Beach Club - June 2005

This is the 'June 2005' installment of the "Beach Club News"

Tigger in Bill's new-office  SM helps with the trash

Our "BIG NEWS" here on 3 June (a Friday, and only 3 days into the new-month (this must be a record, creating a new web-page on the third day of the new-month - USUALLY we're REALLY LATE with this stuff!

ANYWAY - the "BIG_NEWS" is our new-wood-floor... - When we bought this house, about 18 months ago (after trying to sell our other house for 12-18 months) we should have put-in a new floor then - because this house had "particularly" "OOOKIE" (that's a technical-term) (previously white) carpet in 3 bedrooms and the living-room / sitting-room.   Needless to say, after another 18 months with sometimes sick-cats the carpet's time and come and gone...


Safekeeping for the Bears
BUT _ before we engaged in this great-adventure, and had the installers come & visit we had to protect our most valuable asset.

Ms. May, though, persevered with looking at new floor-styles - calling vendors and all that such thing and the 'installers' showed-up yesterday morning (they're from Miami - so that's a two-hour-drive!) - and they laid about 870 square feet of laminate-floating-floor in about 11 hours or so... - May and I, though, had taken up all the carpet in our two offices, and in the living room (yesterday afternoon)...

some (brief) information on 'wood-floors' - there are three kinds of 'wood-floors' -

MOST of the decision making process (if you ignore cost & installation methodology) is based on two variables:  

We also found there are several methodologies to choose product, installation methogology, vendor, etc.

May's office "before" new floor

Ms. May's office "Before" the new wood floor
  May office done
Ms. May's office 'After' the new wood floor

Bottom line - it's VERY NICE _ it'll be even nicer once we get everything re-arranged and buy some new office-desk-furniture for Ms. May and get that installed and get everything cleaned and put back in place and so-on... (I'm guessing by Monday or so - Ms. May's got a work-shop to attend this weekend at the Armory Art Center in West Palm Beach...


some RE-assembly required
some re-arrangement has already taken place in Mr. Bill's office (and the BellSouth.Net 'xDSL' was 'up' as soon as we plugged it in!!!)

Mr. Bill's got a lot of (GIS-GPS) software books to read and some exercises (some for Fish & Wildlife and some just for learning) to do - so it will be busy but fullfilling weekend - as Ms. May learns new pottery techniques and Mr. Bill learns new GIS-GPS techniques..

just a FEW great things about the new-wood floor:
"SOME" of the old-carpet/padding/tack-strips


SO - THAT'S    about it for now, it's only 3 June - we need more time to do more great things! - At this point  in the month, though, the new-wood-floor is about the only thing we have to report...  Other than the RAIN RAIN RAIN we've had for 2-3 days now, Ms. May's rain-gauge filled-up at six inches of rain (in 3 days!)...



last updated:  Friday, 03 June 2005 @ 08:27 - US-EDT, in Stuart, Florida;  by: Bill Schell