Catching Up Thoughts in 2020

Easy listening music in the house today, filling up the corners and touching the ceiling with happy soft sound. The house has been roofed. Not without stress but it is finished. I had a new handyman take down the gutters my then handyman put up above, on the roof line over the side patio on two sides. We are back to a drip line roof. Mistakes like mine need to be corrected, not lived with. (It caused too much water falling into the gutters from the roof and splashing back on the shingles when we had rain.)

The old roof was terrible to take down; it required so much more replacement wood than anyone had imagined. There were a few cracks in the kitchen walls from the pounding above, and one in the ceiling, which have been repaired. Painted over, etc.

The new skylight in the living room had to be covered with a windshield film to prevent a glare from the FL sun that blinded on the one hand and would have faded the sofa fabric on the other hand. Now when the sun is mitigated on that part of the house, it causes it to be too dark, but with low lights on it’s comfy. I can see the sky through both skylights they installed. I like that. I miss being connected to the first drops of rain, however and, all in all, I wish I’d kept the ancient skylight in the living area. The skylight in my bath area is fine–I can see beautiful golden rain-tree tops and the sky through it.

Now we have found mold growing inside the laundry room where the stopped up pipes from a month or so ago, leaked before I realized it and that before caused that mold to grow. On Monday the new handyman will be here to take out that wall and the tubes from the washer and replace all of that area…can’t live with mold, especially in FL.

(You see why I needed to listen to soft and meaningless music this morning, I suppose?)

Otherwise all is well…a bit lonely after all these months at home for the most part and alone. Never before have I had a stretch of time like this, and I’m satisfied with my response but it does not mean I like the loneliness; it only means once more I have found ways to adapt to a monumental change in my life. That’s a good thing.

Last updated October 08, 2020