I've been in the loft all morning. It's snowing quite hard and steadily. I've been handfeeding the chickadees. A downy woodpecker landed in my hand again! I saw him on a nearby tree and put the seeds in my hand to tempt him. Sure enough ( Read more... )

Successfully have patched up the siding around one of the windows. However, now I need to seal the edges so the rain can't get in. I guess that's a job for caulking. Perhaps the rain will hold off tomorrow. I have a bit more tweaking to do to it all, too, but it is in much better nearly finished state outside now! Sigh ( Read more... )

We are a two car family again! Yippee! We went to town and picked up Willem's car from M who drove Ginny to the airport ( Read more... )

Mike the electrician wired the oven and the kiln. He also fixed the GFI box on the end of the house. He'll fix the one beside it when he comes back next time, after a week ( Read more... )

I was hiding from all the work that needed to be done by Monday on the upstairs bathroom, mudding and painting so the vanity could go in, when Ginny and Matt came over. Matt agreed to work on the upstairs bathroom drywalling. Bless his heart ( Read more... )

I had just called Karen the adjustor and was trying to stress my point about the fault being the restoration company. Ginny and I were waiting at the spa for her to get her eyelashes dyed. I looked through the brochure and for $25 I could have a foot soak and massage. How lovely that sounded ( Read more... )

Ginny and I picked up Lida for her baby appointment. She's three days overdue now, sure she's going to be pregnant forever ( Read more... )

Ginny and I went out to eat in a lovely European type restaurant. I had smashed potatoes with marinated artichoke hearts on top (a pizza topping), and nachos. Ginny had a fruit cheese platter. Matt had joined us later in the evening ( Read more... )

Thursday, 4pm

Ginny had an appointment to get her hair dyed back to her usual colour. I went along with her just to be company for her. While there, I was able to get my hair cut. It looks much better now, I think, well, perhaps. She did a point cut instead of straight cutting. I like the straight cutting better. It was nice to have a shampoo

Today has been a more normal day...well, sortof. I got up at 6:30, fed the deer and went back to bed. The electrician came around 8, but not until I'd sat on our bed and watched a deer come down the hill to the west, cross our steep road, walk behind Basketry Harvest tipi and up behind Corner Cedar with its tree bench. How cool to be able to see ( Read more... )