So it's official, Or it's scheduled, at least. This afternoon ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunnyhugger (digitally) signed the paperwork to get us a new kitchen floor.
This is to be our first big really big home-repair thing in years. Probably our biggest since the new roof. As with the new roof, I imagine we're going to be very happy it was done and a little annoyed we didn't do it years before. But given our job uncertainties in 2021 and my miserable 2022 that was out, and 2020 was 2020, and before that we're getting into times when we were just not getting around to stuff. Well, we're there now.
The astounding thing to me is they're basically ready now. They have to wait for the tile to be delivered, of course, and that's most likely just a couple weeks off. My idle notion that it could be done by New Year's looks unduly pessimistic; we might have it done by Christmas.
And, fortunately, we aren't going to have to move most of the appliances. That's their job. Although I do figure to spend the time moving the pentry shelves to the basement for the duration. Possibly longer if that turns out to be convenient. And we have to do something about the pinball machine ourselves. I'm thinking a team of skateboards.
We also will need to replace the wheels on our portable dishwasher. I have hypotheses about that, too.
And now ... our last photos from our second California's Great America trip. Hope you enjoy seeing things that are dark!
The park's closing up around us, now. I'm not sure GoldStriker was still running at this point.
Carousel's ready and waiting for us for the last ride of the night.
And there's our horses, replicas of classic carved horses.
The carousel, upper level, in its resting pose. The ride has to stop at the same position every time, so the gates on the upper level match the open area of the deck.
A photograph from the stairs of the lower level makes it look like a toy.
And hey, I found just the spot to photograph from that both levels look like toys.
Hey, found a good angle on the carousel and the reflecting pool.
And a last photograph of the carousel centered on the pond, although I think it's a less interesting angle than the previous photo offered.
And oh, they did have a map of the park somewhere! So I got a picture of it on the way out. Parks: bring back real maps. C'mon, people.
Trivia: The first of four spacewalks during Skylab 4/3 was done the 22nd of November, 1973, and lasted 6 hours 34 minutes. Most of the work was installing film magazines in the Apollo Telescope Mount, but maintenance was also done on the microwave radiometer/scatterometer and altimeter, deploying panels for a thermal control coatings, deploying particle collection impact detectors, trans-uranic cosmic ray detectors, and assemblies for the magnetospheric particle composition experiment. Source: Skylab: A Chronology, Roland W Newkirk, Ivan D Ertel, Courtney G Brooks. NASA SP-4011.
Currently Reading: Space Craze: America's Enduring Fascination With Real and Imagined Spaceflight, Margaret A Weitekamp.
