So hot then warm then cool, still to blustery, summer fell away like the leaves from the golden trees. The BEST time for weather in California is the golden red Fall. Ah the sweet scent of burning...what's that? PEAT?! Peat? Smells like...tar! Oh hell, it IS tar, they've waited all summer for it to get cool so they can tar the damned roofs downtown! Shit! The scent wafts through Old Town and chokes us all. Yuck!
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Kelly's off to Vallejo to shop for some delicious finds and I will soon drive across town to the Swamphouse to continue the lacquering of the upstairs bedroom/sewing room floor and the laying of the tile backerboard for the tile floor in the downstairs bedroom/office. Now that's a long sentence in more than one way! The lacquering goes beyond the physical into the mental. it hurts...my arthritic wrists HATE it. The endless dip-drap-splash brush, brush out repeat...gads it's hard on the ol' hands and wrists. Grrrrrr. Coat after coat. 4 coats will do it but it's 3 inches at a time forever! Then the laying of the Hardibacker concrete board on the floor is little better. The tub of pre-mixed goop weighs 50 lbs at least and is a devil to open and close to boot. Grrrrrr then the board itself has to be gooped up with a slotted trowel and laid...then followed by 40 1 5/8" screws into the subflooring. Grrrrrrr.
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And Ted is in Dubai! Went skiing indoors and says it's so hot outside he's lost interest! Well he's off to Paris in a few days...Paris in the Fall is nothing short of Heaven itself with REAL red wine! Ahhhhh
