COVID vaccine trial

 

Ben enrolled in a COVID vaccine trial at SLU.  He had his first vaccine on Thursday.  He ended up in the ER on Thursday and Friday nights as his fever was so high and he needed 4 bags of fluids on Thursday night and 2 bags of fluid on Friday night.  Luckily, he is doing so much better now, but being the first person in the country to get a new vaccine is not without challenges!!!!

Construction Project #???? Week 4

 

Very little happened this week with the project, but lots of trauma.  We had a problem with the drains over the weekend and the plumbers came to investigate on Monday.  We are going to have to have the basement floor dug up and the sewer lateral replaced.  Not the first time we've done this as we did in our U City house too.  They put the project on hold until they looked at the whole issue.  Sam and I discussed and decided that we need to wait until they have finished this project before we start on the basement.  We just do not have a spare inch to store anything any longer!!!!  We might take the opportunity to change some things around in the basement while we are doing that, so maybe we've found a silver lining???!!!!!

Also, they removed the glass block from the bathroom window and repositioned the bricks.  That created clouds of brick dust and ruined all Sam's good cleaning at the weekend!!!!

Construction Project #????? Week 3

 Lots of destruction rather than construction this week.  They started tackling the glass block window in the bathroom.  This whole thing ids being replaced and moved down 4 rows of brick.

A rare look at how your house is built!!!!  Don't think it's falling down any time soon.....

Nothing much left in the kitchen at all

I am so excited that they have opened up this window now and we will have a bench under the window rather than the counter going across it

Lots of ductwork and drain exposed these days!!!!

More of the wall exposed as they get ready to take this window out

New subfloor in the bathroom

Construction Project #????? Week 2

A lot of work has been done on the bathroom.  This is the bathroom floor where the bath leaked

The little wall is gone and the plumbing is being changed so that the bath is turned around, there will be a little more room at the end of the bath

New subfloor is down and old air conditioning vents have been capped off.  This old stack will be removed at some point

The next thing to go will be the glass block in the window

Construction Project #????? Day 6

 

Today they took out all the concrete on the bathroom floor.  Apparently, they used to pour concrete to give the tile a solid foundation-didn't stop the people before us from breaking them quite successfully!!!!!  That must have been a huge weight above the kitchen ceiling-it would kill someone if it fell through!!!!!

Trip to MBG

 We don't get to go to the Botanical Gardens as much as we used to, but it was a beautiful day to go.  Perfect day for me as the hellebores were starting to flower in the stumpery!!!!

There were a few snowdrops, they are always early.  

Lots of witch-hazel and crocus

Construction project #????? Day 5

The upstairs bathroom was attacked on Friday.  Sam said the sound was horrendous!!!!  

Surprisingly, the cats are still coming out when the construction workers leave.