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Well, Earls apartment is offically ALMOST done. I didn't take any pictures while we were there yesterday, mostly because I am so over it. I think the black footprints that got tracked on the new rug I just installed and the green stain on the new vinyl in the middle of the bathroom floor pushed me over the edge. Anyways, the new tenant is in, and believe it or not she has expressed some interest in maybe purchasing the apartment house. I certainly don't have my hopes up though. In other EXCELLENT apartment house news, it seems one of the boilers has died and the upstairs apartment is only getting heat in the front half. SUPER.

I had my doctors appointment the other day. I feel like I have been there every week for the last month. They removed more skin around a mole that had a bad biopsy. They also took a third mole off my back. The big one.

We got a lot of snow last weekend and I am already ready for it to all melt. Our wood pile is looking dismal, and my latest call to buy more dry wood turned up empty handed. I am getting worried. It has been all over the news up here that everyone is out of seasoned firewood. We only have enough to get us through a couple more weeks if we are lucky. The bunnies waterbottles are freezing up. I have to dethaw once in the morning and once at night. The chickens haven't come out of the coop all week. They have stopped laying as well so I put the light back up in the coop in hopes to get them going. I had to buy eggs at the store the other day. Something I haven't had to do in over a year. Once you have fresh eggs the grocery store eggs just seem and look so wrong. Today I get to spend cleaning house. It has been so neglected due to our weekly trips out to Bath. Its bad. Really bad.

Making Progress at Earls

Tore up bedroom rug, living rug, ripped out bathroom floor. Clean hardwood floors in bedroom and paint walls and wood work white. Touch up ceiling paint. Fill in gaps in living room floor and lay down new rug. Paint living and kitchen walls and trim. New bathroom subfloor, lay vinyl, new shower ( which we had to take a window out to get it in the building), new lights, paint walls and trim. Clean kitchen. New fridge. ......Almost done.

More Earl's Apartment

My blog has not been allowing me to post pics for days now. I've decided to try again though.

Here is Earl's booze collection. He did not drink a drop though, just bought a bottle everytime he went to the grocery store.

I stacked those Dalwhinnie's in the window to count them. I think there was close to 40. There are also about 40 bottles of Moet, and 40 bottles of Remy Martin. Then there are about 60 other assorted bottles.

Just SOME of Earl's papers.

We have been emptying his place of the valuables (in case anyone missed it, his wife and daughter told us to keep everything in the place) and piling them up here. We plan to sell as much as we can on ebay or anywhere else. This is what our house is looking like now since it has become a warehouse. The piles of dusty mess include, Viking cookware, emile henry ceramics, Denby ceramics. Waterford crystal, Booze, Linhof camera and equipment, Rollei camera and equipment, Rollei projector, Lintz and Zeiss binoculars, Orvis clothing (new), LLBean clothing (new), tons of books, and oh so much dust.

Earl

Sorry for the long delay in posts. Our elderly tenant at the apartment house passes away last week. Earl is one very long story and I am not going to get into all of it on here. His wife and daughter came up to look over his apartment and told us we could keep everything. EVERYTHING. And so begins my long list of our new acquisitions; most of which we will be attempting to sell off on ebay.

First, the status of the apartment. This is after removing 2 full loads. The bathroom in his place is horrendous and we are going to have to gut it. Note all of the yellow envelopes/notebooks. Those are Earls writings on chemical engineering or something like that. Each one is meticulous and numbered, they go over 2000 packets (over 15,000 pages). They are stacked everywhere in his apartment and we were told to just throw them out. I feel horrible about that.