Weekend Progress and Peace

We made more progress this weekend, only because my OCD husband does not know when to quit.  We are alike in the fact that we both seek closure when we start a project, but enough is enough, even.  I know that he totally burned himself out this past summer working 12 hour days on the house, so I have been a witch about trying to get him to stop at a certain point each day. If you don't believe me, I will show you my broomstick.  It is quite worn down.

The ceiling and garage walls in the laundry room are now fully insulated, and we have drywall on 2/3 of the ceiling and 1/3 of the inner wall in the laundry room.  We cannot finish the ceiling because we have to build the wall for the pocket door first. We also have some insulation left over, so we are thinking of insulating the 2 x 6 wall behind the washer and dryer.  Does that wall need it?  No, but we might as well use it, and it may actually deaden some of the sound of the washer and dryer from the adjacent dining room.

R-30 insulation in the ceiling will keep in the warm (and later,
cool) air coming down from the new register in the laundry room.

The fully-insulated wall between the laundry and
garage gets some drywall.

The pictures show our progress thus far.  I finally made Rick quit yesterday (Saturday), and he agreed to go check out another nearby park.  This park/beach is called Fred Howard Park, and it is just north of Dunedin in the little Greek village of Tarpon Springs.  The park had a lot of great hiking/ biking trails, and as one winds through the wooded area, the street eventually goes onto a causeway. The causeway ends on a peninsula that is surrounded on two sides by a beach.  We pitched our chairs, pulled out our Kindles, wrapped up in our Columbia fleece jackets (there was a wicked off-shore breeze blowing), and enjoyed a couple of hours of peace and quiet reading our Kindles.  In fact, it was so quiet that I heard someone in a closely neighboring chair softly snoring for a while.

The causeway at Fred Howard Park leading from the wooded
park area to the peninsula beach.

A view of the beach, reaching out into the Gulf of Mexico.

We are glad that we have a pass to the parks.  Our beach umbrella is on order, the sand stake to hold in down in high winds arrived yesterday, so all we need now is the warmer weather to really enjoy the beaches.  The umbrella and stake were purchased with gift money from the girls, so thanks, Stephanie and Lindsay.  We'll try to stay out of the sun and still enjoy our time in Florida.

We agreed to take tomorrow off from Gladys remodeling.  I have to take time to actually USE the laundry facilities in the house, we have grocery shopping to do, and we need to take care of snow removal woes in Wisconsin, and to seek new car insurance here in Florida.

My new desk is supposed to arrive at the store tomorrow, but I'm not depriving myself of oxygen waiting for that to happen! It was supposed to arrive last week, but the saleswoman called and said it would be delivered this week. Since we did not hear from her at all this weekend, I have my doubts that said desk will be available this week.  If that is the case, that will be yet another problem to be handled. The store was great at charging the desk to our charge account, and if the desk is not here tomorrow, I may ask them to refund my money.  We'll see how quickly they can add the money back to my card.  Wanna bet that won't happen immediately?

We actually completed our budget work this morning, so we know how much remodeling money we DON'T have.  Now the task will be to see how far we can stretch that money, and how much more we want to get completed this year on dear old Gladys.