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Monday. Not as much pain as I expected from a day of tiling. Got five colors and shapes (plus custom painted ones), so feng shui has been important.
We start at the front door. SW corner of the bay (north end of the old bar, so bay three, farthest end from her house). Inner wall is immediately on your right. Tiles four feet wide by three deep, done in a slate gray with hints of blacks. That’s what we call the mud room, and where there will be a mat to wipe feet.
In the opposite corner (NE), six weirdly oversized tiles run front to back. Three rows wide, so about 2.5 feet. Two runs long, so about six feet. That’s immediately behind where the bar will go. It will stick out from the back wall, cutting the overall room into a U-shape, if you will.
Forward from the front door are two rows of long black tiles (60cm each), with two rows of standard 12” white tiles between them. There is a window back in that corner (SE) and I’m planning a two-top table along that side. That’s also the (Inner) wall where we did the hardwood flooring. Pics in the November newsletter, if you aren’t signed up, so you might consider.
Same black edge wraps around the NW corner, where I plan a standing table (bar stool height), with white tiles inside that. I have about five painted tiles left over and am going to put those down in the front half, so they are more visible.
Will finish tiling Thursday, then grout over the weekend, maybe. Having some friends over Monday night to soft-open celebrate the Battle of Hastings. Still got a lot of work to do to get it all finished. Wiring. Front door installed and plugged. Molding.
Gonna be a winter doing it right, but I’m quite thrilled with the progress I’ve made with the help of some amazing folks.
Monday. Been running around all morning and only getting to the computer to write at 10. Science Officer 15 crossed 40k last week. Target 65k. Sometime next week will finish it, depending on a couple of side projects I need to write between now and January.
Getting busy planning for Author-Nation in November. Week for writers, plus Thursday/Friday for readers, if any of you are in or planning to be near Vegas that week. I’ll be crazy doing things, but having fun, one hopes.
Still ramping up my morning, so not a lot of words here yet. Probably need to send this and make some coffee
Hope you folks enjoyed Book One of the Scattered Tribes. Plan is to extend that story next year, just not sure if more shorts or one long novel. Or something else. Got a STUPID amount of world-building there that I want to tap into something epic. I mean, Swords and Sorcery and Starships? How much crazier can it get?
Y’all have a lovely monday.
shade and sweet water
b
West of the Mountains, WA
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