.
DeleteHoping Tuesday's illness wasn't due to new recipe!
ReplyDeleteToo far apart and Hubby wasn’t I’ll thankfully.
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