We just finished up Thanksgiving weekend. We didn't get much done on the house. We spent two days of it visiting relatives, which was a good thing. In fact, it was a very good Thanksgiving. We just didn't get much done this weekend, as far as the house is concerned.
On Saturday, instead of working on the house, we worked on the existing building, since we live there and have been putting off tasks that could no longer be put off. We cleaned the chimney. It needed it. There was a creosote build-up, although not nearly as much as we'd figured. Also, it wasn't nearly as big a job as we'd figured. We just pulled the pipe off the top of the stove, and disconnected that section from the chimney pipe above. I ran a brush up through the chimney pipe several times and it got all cleaned up.
We cleaned up the inside of the stove and then put it all back together. We vacuumed around the stove and cleaned up inside the house.
I cleaned the glass on the front of the stove. That was a job but it wasn't a big job. It just took time.
In the afternoon, we put up Christmas lights along the top of the parapet walls around the house. We ran out, so we bought more lights and finished the job today.
Josh didn't show up to work, so we didn't get anything done with gravel in the garage or with the french drains out back. It was cold and so without help, I wasn't motivated to do anything with it. I'm hoping to try to work in an hour or two after work this week. According to the weather reports, Tuesday through Thursday are likely to be the best weather for it, although it starts getting dark by the time I get home from work. I'm hoping I can just set up a light and get the work done.
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