27 Sept 2011

We didn’t work at the house at all today.  Jerry had us making a mad dash around BricoMan for what he call essentials, ie, a cordless drill, a shop vac, an assortment of drills, an assessment of a shower pan for a shower and a corner tub, a quick look at tiles for the bath we should be demo-ing right now, masks, rust remover, steel wool, a utility lamp, sand paper, an extension cord you can plug several things in at the same time ..… Oh! And a tool box! 

The sack

the apron

After a hamburger at the Ouick he drops  me and Jake off at Pezenas and races over to Beziers to see a man about a car.  The man speaks no English and Jerry stutters thru a smattering of French…I just couldn’t go watch.  A couple of hours pass, Jerry rushes in and when I ask him about the car he mutters it was clean and low miles and looked like it hadn’t been wrecked but, well you set your standards…… then he was rushing out the door to meet an artisanat the ruin about a possible problem with the roof over one of the rooms.  He isn’t back yet and it is 18:20.  The artisan speaks no English and Jerry stutters thru a smattering of French……..Thank goodness Alison was going to be there to help translate.  The trouble with that is she doesn’t get “contractor lingo”….Lord, what a circus that is …I had better have lots of ICE made up….Jerry is probably going to need a couple of Black Jacks before he goes to bed!  Oh Oh!  Jerry just returned with a devis in hand, a request for a gin and tonic and he is sitting on the terrace smoking a big cigar and sipping his gin and tonic..HUMMMMMM  Do I ask him anything or not......

the cloth with the loop in the top corner

I decided to post photos of the initialed apron, and whatever that other initialed cloth is.  Also, thought you might like to see what holds a stone house and a wooden door together.  You can’t just attach a hinge you know.  The metal items were retrieved when Jerry took the doors off that odd space that is going to be a bookcase.  Oh, yeah and the mystery of the “bedezos” is solved…they are tile snippers!  HA!



the snippers

Don’t know if we will work tomorrow since we both want to go to the Clermont market…..it is a GOOD one!