Sunday Happy

Did you get any snow? I was hopping for snow, but got none and am a little disappointed. Call me crazy, but I am just ready for a good dumping, maybe even snowed in for a day or two. Humm, probably not happening for a while, but a dusting would be nice, no?

This past week Shannon turned one year older. We had dinner and cake and Jackson wrote her a rap that made all of us cry. Then the littles came over for a dinner/orchestra rehearsal and we got the baby to walk around the kitchen again. The only time he seems to walk is for Oreo cookies... He might be on to something here. I made what seems like a shit ton of bread products to feed the people who stop by for lunch. I found pine cones and turned them into a wall hanging, had a great time catching up with Joanie, and have continued my watching of Stranger Things 2 (taking my time with this season) I was very social this week and give myself 3 stars for not running away to a hole in the ground. 

Then the basement, The mr and I spent a very long day removing buckets and buckets of heavy ass dirt from down below. We were in respirators which sucked because they suck wearing and we both have this chest congestion so it was just sucky, but we needed them with the amount of dust and dirt we were dealing with. The truck was full by the end and we now have a shoveled out, swept, and vacuumed over and over, clean and empty (we got rid of allll the stuff and tools) basement. That was one long day of shit shoveling. But it's over and never again. And it was all in preparation for the washer and dryer that was to be delivered Thursday. 

We waited a full day for he washer and dryer to be delivered and it didn't show. We were not happy put the mr dealt with it. We waited another 1/2 day for the washer and dryer and it still didn't show. And oh boy were we about to flip but the mr dealt with it and yesterday, right at 8ish in the morning, we finally got our washer and dryer!!!!!!!!!! And it is as amazing as I had remembered. Big metal tubs that will do all my washing and drying needs, right here in my house. I am so excited.  The mr spent the day running water and power and hooking it all up and ever since then, laundry on loop. Clean cloths whenever I want. I guess I have no excuses now.  

The family is all coming over in just a few short hours for the annual Sunday before Thanksgiving, Family Thanksgiving I think we are up to 25 people.. Some are little so they take up less space, but it's those half sized people that tend to make the biggest mess.  The house is going to be full by afternoon and I am not going to lie, I am a little stressed out. I think it's because of the turkey. This is  a meat free house but Mom is bring a cooked turkey (no way in hell is a turkey being cooked in my oven) and I just have this anxiety that there is going to be meat everywhere, I know I am over reacting but I can't help my feelings. But other then that it will be great. I am doing all the veggie sides, making some bread and maybe some cookies? I don't know. My mom bought like 4 pies and I might just skip the cookies because we probably  don't need them. So yeah, a full house of all the crazy people and a few extra to bare witness. I got the coloring supplies, grabbing the board games, and trying to set up a long as table to seat everyone at all at once. I hope people don't mind sitting on mud buckets.  Wish me luck.

Internet findings from the week

-A Wrinkle in Time. Another one of my favorite books turned movie, but this one, I am so excited about. . Mindy and Oprah...It has got to be great.

-Instagram Crowds May Be Ruining Nature Be more aware people!

-Life goal (or next year goal) Find land and build and A frame cabin. How to Build an A-Frame. Should be simple right? 

Sign me up, although I don't make a lot os scrapes, I tend to eat it all. This Kickstarter Converts Kitchen Scraps Into Cooking Fuel

-11 Stress Experts on Surviving the Constant Anxiety That Is 2017. Hoping the 2018 isn't quite so nuts.

-The Bra Ladies of New York. Looking for that "Goldylocks" of bras would drive me crazy. 

-Potty humor, but seriously, don't drop butt in toilet. . Toilet Signs Are Mysterious And Mirth-Inducing

-I think the week of Thanksgiving is the perfect time to start decorating. Science Makes the Case For Putting Up Holiday Decorations Early

-Where Does That Rumbling in Your Tummy Really Come From?. I just thought it was my stomach yelling at me to eat (or nat eat) 

-A great way to use up some trash. Giant Exhibition of Animal Assemblages Built with Trash

Pictures from the week. 

Sunday Happy

This week has been pretty fantastic. The weather here could stay like this forever and I would be happy. Warm days, cold night, sunshine. We have fully embraced it all. The mr finally fixed his brakes on his bike so we have been riding our bikes everywhere, for work and play. I don't mind doing chores when you get to bike around to do them. We have gone to a few rivers for fishing/ reading time. We even took a long ass drive out to the Kingdom to see our friend Jess's new farm (we got to see it but not her. It's ok thought because we plan on going up again really soon with our overalls and shovels and upper arm strength) Spending time outside really makes this lady here feel all sorts of good.

