A bright, sunny, warmer wednesday on tap today. This past weekend, hopefully the last, we will have to use space heaters. Last weekend, John and I went shopping for lighting fixtures and I surfed the net for ideas and I think we have the look we want for all the fixtures, finally. The electricians are close to installing the lights in the front part of the house so John and I have to finalize our decision within the next day or two.
This week is flying by. Speaking of flying by, I took the baby squirrel to a wildlife specialist last weekend. Last night, John was taking down a floorboard that was in the back part of the house that we are using for storage to be used in the master bedroom. Well, as he was ripping out the floorboard, piles, and I mean inches of bat, squirrel poop and whatever else came pouring out onto the floor along with 5 full grown brown bats who decided they wanted to maintain their residence here.
To keep them from flying away, John shown his light on them and came and got me. As he gathered up the little winged creatures into a plastic container, he did a little filming of them and I of course took a few pictures of them. Today, I took the 5 bats to the same wildlife specialist I saw last weekend. She said she could not take care of them or release them into a bat colony close by but someone familar with bats could rehome them. Bats have a homing instinct and I asked her, will they come back here and she said, they are far enough away that they will most likely integrate into the existing bat colonies in the area. I told we have more bats that I will be delivering to her in the future and she kinda laughed..When John bought the house 2 years ago, he dealt with hundreds of them throughout the house in between the walls, the dormers, the attic basically just about everywhere...He has a video on his blog that shows them flying out of the dormers at dusk. A little erry. Oh, and the picture of the fireplace with bags of 'STUFF', that is actually over 200 lbs of bat poop that John got out of the house so far. I heard it makes great yard fertilizer. Oh, the picture with the ladder looking up through an opening in the ceiling, in the kitchen, is where the squirrel nest was and where the little baby squirrel came crashing through. No broken bones. :)
The plumber is supposed to arrive today to 'rough out' the bathroom..So hopefully, within the next week or two, we will have more up to date plumbing instead of getting our hot water from a camping heater with propane tank attached to a garden hose that we have been utilizing for several months, well, basically, the entire year so far. With the three space heaters going at night, all the lights, we have several power outages because the power pole out front keeps flipping. Rather hard on sensitive computer equipment. I have excellent power surge protectors but it is rather frustrating in the middle of research you loose your lights, heater, tv and whatever else. Not much longer we will have to deal with that.
The heating and air conditioning guys are progressing well and has respected my sleeping times. They get here just barely after the sun comes up, which lately has been around 8am. Seems earlier than 8am. I have been staying up late to research stuff for the house. The crown molding is being installed in the bathroom today. I took a couple of pictures where it has begun. It is looking really nice. I was thinking about putting up a wallpaper border near it but instead because of the beadboard would show through, paint the walls a beautiful satin white, the outside of the crown nantucket blue and the inside part, the roping trim, satin white. The crown molding should be completed today. The beadboarding in the utility room should be completed also today except the areas where the plumber has to work.
A few pictures from the weekend and the progress of the renovation. More updates later. Oh, and one more picture, I love the huge red oak outside the in the front yard that I had to take a picture of that too. To give a sense of perspective of how huge this tree is, I took a picture standing directly beside the tree looking up. What beauty. It must be about 100 feet tall. The stories that tree could tell. Those branches are so big, hanging a rope around one of them with a tire for a swing would be idea. That tree along with several magnolias and the trees in the back yard, were planted when the Hardy Smith family lived in this house.
Enjoy :)
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