Sunday Happy

I got a handful of mosquito bites, the sky is still light when I go to bed, and I’m already getting cranks from the heat. It is full fledge summertime. Are you ready for it? Me, not so much because well, I turn into an asshole when I get hot and guess what? It’s already too hot out. And we are expecting a heat wave this week so watch out.

The week started off with a mad dash through apartments for turn overs and ended with a mad dash of finishing up apartment turn overs. The mr has been putting in 14 hour days every day so the only time we see each other is when I am with him painting or cleaning and for the few minutes we eat dinner together before he leaves the house to go back to work. But it is mostly over now so he can go back to his less crazy work schedule and maybe come home before 11pm!

So yeah, the week wasn’t all that eventful. I was still feeling like a pile of crap early on (from the vaccine) so I was slow going. I painted wall and scrubbed floors. I fed Megans cat and fed Barb all the food. I did get to see and hang out with my oldest friend for the first time in years, (we are getting so old!) and I managed to get a few things done in the studio. I mixed up a few more test glazes, trimmed and stuck handles on pots, and stated the reclaim process of about 100 lbs of clay. I was suppose to go pick up like 400 lb this week but we have just been too busy and the clay store is almost 2 hours away so I didn’t make it in. Hopefully Ill get there next week. I need clay.

Today is another work day. The mr is finishing up apartment turn over stuff so he will be gone all day and I have a house to clean, a studio to clean, and a butt load of reclaim clay to deal with. Not exactly a hike in the woods (which we would much rather be doing) but hopefully starting in the next few weeks we will be back on the Sunday camping circuit and all will be right again!

Internet from the week.

-How to Escape the Happiness Guilt Trap. Is is ok to be happy. For real.

-Doughnut Or Donut? Discuss. I swing both ways.

-Everything Tastes Better When You Eat It Over the Sink. The burnt on tomato sauce.. That is me in a nutshell.

-Do you and don’t try to label it.Want to Be a Minimalist? Here’s What No One Tells You.

-There Are 5 Types of Kitchen Towels — Here’s What Each One is Best For.

-I love these quilts. Minimalist Linen Quilts, Made in Rhode Island

-Exercise is he pain the ends the pain. How to Harness the Pain-Blocking Effects of Exercise

-Pollen Allergies Are Getting Worse, and It's All Our Own Fault. Damn right it is our fault.

-Harvard study: Want to be less depressed? Wake up earlier. I know that I am a way happier person for waking up early and going to bed early. I always thought it was because no one else is awake to bug me and everyone and I am asleep when everyone else is annoying. HA!

Pictures from the week.

Sunday Happy

Ah, another week down. And how was it for you? Was is warm and spring all week or did you get a late April snow storm? We got a few inches in the middle of the week. And honestly I might have grumbled a bit, but mostly because I couldn't bike for a couple days. Other then that, I freaking loved it. Soft fluffy snow one day, 60 degrees the next. And this is why I love VT!

Beside a weird summer, winter weather swing, the week was not to different fro the last. Both the mr and I have been doing our things. Him off redoing a kitchen, me trying to get a big batch of mugs done. I was (and still am) trying to finish up the taxes and all that jazz. We also (and more the mr then me) finished putting up the garden fence and I am in LOVE with it. It is so cute but also so needed! Sure the squirrels can still get it ( they jump in from the trees but I am not to worried about them) but it will keep the bunnies and cats and woodchucks out. Hopefully. Last years garden fiasco really hurt my soul so those little fuckers better not this year. HA!

Did a few other fun things. I went to the dentist! That was super exciting given the fact that they we closed for 1/2 a year and this was the earliest appointment I could get. Nothing like a good teeth cleaning, am I right? And I went for a nice spring hike with Meg, Barb, and the kiddos. So found a big river rock at the beginning of the hike and made Megan carry it for an hour and a half because she was convinced she found a dinosaur egg. I was convinced too. But now that I think of it, no one had informed me of a hatched dinosaur so I think it was probably just a rock. We also had the littles over. I fed them all the food. Judah and I made cupcakes. Barb got frosting all over her clothes. Coco ran around like a like mad man, and Miley, well she was 13. Enough said.

Yesterday was one of those super gratifying days. I woke up to late spring again. Went for a bike ride and a run then came home to the mr doing a few things for me and off he went to work. I then spent the rest of the day in and out of the house doing yard work, playing in the garden, and cleaning the house. It was so nice, if not slightly frustrating because I wanted to do everything at once and didn't get more done. But none the less, at least I got some seeds in the ground. And my house is nice and clean!

