{"id":24128,"date":"2011-11-29T23:41:50","date_gmt":"2011-11-30T06:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=24128"},"modified":"2011-11-29T23:45:07","modified_gmt":"2011-11-30T06:45:07","slug":"so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/29\/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-projects.html","title":{"rendered":"So long, and thanks for all the projects!"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_24139\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24139\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/houseguests.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24139\" title=\"Houseguests (Family Feud style)\" src=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/houseguests-300x243.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/houseguests-300x243.png 300w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/houseguests.png 406w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24139\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yeah, we&#39;re not good with any of these<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The In-Laws, Jim &amp; Ginger, have flown back home, and we&#8217;re left with some post-Thanksgiving thanks to provide them, on all the projects that got done over the last nearly-two-weeks:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Basement &#8211; replace old fluorescent light fixtures with new lights.<\/li>\n<li>Basement &#8211; add light switch to the furnace room light; replace fixture.<\/li>\n<li>Master bathroom &#8211; fixed the pocket door, and painted its inside.<\/li>\n<li>Master bathroom &#8211; drawer knobs.<\/li>\n<li>Katherine&#8217;s room &#8211; draperies for the &#8220;girl cave&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>Katherine&#8217;s room &#8211; shelves for tchotchkes<\/li>\n<li>Katherine&#8217;s room &#8211; sorting of many articles of clothing for giving away, storing away, future wear.<\/li>\n<li>Loft &#8211; blinds.<\/li>\n<li>Craft room &#8211; Remove clothes pole, generally neaten (for further putting away).<\/li>\n<li>Garage &amp; Kitchen &#8211; cleaning out of the freezers, sorting of frozen goods, \u00a0massive disposal of stuff that could be disposed of, decommissioning of one garage fridge.<\/li>\n<li>Family room &#8211; replace burnt-out bulbs; fix the dangling fixture.<\/li>\n<li>Give-away items &#8211; sort, count, package for Goodwill.<\/li>\n<li>Thanksgiving &#8211; cleaning, cooking, service.<\/li>\n<li>Putting up Christmas decor, including finding and buying a new tree.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>And probably a bunch of other things I&#8217;ve forgotten. \u00a0Beyond, of\u00a0course, that it&#8217;s just fun having them in town. \u00a0Even if Ginger did get everyone but Katherine sick. \u00a0\ud83d\ude42<\/div>\n<div>What&#8217;s most daunting is that we&#8217;ll be seeing them (and my parents) in a frighteningly short period of time, as the holiday season bears down on us like a freight train.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The In-Laws, Jim &amp; Ginger, have flown back home, and we&#8217;re left with some post-Thanksgiving thanks to provide them, on all the projects that got done over the last nearly-two-weeks: Basement &#8211; replace old fluorescent light fixtures with new lights. Basement &#8211; add light switch to the furnace room light; replace fixture. Master bathroom &#8211; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/29\/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-projects.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;So long, and thanks for all the projects!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69,68,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family","category-holidays","category-home-improvement"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/houseguests.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10916,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/05\/20\/other_bits_of_weekend_in.html","url_meta":{"origin":24128,"position":0},"title":"Other bits of weekend in review","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 20-May-07 10:27pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The weekend was, on a whole, pretty productive.\u00a0 I already mentioned Katherine's birthday party on Friday night and the PTA game on Sunday afternoon.\u00a0 Saturday was the \"productive\" day, with...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Gaming&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Gaming","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/gaming"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11384,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/09\/09\/sleepover_2.html","url_meta":{"origin":24128,"position":1},"title":"Sleepover!","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 9-Sep-07 12:09pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Katherine's friends from up the street came down for a sleep-over.\u00a0 Pancakes and bacon for dinner, sleeping on the hide-a-bed in the family room, a steady parade up to...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Parenting&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Parenting","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/personal\/parenting"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/IMG00125.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":7082,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/11\/01\/cant_slip_anyth.html","url_meta":{"origin":24128,"position":2},"title":"Can&#8217;t slip anything over on her","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 1-Nov-04 7:32pm","format":false,"excerpt":"So when we put the ceiling fan up in Katherine's room, when she was an infant (or was it even before she was born?), we put a single 25w light...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Parenting&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Parenting","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/personal\/parenting"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1144,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/10\/10\/allow_me_to_bit.html","url_meta":{"origin":24128,"position":3},"title":"Allow me to bitch a moment","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 10-Oct-01 6:40pm","format":false,"excerpt":"\"I'm really not having fun.\" I made that comment to Margie Sunday. 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