stones, songs, sitting
Friday during the day we had a delivery of stones:
These will be very useful in building the earth cellar, we are thinking of turning a couple of the long ones into benches, and we are also considering them for the edges of the terraced garden that doesn't exist yet on the hill down to the field. We actually ordered them a few weeks ago. We had seen some old bricks for sale cheap on blocket, so we decided to buy them to fill in the back sides of the large stone rings we are using as interior cabinets in the earth cellar. But when we went there to pick them up they also had lots of cobblestones, so we bought some to finish our walkway, and they had several pallets of large stones, which we also bought, but couldn't take with us in the car. The seller said he could deliver, but it was necessary to wait for delivery till the dirt road we live upon had dried a bit more--in the spring it isn't permitted to drive vehicles on it which weigh more than 4 tons. I am looking forward to building with the stones now that they are here. That will have to wait till after we get his dad's tractor though--I don't care to try to move any of those stones without one. His dad still needs the tractor to do this year's wood splitting and to grade the (private) dirt road out to his house once more before we get the use of it for the summer.
Then in the evening we hosted the Aurora band at our house again. I continue to love playing music and singing with others; it is so fun! Since one of the girls in the band can't eat gluten I baked a gluten free apple crumble, using butter, oats, spices, and a hint of sugar for the topping. The kids ate all but one serving, so I guess it turned out well.
Late last night, when I needed lord_kjar to do something on my computer for me, he tried to sit down in my chair and in the process managed to bump into the improvised keyboard stand I had attached to my computer chair months ago, and the attachment point had... issues. Therefore this evening, after we got back from visiting his parent's house, where two of his brothers and their families were also visiting, we built a new, improved keyboard stand for my computer. It is ever so much nicer than the improvised stand had been. It used to be that it was necessary to put a pillow on my lap under the keyboard to keep it from wobbling too much, but now it is nice and stable as is, and I can type as fast as I want without it moving. This makes me happy:
And in other news, the moraharpa should arrive soon--we paid the import tax on Friday, so they should deliver it on Monday...
These will be very useful in building the earth cellar, we are thinking of turning a couple of the long ones into benches, and we are also considering them for the edges of the terraced garden that doesn't exist yet on the hill down to the field. We actually ordered them a few weeks ago. We had seen some old bricks for sale cheap on blocket, so we decided to buy them to fill in the back sides of the large stone rings we are using as interior cabinets in the earth cellar. But when we went there to pick them up they also had lots of cobblestones, so we bought some to finish our walkway, and they had several pallets of large stones, which we also bought, but couldn't take with us in the car. The seller said he could deliver, but it was necessary to wait for delivery till the dirt road we live upon had dried a bit more--in the spring it isn't permitted to drive vehicles on it which weigh more than 4 tons. I am looking forward to building with the stones now that they are here. That will have to wait till after we get his dad's tractor though--I don't care to try to move any of those stones without one. His dad still needs the tractor to do this year's wood splitting and to grade the (private) dirt road out to his house once more before we get the use of it for the summer.
Then in the evening we hosted the Aurora band at our house again. I continue to love playing music and singing with others; it is so fun! Since one of the girls in the band can't eat gluten I baked a gluten free apple crumble, using butter, oats, spices, and a hint of sugar for the topping. The kids ate all but one serving, so I guess it turned out well.
Late last night, when I needed lord_kjar to do something on my computer for me, he tried to sit down in my chair and in the process managed to bump into the improvised keyboard stand I had attached to my computer chair months ago, and the attachment point had... issues. Therefore this evening, after we got back from visiting his parent's house, where two of his brothers and their families were also visiting, we built a new, improved keyboard stand for my computer. It is ever so much nicer than the improvised stand had been. It used to be that it was necessary to put a pillow on my lap under the keyboard to keep it from wobbling too much, but now it is nice and stable as is, and I can type as fast as I want without it moving. This makes me happy:
And in other news, the moraharpa should arrive soon--we paid the import tax on Friday, so they should deliver it on Monday...