Thursday

Today's work was to replace the ceiling in the screen porch. It deteriorated because of the pre-existing damage in the poorly executed roof repair.

Before

After

The paint will have to wait until next fall.

DING-DONG

We have a doorbell and it works. We were here about two and a half months when one morning as the sun was shining through the parlor hallway I noticed we had a door bell, and a pretty cool looking one too!

But of course it didn't work. 

As a matter of fact on the back door there was an old faded index card taped on the door frame by the buzzer that said, go to the front door the door bell doesn't work.

It wasn't top priority on our list to fix the door bell. Months went by. Finally we looked at it. Well actually John did. My job was to stand in the kitchen and say, "hey the door bell works." I went to the back door to see he had just cut the wires to the old bell. 

Strangely out of the two buzzers on the house the old one did work and the new one that sported the note was nothing more than a new buzzer and 12 inches of cord jammed in a hole. It's no wonder it didn't work. So being the good electrician he is, he took the new buzzer and attached it to the old wire from the original buzzer. And, ding-dong it works.

April Fool

I could stay here forever!

April fools.

Today we are at the two week mark for returning to Wisconsin. There are of course mixed emotions. And while we ponder those feelings we have work to do before we take off.

John cleaned up the wiring that comes off the breaker box. There were about six additional wires coming down out of the breaker box.

Under the old beat up side of the house is where all those wires went and spread themselves out throughout the crawl space under the house. They were all live and went to areas of the house that were not even being used.  They needed to go.