Finally bringing our home together after 4
months – we moved in June 30th, but due to house repairs, unforeseen
circumstances, and crazy freak house incidents … we haven’t been able to start making
our home {o.u.r.h.o.m.e.} until this
morning. It feels good! And the house is starting to look good too ;-)
Two weeks ago the roof was finally put on,
thank God: just in the nic of time. We are not into our monsoon season yet, but
we have had a couple of rainy days; I’m just glad it finally got done before I
had to morph into Katharina; LOL! As soon as the roof was finished and the men
left, I got busy repotting my Geraniums – I had 2 very large/1 medium pots
hanging from the front porch overhang, but they were really too high for me to
reach comfortably and were getting uncomfortably heavy to lift and turn every
few weeks to keep them bushily balanced … so I upended them, repotted them into
smaller terra cotta pots (to be put in big bins and stored under the porch, protected
from the frost and snow during the Winter months), and used the large pots to
replant the divided chrysanthemums into: I bought 3 double planted
chrysanthemum plants at Wal*Mart and divided them, placing a half of each plant
(a yellow, purple & white) in each pot; they add a splash of color to the
curbside flowerbed area:
Chrysanthemum Pot ... 3 in one. Cut in half and repotted. These are perennial plants here, so they will need a bigger container next year.
Repotted Geraniums - taken out of big pots and put into smaller terra cotta pots.
Geranium overflow ... I LIKE Geraniums as you can see, and they will re-bloom and proliferate every Spring if left to dry and stored properly every Fall.
Last week the kitchen was finished and
appliances put in place, except for the refrigerator … which was put in 2 days
ago: just glad it is D.O.N.E! Actually the fellas really did a phenomenal job
and; the kitchen looks fantastic; I was just chomping at the bit because I want
to L.I.V.E.I.N. the house we bought in June
and feel like it is really our home instead of a construction site, and I
admit I was starting to get testy. There are boxes that have not even been
unpacked yet: now they can be ;-) And we are no longer {spring chickens} –
every day lost will forever stay lost at our age; there’s no recouping lost
time when you are 61 and 68 – you do not get a ‘chance to redo’ anything. But,
now the kitchen re-model is done-done and we can all go forward with our lives …
KITCHEN DONE!
MOD Fall Ivy basket.
Scarecrow Rug at Front Door.
I did lose my cool last night though – I did
not chew anybody out, and Hubs was not my surrogate focus of anger, but I did
reach the end of my rope and decided to stop waiting and start acting as far as
the in-house thermostat was concerned: I had made up my mind to call an
electrician and have him put the darned thing in … NO MATTER WHAT IT COST.
Seriously. For such ‘a small thing’, it had every single person on the job (the
thermostat was included in the house revamp contract and we were assured that
it would be in when the job was done) running from it as fast as they could,
passing it on to someone else, and making the cross sign like it was an evil
annoyance. Yesterday morning when we were assured that ‘it would be done before the end of the
day’, and we waited all day for it to be
put in yesterday and it wasn’t – well – let’s just say that was the ‘end of
the road’ as far as I was concerned. Hubs is a little more forgiving than I am,
but I do not suffer being lied to very well. I let it be known that I was upset:
rightfully and righteously so. I did it calmly, but I was very clear – and I
slept like a baby.
I do not apologize because the whole
runaround was ridiculous.
And the darned thing was finally put in and set
up this morning, which is good because the mornings are getting cooler:
THERMOSTAT IN – ((((YAY!!!!))))
After that was taken care of, I started
decorating; I don’t do a lot of decorating because because Hubs has never liked
this particular month … or the activities that go along with it, but I do like
a splash of Fall color in the house. I keep every décor detail neutrally FALL
THEMED such as colorful leaves, scarecrows (because
I am a farmer at heart and scarecrows are a farmer’s friend), pumpkins (2 months of décor for the price of 1 on
this item; LOL), bats, corn cobs (these
are in one of the unpacked boxes and will probably not get used this year),
Fall flowers, ect. Basically anything having to do with Harvest. This year the
decorating is slim because everything has been hectic around here. But these
things I did manage to get up …
Kitchen Scarecrow.
MOD Fall Cornucopia – kitchen
MOD Very low-key Fall mantle decor.
Back door rug.
MOD re-worked back door Fall Wreath.
In the midst of working on the door wreath,
the new washer and dryer arrived as well as the Satellite TV technician: it’s
been a BUSY DAY here today, but I am not complaining; I am rejoicing. Most of
this house had to be rebuilt and reworked and the fellas actually DID get
everything done pretty quick, even with the complications and rising tensions incurred:
for all intents and purposes our home is now a NEW HOUSE, and from today
forward, we can really rest and be at peace knowing our Winter hibernation
period will be calm and relaxing:
Last week the old washer and dryer started going off skid ... so we bought new ones - the new ones arrived today.
I was reading my easy-read Jesus People Bible
this morning and noticed that it is getting rather ragged. I am sorry to see
that. This Bible has seen a LOT of usage, and it is pretty old; I got it when I
was 14 years old, at the Rose Festival Parade in Oregon – a group of Jesus
People hippies were walking among the people and handing them out. I really enjoy
reading it because it is written in plain everyday talk and very handy to use
when witnessing to people who have not been raised in church – and/or are not familiar
with the King James Bible or Biblical understanding; this Jesus People Bible of
mine is easy to read and easy to understand because the wording is easy even
though it is comparable to the King James Bible in every other way …
Oh No!! My Jesus People Bible is falling apart at the seams after 47 years ...
Well, that’s all there is to share tonight.
I’m going to put my laptop away now and work
on some projects I found over on Annemarie's Haakblog’s Blog; my little grandson would enjoy these ;-)
ROBOT AMIGURUMI
SPIDERMAN AMIGURUMI
