New Year’s 2024 Island Trip – Day 6
Today was much lighter-weight from a task point of view, at least on paper. A bunch of things got done, including: Touch up painting in the dining area where the track lighting used to be. Cleaned the brush after only two soakings. We need a mess of throw-away brushes for paint jobs like this! Caulking […]
New Year’s 2024 Island Trip – Day 5
In no particular order I: Removed the brick from the truck and placed it along the top of her slope. Stella’s garden will have the most eclectic edging of any garden I’ve put my hand to! Took the shop vac to the pump room and removed all (visible) trace of the former rat that I […]
Shelf – II
A picture is worth a thousand words, so I will write less, and post pics 😏. My DH and I deftly, carefully maneuvered the behemoth into my study, maneuvered it upright without thwacking any lights (and taking advantage of the skylight recess). I am thrilled to have my mama’s bookcase in my office space. It […]
New Year’s 2024 Island Trip – Day 4
We didn’t do a whole lot before leaving for some lunch in town prior to my DH catching two ferries. More on that… It was (and still is) raining to the point where I was kinda offended. A lot of what I wanted to do was outside and/or involved ladders. You will never find me […]
New Year’s 2024 Island Trip – Day 3
Well, we did stay up to see in the New Year, promptly went to bed, and, you guessed it, slept in again 😂. Leftover prawns and Parmesan omelets fueled us up for another day of getting things done. Our AN and his treasure of a wife stopped over for a visit before we launched into […]
New Year’s 2024 Island Trip – Day 2
As is our usual pattern when entertaining, we stayed up very late after our friend left, and then slept in equally late 😂. Tho not feeling urgent about accomplishing lots of things, we did, with many ThankX to my DH (the patient one) for swapping out both the exterior ‘prison yard’ light at the east […]
New Year’s 2024 Island Trip – Day 1
We had an easy trip up. My DH dropped his car at the mainland ferry parking and joined me in the truck for the ride over. The afternoon was easy, yet we got some good stuff done! We emptied the drier shed of all our belongings except for a vise, which my DH will remove […]
Shelf – I
One of the gifts our son-in-laws gave us was to help my DH move mom’s oak book case from the garage into the studio. Today we took the shrink wrap off the shelf, replaced the floor protectors (all 8 of them), micro-remove, probably, four decades of spider webbing from the bottom and back of the […]
And it’s a Wrap!
Well, almost… The prep for Christmas will be finished after wrapping two more little things for the littlest ones, and bottling this year’s cordial! The cordial is absolutely wonderful. Without getting too purple in my prose… Its sweetness is perfectly tempered by the forward flavors of clove and cinnamon that linger, along with the plum, […]
MIL’s Birthday!
Late this morning we picked up my step-daughter, fetched my MIL, and had a delightful lunch at a historic pub on the island my MIL lives on. Fortunately, her island is accessible by a bridge 😏. MIL opened and enjoyed her gifts, which included an abundance of chocolate (a fav), some really nice coffee, and […]
