A Certain Sunny Friday, Thoughts...

Eggs, those eggs, all so fresh the yolks standup like a 18 yr olds nipples. Gads, beautiful to look at and these eggs taste like EGGS! At 3.50 Euros a dozen for the free range, just picked, dated and stamped variety that I prefer it is a bloody bargain. 2 of them, sunny side up on a Friday morning with my own whole wheat bread toasted in a 50 year old french iron grill pan bought for 2 Euros at a brocante several years ago.
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Such a joy to eat and contemplate when...what's that?! The door bell, I answer and the lady that surprised us yesterday while we were removing removables from the little house for sale across town (our own!) appears with a little slip of paper with an interesting number in Euros written thereon. An offer, a serious offer to take to the Notaire this afternoon. The roof becomes a possibility THIS year! Allbeit not while we are here, but done during the winter. We need to get to MC at the tourist office and see if she can arrange a new estimate from the local roof expert. The last estimate (in a previous blog) was the sum of 19,000 Euros for just the house itself in slate with the removal of the asbestos tiles that exist over my kitchen as well as Kelly's across the courtyard. That's a LOT of money for a roof I thinks...at the current exchange rate of 1.42 to 1...it's $26,980 USD!! Gads. We need to specify the cheapest bloody roof that is alloowed...the building be an historic one complicates the situation. Slate these days comes from only a few sources, one in Spain and the other from wherever. None is recycled as far as I can tell from surrounding roof jobs I've seen. There are few red ceramic tile roofs here as historically that was changed some two hundred years ago or so. Who cares, the rooftop is so high that you can't see it without some distance anyhow. We shall see.

To The Wall(s)!

The prep of the rest of the sewing room exterior walls was completed this morning. I have applied two coats of The Precious Stuff (Nansulate Clear Coat) and am about to apply the third. The Guest Room follows and it was a bitch to take all the old layers of wallpaper off, but off they came bit by bit, layer by layer. I counted 5 layers in the corners. A copious water spray soaked the paper and eventually the glue let go. No fun there. It now awaits it's third coat of Nansulate in about another hour. Then...we wait for 30 + days til we can wallpaper the completed jobs and finish the refurbishment of the upstairs rooms. Kelly has finished the appliance applications and one gallon of Nansulate is now on the walls and appliances. Onto the 2nd gallon for the third coat on the walls.
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One of the prospects for buying the Little House at Dix Rt. St. Amand called this morning and we met him at the Cafe Commerce downtown and had lunch (on him!) prior to visiting the house for an inspection. He was most organized, having a folder with all the pictures I sent to him and all the other info about the house as well, very impressive documentation. He was a yacht broker in a previous life and his attention to detail was very apparent...like a ship inspector checking out an old hull! Money is very difficult to get these days so we will see. He's be a real asset to our local community. We shall see.

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Back to the Nansulate job. I applied the final coats on the sewing room and guest room exterior walls. Now we wait in earnest for the CURE, 30 - 60 days though exactly how much time depends much on the humidity and temperature. Otherwise a good guess is the best I can do...so 30 days it will be. It looks good now, all shiny and the walls are quite sealed by the coating and definetly in a better structural way than they were thanks to the glue-like effects. Kelly finished up on the refrigerators and her clothes drier. They seemed like a good idea but how to test now that they are already coated? It's ok.