Losing my seed starting space

[Smart Red]

DH just announced that he and DS are planning to make my basement stairs (hey, it's only been 40 years) so the 'temporary' steps will be torn out. There goes my basement seed starting set-up!

I'll either have to find another way to start my seeds or bring everything up and hope to find a place to put it. Sigh!

Of course, I would never complain about getting the house further toward finishing, but. . . . .

DH and I built this place ourselves starting nearly 40 years ago. I consider it to be much like Johnny Cash's car - built one piece at a time. It seems that it is now time for the stairs.

Love, Smart Red

 

[Nyboy]

Maybe it will only take a few days, them you will have your basement back.

 

[journey11]

LOL, I get a kick out of that song.

I feel your pain. The warmest room in my house is my daughter's bedroom. When she was smaller, she had no complaints about me sticking my flats in there. But now that the little princess is almost 6, I don't think that will fly anymore!

Second warmest spot in the house is probably the dog's bed...

 

[Carol Dee]

LOL, sorry to laugh. But that sounds so much like the fixer upper we bought. The basement steps where SCARY and finally got replaced 30 years after moving in. When Grandchildren wanted to go the basement with Papa. No worry that I might fall! Hope the remodel go smoothly and quickly.

 

[Smart Red]

Maybe it will only take a few days, them you will have your basement back.

Yah, right!

The joke around here is "two weeks". DH can do anything in two weeks. When we gutted and re-habbed one house, the people waiting to move in kept asking how long it would be torn up. DH always considered what needed to be done and answered "two weeks". That was still his answer three years later when they asked as well.

Not so long after they moved into the nearly new old house (they later bought from us), we purchased another property. They stopped by with friends who needed a place to live. When the friends asked DH if they could have that new apartment, DH said he just wanted to redo the bathroom first. Of course they asked how long it would take. The first tenants laughed and answered "two weeks" before DH could get anything out.

I don't nag and I don't push - DH doesn't work well when pushed. Besides, spring may soon be here and DH will want to be outside working. I am tentatively figuring the current "two week" project will be finished in early May. . . or early May will arrive and DH will have only "two weeks" of work left.

Either way, I get a safer, easier stairway. Win-win!

"Sides, this man can do anything and everything. He is brilliant, capable, and fit. He is 75 years old.
I treasure every minute with him whether he's working on my stairs or watching re-runs. And that shows I really am Smart, huh?

Love, Smart Red

 

[MontyJ]

Good for you Red! If I lived close enough I would swing by and lend a hand.

 

[digitS']

My seed-starting starts on top the fridge. I will even work my way into the cabinets just above it. I have noticed that it isn't quite as warm up there as it was with our old, less energy-efficient fridge but, it is still about 70F, day and night.

Since you are in a basement, I suspect your seedlings are under lights, Linn.

I've got the south widow which I will use for the 1st week or so after the plants emerge. I used to have an 8' fluorescent fixture that I would lower from hooks in the ceiling on chains. That worked as a supplemental light, especially nice during cloudy weather. Then, this room and ceiling was remodeled! I hate the idea of putting hooks in this new ceiling :/!

See - remodeling isn't always the good idea you might have thought it would be . . .

Steve

 

[Mickey328]

Sounds like a real labor of love to me

We have a big, south facing picture window, and I had DH put up shelves in front of it...so far it's working rather well. Any option to do something like that till you get your steps back?

 

[baymule]

Maybe it will only take a few days, them you will have your basement back.

Yah, right!

The joke around here is "two weeks". DH can do anything in two weeks. When we gutted and re-habbed one house, the people waiting to move in kept asking how long it would be torn up. DH always considered what needed to be done and answered "two weeks". That was still his answer three years later when they asked as well.

Not so long after they moved into the nearly new old house (they later bought from us), we purchased another property. They stopped by with friends who needed a place to live. When the friends asked DH if they could have that new apartment, DH said he just wanted to redo the bathroom first. Of course they asked how long it would take. The first tenants laughed and answered "two weeks" before DH could get anything out.

I don't nag and I don't push - DH doesn't work well when pushed. Besides, spring may soon be here and DH will want to be outside working. I am tentatively figuring the current "two week" project will be finished in early May. . . or early May will arrive and DH will have only "two weeks" of work left.

Either way, I get a safer, easier stairway. Win-win!

"Sides, this man can do anything and everything. He is brilliant, capable, and fit. He is 75 years old.
I treasure every minute with him whether he's working on my stairs or watching re-runs. And that shows I really am Smart, huh?

Love, Smart Red

Yes, you are really smart! Sounds like your DH is really smart too for being married to you!

 

[Smart Red]

I am hoping DH and DS will carry everything upstairs for starting seeds. Then I can use either the garden shed (pretty cold in there) or the sun room (also cold this time of year). Both places are heavy on windows and with electricity I think I can keep small plastic covered spaces warm enough at night for germination.

Just realized that I'm losing my exercise space as well. Strange that all I could remember was the seeds, huh?

It's not just tear out the old steps and put in new ones. We have to hang dry wall and wait for all the drying time that takes before we can paint it. My two 'extra' rooms are taken by the youngest grandchildren. They stay over often enough to feel right at home in their own rooms. Not that I'd ever spoil MY grandbabies.

Love, Smart Red