"Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse." - Groucho Marx

I posted this on Facebook this morning, but I don't think anybody understood. 

Any musicians among you?

This cold crept up on me and grabbed me by the throat. I went back to bed after b'fast and slept for another hour and skipped the gym this afternoon. (Yes, I feel guilty.) In between I did computer work and a little putzing on projects in Fred and Barnette. It rained almost all day, sometimes quite hard, so everything had to be an inside job.

I'm emptying Fred of all the stuff I've stored in there so it's ready for painting with Kilz, then insulation and electric. Here's a pic of a portion of the back wall. The black is mold from the moisture that got inside the wall before they replaced the roof. That's why I sprayed it with bleach and will paint it with Kilz.
The problem is the horizontal 2x4's, some of which you can see here. The top surface of many of them is as wet as when I pulled off the paneling and insulation two months ago. Part of that is because I didn't have the windows in, but even now the humidity is so high from all the rain that I'm wondering how long it will take to dry out.  Will they ever? I certainly don't want to put insulation in wet cavities.
If you're wondering about the rectangle, someone planned on putting in a 4'w x 3'h window, framed the opening, and then went no further. Yeah, they did it incorrectly, but it doesn't really matter because they quit before cutting it open.
I think I have to get the Sawsall and go to work. I'll cut out all the horizontal pieces and replace them, and that will have to include the two 4' pieces used to frame in the window. That means the wall will be weakened until I get new framing in place. I should be OK so long as no wolves come along to huff, and to puff, and to blow my Fred down.

Am I the only one who thinks Rep. Paul Ryan should be more than House Majority Leader?
And that Jeb Bush's days as a candidate are numbered?
And that things have gone beyond crazy when Tea Party faves like Rubio and Haley are seen as too mainstream?

This is fun.

Months ago our local PBS station in AZ broadcast the BBC production of Poldark. We got hooked and said "What??" out loud when the last episode aired with all kinds of plot lines unresolved. I did some searching and discovered the TV drama comes from the first in a series of 12 novels written by the British author Winston Graham (b. 1908, d. 2003). The series starts in England right after the war with the colonies and follows the life of Ross Poldark and his descendants. This BBC series was their dramatization of the first novel.
Pam ordered a set of three paperbacks of about 500 pages each, with one novel in each book. I've just about finished the first book and am impressed with how closely the BBC production followed the storyline. There's word that they'll do a production of the next book in the series, but I haven't seen any specifics.
Anyway, if you're looking for a good historical novel(s) I recommend the Poldark series. The first book is titled, Ross Poldark and is published by Pan Books. It is to life in England in the late 18th century what the Master Commander (Aubri-Maturin) series is to British sailing.