Hey.
It’s been a while eh?
I had to go back and look to see what the last thing I posted was. Canceled travel plans I see. So let’s see where we are…
Travel is rebooked for the spring, and we will be flying. Fingers crossed. The off grid bathroom is 90% done, just the vanity and sink left. This could have been done by now but choosing a sink turned out to be a 2 month exercise. I didn’t mind although we’ve lost our weather now so I will have to move construction of the vanity to the workshop so I can apply finish.
Building reno client either changed her mind or didn’t like my price and went away. Car shelter up.
I think that catches us up. New business: I have a referral client who has a lot of work for me. Tore out a wall and moved another one in his house to create a new music studio space for him. He is a creator and producer of meditative zen music. Lots of recording equipment, lots of instruments, lots of sound control on the walls. In the new year he wants a bathroom and a kitchen reno. Yay for indoor winter work!
December will close out doing what I think will be my last fence. They are just too much work. Setting posts in rock and humping around a few thousand pounds of concrete bags is a younger man’s game.
On the home front we survived another multi-day power outage. We are now ready to spend some money to up our backup power game. Definitely going to do a transfer panel and external hook up to back up generator. The remaining question is a larger gas generator in the 7-10,000W range or a whole home Generac solution. Either way it will be more than a few thousand dollars. Maybe I need to do another couple fences 🙄.
Mail strike is complicating gift for Christmas. We will courier some but will be e-transferring more cash gifts than usual. Our preference is always a physical gift, personally wrapped and mailed. Might cost more especially with double shipping in some cases but it feels better to us. More Christmassy.
My poor truck continues to have issues. I fact I’m sitting in the shop waiting room as I type this while they figure out why I still have belt squeal. Immediate reason is a belt with something on it. Root cause TDB. Why do I still get oil or some other bodily fluid on my belt? The belt is going to be warranty. Not sure what else they will say. If they say main seal we will have words, since I brought is in a couple months ago to have it done and they said oh no, not required, but here are other seals/gaskets that are leaking.
Lights and tree going up this weekend. I’ll post a pic.
TTFN
My Elysium 