Today is suppose to rain all day and I am glad about it. I think the mr and I are going to have a little chore date this afternoon and then after chores I hope to spend some of the rainy afternoon sitting on the porch with coffee and a blanket and my pile of books. I am currently in the throws of reading 4 books at the moment. Not exactly sure how that happened but I know 2 of them are new releases so I can’t renew them which means I gots to read them before they are due. Library problem right?

Interesting internet from the week.

-Taking On Climate Change At Home: How You Can Cut Carbon Emissions. Every little bit counts.

-I think this is very good advice. Don’t Wish for Happiness. Work for It.

-We knew about the shortage, so heres what to do about it. How to Cope With the Garden Gnome Shortage

-WTF Is Absinthe Anyway?. I have never had it but always thought of it as tripping on the green fairy cause it makes you hallucinate? But I bet I would love it (maybe too much)

-The “Whitest Paint On Record” Was Just Created, and It Could Lessen the Need for AC. Huh.

-If you are a juggler, this house is for you. A Double-Dome Home Built by a Juggler

-The Swedish Law of Wanderlust. Unrestricted camping and outdoor adventure.When it is safe, this is where I want to go!

--Sorry to crush your goals but You (Probably) Can’t Everest Mount Everest.

-The Sneaky Way Your Dirt Is Sabotaging Your Houseplants (and How to Fix It). The dirt your plant live in is very much important.

-ON TREND: LESS STYLED, MORE YOU. All so pretty.

Pictures from the week.

Sunday Happy

What a week. A good week but shit am I beat. The littles have been staying with us (their mother had surgery) so we have been feeding, schooling, and basically trying to keep a teen, a tween ,and a toddler alive for a long period of time. We have managed alright but yeah, tired as FUCK!

So yeah, that has been our week. And some other stuff but basically that. Besides keeping them alive and feed (they eat too much!), we have been doing art projects, cardboard construction of a “cat’sle (for Gigi of course), going for walks when it wasn't stupid cold out, and baking. The mr and I both have spent a fair amount of time sitting next to the toilet watching funny cat videos (potty training), trying to figure out basic math equations for school, and negotiating the hell out of every little thing for screen time. Oh the screens. I fucking hate them but I guess they are necessary, for school at least. And I am not going to lie and say I haven’t just given up a few times and let them completely veg out to whatever the shit is that they watch. So I could clean of course. HAHA!

And now it’s Sunday. Later today the mr and I are brining the littles back home and getting them settled in and ready for school tomorrow. Then I am coming home and spending the rest of the day doing laundry and cleaning my pigsty of a house. I’ll probably be cleaning late into the night. After that I am just going to sleep. I am already ready for bed. HA!

Links from the internet this week.

-The storm effected more then we know. Central Texas Farmers Share the Devastating Impacts of the Winter Storm.

-People Share #TheMoment They Realized The Pandemic Was Changing Life As They Knew It. Uh. Remember how crazy that was?

-This Is Unprecedented’: Why America’s Housing Market Has Never Been Weirder. It is so weird and kind of frustrating. This lady has been trying to buy land for a few years and now it seems like it is never gonna happen. It is SO expensive now what is out there gets bought up in a snap. So annoying!

-Miley and I have plans this week. Let's Make Friendship Bracelets!

-Martha and I got way back. Use to skip school and watch her show. Those were the life lessons. Martha Stewart Is the Original Influencer

-I get asked this ALL. THE. TIME! What's the Actual Difference Between Vegan & Vegetarian?

-There’s a surprising wrinkle in the quest to plant 68 billion trees. The seeds!

- I forget about Volcanos until I hear about them… Rumbling Reykjanes Volcano In Iceland Could Erupt At Any Minute.

-! sweet A frame.

Pictures from the week

Sunday Happy

Happy last day of February! Add a rapidly meting snow pack with 40 degree temaptures and we got ourselves a bonafide spring going on. Haha. I am not fooled. I have lived in this state my whole life. This is just a tease. I fully expect another snow storm and frigid temperatures to return again soon. But is sure is nice to have the windows open in the house for a little while!

Another week. More of the same stuff. Went for a little hike with the mr and then another with Megan, Barb, and So. I dived head on into 2020 paperwork for all of our favorite duty as Americans…Taxes. (😑), and Paul came over and sat on my back porch while I shaved his head. I worked, I read a book, I ran a lot. And that is about it.

