First day of moving

[catsittingstill]

I guess we took about 8 carloads of stuff to the new house, including several bookcases (but only 2 big ones).   We have moved books, DVDs, VHS tapes, about 2/3 of our closets, and almost all our gargoyles (every window now has a gargoyle, so the neighborhood is put on notice that weird people live here).  I don't think we've moved even a tenth of our stuff, but what the heck, it's the first day.

The windows give so much more light than in our present house that Kip commented that he kept thinking he should turn the lights off, only to find that they weren't on.  My reaction: "Yeah.  Isn't it great?"

I also went to the store and got some contact cement to fix the formica, and a big book of home repair and I found a gorilla ladder (they adjust to be straight, or bent into a step ladder, plus both ends adjust for length.  Right now it's in the back of my Ford Escort (with the back seat up, even) but it unfolds to 17 feet long.  I got it for 2/3 price because it has a ding in one rung.  Score!  Now I can get the tape off the ceiling.  While I'm just barely tall enough to change the light bulbs--we've been swapping out the incandescents in the new house for the compact fluorescents in our house one by one--I can't actually reach the ceiling itself without something to stand on.  I just hope the tape will come off the ceiling; it's the good blue stuff but it's half covered in paint and goodness knows how long it has been there.

I think I may have a handle on the peeling paint--the lady at the store said you get a paint scraper (I have some from shaping the canoe) and scrape the old paint off (I'm having trouble imagining how to do this without gouging the wall, but I'm suspending disbelief).  The stuff that won't come off under the scraper won't (theoretically) peel off later.  Then you smooth it with a patching compound (probably something like spackle?) so the uneven paint doesn't make an uneven surface under the next layer of paint.  Then you prime it, which I guess takes care of the chemical incompatibility issue.  Then you paint.

Which sounds doable, but also sounds like much more than a weekend project.  I'm thinking it may take a week to ten days per room.  (boggle)  It's definitely not happening before the move.

Comments

[gannet.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on the house, by the way!

I know what you mean about the light - we have a couple rooms like that.

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

Thanks :-)

[thymidinekinase.livejournal.com]

Wow, things are really moving! I could spare a day as general labor this weekend, as long as you can find me a task that doesn't involve too much bending or lifting. I could certainly spackle or paint, if you'd like.

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

Thank you for this generous offer. Allow me to ponder the matter a little and see if there is some appropriate non-back-aggravating task that will come due about that time :-)

[tradarcher.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on getting the house.

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

:-) Thanks!