2 days black, 1 day brown
Merry Christmas everyone! I hope that you all had great ones!Since last time, the insulation project has been completed!
And it was just as nasty (if not worse) as expected. Yup, 2 days of black boogers. Rummaging around to find all the wall cavities was just plain awful. The 
end of day 2 finally brought some good luck ... the batts were the exact length of house! you would have thought i planned that. if anyone asks, lets pretend i did. i only had to cut about 4 rolls when i
encountered some obstructions (chimney, etc.). that was very nice ... made finishing up quite a bit easier on the mind (i was getting really sick of being up there). in the end, it looks like a layer of new-fallen snow has descended on the attic. ahhhhhh. no snowball fights please.The running of the coax cable was unsuccessful those days, so i moved on to refinishing the stairs. I started this a long time ago, but only got part of the first step done and never got around to working on it again.
This also was a very dusty dirty project. 1 full day of brown boogers to be exact (several more to come). It was pretty tedious ... probably about 2 hours per step. But decent progress was made in my last day off and in some evenings since. In the picture you'll see a stain sample on the left side of one of the steps. I'm off all of this week so hopefully i can get this one done. One bad thing about this project ... it left most of the house (especially upstaris) coated in dust. Way way more than 
expected. I had tarped around the stairs, but it rose up and found its way everywhere. Everywhere. Since then, I've been working with the shop vac running trying to grab the dust before it floats away. That seemed to help quite a bit. I'm also having some concerns about some of the staining and nail-holes in the stairs. I hope they aren't very noticable. I think the stain is dark enough to hide a lot of it. Plus, not a whole lot of light hits the stairs ... so that will help too. We'll just wait and see.Last Friday (after much cleanup and cooking by Chrissy) we had our annual Christmas party. Good times had by all. It was really great to see a lot of our friends (even 2 drove up from Louisville!). We'd been so busy so much of this year that time with our friends was pretty limited. It was nice to finally reconnect ... and drink lots of eggnog. After that, we headed north to spend Christmas weekend with Chrissy's family. Again, good times all around. Lots of good food of course too. I'm thinking it was a 4 - 5 lb. weekend.
I made a small purchase over the weekend also ... it's about 30" (diagonal) and made by Toshiba. Yes, we are entering the world of HDTV. Amazon had/has a great deal on this tv (even free shipping) so we decided to go for it. It should be here early next week. So, today i ventured back up to the attic for a bit. I had another idea for getting my coax up there (10' segments of 1/4" all-thread rod joined with couplers) and it finally worked. I also cleaned up, leveled, and oriented the antenna to hopefully the right direction (about 227 degrees). I was having some issues with the RG6 connectors, so i may need to re-do the connection to the matching transformer. Hopefully it will work for now though. I'll have to re-enter the attic in a couple weeks when the pre-amp arrives (its on back order) so i could fix it then i guess. Tomorrow i'm gonna try to install a wall plate downstairs to run the antenna wire. I got one that will hook up 2 cables, so i'll clean up the cable tv installation while i'm at it (currently just comes out of a hole in the gap between the hardwood and the trim).
As for the rest of the week ... more stair sanding ... and if that gets done i'll move on to getting some shoe moulding up. Maybe by New Year's Day we'll have pretty shiny new (but old) stairs!
Happy New Year!
posted by Chris and Chrissy Miller @ 12:47 AM
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