busybee fluffy rambles

Usual regular infodump about activities and such.

The fireplace work didn’t start today due to the rain. They originally rescheduled it for tomorrow but then the person scheduled for tomorrow got sick, so it’ll be Monday at the earliest. … And I just realized that means they scheduled it for Christmas, which seems weird. I’m guessing they’re going to start on Tuesday instead. Which is the same day the plumbers were planning to start on my bathroom. Oy.

Anyway, my big blue couch is finally gone, and so is my resin printer. Now I just need to do some more decluttering of my living room (and find a home for the crap that I was keeping on the surviving couch), and also figure out where the heck I’m going to keep my folding treadmill because it’s a little too tall to go under the red couch. I suppose I could prop it up by a couple inches with some riser feet or something but that feels iffy to me.

I had briefly thought I was going to maybe set up a gym space downstairs (for the treadmill and my DDR setup) but there just isn’t room for it down there either. The treadmill hasn’t really been all that enjoyable to use anyway, though, so maybe I’ll just sell it in January when everyone’s suddenly interested in getting exercise. For now it’s stashed awkwardly behind my couch, and preventing me from setting up my cozy fireplace area the way I want to.

Lots of stuff happening all at once.

Another thing I’d been putting off way too long on this house was getting my fireplace evaluated, with a bunch of stuff that had been called out on the home inspection report.

Today I finally had a chimney inspector come out and he said that it’s in mostly good shape, but that the chimney cap would need to be replaced with a more modern crown, the flashing needs to be replaced, and of course the whole thing needs to be swept out. The estimate for all that came to be not a huge amount of money so I went ahead and scheduled that work too.