Although we're still waiting for the visit from the moving company owner to discuss our satisfaction with the move (and compensation for the damage incurred), things are looking up.
Our man-of-all-trades visited today to go over our list of projects and discuss what we feel needs to be done around the house. Pedro has been involved with construction and reconstruction for many years, so he can make my ideas become reality within our Mexican milieu. He'll return on Wednesday to start on our list of about 20 projects.
[We had Pedro's referral from our friends who also live in San Rafael and have found his expertise invaluable. We began using him when we first rented the house and much work was done before we even left California several months later.]
I'm sure there will be more ideas as we go along and ideas continue to percolate to the top of my brain. As Michael says: Not too much; it's a rental house!
But these 20 projects are the most essential. After all, we are living here. I can think of lots of others that probably don't really need to be done.
Yes, some of them are not of the temporary sort. We won't be taking them with us when/if we eventually move. Instead they'll stay behind to enhance the house - unlike the traditional procedure of a renter taking everything they have added to a home with them when they move house.
Would you believe we don't have curtain rods in some of the rooms? In California (yes, I know I'm not in California - nor Kansas - any more) anything attached to the premises becomes part of the property.
I promise to leave behind the 35-foot mottled red wall that stretches along one side of the ground floor from the entry through the dining room. I promise to leave the coffee-with-cream color we painted the entire third floor. But I also promise to leave behind the new exhaust hood for the kitchen stove, the new curtain rods, and the preservative applied to the garage/entry/bedroom terrace doors, too.
I think it'll all even out.
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