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billeylerOver the course of three months of high summer humidity, our beautiful dance floor buckled in about 7 places. This morning we (slowly) dove into taking up a bit over half of the parquet floor downstairs, so that we can re-lay it. Part of that was easy; about half of that was loose and we could just lift it up. Other areas were NOT easy to lift and had to be wedges and coerced; those areas were mostly along the west area where we stopped and around the edges. The result is that only about 2/3 of the 4-square parquets are intact and the rest is in 2s and singles. What a 400 square foot jigsaw this is going to be.
Here's what the room looked like after we had proudly refinished the floors in January
Apparently 11 years ago when we first laid the floor, I had applied two different types of adhesives or let them set for different time lengths before applying the parquet. Between the tough and the easy, I think we spent about 4 hours on this part of the project.
Danny did a good bit of the prying up and I stacked them outside with layers of plastic in between. We're hoping that we won't have to do much cutting. Very few of the tiles are wrecked totally, and since it was a humidity buckling issue and we're going to (hopefully) re-lay them today, they should be as expanded as they'll ever be. Crossing fingers.
We're pretty easy to entertain. For our night out, we headed into the Heights to the Hometown Buffet for a feed. I wasn't terribly hungry, having had a largish lunch, and happily, my reflux didn't rear up this visit. It wasn't busy there, so we were in and out in 30 minutes. Then home for a freshen up and off to the THEATAH to Sol Arts on Central just east of downtown.
Our friend Jean Effron became an actress later in life after she gave up her square dance hobby. At 73, she's in several plays a year now locally, has been in a movie or two, and in a few commercials. Usually she plays aging mothers or grandmotherly roles, but the play she was in on at Sol Arts theatre was a BIT of a stretch...she played a middle-aged notorious lesbian seductress.
"Tinture" by Sean Owens is an ensemble play for six women written because of a dearth of plays FOR women. It's nothing like "Steel Magnolias"...I'm not sure how to describe it, since Act I had one of the more unusual character developments I've seen on stage. Over the course of the play, the author used a theme of colors to take 6 very different women from completely solo scenes to a finale in Act II where they all interacted and blended.
I liked the play for the use of the color-theme and that odd way the characters were put into place. It's almost obvious that a gay man wrote the play to feature six women that he knew well. The pacing was tight and the acting was for the most part top notch. You could tell these women liked each other outside of the play. Jean had the best and often funniest lines and had the best character development of them all.
The theatre was over-full of patrons (almost 50) and extra seats had to be put out for the SRO. A group of 23 women* from a local Lesbian social club had come early and taken the prime seats; the rest of us were scattered along the edges. It was an odd layout and I know it was difficult for some to hear. The sounds of the motorcycles and the low-riders outside the storefront theatre was a little distracting at times.
Kudos in any case for this two-year-old non-profit theatre! It was our first time at Sol Arts, and it probably won't be our last!
*Turtle-Bear and Georgian from square dancing were the ONLY two I recognized. Georgian invited us to her August 29 Katrina party...she's one of the evacuees from New Orleans, where her home was destroyed.
Here's what the room looked like after we had proudly refinished the floors in January
Apparently 11 years ago when we first laid the floor, I had applied two different types of adhesives or let them set for different time lengths before applying the parquet. Between the tough and the easy, I think we spent about 4 hours on this part of the project.
Danny did a good bit of the prying up and I stacked them outside with layers of plastic in between. We're hoping that we won't have to do much cutting. Very few of the tiles are wrecked totally, and since it was a humidity buckling issue and we're going to (hopefully) re-lay them today, they should be as expanded as they'll ever be. Crossing fingers.
We're pretty easy to entertain. For our night out, we headed into the Heights to the Hometown Buffet for a feed. I wasn't terribly hungry, having had a largish lunch, and happily, my reflux didn't rear up this visit. It wasn't busy there, so we were in and out in 30 minutes. Then home for a freshen up and off to the THEATAH to Sol Arts on Central just east of downtown.
Our friend Jean Effron became an actress later in life after she gave up her square dance hobby. At 73, she's in several plays a year now locally, has been in a movie or two, and in a few commercials. Usually she plays aging mothers or grandmotherly roles, but the play she was in on at Sol Arts theatre was a BIT of a stretch...she played a middle-aged notorious lesbian seductress.
"Tinture" by Sean Owens is an ensemble play for six women written because of a dearth of plays FOR women. It's nothing like "Steel Magnolias"...I'm not sure how to describe it, since Act I had one of the more unusual character developments I've seen on stage. Over the course of the play, the author used a theme of colors to take 6 very different women from completely solo scenes to a finale in Act II where they all interacted and blended.
I liked the play for the use of the color-theme and that odd way the characters were put into place. It's almost obvious that a gay man wrote the play to feature six women that he knew well. The pacing was tight and the acting was for the most part top notch. You could tell these women liked each other outside of the play. Jean had the best and often funniest lines and had the best character development of them all.
The theatre was over-full of patrons (almost 50) and extra seats had to be put out for the SRO. A group of 23 women* from a local Lesbian social club had come early and taken the prime seats; the rest of us were scattered along the edges. It was an odd layout and I know it was difficult for some to hear. The sounds of the motorcycles and the low-riders outside the storefront theatre was a little distracting at times.
Kudos in any case for this two-year-old non-profit theatre! It was our first time at Sol Arts, and it probably won't be our last!
*Turtle-Bear and Georgian from square dancing were the ONLY two I recognized. Georgian invited us to her August 29 Katrina party...she's one of the evacuees from New Orleans, where her home was destroyed.
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Date: 2006-08-13 05:38 pm (UTC)You know I'm preoccupied, so I don't run off in comments the way I used to, but this is a reminder of how much I can babble. ;-)
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Date: 2006-08-13 06:39 pm (UTC)We'll see...we're JUST about to start, since
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Date: 2006-08-15 12:23 am (UTC)What a glorious floor! Do y'all have dances there? I'm sorry to hear that it's had to be all pulled up.
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Date: 2006-08-15 04:02 am (UTC)Yes, I used to have a lot of dances at the house, but just occasional ones late...
We'll get it put back together and hopefully it won't buckle anymore! :-)
Bill