I had a pretty rough day yesterday. There was a lot of reminiscing and stuff with my son, and while that was great fun, there were people in those memories that are no longer with us ... like my parents. And that's very hard. It will always be hard. I wonder if I'll ever be able to handle it any better than I do now.
I downloaded photos from my phone today. Also downloaded photos off my camera. There's quite a bit on both of them that I could include here. We'll see how much energy I put into this. (I quit right after I said that. Now it's Sunday morning.) So this is going to be completely random.
Starting with pics from my phone ...
Was over Dianne's working dogs a few weeks ago. Here's a photo of the rainbow we saw, and actually, it's not even a really good photo since it was a full double rainbow. But how lucky is she that she gets to work dogs all the time in such a gorgeous place?
Jaenne and I went to lunch with this guy. You'd hardly recognize him, since this isn't normally what he looks like.
Apparently, I take a lot of photos of myself at work. I should just put a mirror up somewhere in my office. Check out the egg carton behind me. I seem to collect quite a few of those, yet I haven't had a single egg in probably a month or more.
Then I could do this, like our receptionist.
Here's Colleen right after she arrived in town on Thanksgiving, the day after she rolled her truck. Was so happy to see her! That's Jaenne's Mo in her lap. (Jaenne, stay tuned ... there are some pretty bad photos for you later in this post...)
Here's a photo of a dog that needs a non-working home. Lovely little thing, from all that's said about her. (I think it's a her.)
Ok ... moving on to my camera...
Here you go, Jaenne. Here are those fine photos I took for you in Oregon. No worries, you can pay me later.
It's not really me taking blurry photos. It's that Kip is way too fast for my camera. See? The poles are in focus.
Go Kip!
Here's a photo of some ice on my deck one early morning that, for some reason, I found fascinating enough to lay on the ground and take a photo of.
(No one is really wondering why I haven't posted lately, right? Depression rocks.)
Same morning.
This helps depression. Pendleton and 7-Up.
People tell me pigs hate chickens. That pigs will even eat a chicken. Don't put the chickens in the pig pen! I am having a hard time believing it. This is Thanksgiving dinner, Wilbur style.
What are you looking at?
Here's an odd image. I made my first ever bread bowl for some spinach dip. I was afraid that the entire loaf of dough would make too big of a bread bowl, so I decided to cut it in half. Well, they turned out a bit too small, so I gave the batch of spinach dip and two miniature bread bowls to the neighbors. But without further adieu ...
I didn't end up taking a photo of the one beautiful big bread bowl I ended up using at the Christmas party, so you'll just have to take my word for it. Well ... at least until I make another one and remember to take a picture of it.
Glenda called me one morning and we went and took the dogs for a run at Pickles Butte. On the way back, we crested the hill and saw this ...
To give you an idea of where that is, that's my next door neighbor's barn. My house is just to the right of this photo. But I am more in the trees.
Ok ... now these are kind of for me, but you can ride along with me. For those of you that like the home improvement part of my blog, here's a starter piece for you.
The two rooms I have not done anything with since moving in really ... is the entry way, and the "2nd bedroom," which I call the "utility room" because all that's in there is the hot water heater, washer, dryer, freezer, and a couple of crates. Well, I am having someone work on it ... little by little as I can afford it ... but at least I've made up my mind what I am going to do with it.
This is the entryway.
I am not sure what that whole paper-on-the-wall thing was, but I peeled most of it off. The cabinets, as you can see, are in pretty bad shape. The window to the right looks into ... my kitchen! Talk about a useless window.
And the spot where you come in the door is a mess.
What you're looking at is hardwood flooring on top of concrete. Putting the crates on concrete does not help the dogs, as it is difficult for them to regulate their body temperature on concrete.
So the plan is ... on the far wall with the "real" window, break out the cabinets and counter top. Build a platform so I can put crates three across, a new counter top above that (which will lift the crates off the concrete) ... and new cabinets to the left of the window.
On the north wall (with the "fake" window"), take the window out and close up the hole. Hang cabinets 5' wide and 3' high on that wall.
For the area right behind the door, run the kitchen tile down the steps and straight out to the entry way like a landing strip. That will solve the "wet" problem at the door. He's also going to re-hang the door so it's straight and re-do the weather stripping to cut down the draft coming through.
A gift from the neighbors. I love having awesome neighbors!
Ok ... the utility room. This room is really hard to photograph because it's so small. But here's a shot.
The only electricity in this room is to hook up the washer/dryer. There's no light. There's no closet. There's a window to the right that looks out to the storage shed. This is it. This will be hard to explain, but I'll try. In the right of this photo ... about 2 feet in from the corner along the wall on the right ... where the wall meets the floor ... there is a leak. This is caused from the way the concrete was laid on the patio on the other side of that wall. It slopes into a corner and the water sits in the corner, and the seeps under the wall and into this room. We will be fixing the sloping concrete in the spring. (It's not a bad "leak" ... it seeps through with a lot of moisture ... melting snow buildup ... or heavy rain.) In the meantime, we are going to be building a wall unit on the back wall. Floor to ceiling, wall to wall, shelves and a broom closet. I'm going to move the freezer to the wall on the right under the window, and those crates, of course, will be on the platform in the entryway behind me. Hopefully this will solve the lack of storage space in this house.
Now, in the kitchen ... I am still waiting on my cabinet doors, and that's ok with me. They are coming out really nice and I'm looking forward to hanging them up.
Where that cabinet and counter top is now used to be where the washer was. Inside that "closet" used to be where the hot water heater was. As you can see ... the trash area is an eyesore. There are doors that supposedly hang here that are in my storage building, but I am getting rid of all of that. I'm knocking out this whole area, and we are going to extend the counter top and cabinets to give me more storage. I need to figure out what to do about a trash/recycling area, but I have lots of time to worry about that. All of this work will get done as I can afford it.
I have other photos from the fall that I haven't edited. If I get around to it, I'll post them here.
That's about it for now. I hope everyone enjoyed their holiday and is recouping well. Personally, I feel a huge sense of relief that it's over. Going to go take Justin shopping today for some clothes and call it good.
Later,
J
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