Rain, rain, and watery things...

[altivo]

Gloomy, cold, and drizzly. Almost time for the woodstove again.

Gary is redoing the seal on the tub enclosure in the bathroom that adjoins our bedroom. This means first cleaning really well, which it needed, then scraping out all the old sealant and letting everything dry out before applying the new silicone goo. I guess that will then have to cure for a couple of days before it can be wet again.

All this means that we are using the guest bathroom at the other end of the hall. Not a big deal, except I learned how habitual such things can be this morning. We've lived in this house for nine years now and I first realized that I've never used that shower, and second realized that it's a total mirror image of the one I'm used to. That shouldn't matter, and yet it seemed awfully inconvenient and cumbersome. Dear me, what would I do with a genuine inconvenience?

Our last house had two baths as well, but one was on the second floor and one on the first. Both were equipped with antique claw footed bathtubs and massive sinks. We added an appropriately old fashioned shower to the one on the first floor, where our bedroom was, but never did anything to the upstairs one. Consequently we never used that bathtub at all in the fourteen years we lived there. Except for one thing: it provided a suitably inescapable enclosure for a litter of kittens we were weaning back in 1993. One of those kittens is still here, though she's admittedly getting a bit frail and elderly.

I should be doing something productive but I think I'm going to bed. That way if I fall asleep I won't wake up on the floor or hunched over my desk.

Comments

[avon-deer.livejournal.com]

Re-sealing is a smelly job. We're not so keen on it, but it's cool to know you've got a second bathroom to use. We had to just be very careful for a few days.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Yes, I remember my dad doing it once when I was about 12. I've always managed to avoid it until now. If you had leaks in those old-fashioned showers with the ring curtains, it meant you needed new curtains. ;p

[saythename.livejournal.com]

Yeah, thats the thing I have a hard time getting across
to my wife. You can't just ad hoc a house project, you
have to clean out, gather your tools and supplies and
then do it, usually with some discontinuity in your daily
routine since no one has time to do the job all at
once when you have to go to work, unless you spend a
vacation on a project, and who wants that?

Hope you get back to your regular bathroom soon.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Depends on the size of the project, but essentially you're right. Ask your wife if she can just ad hoc a turkey dinner with all the trimmings.

I always have a turkey in the freezer, but it takes three days to thaw it!

[saythename.livejournal.com]

Exactly. XD

[cabcat.livejournal.com]

*Awwws at the icon of the wet horse*

Its times like this I'm glad we have the one bathroom, although two toilets would've been good if there was more than two people in the house.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Well, having two is pretty handy at times, like now when we're doing major repairs on one of them.