The home mini-renovation proceeds apace. Today I went to the hardware store – a different branch, actually, in a further suburb. The store there is much bigger than the one near us. I went to get a new kitchen waste bin, small enough to fit into the cabinet space under the kitchen sunk. I got a 17 litre bin, only a bit smaller than the current 20 litre size.
When I got home I cleared out enough space for it under the sink and slotted it in. I didn’t even end up having to remove anything from under the sink – just rearrange it a bit. I took the old bin down to the garage and will discard it during the next household materials collection in a couple of weeks. The kitchen floor space now feels cleaner and more spacious.
I also checked for wood offcuts to make my new laundry shelf. I figured this larger store would have more offcuts to rummage through, but when I checked there were one at all! So I’ll continue my quest for the perfect offcut.
This morning I did a 5k run. And around lunch time another handyman came, this time to check our kitchen floor. It’s wooden parquetry, and in need of a sanding and resurfacing after years of scuffing. The guy measured it up and gave a quote for the work. He suggested we do it after the repainting we have planned for the end of October, because the painters may scuff the floor with stepladders or leave paint drips on it, so it’s better to resurface the floor after that.
This evening I did the first three critical thinking classes of the new Generation Gap topic. It’s an interesting topic, but the structure and questions are a bit more work for me than the last couple I’ve done. More thinking on my feet to run the class smoothly as we move through the topic.