Popular Post ChrisL Posted April 14, 2021 Popular Post Share #1 Posted April 14, 2021 So I’m having a wonderful vacation.... I took the week off as we are having our floors done. Last weekend was spent getting nearly everything out of the house. The flooring foreman said we didn’t have to move a thing but... the more we get out the faster they will be. So everything but our bed, the couch & dining room furniture is out. Damn that’s a lot of shit... The days, and they are early as they start at 7, have been spent in my makeshift living area, the garage. I set my wife up with a work area, Jack & I have a chill area. They finish at 4 and we get our dog out & then situated for the evening. We then go to my daughters to relieve Grandma Janelle as my daughter is still in the hospital. We take Smokey out, get some dinner and hang out with the boy as he’s all discombobulated from mom & dad being gone so long. Grandma Janelle then comes back and sleeps with him. We come home at around 10 pm, uncover & remake our bed, clean up & sack out. They finished the downstairs yesterday so we put the couch & dining room back together & have our kitchen back. No more garage living! We only have one working toilet right now though as both upstairs bathrooms were demo’d yesterday. The flooring does look great and they guys are doing a really good job. We went with a “luxury vynal” which basically looks like a laminate but is all vynal. Water proof, very durable & looks great. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dinneR ★ Posted April 14, 2021 Share #2 Posted April 14, 2021 I hope all of your stuff is in the front yard. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razors Edge ★ Posted April 14, 2021 Share #3 Posted April 14, 2021 11 minutes ago, ChrisL said: So I’m having a wonderful vacation.... I took the week off as we are having our floors done. Last weekend was spent getting nearly everything out of the house. The flooring foreman said we didn’t have to move a thing but... the more we get out the faster they will be. So everything but our bed, the couch & dining room furniture is out. Damn that’s a lot of shit... Sort of in the same boat - painting, repairs, carpeting, staging, photos, etc.. are on the list this week and next, so we are all sorts of discombobulated right now. It is nuts. But, still, CA is a vacation to me once 2pm rolls around and I am free to go do stuff. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisL Posted April 14, 2021 Author Share #4 Posted April 14, 2021 2 minutes ago, Razors Edge said: Sort of in the same boat - painting, repairs, carpeting, staging, photos, etc.. are on the list this week and next, so we are all sorts of discombobulated right now. It is nuts. But, still, CA is a vacation to me once 2pm rolls around and I am free to go do stuff. I didn’t think this through very well... All my riding kit is in the garage buried by house stuff and there is so much shit in 1/2 my garage, (the 1/2 where my bikes hang) I cant even get to my bikes... Not that I could ride anyway... Oh hey on a side note.... This is the May gray/June gloom I often mention. Cool & cloudy is the order of the day but it does seem a bit early this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razors Edge ★ Posted April 14, 2021 Share #5 Posted April 14, 2021 5 minutes ago, ChrisL said: Oh hey on a side note.... This is the May gray/June gloom I often mention. Cool & cloudy is the order of the day but it does seem a bit early this year. Yesterday was definitely gray all day. I was stuck in work and had other stuff (board meeting, house stuff, etc.) that ate up my day anyway, so no ride, and today looks better, but a vaccine appt at 3pm makes a ride less likely again. Hopefully, Thurs sees me okay from the shot and able to ride, but we'll have to see. And, yes, stuff gets all mixed up and buried every time we have to reshuffle stuff for house work My wife's bike is in the living room covered with a tarp, as the garage got a lot of attention this week, and now we will be shifting stuff from the house to the garage to facilitate the carpet and other work. A ZOO! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisL Posted April 14, 2021 Author Share #6 Posted April 14, 2021 9 minutes ago, Razors Edge said: Yesterday was definitely gray all day. I was stuck in work and had other stuff (board meeting, house stuff, etc.) that ate up my day anyway, so no ride, and today looks better, but a vaccine appt at 3pm makes a ride less likely again. Hopefully, Thurs sees me okay from the shot and able to ride, but we'll have to see. And, yes, stuff gets all mixed up and buried every time we have to reshuffle stuff for house work My wife's bike is in the living room covered with a tarp, as the garage got a lot of attention this week, and now we will be shifting stuff from the house to the garage to facilitate the carpet and other work. A ZOO! A zoo indeed! My riding kit is somewhere behind my sons mattress... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisL Posted April 14, 2021 Author Share #7 Posted April 14, 2021 31 minutes ago, denniS said: I hope all of your stuff is in the front yard. Upstairs patio, back porch & garage... We are in a townhouse so really don’t have a front yard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dinneR ★ Posted April 14, 2021 Share #8 Posted April 14, 2021 26 minutes ago, ChrisL said: A zoo indeed! My riding kit is somewhere behind my sons mattress... Open that box and you can poop in your garage if needed. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisL Posted April 14, 2021 Author Share #9 Posted April 14, 2021 2 hours ago, denniS said: Open that box and you can poop in your garage if needed. My neighbor let us use his bathroom yesterday when they had all 3 toilets off. My one neighbor is a good dude, I always hook him up with soup. He loves my pea soup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razors Edge ★ Posted April 14, 2021 Share #10 Posted April 14, 2021 25 minutes ago, ChrisL said: My neighbor let us use his bathroom yesterday. He loves my pee soup. EWWW! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
groupw Posted April 14, 2021 Share #11 Posted April 14, 2021 Hang in there! We did that 10 years ago when we put new flooring in our front room, bedroom and hallway. Slept on the couch a couple nights. We are going to LVP our kitchen, dining room and family room if we have the money after getting the outside stuff done 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrapr ★ Posted April 14, 2021 Share #12 Posted April 14, 2021 I'll take that Bianchi off your hands....just sayin The LVT has been a game changer in flooring. It looks great (mostly). There is some budget stuff that is meh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisL Posted April 14, 2021 Author Share #13 Posted April 14, 2021 16 minutes ago, Scrapr said: I'll take that Bianchi off your hands....just sayin The LVT has been a game changer in flooring. It looks great (mostly). There is some budget stuff that is meh Yeah we were really surprised how far the materials have come since the Pergo we installed 20+ years ago. Which one? The Celeste one is my wife’s and is her daily driver. The nude carbon one is mine and it’s actually been semi retired due to all of the MTB & gravel riding I’m doing. Not sure I’m ready to unload it tho... Buried behind all that crap is a 2018 Fuji Cross 1.7 I’ll probably unload at some point. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrapr ★ Posted April 14, 2021 Share #14 Posted April 14, 2021 Celeste is the only color for Bianchi. hey...I didn't make the rules. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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ChrisL Posted April 14, 2021 Author Share #16 Posted April 14, 2021 39 minutes ago, Scrapr said: Celeste is the only color for Bianchi. hey...I didn't make the rules. I struggled hard with the purchase. Celeste in my size was sold out. The only other options were red, white & nude carbon so I went with the nude carbon. Lesser of 3 evils. But I do get a lot of comments both to the positive and negative on the color choice. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dinneR ★ Posted April 15, 2021 Share #17 Posted April 15, 2021 7 hours ago, ChrisL said: My neighbor let us use his bathroom yesterday when they had all 3 toilets off. My one neighbor is a good dude, I always hook him up with soup. He loves my poop soup. Soup for poop. That's a heckuva deal right there. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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