Life is looking better right now, once you get past the fact that Little Hands is still the president. I finally got the basement to a stopping point for a couple
days. At least the rooms I’m immediately working on. The walls have been
painted and the floor sanded and treated with acid. Now I have to wait at least
24 hours before I can put on the primer. Possibly as long as 48 hours. Painting
should be done by this weekend, with a seven-day hardening time after that. But
the end is in sight for this first part. All this because some mental midget
thought it was a good idea to carpet the basement of a house in a floodplain.
Once I get this part of the basement completely done it is
on to the laundry room part. Which means moving all the shelves and unanchored
cabinets into the finished part, then removing mounted cabinets and counters
and humping them into the finished part. But for now, I get to kick back for a
couple days. Maybe even getting in some odanating.
Life hasn’t been all
breathing dust and paint fumes. I accompanied Lise to a business meeting over
in Oshtemo. On the way back we hit the Michigan Audubon Haehnle Sanctuary near
Jackson to score a yellow-crowned night heron. Been doing a good bit of driving
with Lindsay as she practices for her driver’s license. She’s doing great and I
suspect she will kill the test on her first try. I’m working on the second
measure of Scots Wha Ha’e on my bagpipe chanter. I’m only a couple pages from
Amazing Grace. Sunday we went with Molly and Mitchell to the Detroit Institute
of Art. The DIA is pretty amazing. Their collection has over 65,000 items in
it, some quite stunning. Detroit is making a comeback and the DIA is an
anchor that comeback.
Diego Rivera Detroit Industrialism murals (DIA website picture).
Ed's and Lise's Biggish Years 