mereilin

Hrm. It becomes more and more complicated. Yet progress has been made. The toilet is in pieces in the basement; a rag has duly been stuffed into the waste stack. Most of the wax has been scraped away; the rest can wait until I'm ready to put in the new toilet.

First there is the floor to deal with.

It looks like there were once linoleum tiles glued to the wood flooring, long before the luaun and vinyl sheet extravaganza. The boards directly behind the toilet obviously spent a good deal of time being wet over the last *cough20cough* years or so. They're dry now, but they've shrunk a bit. I could cut them out and replace them with plywood but I think instead I'll use the filler I bought when we did the upstairs bathroom. Basically it's cement.

Nothing I could do will make the boards any better, so I might as well go the whole hog. Besides, cutting out and replacing that section of floor will involve nitpicky fitting around pipes that already look as if they shouldn't be knocked around too much more.

Also I don't have quite enough floor tiles to do the entire room. I'm about four short, and the pattern has been discontinued. So there's that to deal with.

But! I must deal with that later because I see I am late to pick up Danny at school. He is bringing home one of the class crayfish to keep as a pet. I hope we don't kill it.