Weekend Game Plan

I'm pretty sure that nothing much will get done on the Devil Queen this weekend.

Apparently this year is the year of the wedding. My wife is going to another cousin's wedding this weekend. Mercifully, I don't have to go. Unfortunately, this doesn't mean that I'll get to work on the Queen. I'll be spending most (all?) of Saturday finishing a mural in Atkins.

We traded the mural for some tile work. The mural should have been finished a couple of months ago, but I've been putting it off in favor of working on the Queen. Our tile guy is getting a little peeved with our lack of progress. I hate to admit it, but he's in the right on this one. To be honest, I prefer working on the Queen. I'll have to bite the bullet and just finish the damn thing.

Sunday and Monday my wife and I will go into hiding to celebrate our anniversary. The Queen, in all her decrepit splendor, will have to wait.

I've been doing some research on passive cooling and air flow in older homes (hopefully to be posted soon). The old timers here in the South favored facing their homes to the southern exposure for cooling/heating purposes. Without knowing this, we did this when we had the Queen moved to her new site.

I say "we" but it was my wife that oversaw this portion of the project. I asked her why she sited the house as she did, and she said, "I had a dream about it one night, so that is how I did it. It was close to the creek and seemed to catch the breeze. It seemed right."

And, it was.