Alle began her seeds in peat pots. She’s already planning three gardens. We brought back seeds from Monticello. She also wants a vegetable garden and an herb garden.
Mark brewed beer in his stainless steel turkey fryer for the first time. It was great to be able to be outside while brewing. So far, it seems to have worked well. We’ll let you know after it’s done fermenting.
Olivia spent all day, all night, all the next day, and all the next night reading a very long book. She couldn’t stop, not even to watch tv?!
We agreed to spend Saturday doing some of the things on our to-do list so that Sunday could be a play day. The weather was strange. It was sunny and in the 50s for a while there. Then it rained like crazy. Then the sun came out. Then it was overcast. Fortunately, it all cleared up in time to see the beautiful eclipse.
With the weather so warm, I decided it was time to open up the windows in the kitchen. We’d painted the rest of the kitchen, but I couldn’t effectively reach them from inside the room. The best way to paint them would be to open then up and stand outside. That’s what we did. I did the taping (all the blue) which took much longer than you can imagine. Mark and I both painted as it took one coat of primer and two coats of paint to get it done correctly. We put on the last coat just at the rain was beginning so we closed up the windows just a bit (not all the way so they wouldn’t stick) and headed out to the yarn store. Yeah!
Mark spent many hours over the previous year making baseballs and bats by hand. He started the Vintage Baseball Club at NMHS and whenever the weather cooperates, they are all outside playing.
Now he’s ready for the big leagues and he’s joined the local vintage baseball club. The uniforms are ordered, the schedule is developing, so let the games begin!
http://www.vbbnewtown.com/team.htm
After a long spate of ignoring all thing blog, I made a concerted effort to pay attention to at least one of my blogs. So Knitting Kitchen got all of my attention. I was keeping track of all the things I make, as best I could. Some of my creative impulses were emerging in the area of home decor, so they ended up in the Kitchen. It looks like all this home repair and decorating will continue for a while, so I thought I’d put it all here.
We’ve painted the kitchen, the actual one in the house, although the look of the virtual one online keeps changing too. I still need to give the woodwork a second coat of black. Mark installed a light fixutre over the sink which basically serves to highlight just how ugly the old, white sink really is. I’m making it worse by refusing to let Comet touch its white ugliness. My hope is that we will gain momentum in our pursuit of a new sink. We toured Home Depot while the girls were in music lessons last night. We considered the possibilities (apron sinks are out because of the concrete countertops) of double bowls, single bowls, triple bowls?! We agreed on the granite-look double bowl. This left us with the Big Faucet Decision. I won’t bore you with the details, but suffice it to say there are thousands of faucets and I can see that it is a potential bridge to madness, navigating this road. Single handle, double handle, spray faucet…polished nickel, stainless steel, burnished bronze…it goes on and on. It’s a good thing our tastes are pretty much in unison because the great faucet debate is probably responsible for ending many more marriages than I’d ever imagined.
When I woke up yesterday, we had company.
Other than that, this is what’s been going on all over the place.
It’s been interesting being here for our first spring. Every day, new things sprout up and we’ve had fun identifying them. One plant stumped three seasoned gardeners. Only a professional horticulturist could identify it as an American Mayapple.
We were in Target the other day, admiring all of the tables and containers being sold to bring fire onto your patio. After a day of clearning forsythia from part of our yard, Alle began collecting stones so we could build our own. It wasn’t difficult to inspire everyone’s involvement. Here’s a photo of the firepit’s first flame.
