Just when you thought it was spring

Yesterday, I saw a few flakes start in the afternoon. It was cold enough and the skies looked like snow, but I didn’t really think it would stick! Surely, it would warm up and melt!

Last night as I lumbered to bed, I peeked out of the window and there it was…a nice covering on the ground and a blizzard in the air. I turned the blanket up and notch and tried to ignore it.

I have been in bed with a flu/cold that Peyton shared with me. Why do kids get through it in a few days and it leaves us oldsters struggling for 2 weeks to get rid of it. I ran the fevers, had the chills and aches and my head is throbbing from sinus. The cough…the incredible cough! I have hacked and hacked until I sound like Broderick Crawford.

Mike has gone to Lynnwood to visit Sallie for a few days and I opted out. I am staying home, in bed and drinking lots of liquids.

The hole is done!

After weeks of working on the wall in the kitchen, I think it is done! Lessons I have learned? Make note…do NOT build a whole house with husband. One of us would have ended up in the cement foundation of the house!

Besides the obvious, Man vs Woman, Mike is left handed and I am right. We really see things differently. He starts painting a wall from one side and I start from the other end. It always seems “wrong”…but I remind myself, it is different.

Mike is into everything pefectly level and square. I figure, life is too short. Close enough is good enough. He measures and measures, looks, thinks, stews and draws pictures. I just want to “do it.” Measuring is for sissy’s!! So, you can easily see, any projects we do is going to be filled with controversy.

Together…we got it done! I loved how it all came together. The colors were what I thought they would be.

Mike cut the hole and then we decided to wait until found the right picture or thing to go against the wall going down the stairs. I had this picture downstairs and it just came to life with its new home.

The stairs going down to the basement had horrible, dirty old carpet. We thought about new carpet, but it would only get dirty again. It is so well traveled. Besides, installers don’t want to come out for such a small job and I didn’t want to tackle carpeting. So, we decided to just paint it. We sanded and puttied…sanded and puttied, primed, painted, touched up and painted it again. Mike spent one day pulling tacks from the old carpeting and had to do some minor repairs on the landing. Today, one more coat of paint on the one step and he was done!

Then to hang the picture, we had to figure out a way to build something that would go over several stairs and create a platform for the ladder. It was going to go the opposite direction..no place to lean the ladder on two different step levels. I came up with one design and Mike embellished on it. I tweaked it and viola! Mike built the best tool to keep him safe while hanging the picture.

The rest of the pictures shows it all off.

the title of the picture is "waiting for the Tide"