[CherylNYC]

More than nine months after Hurricane Sandy I'm still fighting sporadic mold in unexpected places. My ground floor sculpture studio is almost a work space again since I finally emptied the huge, expensive storage unit and re-filled the studio with my salvaged, not ruined tools and materials while I was supposed to be recovering from major surgery.

Mold had invaded the upstairs kitchen sink. It got under the loosened formica, and no amount of bleach seemed to keep it down. Now that I have tools and materials again, I finally unhooked the sink today, (I missed my pipe wrenches!), took off the unbelievably rotten counter top which crumbled to pieces in my hands sending moldy pressboard everywhere, and replaced it with a temporary piece of plywood which I had cut to size. (I so missed my circular saw and my jig saw!) I re-wrapped the fittings with teflon tape, (I really missed my file cabinets full of, well, everything I need to make and build stuff, including teflon tape!), tightened everything, and I have NO LEAKS! Yay for me. That was accomplished after my doctor's appointment and after getting myself out to New Jersey to pick up a motorcycle.

Kitchen reno this winter, I think.