118 Henry Street

My shop has been in disarray for a year or more. Tools in use but not put back, left over nails laying about, dust everywhere, etc.

Some 7 hours later, it’s organized, presentable and ready for work.

Moved things around as well as discarded many artifacts

The project du season is (long overdue) moving DeShawn upstairs to the West Bedroom. With him in his final living space, Carole and I will move our bedroom into the Master Bedroom. The Front Study is our current bedroom and will become a real study with our computers and bookshelves.

For normal people, this might be a couple of days with moving, cleaning, and re-arranging. For 118 Henry Street people, this will be several weeks of work, including refinishing some furniture, rewiring about a third of the downstairs electrical, finishing some network runs, and building a wall in the kitchen (you will have to see the final product to understand this one). Like I said, several weeks of work.

Oh, and also a little decorating…

During some of the previous breaks in our narrative, we have stayed busy, preferring to work on the house rather than to write about working on the house. Not so for this most recent hiatus.

The cumulative effects of normal, though unpleasant, family issues, the nationwide recession, and uncertainties with both my and Carole’s jobs, did nothing but de-motivate our emotional and financial investments in 118 Henry Street.

Perhaps our sense that things are stabilized, if not improved, will prove correct.

A cycle ends and begins anew

We have several posts near completion on this humble page. Mostly been too lazy to finish.

This one is easy: winter storm in Chester.

Just yukky enough to stay home all day