Today the guys are finishing patching bits of rot here and there and power washing. Tomorrow they will start very very early when the wind is calmest to paint.
Today's noon sandwich: BLT, bacon, sliced apple, sliced fresh mushroom, sliced avocado, chopped Spanish onion, flour tortilla wrap.
Today's 4 pm sandwich: Kosher dogs with sweet pickled sauerkraut, used some left over pickling vinegar, snappy and for
sugar boost, rice crispy treats.
A kind friend dropped off a plastic bag full of green tomatoes. Yayyy!
RECIPE: (originally from my Grandmother Horn)
DAY 1: Slice 7 lbs of green tomatoes, cover with 2 gallons of cold water, mixed with 2 cups of lime. (Calcium carbonate, I got mine at Freddy's sold as pickling lime). Let stand 24 hours.
DAY 2: Rinse and cover with cold water, let stand 3 hours. WARNING: Do NOT dump lime down the sink unless you want it cemented shut, take it outside and dispose of it away from dainage system.
DAY 3: Drain and cover with 2 quarts of vinegar, 1 tsp of celery seed, 9 cups of sugar, 1 tsp ground cloves, 1 tbsp whole pickling spice, 1 tsp salt and enough water to cover.
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DAY 4: Heat slowly and bring to boil for 35 minutes, can while hot.
DAY 5: Grill some burgers, grill the bun, mayo, slice green tomato pickle and burger salt pepper. My FAV!! ENJOY.
Oh lovely empty shelf! One of my fellow associates has been steadily working to get this over flow of records from this small administrative office back into the actual office. Hooray! Today was the day. About half of the current files have been thinned and files older than 2010 are being filed in the old department. Oh my roomy! The files will continue to expand but at least we have places to go now. I wonder if they will let me make an offer for those old cruddy rusty (well in a few spots) shelving to go into our new store room at home? Hmmm, better check with plant operations.
Ooh the deck railing is back up and will look fabulous once it is painted.
The other view of the deck. The guys are looking into tread that can be put on top of the membrane so one could perhaps put a chair out there for sunning etc. Remember this is on the wet southern Oregon coast.
OH and I may have to stop sneering about the ugly red drug house. The current owner is doing a one man (with occasional help) demolition and reconstruction. Put in new wooden supports underneath the house, rebuilt the porch, and are now in process of taking off old wooden shingles. Hope they get a chance to paint it when they are done.
Oh, our Honey-Do contractors took a closer look at the pest and dry rot inspection list and some window and door surrounds are rotten and need to be replaced in order to meet the requirements for re-fi.
AND the plumbers will be returning to replace all the iron pipe.
Tri-County crew digging very deep hole.
Tri-County crew filling very deep hole.
The round blue cap thing is a clean out, courtesy of Tri-County Plumber. Said it took him 3 hours to clean from there to the sidewalk. Dang.
This is the section of pipe they cut with a hot saw, and what I thought was a "smallish" hole turned out to be the entire length of that section. Hot saw is smelly, hack,hack.
Go ahead and flush the toilet.
OK.
Stop, we gotta cut some more!
This is the second piece of pipe that leaked. More smelly hot saw.
The plumbers will come in a couple of days to replace the cast iron. But in the meantime we can FLUSH and have running water. Wunnerful.
For those of you who are trying to do the right thing...think carefully.
A friend who recently applied online for Social Security Benefits encouraged me to do so myself. Apparently it is a law or some darn thing.
So I went online, clickitey, click, click, click, send.
Got email confirmation. Got letter saying as of September 2012 I would start receiving a quarterly bill in the amount of $300.00 due and payable for part B Medicare. What!? I called a nice man at the office in Coos Bay who very carefully explained that due to my current circumstances (working covered by group health) I really only wanted to sign up for Part A and he would send me a form, get it back to him BEFORE September. Letter came yesterday, I decided to bring it back personally. I found the office and it is a very nice office.
I walked in and a nice man in a uniform packing heat asked me if I had an appointment?
No.
Was I carrying a knives, guns or weapons?
No.
Could he look in my purse?
Yes.
Go to the Kiosk and follow the on screen directions for a number.
Mine was 75D. There was only one guy in front of me.
75D!
The nice Federal employee looked at the letter, asked me a couple questions, got my application straightened out so I don't have to pay 100 bucks a month because I do not need it. (I am covered by health care plan at work).
As I was leaving I asked the nice man what he did for fun.
He hesitated and replied, "I just go home."
Me,too.
The contractors got this far on Friday, the Hardiboard is all up, the new door is in, they cleaned the old membrane off the roof and put up a rubberized layer on the roof and tacked it down with some 2x4's to hold off the rain and wind. They will take a long holiday and return Tuesday to finish that and paint. One of our neighbors said it looked very nice..at least we are NOT second to worst looking house on the block next to the old red druggy house.
Plumbing -- all plumbers seem to be out of town. I left a message with Bobbie B to please put us on his list for early next week. In the meantime we took a room for two nights at the local motel. It has a FLUSH toilet. We will be popping in and out both places checking on livestock and utilizing the working plumbing. I love modern conveniences!!