Today the mr and I are going somewhere to walk the woods and have a car picnic lunch. After that I have a few house chores I need to get done. The littles (Miley, Judah, and Emerson) are going to be staying with us for the week while their mom has surgery so we are getting ready for that. I guess I probably should go grocery shopping as well. They eat a lot. Wish us luck!

The past week of interneting.

-Spring Weather Lore. I have heard a few of these. Vermonters talk about the weather a lot.

-I am not a marathoner but I run 4-5 miles everyday. It is crazy how spot on this is about runners, or what I think about a least. (I am not a badminton player so I wouldn’t know) What Marathoners (and Badminton Players) Think About

-5 Techniques for Mastering Your Spice Cabinet. Use all the spices!

-These pictures are so freaking sweet and amazing. Photographers Make Kids' Wildest Dreams Come To Life

-Will Regenerative Agriculture Change How We Grocery Shop?

-I did not know a yellow penguin even existed. I love it. A Rare Yellow Penguin Has Been Photographed for the First Time on a South Georgia Island

-I do all of these so I agree. 5 Cleaning Habits You Should Start Immediately

-We’re having trouble recognizing each other in masks, and it’s getting awkward. And even weirder is having met someone in the past year an not knowing what they actually look like.

-Is the Western way of raising kids weird? Hahaha, yeah but I didn't say it!

Pictures from the week

-C

Sunday Happy

We are into it, the deep winter of the north and I cannot be happier about it. Sure it is freaking cold but you know what? I love it. I love the cold, I love the light , I love the snow. This is my time of year. Are you into it too?

The week started off good. I went on a couple of really good super snowy hikes, one with just the mr and another one with Megan, Barb, Alex, and So. Both hikes were just all sorts of amazing with all the snow. One thing that can always make this lady smile is a good hike thorugh a snow covered forest. You can’t beat it.

Besides being outside ad much as I could be, I did a far amount of glazing in the beginning of the week. I also started on some new designs for mugs which I am kind of obsessed with but I should really see how they come out of the kiln before I get too excited.

And then Wednesday things suddenly just felt lighter. You feel it too? After listening to the news all day we had the littles and Barb come over for a good sledding session. Bundles up to the nines we headed over to the park, ran up the hill, and flew out butts down. The snow was just right for some serious speed. Even little Coco was flying down the hill (which scared the shit out of me). Then back to the house for hot chocolate and food and heat cause we were all pretty frozen by then. It was a great first sled of the year!

After that it was my birthday. It came and went which was a day and that was it. I forgot to pick up farm share. I can’t even with myself so now I am back to eating all the frozen green beans and broccoli until next week. ( I still can’t believe I forgot to pick it up.) The week ended with more work at the studio and I don’t know. I feel like more happened that I am forgetting but I guess it wasn’t that exciting if I have already forgot, HA.

Today is up in the air. I am not entirely sure of the plan but I hope to get out of the house for a little while. I know it is suppose to be stupid cold but you know what? I don’t really care. I have all the layers and yesterday I even made myself a fleece face covering so my mouth and cheeks don’t freeze off when I am running. (Good call on me!) So yeah, gonna let the day do it’s thing.

Internet from the week.

-Bernie Sanders And His Mittens Win The Inauguration Day Meme Game. Ah Bernie. If this is not a shinning example of a Vermonter (practical clothing, heavy mittens, and a trip the post office while you are out), well then I don’t know what is.

-There’s a right and wrong way to be bored. Jeez. Now you need two be bored a certain way.

-Don’t ask me why I am looking, I just am. AGA cookers. Maybe someday?

-Don’t get mad at your postal workers, it is not their fault! 'There's No End In Sight': Mail Delivery Delays Continue Across The Country

-The Practical Magic of Vermont’s Witch Windows—and Why Every House Could Use One. Again, Vermont being practical.

-You know you want to know even if you don’t know you want to know. Wait — Kim Owns the Land and Kanye Owns the House? Rich people problems…

-I Get Enough Sleep, but Why Am I Yawning So Much? Experts Explain. Contagious yawns are crazy real. I yawned just thinking about it.

-I just bought a toaster for the mr but I really wish I could have bought THIS TOASTER. I am in love.

-Science Says Camp Sleep Is Good for You. Oh how I miss camp sleep and camping in general. A couple more months and we will be back out there (I would go camping now but the mr would have none of it.)

-I want a room that is all windows! INSTAGRAM WORTHY: @VALDIROSE.

Pictures fro the week.

-C