Bike ride before rain

[lblanchard]

It was sputtering when I got to the Asian grocery this morning and raining gently by the time I got home. Now it is raining in earnest. But I got my ten miles in so I feel quite smug. Also, I got a couple hours work in while waiting for the ocntractors to deliver the oak flooring for the dining room. It needs to spend a week getting used to our house's microclimate before the ocntractor puts it down. Farewell old nasty carpet. It was supposed to be stainproof but anything that fell on it left disgusting black spots that not even an immediate attack with the rug shampooer would budge.

Comments

[pondhopper.livejournal.com]

Oak flooring...I am envious. It's totally impossible here due to our hot dry climate and lack of oak that doesn't cost a bloody fortune. Ceramic tile tile is what we do here...cheapest flooring you can get.

[lblanchard.livejournal.com]

Oak is pretty much what Philly has been floored with for the past century. Before that, there was a lot of wide-plank pine. We actually have wide-plank pine, but it's been beat to death and we don't feel like coping with the mess of having it sanded. As it is, we're going to have to move the piano to storage while we do the living room -- which is down the road a bit.

[endlessrarities.livejournal.com]

Nice timing!!