the opportunity to uh
talk with someone with my name
no there's really not very many
no there really aren't
uh when i went to school there was probably three
you know in various ages but you don't you don't find that name very often
uh-huh that's interesting well are you uh involved in any kind of home repair projects right now
uh we just got through having the ceiling in the kitchen touched up
did y'all have
the roof we had a lot of rain and the roof was leaking and it went down and had a big spot on the ceiling
and we intended to to fix it ourselves
oh
and that didn't work so we ended up hiring just uh a handy man and it turned into a huge project for him
um
and he couldn't he tried to match the spot and he couldn't match it and ended up having to do the whole ceiling over
the whole well we have a spot just like that in our kitchen
but we haven't uh it's just a stain you know it's not really it's a stain on the paint it's not where water actually leaked
uh-huh
uh on the floor i mean it's not like a hole in the ceiling
and um i don't know i know there's stuff you can get sealer and stuff that actually has some color to it but we are probably going to have to end up repainting the whole ceiling too
yeah i think so but we tried just at first just kind of spackling it it's one of those type ceilings this is an older house and we were trying to just repair that and match the the uh texture
oh
uh
and we couldn't do that and then
uh
is it like a is it like a popcorn ceiling or what's the texture
it's i'm not even sure what it is it's not like the kind at my mother's house is a blown texture
oh uh-huh
and this is an old older house and it's kind of a
sponge is what it looks like to me
huh
that they took the uh plaster and kind of sponged it
huh
but it's a different pattern and he had so much trouble trying to match it
and the paint and everything he finally just had to redo the whole ceiling repaint the whole thing
well that's probably the easiest thing to do i guess in that case
uh-huh
but he uh i was surprised he stuck with the price that he had quoted
wow
which was just a couple a hundred dollars to fix the one place and then he found out that the beam there was not support to attach his stuff to and it turned out to be a mess
huh
he finally finally got it finished
well
and it looks nice
it does i was i because it took several days and i work so he was on his own during the house during the day and then i would just have to come home and call him at night and say excuse me
uh-huh
this doesn't look good
yeah
because he was going to let it go if i hadn't said anything at first when it didn't match and stuff he was just going to go with that
and i am sure nobody would notice if they come in they don't look up immediately but i noticed but when he fixed it
right right
but this the house it belongs to my father-in-law and our deal as far as living here and each month we fix something
uh-huh
and we put a deck in and we landscaped the yard and we put new carpeting in and we put new linoleum in and then we had the ceiling fixed and put a new floor in the bathroom
and wallpaper but just as soon as you get finished with one job it's time for another one
well we are in the midst of all that now too we've lived in our house for uh two years and uh
my dog it's just uh she's like a child she wants to play as soon as you get the phone she my dog is trying to uh a fifty pound dog is trying to get in my lap uh anyway uh
so we really have not done much to the house we kind of worked on the landscaping outside but
but this year we've made uh kind of a list of things we want to do and we devote half of every Saturday to our work projects and then one night a week and uh so right now we are painting our master bedroom
actually it's my husband i can't i am expecting so i am not suppose to be around the paint fumes so
oh well see you chose a good job well congratulations when is your baby due
yeah i chose a good job so i don't have to help
when is it due July
uh-huh
well that good it won't be too hot
so we're we're working on the master bedroom first and then we'll eventually get to the baby's room and you know try to decide what we want to do in there but uh we have the people that lived here before us uh
uh the house is about twelve years old and ouch she just tried to bite me uh but
it it's a custom home and it has a lot of neat things to it but they also went i think a cheap route you know that they on some things and there's one wall in this bedroom that uh
uh-huh
that uh are in one of our guest bedrooms that was painted gray and the rest of the walls are white and it looks like it must have had wallpaper on it
and they took the wallpaper off and then tried to re-texture it and it's horrible it just looks like it just rained
uh-huh
