And lots of joy to you and yours, however you celebrate this time of year!

Mom hit the roof this afternoon, after searching for the miter box for two days. I think if Chuck had been close by she'd have done her level best to hurt him. There are so many things she hasn't been able to find since he came to 'help', I'm kind of afraid for her blood pressure. She's taking a nap right now ( Read more... )

For the first time in years, Mom and I have done a quiet Thanksgiving at home with turkey and all the trimmings. For about the past five years we've either blown it off entirely or gone over to my sister's and mooched off her. I've really enjoyed it. The dogs are lying around stuffed to the gills with turkey, and so are Mom and I. It's been a ( Read more... )

Finished another wall this morning. At this rate I'll be done in a couple of years, just in time to start over. Anyway, it was a beautiful day here, and I was happy to be outside in it for a while ( Read more... )

I finished up the kitchen wall of the front of the house; this is the wall that faces west and gets all the weather. It was in the worst shape. I'm going to have to go over the molding around the windows again as the paint wasn't quite thick enough to hide the gray of the weathered wood ( Read more... )

Since Tuesday, I have gotten my mom's new dryer installed, gotten an electrician into her house to put the 220 line back together so we could plug in the new dryer, had the diswasher hooked up, reported for jury duty and tap danced my way out of it (working in another part of the state) gotten new carpet laid in my mom's living room, and scraped ( Read more... )

I'm changing some of my entries to friends-only because of the family stuff I've been discussing.  If you don't see today's entry and you're one of my friends who isn't on Livejournal, please drop me a line at my email and I'll either send you the entry or explain how you can friend me on Livejournal.

Otherwise, back to this darn embroidery.

I've spent the morning pulling staples out of my mom's living room floor so we could seal it before the new carpet is put down, and I just realized that when I picked up the sealer this morning, I forgot to pick up putty to seal the cracks we've got in spots.  So, back I must go to Home Depot, to pick up a sizable tub of the stuff.  And a putty ( Read more... )

I've been working away on the embroidery on the Elizabethan cap I've been working on, and now that I've sat down and forced myself to work on it for more than an hour I'm finally starting to get into the zen of it.  The simple pattern helps; I've managed to get the lengths of thread down to enough for a repeat, and reloading the needle doesn't ( Read more... )

They've cut off our access to Livejournal at work (they want us to work. Imagine that.) so expect to see a bit less of me here.  I don't sign on a lot from home as I've got too many other things to do here ( Read more... )