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[learnedax]

Sometimes, of course, the light of day makes all the difference. When I went to unpack my pavilion into the cellar, it was dark, and I was tired, but I noticed that the lock on the cellar door had been taped over. Certainly, I could have removed the tape and stowed my items, but given certain peculiarities of this basement (concerns about mold in some regions; a general air of potentially blowing up at any moment) and the nature of our access to it (entirely unofficial), I didn't want to open it up if there was some purpose behind sealing it up.

I figured komos would know if there was any significant reason for it, but of course he's gone for the week and, this admittedly being rather unfortunate, I have no cell number for him. So I figured I'd track down which neighbors had taped the door up and see if there was in fact some dire reason for it.

This evening when I got home from work, I thought I'd just have a quick glance at it, in case there was some facet of the door which, improbable as it might seem, I had overlooked in the dark. I walked around back, and indeed, there it was, the shiny black door with the lock and handle covered in light, blue tape.

... so, yeah, I just put the pavilion in the basement.

Comments

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

Light blue tape sounds like painter's masking tape. Did they recently repaint the door, perhaps?

[learnedax.livejournal.com]

Just so. Some other nearby trim had also been painter's taped and painted a shiny new black.

[cat9.livejournal.com]

So, what you're saying is that you didn't notice the remains of Komos down there, right?

[learnedax.livejournal.com]

I did not. Of course, there are a lot of dark corners down there...

(Amontillado!)

[cat9.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm sure you would have seen traces...

(Nonsense! Surely you would have heard the chains.)

[matildalucet.livejournal.com]

Your pavilion was thoroughly dry? (Please excuse the paranoia. Patches of black caulk around the tub has sensitized me.)

[(Anonymous)]

Patches of black caulk are a bad idea. You should remove all your old caulk and replace it with a single shade of black caulk, all the way around. White caulk is a bad idea; it always looks mildewed. Black caulk *never* looks mildewed.

[jjaquinta.livejournal.com]

Ditto. I lost a pavilion once because it wasn't totally dry. I stowed it and didn't get back to it till the next weekend. End of pavilion. :-(

[bleemoo.livejournal.com]

Your basement is explosive?