Weekend Update

This weekend was not my most productive to date, and I am afraid that the next few weekends won't bring much progress either. While the bathroom project nears completion, I am turning my attention to other matters. I suspect there is a big "gotcha" waiting for me when I try to put up my shower-curtain-rod assembly (which is fairly complicated due to the whole claw-foot tub thing) and find the light-heat-fan assembly seems to be in the way. Oh well, cross that bridge later. Right now, my energies are focused on wrapping up the plaster/skimcoat repairs in the bedroom.

Here is a picture of the antique light fixture that I took out of the bathroom. I touched it up with some of the same paint used on the tub's claw feet, and i think it came out pretty nicely.



I was hoping it would be visible through the transom window from the den, and it looks like that might work out.


Also this weekend, Becky and I had a final breakfast at the Bluebird Cafe on Prytania St. before it closed down for good on Sunday. The Bluebird has been one of my favorite weekend breakfast places since I moved here, and I am terribly sorry to see it go. Here is a picture of the line 20 minutes before it opened on Saturday, its second-to-last day of business.


They had decorated the inside with bluebird balloons everywhere.



For some better pictures, I found this Flickr album too. RIP, Bluebird.

Finally, a picture of the washer-dryer stack I picked up off of craigslist for 300 bucks. Woohoo! Free indoor laundry!


The procurement of this item was an adventure in and of itself, invoving a trip to Lacombe in a borrowed truck, a night out at Sal and Judy's restaurant, emergency freeway stops and a drunken, near-death experience... but that's a story for another occasion, and no, I was not the one drunk or near death (this time).