Rip it OUT!

Dave and I are headed over to my Lake Chelan house tomorrow to rip out all the carpeting on the main floor and the stairway. In the first photograph, below, you will see the ostensible reason for this.

The picture shows the result of a game of cat and mouse pursued by Bill and me. In fact it was more a game of Ox and Nun. But the result was two gallons of paint, paint that doesn't appear to match the carpeting, cascading from floor 2 to floor 1. Gravity was not our friend that evening. (Neither, it appears, was gin.)

The choice was to paint all the carpeting blue and white, or to rip it out. I, perhaps rather uncreatively, have chosen the latter.

The real reason the carpeting is coming out this weekend is that it is 45 years old. The paint spill just made the decision of when, exactly, the crap was going to be ripped out. Skanky no more!

In a couple of weeks: flooring. Oak laminate. The house will be transformed from 60s time capsule to sedate, ordinary Home of the New Century. More pictures to come...

This is the disaster that provoked the re-flooring of the Chelan place. It's a long, hilarious story, involving grown-ups, a cocktail or two, running in confined places, some confusion... And why are Teri and Bill trying to clean up two gallons of paint from the carpet? Tarps saved the day until the stuff just dried up.

It's all gettin' ripped out this weekend. (CLICK PIC... Click any pic, really)

 

Gail and Red, looking the same direction, though probably contemplating very different things. 

View to the southeast. 

From the upstairs looking northwest. 

The front. 60' of deep water. (The water is lowered in the winter, as depicted.) 

The inside of the house when I bought it. The wallpaper is gone, the walls are painted, the furniture is gone. This weekend all the carpeting goes; in two weeks all new flooring goes in. 

This is a Test

LITMUS TEST: a test of a substance to determine its place on a scale from acid on one end to base on the other.

ACID TEST: derived from a procedure developed in the 1800s (using acid) to differentiate gold from other metals.

A litmus test is a graded scale of infinite results. An acid test is an absolute test. All this political talk of "a litmus test" is wrong. In virtually every single instance of its use in the popular media, what is meant is Acid Test.

Next time you get a chance...use the right one and amaze your friends.

Shoot More Fruit!

Apple-a-day... (click pic) 

Shameless photo-ripping: I've just always loved the Harold Edgerton high speed photos of bullets firing through fruit. More exploding fruit please!