Monday, June 10: Big day that came about a month later than we’d hoped: got Mr. Karen’s sailboat in the water. The delay wasn’t on our end; it was due to the lake level not being brought up for summer on the usual schedule because of a problem with the dam that controls it. By the time we trailered the boat to the ramp and did all the prep work like raising the mast, just motoring from the ramp to the dock we’re renting for the season felt like enough sailboat-related activity for one day.

 
Tuesday, June 11: Started getting the main level of our condo ready for new flooring to be installed. As part of that, Mr. Karen had to remove the baseboard heaters. Behind the one in the kitchen, he found remnants of what was probably the original backsplash treatment. Now the single random tile that was left for us with the other household goods we bought with the unit makes sense. I do wonder how much of the walls was covered with this; must have been quite a sight.

 
Wednesday, June 12: The installer came to rip out our existing flooring, so Mr. Karen and I escaped the noise and chaos of that to spend some time on the boat. When we tried raising the mainsail, we ran into an issue that wasn’t fixable just then, so we ended up sailing a bit with just the jib (the small sail in front, one of the many new words entering my vocabulary thanks to this new adventure).

 
Thursday, June 13: Another day of heading to town to avoid the flooring work. I went to the studio for a while then brought lunch to the boat where Mr. K was working on things there. There wasn’t enough wind to sail, but we did motor out for a bit since practicing getting out of the marina and docking and such is good at this stage (mostly for me, since I’ve not sailed before). We came home to grey leveler covering almost all of the floors, some of it dry, some of it still drying. The living room looked like an abstract art piece viewed from the open staircase above.

 
Friday, June 14: The floor guy came and found he had to pour more leveler (the estimator was entirely too optimistic about the amount of time and materials this would take). While it dried, Mr. Karen and I rode the lift up for the first day of summer season on the mountain. There were still a few patches of snow up top.

 
Saturday, June 15: The floor guy left these bits of carpet and padding on the balcony to be disposed of later. I don’t think he expected them to get snowed (well, graupelled) on.

 
Sunday, June 16: Hosted some friends and friends of friends for craft time at the studio but didn’t take any pictures of that, so had to resort to a pic from the parking lot of the sawmill next door to mark the day.

 

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