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On a Rainy Weekend

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It’s a rainy Saturday morning and it will be a rainy weekend. So, we have coolish in the 50s temperatures. I’m going to hunker down inside and do…something. I have no idea what that will be as I’m still waiting on the wallpaper and the seller has not updated me. I’m trying to stay positive but I did read several reviews about “why did it take so long to get to me??” and “doesn’t return messages.” We’re at the end of a 5 week stretch between Social Security payments, so I don’t have the extra funds to order something else.

I want to continue my work on the dollhouse, but more importantly, I need  to work on the dollhouse. It’s my escape from the continual assault on our democracy. Don and I talked about it last night. We have to be very protective of our emotional and mental health because we are not young anymore. We are in our mid-seventies and time is precious and life is precious and I CANNOT GIVE HIM THE POWER TO RUIN MY MENTAL AND PHYSICAL HEALTH. Nor will I give him the power to ruin my husband’s mental and physical health.

So I’ll sit down in the office and take shadowy pictures of the dollhouse, like these:

I do love the play of light and shadow inside the house.

This is the desk I made for Dove Cottage but eventually removed because it made the bedroom too crowded. It will finally have a home in the downstairs hall.

I hung the painting. I love it.

The clematis is in bloom. Happy, happy.

Don has a gig this afternoon at a sane time. He sings from 1-4 and he gets paid for it. So much of this kind of work is just tips. So actually getting paid is a refreshing change. And he gets home in time for dinner. Win-win.

I’ll be vacuuming, patching a couple of throw pillows that are not looking too good at the moment, and who knows what else. Keeping busy.

Stay safe.

Happy Saturday.

The Mundane

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I mowed the back forty and the corral yesterday. It was at least 20 degrees cooler than it had been the day before, so it was a pleasant experience (except for allergies.) It looks much better out there!

I’m on hold with any further work on the dollhouse as I wait for the wallpaper I ordered, which is hung up in the mail. I contacted the seller because tracking shows that a label has been created as on lasts Monday, but it hasn’t moved since then. She responded and said she was sure it had shipped and that she would check into it. This was after the posts office had closed for the day, so we’ll see what I find out today. It’s frustrating. I don’t want to lose my mojo!

In the meantime, from my time outside mowing:

Wild phlox on the edge of the secret garden. I’ve never seen as much of it on the property as we have this year.

I love it.

Protecting The Dude, who is just beyond the phlox.

All of the black raspberries are in bloom.

I need to haul out the weed whacker soon, as well as yank lots of poison ivy. There are plenty of chores to keep me busy as I wait on the wallpaper shipment.

I have to cut this short as I have to help Don with a self-tape audition. Don’t get excited…it’s the kind of role that any actor of his age can do. He’s doesn’t even want to do it, but I talked him into it.

Okay, my friends.

Stay safe.

Happy Friday.

Little Projects

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Today will be the last day of the heat wave. It’s been very, very hot. We ended up putting in the kitchen A/C unit. Very grateful for it saving my sanity the last few days. The bedroom unit has not been installed yet, because temperatures will be much cooler for a while after today.

We’ve been hunkering down inside the house, and I’ve been grabbing time in the morning hours to work on the dollhouse. It’s not air conditioned, so the morning is the only time I can work there. I’m waiting for more wallpaper – “Waiting for Wallpaper” should be the title of my autobiography – so I have been building little pieces from kits. I’ve had a couple of these kits for many years and I was holding on to them for this house.

This is a little table from Arjen Spinhoven, who lives in the Netherlands. It was quite well designed and easy to put together and stain. I love the detail. It will most likely sit next to the sofa in the living room.

And I made these two base cabinets from kits that I ordered from miniatures (dot) com when they went out of business. The yellow sink unit has been living in the Lake House. I brought it upstairs to the Beacon Hill to see how it might look in the kitchen. I like the idea of a kitchen that isn’t matchy-matchy – a mixture of cabinet styles that have been put together over time. I don’t know if it will work, but I’m going to try it.

Don’t you just love seeing the real-sized paint brushes outside the window?

And then I realized that the other fireplace had been assembled incorrectly. It actually leaned forward and would never be flush with the wall, so I took it apart and figured out how to realign everything.

Wish I had a before picture! This is the after picture.

I’m waiting until tomorrow to mow the corral and the back forty. The grass is very long but it’s been too hot to tackle that job.

Stay safe.

Happy Wednesday.

 

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