A huge step this week. We finally replaced the glass in the front door!!!! It's been about a year since I smashed it out with a 2x4. We went a long time without fixing because I would have probably just smashed it again anyway. But we are finally done with the outside of the house and hopefully with any more 2x4's and the door was the last step. And holy moly all the light. It's like the door is wide open. The mr made the comment that the new glass makes him feel like an adult now. I totally agree. No more plywood front door. Glass is class!

More little things are happening around the house and we are starting to get things ready for fall/winter here and at he other houses. It's the in between time where we could not do anything for a little while and then in two months get slammed with snow or something and all those little things that we should have done now are now big things that are going to suck ass doing then. You get what I mean?  So we are thinking about all those things and probably going to start doing them.

The week was also the start of school for all the littles so we tried to see everyone one last time before school starts and it's all homework and sports and friends. We had dinners, played in the sand, and worked on our pasta sauce faces.. All the good stuff for the last days of summer. We also moved the bees from the house to the loft for the winter (see, winter stuff has begun). The mr has plans of indoor hives and I am just going to let him do his thing just as long as the bees are not flying around inside the house. And on that note, Jeff (my dad) is coming to town this week and I gots to clean the shit out of the loft and weed wack and bring over some toilet paper and towels and make it habitable for people again. I have been slacking over there lately. My pottery wheel is in the middle if the room and there is a nice layer of dust on on the clean dishes. Dust, clay, and bees. He is going to have a blast.

I am really embracing the cold wet day we are suppose to have. I am going to do a few chores that I have been avoiding like cleaning out the spare closet (it's full of sewing stuff, glitter, and who knows what else) maybe finally unpack my clothes and hang those up, maybe start knitting a hat? Whatever I do, I am looking forward to just kind of having a home day with my socks, cozy sweater, and never ending supply of coffee.

What I saw on the internet this week.

-After Harvey, Are Epic Rains the New Normal? There are more and more large scale natural disasters happening every year and we need to figure out how to deal with it now.

-The Rise Of Mock Meat: How Its Story Reflects America's Ever-Changing Values.   I am not a fan of store bought mock meat, it ishighly processed. Beans for me please.

-The Color Factory is on my list of places to go the next time I am in CA. BALLOON BATH BY GERONIMO BALLOONS AT COLOR FACTORY

-I think most of us can relate. Stress = zit. The Science of How Your Feelings Affect Your Face

-Drink Seltzer, Live Forever. Social media is not your soul, don't forget that.

-THIS MAP REVEALS THE BEST PLACES TO WATCH THE LEAVES CHANGE THIS FALL. Lucky me I just have to wait a few more weeks.

-I love bird photography.  Winners and Honorable Mentions of the 2017 Bird Photographer of the Year

-What happens when you play with your food. Tiny Toast Art.

-Amazon Prime Will Now Deliver Wine to Your Door in One Hour. Amazon is taking over the world. But an hour for wine is not bad.

A few pictures from the week

Have a great long weekend!

Sunday Happy

It's been a pretty ruff week. It started off great with four little kitties that I spent all off my time with. I had fallen in love with them all. But then Tofu, the little runt, got really sick and she ended up passing away. I did not handle that well. Plus some crazy apartment shit that needed to be dealt with asap (things are ok now) and just an overall feeling of being an emotional basket case. And then the world. I think we are all feeling a little like, What the fuck world...What the fuck?. I just don't understand why there are people with so much hatred. It boggles my mind.

We were still taking care of the three kitties and I pretty much spent all of my time with them.  I didn't want to give them up but I knew that I couldn't responsibly take 3 more cats into the house, it wouldn't have been fair to them.(I was so close to keeping them). A lot of people wanted to adopt them, but I talked to the Humane Society and it was best for them to go through them so that they could stay together for a while and get the medical and social attention that they needed before being adopted out to new homes. So the day came when we had to say goodbye and that was pretty heart wrenching.

So yeah, not the happiest week of my life, but it's life.

 I am still feeling kinda blue, missing the kitties, feeling more then a little overwhelmed and confused about the world and the humans in it. Blah, but things will get better because good happens. Good over bad.

Today the mr and I are probably just going to do some house work and what not. Those gutters wont hang themselves.. We are taking the afternoon off tomorrow for a little eclipse viewing and nature therapy because we both need it.

