25-02-2022, 11:19 AM
Having a day at home today. Two loads of washing out and I've dealt with the compost. Finished emptying bin 1 onto the vege garden and started turning bin 2 over to bin 1. Had help from the Guard Cat who is now on Hunting Duty. My main reason for getting onto this task was because a few days ago he showed me he wanted to get into bin 2 and when I lifted the weedmat cover I saw a tail disappear into a tunnel. I gave it a brief dig over then to upset the unwanted resident, and digging it over properly now makes sure it's no longer home. But knowing that they are still around means that Hunting Cat has a job to do (and I'm sure he will).
I'll spend the rest of the day in the sewing room. My own projects are 1. sewing together squares of all of our old souvenir t-shirts to make a cotton blanket - half finished, and 2. I have a couple of tops that I bought from op shops without trying on and they are too small, so I'll use some of the leftover t-shirt cotton to enlarge them. I've done that before and it works very well.
My other bigger project is to get started on curtain making. We had a tenant leave last week (moving to the town where her daughter lives) and I have the full house set of curtains to make. She was a perfect tenant, but in 8 years the old ones are a bit faded and won't last another 8 years so it's best to do a fresh set now. Then, in a few months I'll need to do the set for the other house we have empty that's a huge project underway. So on Wednesday I got the fabric I need from a shop that sells short ends. But then when I got home I realised that one of the short ends was too short so yesterday went back to see if my mistake was that that was all there was in that colour, or whether I had just picked up the wrong roll. The latter was the case so it has worked out. With this week's purchase and what I already had in stock, I'm now pretty much good to go for two house-sets of curtains. Very satisfying when they are done and in place.
Oh_hunnihunni, that must be very frustrating but might give you a chance to negotiate a better solution to your request for a different fan. I think you've mentioned before that you are in a large corporate so maybe the LL has made a bulk purchase with a contract for installation and ongoing servicing of just one model. Maybe there's another one of the same brand that would work for you and still fit whatever contract the LL has. Having to pull out of the job now is probably very annoying for them too, but apart from new tenancies, it doesn't have to be done until 2024 so covid-risk its likely a more important safety factor right now. I know that some tradies have already been declining jobs where people live. It's all very complex, and just going to get worse for the next while. Best of luck for a solution that suits you.
I'll spend the rest of the day in the sewing room. My own projects are 1. sewing together squares of all of our old souvenir t-shirts to make a cotton blanket - half finished, and 2. I have a couple of tops that I bought from op shops without trying on and they are too small, so I'll use some of the leftover t-shirt cotton to enlarge them. I've done that before and it works very well.
My other bigger project is to get started on curtain making. We had a tenant leave last week (moving to the town where her daughter lives) and I have the full house set of curtains to make. She was a perfect tenant, but in 8 years the old ones are a bit faded and won't last another 8 years so it's best to do a fresh set now. Then, in a few months I'll need to do the set for the other house we have empty that's a huge project underway. So on Wednesday I got the fabric I need from a shop that sells short ends. But then when I got home I realised that one of the short ends was too short so yesterday went back to see if my mistake was that that was all there was in that colour, or whether I had just picked up the wrong roll. The latter was the case so it has worked out. With this week's purchase and what I already had in stock, I'm now pretty much good to go for two house-sets of curtains. Very satisfying when they are done and in place.
Oh_hunnihunni, that must be very frustrating but might give you a chance to negotiate a better solution to your request for a different fan. I think you've mentioned before that you are in a large corporate so maybe the LL has made a bulk purchase with a contract for installation and ongoing servicing of just one model. Maybe there's another one of the same brand that would work for you and still fit whatever contract the LL has. Having to pull out of the job now is probably very annoying for them too, but apart from new tenancies, it doesn't have to be done until 2024 so covid-risk its likely a more important safety factor right now. I know that some tradies have already been declining jobs where people live. It's all very complex, and just going to get worse for the next while. Best of luck for a solution that suits you.