Now I know why the evil fairie guarded a very vulnerable sleeping beauty with a thicket of thorns.
Because…
…even if the mighty hero successfully hacks his way through the thicket with his trusty sword (aka The Weed Hacker)…
…he’d be too tired to take on the Guard Dragon.
Yesterday – this happened.
Not a TRUE before picture – the ceiling faux-tray is already in place, the popcorn is gone, etc…but at least you get an inkling of the Sun King Gold shiny paint.
THE Mermaid painted all walls, and ceiling, including cutting in trim all day yesterday…twice.
I put up trim in the entry hallway, much less impressive to see in a photo.
Today…blackberries.
Yesterday – LaGrande and I took a twelve mile ride – her first on my original Silvio. She handled it quite well – all on the flats.
Still some swerving and loss of concentration but she is relaxing into it and managed to increase her peak speed three times during the ride – all on the flats.
First 17mph was her goal; done.
Then 19mph was her goal – she hit 20.
Then the last part segment of the day she was shooting for over 20 – she hit 22.
Beyond that her average speed was around 13mph.
a favorite quote
I like the wind on my face! I can see why you like this!
Then, today, I took it upon myself to thin the herd in the front of the house.
Removed a lot of the juniper and other evergreens that were choking out their neighbors.
Essentially – we’re setting the stage for enabling some of the nicer ornamentals to fill out.
I’m exceedingly itchy tonight.
Now I rule you too
Natural habitat.
I mentioned earlier, a facelift – all three bedrooms are completed and the popcorn is gone from all but a few closets.
Aside from our weekend christmas present to see Mickey Mouse, pretty much all my free time has been consumed with getting the house setup to be here a while, and to host parties, and to have good wifi, and lights, and sinks, and – let’s not get ahead of ourselves.
With a sick WeeOne I now find some free time of an Easter morning.
I’ll post some pictures to whet the appetite and document progress.
First I’ll show an empty, finished product, of LaGrande’s room.
With the little fan – it’s got a bit of east coast beach house goin’ on.
The master bedroom had two, oddly solitary, coffers. (difficult to see here with all the lathe on the joists)
So I though it would be a small matter to install two more coffers and then to cover the popcorn with bead-board.
After a false start using sheets of bead-board – heavy and ungainly as they were – I could tell it would come together nicely with 3′ 1/2″ strips.
Then the trim, oh the trim! About 230 lineal feet of that corner bead.
And the final color of wall paint…
…and it’s move-in ready now – as soon as my hands recover from tearing out all this freakin’ ivy!
getting the kitchen floor re-finished in prep for listing this week – cutting it a bit close for comfort (at least most people’s comfort) but THIS is pretty fantastic looking by any measure.
The bottom half of the picture below shows sanded-unfinished while the top half shows one fresh coat applied. Today coats 2 and 3 go on. No color added, letting the natural maple of these floors (from an old gym somewhere) show through. Cool.
Gonna be walking on tippy toes in socks for a couple weeks before the newness wears off.
Ginny Weasley, Zombie Prom Queen, Peter Pan, and Rocky Balboa
So, Halloween, at my office is the biggest deal of the year.
’nuff said
Canoli’s? What’s a canoli?
It’s candles honey, it says candles.
…
Then why didn’t you just write candles?
Hair? – Check
Jacket? – Check
Jeans? – Check
Bike? – Check
Weight? – well…almost – call it a check. Check
Grey beard? – wai…WTH!
Sore knees? – heyyy!!
Damn-near teenaged kid?! – oh sweet mother of…
Good luck McFly.
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