Run, Run, Run…
=Phew!= It’s been a busy couple of weeks. So busy, in fact, I’ve been too tired to be able to put my thoughts down here. So if you’ve been following along, my apologies.
I think I’ve lost track of some of the more incidental problems I’ve taken care of for folks. But the bulk of my time the last couple of weeks has been consumed with building hotel like covers for "in window" style air conditioners, along with doing other little maintenance chores for a very nice disabled lady. The air conditioners were to be installed on the South East face of the building. You know what the winter storms are like around here. They always come from the south — along with driving rain etc. etc. So allowing the air conditioners to breath while keeping them protected — and making sure the covers were sealed into the window frames — was all critically important.
And on other fronts, I’ve got some half a dozen larger jobs stewing along on the stove in various states of approval. One is really cool and I hope it works out: A lovely hot tub on a specially built deck overlooking Trinidad Bay!
Sounds cool doesn’t it?
Last week and this I’ve also been helping a college student get her mobile home ready to sell. The poor lady has been unable to finish her masters degree because of funding cuts for research projects. I gather several other students in her major have left for Davis where they can get funding to complete their research.
Anyway, getting her old mobile squared away will probably continue off and on for the rest of the week. She’s actually spending college loan money to do this, so it’s been more along the lines of education than work. I’m trying to keep the costs down (way down) for her, so I’ve been doing the skilled part, then teaching her how to do low skill tasks like taping and finishing and painting.
She’s a worker, so it’s working out so far, and has been rather fun.
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