Home Sweet Home at The Beast

OK....Tuesday before Thanksgiving I spent the night at 'The Beast." I slept in the library... it was very cozy and the electric blankie does the trick. (I don't think that will work for too many more nights because the weather is turning into winter around here, but Tuesday was comfy and fun.) I drywalled the areas of the sunroom under the windows. I thought the joint compound would be dry so that I could sand the next day, but since it was a bit chilly the next morning it just wasn't dry enough. Sunroom is coming along nicely. BIG improvement.

I spent Weds. cleaning the walls of the library. I still have some wallpaper up at the top of the walls to peel off and I have to fill a lot of small nicks and holes from old nails.

I found a library picture from my original photos, when I first viewed the house last April. This is the library and room that has the new windows, and all the carpet is now gone and the hideous wallpaper is almost all gone. This is the room that is getting its walls cleaned up.

OH, my bestest friend Willie said, "Take the Dell. See if you can pick up a wireless signal." I said, "Dude, there isn't going to be any available wireless at 'The Beast.' He said, "Try it. You'll see. No one in a rural town will put passwords on wireless." So....I take the Dell. Lo and behold, I GET A SIGNAL (3 signals actually) and can access the internet at night. I think I was picking up the office products place which is next door to me. This situation, of course, made me laugh because Willie was right and I had to admit it.

Today, my sister and I finished taking down the rest of the fence. After careful consideration I determined that the fallen fence MAY just have belonged to the business next door because that was the only side of the yard where there was a fence, and originally it was probably hiding all the junk they had tossed behind their building. No one ever came out to stop me from cleaning up the area, and getting rid of the fence, so I guess they didn't care. All their junk they had tossed behind the building is now in THEIR dumpster in the alley. I shall put up a new fence in the spring and they are going to have to keep their area clean and tidy.

My sister came to claim her socks. She got two knitted pair so far. I found some hollyberry variegated yarn and created a spiral pattern on the leg section for the second pair. She is quite sock thrilled and doesn't realize they were a trick to get her here to finish tearing up the fence at 'The Beast.' (more maniacal laughter.)