Doc.AElstein wrote: ↑26 Feb 2021, 18:18
Maybe Chris you should consider a Porch ( Veranda ). I am very fond of these myself. ...
Spot on Doc!
It is 17:00 as I squeak
(1). David from across the street has gone home to Kerry.
I have a new kitchen counter, a new sink, a proper tap and drain, and David has reclaimed the space under the counter so I now can use all five cupboards instead of just two. The cupboard doors are off so I can clean and strip paper, prime etc and then Kerry can start painting. I made David buy a 12' counter top so that there would be an extra 4' left over, and this afternoon, after he had finished installing two new locks on my porch door, so that I can close the door and lock it when I go shopping or go to sleep at night, I coyly suggested that he knock up a cheap frame from 2x4s so that I could get the feel of what an L-shaped counter would look like, and I could dice carrots while watching the world go by.
As he was leaving I asked him how Maude used to cope with the snow on the porch (David has lived opposite 60 Canon Bayley all his life) and he told me that
she had a temporary windbreak/shelter that could be put up after the first snowfall and (trickier) taken up before the last snowfall, and guess what I said?
But I can hold off on the new porch until David has (a) removed the old wood-stove plinth (b) remodeled my laundry room so that it can be used (c) installed twelve new large windows and (d) cut three 4"x4" holes in walls so I can have, at long last, an endless loop model railway that passes through four rooms.
This last is a serious project, for "
... a track-side water-tower next to a loco-shed. The loco-shed will house a mini-heating element; the water tower pipes the hot coffee into insulated gondola tankers which (miles away from the loco shed) are dragged onto a trestle and then bottom-drained into a carefully-positioned mug. Dragging the rake of trucks double-headed with extra-loud CHUFFing would give the coffee time to steep.
And as I type, I think TWO-phases. You each write your orders on a not-to-scale loading-card which is slotted into a frame on the side of the gondola tankers, and the train of empties trundles off behind a partition where the cars are loaded according to the bar-coded data on the card from four coal chutes (tea, ground coffee, whitener, sweetener) THEN the hot water is added and three chuffing minutes later your mugs are placed under the discharge trestle and behold And Lo! each person's mug arrives with the required order.
And everyone would be chuffed!"
(1) While he was putting a new plywood base under the sink David found and sealed off a hole which mice were using as a front door to what they were thinking of as their granary. There were no "signs" of mice anywhere in my house this morning ...
Cheers
"Happiest guy on Canon Bayley Road"