No Canoe Today. Insulation Instead.

[catsittingstill]

I made arrangements to have the insulation in the attic brought up to R38 which is recommended for this area.  That means blowing in an extra R-19 over the living spaces (we already have R-19 which was standard in the 60s when the house was built) and a complete R-38 over the garage (because now it is a woodshop and needs insulation.)

I had expected them to come Friday but they started today instead.  They have been perfectly nice, but I kind of felt that I had to stay home with them in case they needed anything, plus every scrap of material going into the attic had to move through the woodshop first so I moved the canoe out onto the lawn. 

They admired the canoe very much.

I have not been able to work on Constance at all, and I feel very strange about that.  But I do need to get the insulation done and if this is when they can do it, this is when it needs to happen.

I got a lot of League work done instead--wrote an article for the local paper about the candidates who are coming and called five more people and invited them.  I am running out of people to invite.

I sure hope we get more people at this Candidates' Forum--if all this inviting doesn't make any difference I don't know that I will be up for doing it again.

Comments

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow--your heating bills make mine look like nothing! Or are those totals for the season, rather than monthly? That would still be quite a bit, but not five times what mine are.

Thanks for your encouragement about the Candidates Forum. I do think it's a valuable service, and we try to hold it early enough that people who attend have time to talk to those friends and neighbors who did not before the elections, though this is partly just a result of wanting to have it before most of the early voting--which in Tennessee starts 3 weeks before Election Day and ends one week before Election Day.

I really like early voting myself, but it does complicate the planning a bit, and drag out the election season.

[boywizard.livejournal.com]

Season totals - autumn and winter. If they were monthly it would have broken me. Those were the values when oil was running upward of $150 a barrel. We are now spending about $100 a year for fuel oil, and about $600 a year for firewood.