Monday, 1 March 2004
march to-do list
House:
Swap out kitchen storm with screen
Map electric system throughout main floor and basement
Reframe Granny's painting
Last coat of white on parts of landing and razor glass
Reroute gas to behind, instead of in front of, north kitchen wall (actually, just watch while others do this, and be ready with the dishsoap to check for leaks)
Replumb south wall
Watch with heart in throat as RDC rewires kitchen
Cut out out plaster from, insert braces between studs of, and drywall over, north kitchen wall
Receive and mount ventilation hood
Vent hood through attic and out roof
Patch kitchen walls and ceiling
Rebuild kitchen window
Remove doors from and remove contents of the two kitchen closets
Paint doors and interiors of closets
Seal shelves with clear acrylic
Paint kitchen ceiling, trim, walls
Install track lighting
Receive new cabinetry (25 March)
Begin refinishing kitchen floor
Schedule cabinetry installation (29 March)
Counter template (March 31) and installation (April)
Receive and install new range
Research and select new refrigerator
Remain sane during all this
Garden
Cut down last year's growth and rake everything out
Turn the compost
Water the cherry nectarine pear and plum trees
Select plants to fill in the front garden
Budget to fill in the north garden
Errands
Cardboard and new, different phone books to recycling
Plastic bags to recycling
Clothes shopping. Maybe more pants! I've been wearing a pair of pants I bought in July. Me! in pants! and I want more!
Kinwork and Lisaism
Dinner w/ Paul 3/4
JPM's birthday party 3/6
Sabrina and Barbie 3/11
Family and vacation
Put away year's correspondence
Tidy up desk and study
Reading:
Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
Richard Ellman, Ulysses on the Liffey
At least 200 more pages of Ulysses
Robertson Davies, What's Bred in the Bone
José Saramago, The Stone Raft
Alexandre Dumas père, The Count of Monte Cristo
Two books about tiling
bike
Two 3.8-mile city rides