May 14 2006
Fingers crossed a Roman Villa exploration is planned for this afternoon once Vicki finishes grouting her sunshine yellow wall tiles in the laundry room. One of the tiles is ‘proud’ – sticks out a bit – so I told Vicki that the ‘devil would never inherit her work’ that it was an Amish tile as they always made a slight imperfection in their work believing that only God could create perfection.
I think she liked that idea after all the grief she has gone through.
She has also concluded rather reluctantly that tiling that kitchen floor will have to be done in bits and drabs as the rows have to be absolutely dry before anything can be stood on them. So there goes the schedule of ‘three hours – 40 tiles’ out the window.
As for finishing painting the shutter- well the wrong one was ordered wasn’t it and the window that will be installed will be too long and too wide for the shutter that was so lovingly being restored.
So much for my painting skills.
After a brief chat this morning and a visit with Pete the builder, the window situation is being satisfactorily resolved – Pete will buy back the wrong window from her and order/install the right one.
As to when? Again this is France and it could be July before she sees that window. In the meantime we do have a window installed and half a floor tiled.
Mud Swallow update: the nest is almost finished <mr and mrs have been taking turns building> and it looks like other swallows are eyeing the remaining nails in the rafters with a view to building a community.
As for The Pond and its inhabitants – one of the goldfish from last year mated with the blackfish and produced a hybrid blackfish with a gold head – that one is mine and has been named ‘taxi’. I suspect she will grow to become the terror of The Pond.
I have been promised updates on her progress.
Seviac Roman Villa later that afternoon
