All's Well

All is well at the house of the French peasant. The window is done, the stairs are in so now its back on my knees again to clean the floorboards that were relaid. Have dug out the knee pads again, strapped them on and off I go. Only 25sq. metres to clean and they have to be done and sealed by next Wednesday as we have people booked in for the Thursday for four days which is good as it means we shall be earning some well deserved money by them staying. They have already stayed with us once before so know that the house is not completely finished but are quite happy with that and are looking forward to seeing what we have done since their last visit. I hope they think a lot has been done! I'm hoping to get the walls above the stairs plastered before they arrive it's a nice job to have done but not essential. The flooring takes priority. Having already started I can say that the colour is a beautiful deep reddish/brown and will make a wonderful contrast with the light colour of the ash staircase. Things at last are starting to come together, after 3 years we now have something that resembles a house once more!

Only we could take a reasonable house, rip the insides out, take of the roof and after three years be back to where we started if you see what I mean? A house with new floors, new roof and new electrical wiring and new plumbing. We like it though and we hope that our guests will as well.

Suns still shining, mice are afraid as the cat is back on the prowl so all's well with the world.....