More Pre-Move-In Stuff

We are making strides on moving in. It just doesn't seem that it is necessarily in a forward motion all the time.

This bit is. Carl, our contractor, had told me that the little Guatamalan store downtown on 4th Avenue, the one across from Corozal Virtual Office... You know, the store with all the plastic stuff outside. It's pretty hard to miss really. Anyway, he told me they had hammocks like the style we were looking for.

So, yesterday, I went down and looked for myself. As you can see, we got two of them. Very nice, and a very nice price too. A little hagling paid off. I think we got a pretty good deal. Of course, we probably still paid too much, but I was happy. And that's all that matters, right? If both sides are happy, what's the problem?

They work too. I spent some time in mine - the far one. I'm looking forward to some serious napping.

Our New Hammocks In Place

 We've started getting ready to move the Armoir. I emptied out all my clothes - that's them below. All the foldable stuff, anyway. Dianna needs to empty her side, then I can take the doors off and we'll be ready to move that behemoth.

All My Foldables From the Armoir

You know those closet bars I put up the other day? I epoxied the side screw shields in place, but neglected to epoxy the center bracket shields. Guess what gave way?

Easy to tell where the backward step in the moving process occurred.

One Step Forward, Two Steps Backward

 As you can readily see, the plastic shield came right out and of course, brought down the whole works. Well, nothing but an hour or two of picking up all the clothing, re-installing the brackets and rods, with epoxy on the bracket shields, and waiting an hour for that to cure completely, then rehanging all the clothing.

Ripped Out Screw Shield

 As you can see, I've rehung my stuff. Dianna took a bit more time to do hers. Anyway, it's back up, with everything hung and staying hung this time. We're back on track.

A Nicely Organized and Epoxied Closet

 The bathroom linen closet is becoming populated. It looks so neat and tidy. The cats discovered they can jump up there too, if someone leaves a door ajar for them.

Bathroom Linen Closet Looking Good

Fixing Stuff

Or, Why is there always time to do something over again, but there never seems to be enough to do it right the first time around?

A/C Units Being Installed - Incorrectly

The first time, I had the guys make holes just big enough for each A/C unit - they're different sizes as well.

What I didn't do was the following, as pointed out by JimXaibe (of Jim and Gloria) on a blog comment he made on June 20, when he said "...From your pix, it looks like the side louvres (condenser air intake) on your a/c units are covered over. That will mean marginal performance at best and a cooked compressor very possibly..."

Since we didn't have current to the A/C units right then, I wasn't too concerned about it then. But, a couple of days later, we did have current. Naturally, we ran each unit to make sure they actually put out cold air, which they did. Well, as soon as we felt the cold air we turned them off and kept them unplugged so no one would fire the little buggers up and fry the units.

It took this long till we could have the guys cut some 45º notches in the side of each vertical wall surrounding the A/C units. Mayo still has to paint the concrete, but the units should be able to breathe now with no problem. Jim, thanks for an alert "Hey, dumbshit!" call on that. I appreciate it.

A/C Units All Fixed

Here's a shot of one of the units, all fixed except for the painting.

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Next fix-it thing, well, actually it's a new installation, is for the door latching mechanism that Owen sent to me. Of course, after I got this done, I got word that the missing latches had finally showed up in Florida.

New Screen Door Latch

Here's the new latch with a crystal knob, no less.

The Other Side

This really classes up the operation here. Totally upscale. And, it works like a charm. No more of the door blowing open in a strong wind.

Well, that's all I have for right now. The guys are almost done with the guesthouse, so I'll take some shots of it while it's still clean and sparkly-like and post those later.