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Egon, No offense intended RE shooting Bambi. I am not philosophically against hunting but don't participate much. In three years, I have shot one bunny (we ate it) for doing what a bunny has to do, eat the lettuce in my wife's garden. I will and have shot destructive varmints, including feral cats.

My prevous house was a 1928 Spanish Mediterranean style stucco with red tile roof and wrought iron decorations. It was lath and plaster with coved ceilings. That was the house that taught me a lot about maint. How to plaster, restore old windows and doors, use new products to repair old houses (thin epoxy for wood rot and bondo for missing material) and so forth. I learned a few things about termites and other wood destroying organisms and the clever practices of Terminix. Original wiring was in rigid conduit (2 wire system). Had 4 sets of French doors with true divided lights. I only broke one or two panes per door removing and replacing old putty.

The garage was inaccessible by modern full size cars, being in the back yard and requireing a turn difficult to make in any thing approaching a family sedan since WW-II. It bacame a shop, and some previous owners had replaced the garage door with French doors.

How does the knee like the upstairs master bedroom? My wife started out wanting a single floor home so we ended up with 3 levels. She justifies that as being OK because the master suite is on the ground floor and there is no "essential" space in the basement or the attic (AKA upstairs) so we could do just fine on only the ground floor.

Do you have an aversion to getting into hot water with your wife? Hot tubs can be nice and they can be a royal pain too. We may put one in a nook outside beside the sun porch later on. I'm going to be quizing my HVAC guy tomorrow as regards the prospects for using rejected heat from the A/C to heat a hot tub. Properly insulated and with a good insulated cover (also keeps out dirt) they aren't such bad energy hogs. Fussing with the chemicals is still not my favorite thing. Someone should invent a practical low cost automated chemical maint system for hot tubs.

Your pretty ambitious in the maint and renovation department. I envy all you really handy people. I am still trying to develop some skills to the point that I can earn one of my favorite compliments, "it doesn't look like you did it."

Pat

"I'm not from your planet, monkey boy!"

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