Wherein Jim, his judgement clouded by the challenge and excitement of  a home-improvement project, decides to work in an attic. In Alabama. In July.

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Katrin and I were sitting in our living room lamenting the lack of light, when Katrin says, "Track lights would look good in here."
"Why yes," I reply, "they would." So I go get some stuff.

Now if you're going to crawl around in an attic in July, you might as well go for the three-way switches, right? The first one replaces a switch by the front door, which used to control the outlet below it (now the outlet is always on.) We never got around to getting a floor lamp for that outlet, maybe because I don't think of floor lamps as home improvement (they can be installed without tools.)

The second switch goes next to the existing living room light in a new box.
I didn't want to lie face down in the insulation while feeding the wire through this hole:
 
So I broke out the cordless jig saw and made myself some space.

Light! I got over the "insulation itchies" within a couple of days, and now Katrin won't go blind reading* in the living room.
* "Reading" often consists of sleeping in the recliner with a copy of JAVMA and one or the other of our pets.

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Now that I'm done with Project Table:

I can finish the house picture series with one of the newly rearranged home office:

Not much is going on here in Auburn. Kartrin has been surgerizing and studying statistics, and I'm slowing taking care of projects around the house, when I'm not working. I did a little touch-up painting today.

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OK, OK, here they are. Jeez.

The living room:

A couple of pictures of the kitchen. I found the barstools at Wood You, the unfinished furniture place, after we got the table. One of them still needs another finish coat.

We probably wouldn't have chosen those curtains - they're a little adventurous - but we do like them. There are lots of big windows to open, for which I've been making screens, and I put a screen door on the side of the house. It's that time of year.

Second bedroom:

The hall bathroom. Again, not something we would likely have done, but it's really cool. That's paint, not wallpaper.

Master bedroom, with new (wider) bed and comfy mattress.

The master bath. Some of the fancy new houses have "garden tubs" and whatnot, but we think the big shower makes a lot more sense.

Here's Gromit lounging on the back porch. It seems like everyone in this neighborhood has a dog, and I wonder if we all moved here so that our dogs could have a nice big back yard. Or maybe dog people are outdoor people also, and we all like back yards for that reason.

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We've been bad bloggers lately. There's all sorts of stuff going on, and it's been almost a month since the last post.

We're closing on our new house Thursday, and moving over the weekend. Katrin is working overnights on this last week of her internship. She'll be a little sleepy for the closing and the move, but then she has two weeks off before her residency starts. That should be plenty of time to unpack, and maybe do some furniture shopping.

There's a nice deck in the back and a big back yard for Gromit to play in. We'll post some pictures when we start getting settled in.

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