Think Pink

As you can see from the pictures, the furring strips have been added to the ceiling, and the fiber glass batting has been added to every nook and cranny of the room. The only insulation left is the rigid foam around the foundation and the old chiminey vent. Next up is drywall. For real this time ;-)

I'm a grad student!

I registered for my first class at UML today! I was so giddy, going to the registrar, going to check out the building and the math department. I'm taking Real Analysis.
I had forgotten how nice downtown Lowell can be. Paul and I had a little picnic lunch beside the Canal at St. Anne's. It makes me wonder how our lives would be different if we had bought one of the Mill loft condos instead of this little cottage.

In other news, I'm hating insulation. I have all this lovely drywall in my diningroom, and I'm stuck putting in itchy, scratchy, pink fiber glass into wall cavities that are either too wide or too narrow. I have visions of kneeling on the floor cutting this stuff until September.

A Brand New 1950 Pontiac!

So I was ripping out stuff in a closet that is going to become the home of our brand new forced air heating system, and I found 2 things:

There is no insulation in the outside wall of that room

A bunch of crumbly old newspaper from which I was able to recover a scrap with an advertisement for a brand new 1950 Pontiac.

Here's the ad:

If you have trouble reading it, it says:

Pontiac Village

February 22, 9 A.M. to 5 P.M.

You Can Buy From Us

A Brand New 1950

PONTIAC

5 Passenger, 6-Cylinder

Streamliner Sedan