Remodeling
For the last two days, two hard workers have been banging on the window frames of our house, removing the old windows. It’s harder than normal to get much work done.
The house was built in 1937 and still had the original, wood, double pane glass windows. I’m no fan of all that’s modern, but we had repainted them a couple of times, yet the south-side wood was rotting and all of them had eternal fog between the panes, so we decided to get new ones.
The above door-windows in our bedroom lead onto the balcony overlooking the yard. They are difficult to get used to because they close real easily. I had the habit of kicking the old ones closed. They weren’t mean kicks, mind you, you just had to keep on whacking the base of the window until it would finally clunk into position. Then you could admire the paint flecks floating to the ground.
I can tell this will be a tough tradition to break, and my grandchildren may be asking my children one day, “When you close those big, glass doors, why do you kick the bottom of them over and over.” And my kids will answer, “Well, that’s just the way your pappy did it, and that’s the way it’s always been done.”
November 16th, 2006 at 3:57 pm
Great analogy. A lot of glass gets broken that way too.
November 16th, 2006 at 4:12 pm
Chuckle, Chuckle! I’m impressed with the result. Did you install the new doors yourself?
November 16th, 2006 at 4:27 pm
You may have started a tradition that will eventually sweep over all of Europe!
November 16th, 2006 at 6:41 pm
Sounds like a tough habit to “kick.”
November 16th, 2006 at 7:54 pm
Will somebody please do something about Cecil????
November 16th, 2006 at 8:29 pm
Excuse me for a moment Brady:
I’m sorry Judy, I just can’t help myself sometimes. Would you still stand in line to meet me?
BTW - I set the “record” in 1971 at Clearlake Middle School when I was sent outside 12 school days in a row because, believe it or not, I couldn’t stop making wisecracks.
O.K. Brady - back to you.
November 16th, 2006 at 9:46 pm
Yeah, Cecil, I’d still stand in line. Anyone who loves kitty cats has my vote!!
November 17th, 2006 at 3:32 am
So Brady, is it safe to say that you get a real KICK out of remodeling?
November 17th, 2006 at 12:54 pm
Beautiful windows. I love them!
November 17th, 2006 at 8:05 pm
O.K. Now I’ll visit…sheesh! I’ve been waiting for you to fix those doors!
November 18th, 2006 at 4:01 pm
Judy, I really don’t know what to do about Cecil. As long as he’s enjoying himself and not hurting anyone else, I guess we’ll just have to let him pun.
Sandra: I really don’t believe you, even though I want to.
We had a company put those puppies in. Not cheap, but it’s really hard to do yourself, especially if you lose your cool pretty fast…