Wednesday (right?) with clearance and whiffle balls

[aldersprig]

The former owners of our house were, we're beginning to believe, very short people. Very. Short. We are *cough* not.

The ceilings in many places in the house are at about 6'8" (2.03 meters). T. is about 6'4" tall (1.93 meters).

We have spent a fair amount of time measuring things like light fixtures and doorways for T-head-clearance (and a few things for the rather shorter Lyn-head-clearance. It's surreal.

More surreal? Generally, there's maybe 6" between the floor of the upstairs and the ceiling of the downstairs. Maybe a foot.

There's 30 inches. 30 inches (0.762 meters) between the living room floor and the floor of the finished attic above. Yes, we will be (not this year) raising the ceilings, at least a foot (still not Chandelier heights).

This house has a lot of what-were-they-thinking. Today's (via gchat):

T:...in here with me my moist and the cat
who thinks I look / smell funny
as I am moisted [[It's been pouring for three days]]
whiffle ball removed from downspout on house
gutters work much better now
me: whiffle ball?
T: tho the whiffle ball did strain the leaves nicely
which clogged its little holes
yes
a
whiffle
ball
for
Fs
sake
me: ducks
where?
T: gutter over front door

So, yes. There was a whiffle ball in our gutters. O_O


Links of the day: lilfluff introduced me to this lovely short story, and although I'm not a huge organic-textiles place, I like this one.

Comments

[meridian_rose]

LOL, I'd have no problems with your house, being 5'2"; my sister, just a shade shorter wouldn't either but her husband, just under 6'2" would. He'd probably spend your planned year before doing the ceilings banging his head on doorframes and things whenever he was half-asleep :P

Thanks for the rec. Great short story, with a well defined background that suggested more stories to come - maybe even a novel extrapolated from this scene.

[aldersprig]

There's only one doorframe T. can hit his head on.

It's actually the short story, I'm told, from which several novels have been extrapolated. :-)