Fortunately, the news has been a little light on education related stories and we’ve gone a while without school board meetings. I’m grateful because that would have put a strain on me to upload more blog posts. As it is I’m closing in on a project I’ve been begging Claudia to let me do for better than a decade – turn our old fashioned attic into an office. The last week I’ve been busy every day with some aspect of the work. The last three days I’ve painted the walls and stained the new molding and caulked and primed and painted the stairway. My right shoulder feels like I’m suffering from repetitive rotator cuff displaysisa. I made that up but its long enough to cover the discomfort.
We are heading out of town today with grandkids but the electrician will be here to give us lighting for the weekend. Carpet comes early next week and once it is in I can clean out all the rooms that I’ve stuffed attic related storage in. I’ve been hurrying to beat the carpet layers. The stain is a lot easier to put on pre carpet.
I’ve been taking boring pictures of the process from beginning to end for my wife’s brother in law who retired to volunteer nearly full time with Habitat for Humanity. He’s helped build forty houses or so. He likes this kind of stuff and requested more pictures. I’ve put them all on Facebook for my handful of family and friends so that their eyes can glaze over.
I’m winding lots of distractions down. My Mother’s estate is a month from being settled. I just need her last income tax refund, a conservator’s bond refund, a division of “mineral” assets she inherited from her father and a final payment of legal expenses. That requires a death certificate from my father. She’s out of my closet thank goodness but its a damn shame I can’t write a book about her life in art. Instead I’ll be working on an expose of the School Board. Maybe I’ll just print out my blog. I’m still catching grief for shedding a tiny ray of light on our recent closed meeting. Maybe I’ll be censured again. If so, this time I wouldn’t vote for it.
I’m filing this under Harry’s Diary. Its just to let my eight loyal readers know I haven’t fallen off the edge of the world…….not yet.
