Summer headcolds and windows

Was at the antique flea market with friends on Sunday and on the way home my throat started feeling scratchy. I was hoping it was just from talking to much and too loud in the car there and back. But no....a summer cold. :-( Oh well, it isn't as bad as the winter ones. I think maybe I didn't fight it off because all the smoke here recently has made us more susceptible.

So I am sitting here feeling really blah and trying to decide what to do today. I would sit and read, but I don't currently have something riveting. I read T is for Trespass so fast I didn't even have time to list it on the blog reading list! A friend got it (hard cover) for $0.50 at a thrift store and I am now ready to pass on the good fortune. I worked on windows yesterday, and I will probably do some of that today, too, but with this head cold I don't really feel like it. Knitting with a foggy head is probably not a good idea either.

Here are pictures of the latest episode of the window project. We took out our first double hung sash window. (The other one is a casement window that just has hinges.). It was really interesting. Also a little scary since you have to pry off the "stops" that are on the inside of the window molding. I always thought this was all one piece, but there is molding they put the window in and then they nail a piece in front of the window to hold it in. When painted it looks like all one piece to me!

Once it was out, I took of the cover of the pockets to see the sash weights. The windows are tied to a cord that has weights at the end and the cords go over pulleys. That is how the windows raise and lower. Very interesting! I had read in the window book, but until I actually took one apart, it was not totally clear to me how they worked.The cords are in good shape so I don't think I will mess with them on this window. Here are two pictures of the weight in the pocket (inside the wall next to the window). In the second picture you can see the plaster that the wall is made of squishing through the lathe.


The bathroom windows are some of the few windows in the house that look to have more than one coat of paint. There is a layer of pinkish purple under the beige and then a layer of green under that. I think I will paint the window sashes and molding purple again when I repaint the bathroom. I am so amazed at the color that was used in the thirties. People think it is new and trendy to use strong color, but I guess that is not so!