Internet from the week.

-I picked up a book, The Age of Miracles, at one of the many tiny libraries in town without knowing really what it is about. Got home, started reading and whoa. t. It's about a young girl living through the slowing of the earth rotation and what the effects are.  It has kinda of fucked with my head and has made me think about the up coming eclipse in a different way. Will The Eclipse Make Crops And Animals Flip Out? Scientists Ask (Really)

- Speaking of the eclipse. Why Future Earthlings Won't See Total Solar Eclipses

-Pretty safe to say the I am very diverse in my day to day emotions.  Emotional Diversity’ Is More Important Than Happiness

-New Yorkers, Here's How You Can Camp For Free in City Parks. How cool. This is now on my life bucket list.

-Concrete Volvo 240 (I owned six different 240 wagons. Still my favorite car and I have hopes of someday restoring one to drive again)

-Maybe a Sunday project? DIY Macramé Rope Bag. Would make a great apple carrying bag.

-I have totally woken up and been made or upset with someone because of something that happened in a dream. When Betrayal in a Dream Leads to Real-Life Conflict

- Have Tools, Will Serve: Cabot Hardware Store Adds Bar. The mr wants to move to Cabot now.

So freaking awesome. Now I just want to make piñatas for a living. Figures From Hieronymus Bosch’s Paintings Recreated as Sculptural Piñatas.

-How to Build Resilience in Midlife. Life happens and we need to be able to live with that.

And I really didn't take any pictures of anything besides that kitties so here a few. THe first one is Tofu.

Bye.

-C

Sunday Happy

Happy Sunday to you there people. It's suppose to be a gem of a day today. I hope you all are planning some good times to take advantage of it. It is officially summer so we should all be summering.

The past week had been decent but a little wonky. It seemed like it rained all the time which it didn't but kind of did. We had my mom and bros come over for a little family time dinner. (one twin loved the food, the other hated it) Got to take the kayaks out for a good paddle and have managed to get a lot of stupid little things that have needed to be done done.  Farm share pick upwhich is starting to get a whole lot bigger (bring on all the greens) and the backyard garden is bursting with stuff (radishes up to my ears) With all the food we have been spending a lot of time in the kitchen at the new island making food, eating food, or reading. It is the most amazing kitchen island and I am obsessed with it.

The painting of the house is taking much more time then I thought it would. First off, rain, and you can't paint in the rain. Then there is way more prep then I realized; scraping, holes to fill, scraping dead ivy from the sides (the mr has been doing most of the crap work) Then painting, then repainting because colors and me. Now we are at a point where we have the main porch painted with a great color but any windows or house siding colors is still undecided. All the windows are painted all different shades of black and grey. It is keeping me up at night. (picking out colors is very hard for a brick house that seems to change colors all the time) But I have goals. This coming up week I will have all the house painting completely done.  YEAH!

We are not suppose to do much work today, just try to take it easy. With that being said I am pretty sure the mr is planning on climbing into the trees in the driveway and trimming the tree branches that are growing onto our roof. Relaxing? Not so much.(He is very much afraid of heights) So if he does that, I will probably be out there the whole time holding the latter and being ready to catch him if he falls. But after that I might go strawberry picking. Farm share pyo has begun and I have strawberries and snap peas waiting for me. Got to get Summering.

Stuff from the internet.

-Solar field with bee hives... This is one of our life goals. Beekeepers Sweeten Solar Sites With the 'Tesla of Honey'

-A Street Fight Among Grocers to Deliver Your Milk, Eggs, Bananas. I wonder if people that deliver food go home and have their food delivered.

-It's not all in the name, but some of it it. Would Carrots by Any Other Name Taste as Sweet?

-This studio where the little tree houses are made.

-Man Bun Ken. What the ..... Mattel Introduces New Diverse Ken Dolls; Hopes To Reverse Sales Slump

-Stumptown’s Founder Is Starting a New Coffee Company. More good coffee.

-I don't have a kid but this bed is super cool. Maybe a daybed?

-Your Brain Treats a Blink Like a Tiny Nap which totally make sense

-At least there is an upside to the struggle. Some Good News for People Who Have a Hard Time Making Decisions

-Watch Broad City’s Abbi and Ilana Talk Shit About Each Other While Making Smoothies. I miss them so much and can't wait for the new season!

Pictures from the week.

have a great day.

-C