Safe travels Julia & Fiss! Best wishes NWDuck on the surgery!

Good luck with the surgery, Duckie! Everyone I know who’s had it done is delighted with the vision improvement. Bon voyage, Julia!

We’ve been wetter this winter, and not cold. We noticed yesterday that the stream that fills our pond is overflowing in an area we’ve never seen before. We’ll never flood from that, because of the way the stream continues down hill. We just have to watch the rising water table that could activate the sump pump.

I put a little Backdrop sample by the couch in the darkest corner and on the inside of the doorway facing the kitchen. I think it does the right amount of complementing the hex rug color and the tan and gold parts of the CB rug. I’m waiting for my painting jeans to dry then I will go get a gallon.

I've been wearing the same pair of jeans and the same old worn out Tneck almost every day for a month now. I do wash them every other day or so... LOL

I do love that color with the hex rug.

I do too. :) It took literally years to figure out what exactly that rug needs... My mom had it in our DR with grasscloth wallpaper which was a really pretty blend of natural colors--kinda wheat and kind of gray; but here, it has never been easy to figure it out what would work with it. The hex tiles were the first clue, I think.

I am down in the dungeon this morning. He needs more trim pieces for windows. Maybe this afternoon, I can go get my gallon?

I bought two euro pillows for my bed a while back and had been looking for some covers for them since. I found some on the rainforest site and ordered them. So yesterday, I was playing with all the pillows on the bed, trying to get the look I wanted. When he went to take his shower last night, he comes back out and says what is with all the pillows! I said I was just playing with some ideas. They are not all staying on the bed. So, LOLOL, I go to bed last night and my side of the bed had all the pillows neatly stacked and placed. Sheesh! 🙄

That color looks good :)

Mama, I am the pillow patrol person in our home too ;))

Thinking about you, duckie! Hope all went well.

After today, it's just 5 more windows upstairs, then 6 in the downstairs (not including the workroom or his office, which already has white trim--go figure) then we should be done with window trim. At the current rate of knocking out two windows per day, we'll be done with this phase in a week. Then, maybe I can get him to help me w that crown molding... LOL

I am on standby right now to help hold the pieces for the bay window in the kitchen, and the dining room pieces. He's almost ready to put those all up now.

Check in when you can, Duckie. Hope all went well.

Safe travels and fun adventures, Fiss and Julia!

Rred, I can’t believe you’re that far along already. Good job!

Best wishes for your surgery… NW...I am right on the edge of having to get that done myself. I’ll be interested to hear how you find it all.

Each window presents a unique set of wonkiness to work through... The DR window header and sill were bowing inward from the top and upward from the bottom... the kitchen bay window has some cobbled together stuff at the corners that he's chipping away at (literally) and of course, all those 15º angles in the bottom part. The Nook windows weren't set at the same height as the door or each other. Some of these we can fix, or at least reduce the visual discrepancies, and some are just gonna have to get extra caulking. LOL

I just painted behind the supermassiveblackhole... so the kitchen is officially painted. That was tight quarters. I couldn't see either, so it's prob the worst painting I've ever done... oh well. Nobody sees it.

Wow! Can you believe how much of your “ to do “ list has been accomplished?! Amazing!

LOL Glassy. But there is so much more on our list... :) When he fixed the floor by the fireplace so we could finally have trim down there, he mumbled, "Well, there is a 6 year old monkey off my back!" He's just as anxious to do some of this stuff as I am.

This house is def a "fixer upper"... We started with some of the must-do's... the front entry patio, the fireplace, the gutters, the plumbing issues, reconfiguring the kitchen appliances/layout, all the flooring, the rotten deck, light fixtures, the new AC unit... but finally, we are getting to some of the "wanna-do's" like trim and paint and maybe even the fugly bathrooms? Someday we'll have to mud-jack up the drive way, too. That will not be fun.

Looking forward to seeing the pictures of the final paint job. I really like the colours that you’ve chosen. Now what I need is to have somebody light a fire under me to finish up the bathroom and the bedroom here at my house… Ha ha ha. The three footer and my OS came out today; it was a gorgeous beautiful day... don’t get me wrong it’s still February in Nova Scotia.

And exterior work. The soffit and garage doors need paint badly too. Gonna hire that out. LOL

Ugh. Then there is that terrible greenhouse thing to tear down. I don't wanna even think about that yet.

I survived the Magical Mystery Tour! When I got there they gave me a Valium. Then I got an IV of I Don"t Really Care juice. I laid down on the table, they gave me a warm blankie and put a sheet thing on my no-makeup face (a ghastly thing for me, LOL). After that I saw a lot of bright multi colored lights. And it was over.

I am sporting a clear plastic eye shield, so putting my glasses on so I can see out of my non-operated eye is a real trick. I just looked at my "new" eye. It is still dilated so much you can barely see my eye color. 8 hours later.

