that brown house

Saturday morning I already broke the lawn mower. It is a push mower (a gasoline or electric one would be ridiculous for the tiny amount of grass that we have), and the strength of its handles was no match for the strength of the grass. We returned it and will have to get a sturdier one.

Then we went out shopping for plumbing with Nathan and bought a toilet. Buyer’s remorse has already set in and hopefully we can swap it for a different model before they even have it ready for us to pick up. We also shopped for light fixtures but didn’t buy any because no matter how many things we remember to measure, the one thing that we really need measurements for will be the thing we forgot to measure.

Also somewhere in there we got another quote for heating and electrical work. There is a huge range in what electrical people think ought to be done, ranging from keeping almost all of the existing wiring to replacing almost everything.

We spent most of Sunday scraping the painted-over wallpaper off the walls of the kitchen. It started going much better once we discovered that the scrapers came with the blades turned around the wrong way for safety so we had been using the blunt side. Later in the day Alex came over for the tour and to help scrape.

And we finally have a signed contract for the heat. They will be coming by later in the week to finalize the plans for where the ducts will go.