The (Window) Story So Far

As I mentioned, we were told that the window replacement process would be starting on Monday. One of our (kind and handy) neighbors offered to come by on Sunday and take down all the shades/blinds/window treatments, much to our unhandy relief.

So on Sunday morning I moved things away from windows (Mom definitely would have done some of it, but she has a tear in her rotator cuff, so I wouldn't let her) to get ready for him. We're only talking about 4 windows (or 5: the kitchen is a double-window, so it could be counted as 1 or 2, then there's one each in the living room, office, and my bedroom), but it's amazing how disruptive it is to the whole place to have those areas cleared. The poor cat doesn't know where her food bowl should be!

After he was done, I moved my bedside table back into place (oof, that thing is surprisingly heavy), and slept sort of oddly between the outside/hall light shining in, and the awake-at-5-someone's-outside-the-window-aren't-they feeling.

We had been told that there would be three crews of workers: one for the penthouse, one for the easily accessed windows, and one for the windows that need a lift to get to, but as it turns out, just one crew came yesterday, so all they did was work on the penthouse. Not that we've gotten any official updates: it's all from Mom-talked-to-the-neighbor-who-had-talked-to-a-worker, like a game of Operator, though certainly we could tell from the noise (oh, the noise) that work was indeed going on*, and another lift was delivered Monday morning. But after getting all ready, moving the bedside table** and unplugging everything there, it's kind of annoying to still be in limbo here. I just want them to get it over with already.
*And the lanai across the way that's being worked on is getting tiled, so the sound of the tile being cut has added to the noise from upstairs.
**I'm not moving that thing again until the workers need to get to the window, that's for sure.

I did pin up a shower curtain over the window last night, which didn't block a lot of light but was still helpful. We're looking into getting a new, room-darkening blind in place of the old blinds, so we'll see what comes of that. The room doesn't get a lot of light, as it faces onto the breezeway, but it gets enough reflected light to wake me early in summer, anyway, and who wants that?

As to all the other work:

• The power washing seems to be done; at least, we haven't heard anything since last Wednesday, when we had to keep the shutters down while the front of the building was being washed, but they did do that, at least at our level (the grunge it left on the strip of lanai floor outside the shutters was disgusting), so hopefully that is in fact finished.
• The roofers haven't been seen for a while, but the roof is visibly not done, so who knows.
• The painting continues; they are making visible progress, but they haven't done the floors yet, which should be the last step. Hopefully they will indeed let us know ahead of time when that happens, so that we can choose whether we want to be stuck inside or stuck outside.

Week four of the chaos continues. Next time, knitting update!