Well, that was a mostly fruitless erranding run.

I'm rearranging the storage in the workroom, replacing cheap plastic drawers with storage shelves & boxes. I went to IKEA last week for the shelves, and swapped out one of the drawer stacks on Saturday. But that used up the last of the storage boxes that I had on hand. So I went out today, intending ( Read more... )

So some time around Thanksgiving, I deployed the heated birdbath because it was getting cold enough at night that ice was forming in the summer birdbath. The heated birdbath only sort of worked - ice formed in the birdbath on cold nights, but it didn't freeze solid, so I was able to just pull out the "ice pizzas". But that means that there's still ( Read more... )

Yanno, I haven't started the Christmas letter yet. I should do that if I'm going to get the cards in the mail by Orthodox Christmas (Jan 6).

Christmas was very quiet here. Mum sent us a gift basket of holiday breakfast (add buttermilk and breakfast meat of choice) and musical dominoes -- not the kind that make music (sigh), but the pips are musical ( Read more... )

Monday was FCB rehearsal. It was snowing as I drove home. 50mph on the freeway and 35mph on the rural roads. Took me over 90 minutes for a drive that usually takes 45. (OTOH, I stayed on the road, which was better than a few cars I saw.) When I went out in the AM, the rear wheel wells on the car were still *full* of snow, and the fronts were not ( Read more... )

Second jab was Wednesday. My arm hurt for a few hours, and the shoulder on that side was creaky most of Thursday, and a few sniffles (which could have been allergies) but other than that, nothing. Woo. Another couple of weeks, and I'll be as immune as possible. The Livingston band sent out a notice that we may be required to wear masks and have ( Read more... )

So I go for my second jab tomorrow, and J keeps telling me about all the people he knows who had reactions to it. sigh. I don't care. The way that other people's immune systems reacts to a vaccine has no effect on how mine does. I don't care, really I don't. (OK, I care in that people I know were made uncomfortable by their second jab, but it makes ( Read more... )

I mean, yes, it's April, but still. OTOH, it didn't accumulate, but there were some pretty intense flurries there for a while. We're currently under a break in the clouds and it's bright sun. With rain clouds looming off to the west, so I expect we'll get more precipitation today. The daffodils in the front garden were already fading, and the ( Read more... )

Bathroom is painted, although I had to go over quite a few areas. I threw that roller cover away - new paint needs new-style roller. I think the nap on the older roller covers is just too deep for the new-fangled really thick paint. There were lots of places where the new paint was just a mesh. And I had to go over almost all of the cut-in edges, ( Read more... )

It's not ugly yet - there's still enough snow cover that most of the dead brown grass is covered, and the snow piles in parking lots/along the road aren't just piles of sand & mud but that's coming soon. It was warm enough yesterday that I could walk outside (new boots worked pretty well, although they're now mud splattered). It might be warm ( Read more... )

Dinner went reasonably well. The cornbread was a fail, but due to cook's error, not old baking powder - I looked at the recipe, put everything in the bowl, mixed it up, plopped it in the pan and then said "wait, that's awfully dough-ish for cornbread". Double checked the recipe, and yep, I'd put in too much flour. sigh. So the crescent rolls were ( Read more... )