Accomplishments: Work Week 2001
Propane System:
- hooked up new system with relocated tank
Water System:
- built floor and walls of pumphouse, insulated roof, wired in pressure system
- installed new faucets in bathroom sink
John’s Bathroom:
- reinstalled toilet, sink, shower
- added beautiful tin floor
Paint:
- windows, doors and screens of guest house
- Milk House trim
Screens, doors:
- John’s room, Dib’s room: repaired or replaced
Other Projects:
- cleaned out Nana’s closet, provided long-term storage
- removed stump of the patio cottonwood
We Learned
- we CAN take time to go play
- it’s gotten easier to work together
- there’s always more to do
- need more plastic chairs and another table, and oilcloth tablecloths
- fireworks and bonfire = good fun
- that hot shower is great
Plans [this keeps getting longer]
- keep walls from falling (John’s room; chimney wall; Nana’s room)
- finish rewiring guest house
- under main bedrooms: replace floor sockets
- replace propane heaters
- finish painting windows and eaves
- replant trees
- add steps from patio to garden
- get sofa rebuilt or replaced
- sell piano
- rebuild guesthouse porch: concrete floor? add door at patio end? rescreen
- get house replastered, treated for termites
- add barbecue area on terrace
- install washer/dryer (in the kitchen?)