The day did not begin auspiciously. After months of no signs of visiting mice, the kitchen counter was drizzled with mouse drippings. I began opening drawers and cabinet doors, thinking it was time to set traps once again (oh--I do hate that trap setting--to say nothing of checking in the morning to see what was caught. But no need for traps. At least not immediately. The mouse visitor, perhaps shocked by his success had dropped dead of his own volition--though not before making some inroads into building a new nest (i'd gotten rid of much mouse housing in the past months--but looks like it's a never-ending battle). Since Chris was working downstairs, I asked him to perform disposal duties-leaving me only with clean-up chores.
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| kitchen open to the world |
Rain again. And dropping temperatures. This should please me, cranky as I was with all that heat, but I've now begun to worry about heating the house as the temperature falls.
As part of the porch restoration project, George boarded up the kitchen window--there was never much light coming through, but in these porchless days, there was actually sunlight. No more.
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| plywood window treatment |
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| cinder blocks sealing windows |
One good piece of kitchen news. When Willie the electrician was working on some re-wiring at the end of May, he discovered some wires eaten by animals, and as a precaution he suggested moving the refrigerator to another outlet. This meant, that for the past several months, the refrigerator was sitting in the middle of the doorway--all its rusting wiring bared to the world. Today, I asked Willie if it had to remain there. He couldn't remember why it was there in the first place, so it's now returned to its original corner. Now that there is zero light in the kitchen, it's probably time to start imagining what it might be like to move the kitchen upstairs. While Willie worked on the wiring, Chris was really sealing up the downstairs windows--part of the plan to keep the downstairs snug and dry (if dark).
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