Mugs
I have a confession to make. Lately I’ve been dealing with a mug obsession. These were all made by by my daughter Megan and I should be satisfied with what I have but no, I want more. Every morning, I have my coffee in a different one.
I have a confession to make. Lately I’ve been dealing with a mug obsession. These were all made by by my daughter Megan and I should be satisfied with what I have but no, I want more. Every morning, I have my coffee in a different one.
Just when I thought we were making some progress around here…
Remember that pipe project from a couple weeks ago? This was the next step. The river stones help to deter erosion and protect the banks of the creek. We did hire someone to lay down the stone, but the problem was that the stone was laid flat without being scooped out for the flow of the creek.
I can’t shovel stones anymore because I am afraid I’ll reinjure my back, but I can sit down on the ground and throw stones, in order to create a channel for the water to flow, and that is just what I did! The creek on both sides of the driveway was covered with the river stones. I am so glad this project has come to an end.
In an attempt to be more energy efficient, we insulated our kitchen and replaced the old drafty windows. In past years, our kitchen was always the coldest room of the house .
So, I decided that new windows deserved new curtains. I found these on the internet, and they were not very expensive. The long panels were $12 a piece and the two valances over the sink were $6 a piece. By the way, Rikki approves!
Remember that picture of me, sitting on top of that big blue pipe? It’s part of the “Save our driveway from crumbling and falling into the creek” project. This first picture shows the huge gap between the driveway and a cement barrier. I always had to worry that in winter, someone’s car could slip off our icy driveway and land nose down in our creek. Scary.
The first step was to cut that massive pipe in half, create a bed of stone in the creek, place the pipe in position down in the creek, and then reattach it, and connect it to the existing concrete pipe.
The next step involved spreading twelve tons of 3/4 inch stone on top of the pipe. And finally, tons of dirt.
Next, we planted several vinca vine plants. We needed to get plantings in there so that the roots will help prevent rain from washing all our new top soil into the creek. That red X is where the gap from the first picture used to be.
The last step was to plant grass seed in front of the vinca vine. Hopefully it will look grassy next spring. Thursday, the guys that did all this hard work are coming back to work on the other side of the driveway. I know these pictures are small, but they will all get bigger if you click on them.
I apologize for being gone so long. The medicine I was given for my pinched nerve made me really tired and now that I am off of it and taking Aleve, I have been playing catch up with all the stuff that I didn’t get around to doing last month. The other thing I have noticed is that my stamina has really taken a dive !
This is a picture of our breezeway, which we had sided, along with the rest of the house. I didn’t want to drill any holes in the siding to put up the pictures, so I went on the internet to look for advice. I bookmarked a site for Chris to look at that had siding hooks & My clever husband took a look at the pictures, then went into the garage and made his own version.
This room is the next best thing to going out doors for Rikki. I know I normally like to match the music to my posts but I just can’t get this pretty song out of my head. The modern class last evening was dancing to it, while I was at work.
H ere is proof that progress has been made on the mess of downed trees in our yard. One log rack down, many more to go!
I think we have plenty of trees left that are still standing. This is the view of the front yard from the upstairs bay window.
As you can see, we are making progress with the siding, too.
I have to hand it to the guys that are siding our house. They worked in the rain the first week, and they worked on without electricity the second week. They are doing a great job and it’s been fun to watch the house transform, right before my eyes.
The Back of our house is all finished. We still need to clean up the mess from the trees.
This is the chipper that my sister-in-law Becky dropped off at our house to help us with the clean up from the tree cutting and the wind storm.
This is just one of many piles that will give that chipper a good work out
Here is another pile of mess. I think there might be a lot of home made mulch in my future!
We are getting ready to have our house sided and have discovered that the kitchen and laundry room had absolutely NO insulation. No wonder that part of the house was always so cold in winter! So Chris has been cutting holes into the existing siding to feed in strips of insulation. This wasp’s nest was quite a surprise. Just look at the size of it. Thank goodness it was not active!