Post op check tomorrow morning, and I can take the shield off except for when I'm sleeping. Have to tape it to my face at night for a week. What with that and my CPAP machine I will be a vision. HAHAHA

I didn't get to go buy the nook paint today. He needed me to make more trim boards for windows, then I hung around to help w window trim and painted the fridge cave. It's looking so nice on the kitchen bay window! He hasn't caulked it yet but I am gonna have a happy view in the morning w my coffee!

Yeah, Duckie, glad you came thru. Vision and sense of humor intact. Rred, you have way more energy than I do!

Yay Duckie. You made it through.

Congrats, Duckie! Just consider yourself the bionic woman. 👁

Thanks for checking in duckie! Hope you have a good follow up tomorrow!

So happy for your happy view with tomorrow’s morning coffee!

Now that we should be heading into boring weekends, I need to light the fire under hubby’s butt to get back on track with my laundry cabinet counters. Maybe I’ll buy some paint for that wall and get moving on it? Since OS and DIL have their own laundry appliances, I’ll have the weekends free to move my own appliances around and paint.

Be religious about those eye drops Duckie! I remember having to help my mom with those. She had a hard time with her aim. LOL I am glad you made it through.

Is it wrong that this makes me insanely happy? My fave color scheme has always been khaki, black and white w a lot of wood tones mixed in.

Oh my gosh, Rred! It looks so different and BETTER! Wow!

Happy dance!

Maybe tomorrow he'll tear out the kitchen sink window trim? That is gonna be a frickin' nightmare to do. But then the kitchen parts will be "DONE!"

Gorgeous!!

Stunning, wish I could do that!

I hate to think how much this would cost me at the going trim carpenters' rates. LOL I am very lucky indeed to have married a guy who likes putzing around with a saw and a nail gun.

He has paid himself. I found out yesterday that he has a new guitar coming. And here I am stressing about washing and reusing the plastic disposable painting pans and the roller heads too...

That looks great, rred! So you.

Happy new eyes to you, duckie. Those eye shields are a real nuisance. I hope they prescribed a few sleeping pills for you.

LOL His buddy in the music group put one of their songs into some program that writes out the parts in music notation. So he sent Otherhalf the files (it's a 7 page long thing, so far...)... Otherhalf got a text this morning, and a giddy boyish grin on his face. He showed the texts to me. I can read music, but I asked anyway, "So is this that song that goes "da da da da, da, da da da da, da, da da da da da DAHHH dahhh (repeat, etc)?" (it's only 4 different notes) and he goes, "Yeah." I looked at the music on the PDF on his phone. It has a name! That song, that I listen to variations of every blessed week these days, has a name!! I always just call it that song that goes "da da da da, da, da da da da, da, da da da da da DAHHH dahhh (repeat etc)"... I don't really like that song very much. Can you tell?

It's called "We are the Asteroids." LOLOLOLOLOLOL

That was my laugh du jour.

Those guys are hilarious.

Otherhalf and the writer of We are the Asteroids (omg what a silly name!) are the two guys who read music, know music theory and all that. The drummer and the other guitar/keyboard player are by-ear players, very talented, but won't look at the "music" that is written out on the PDFs.

So Otherhalf suggested that they include in the "music" a line for both of them that says:

"[[: Improvisation FORTÉ :]] "

Maybe next time they're here, I'll lurk around the music and YouTube record it for ya. It's not that bad a song, but the intro drives me insane. da da da da, da, da da da da, da, da da da da da DAHHH dahhh... UGH It's a terrible earworm.

It's all good. I got back at him today. While painting in the kitchen, I turned on the sappy radio station and sang along with Elton John and Kiki Dee's great duet, "Don't Go Breakin' My Heart." Then, Lionel Ritchie came on! And Chicago! And Linda Ronstadt!

There is just no better way to chase him back downstairs... LOL

LOLOL!!

One of the songs that came on that station yesterday totally cracked me up. It was Hanson. "I Swear!" I haven't heard that song since DD was in middle school. It had special meaning to her once upon a time (gag!) but what was funny was that I knew all the words, and sang along-- I totally remembered every line, every vocal diarrhea note bending. (He calls it that when singers do that Whitney Houston thing...) I guess I was forced to listen to a lot of pop pablum back when I had preteens in da house. LOL

This is a station that still, proudly, plays MJ's "Man in the Mirror." Somehow, I knew all the words to that one too. LOLOL

I got to listen to Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Soundgarden. Not exactly sing along tunes.

LOL That would've been more up my alley. My daughter opened my mind to pop and dance music, I suppose.

My son was into AC/DC and Jock Jams and sports anthems when he was little. Then it was rap (c rap) and then guitar shredders (Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page)... Then, he got into jam bands (Dave Mathews) and electronica, way before it was cool.

I forced my kids to listen to my music growing up. They both know who the Eagles are. And Steely Dan. And James Taylor and Paul Simon and The Talking Heads... LOL

And we all agreed on Weird Al. LOL

Radio Disney, “We’re all ears”....lots of Weird Al and Britney Spears....kids were 7 and 11 when we left SoCal. By then we had CD players in the cars, and it was Harry Potter read by Jim Dale. Much better.