Sunday Happy

I love me some February, it’s one of my favorite months. Right in the middle of the winter, not as cold as January but always more snow, and the main holiday on the horizon is Valentines day, which I love because in terms of decorations pink and glittery hearts are pretty much the best. You feel me right? Right!

The week and it has already come and gone and that was that. Kind of the same old stuff. Worked on things, cleaned things, hung out with the littles and had dinner, wrapped Coco up in a rug. Not much new. One thing is that I think we finally got all of the tax documents in so that is now going to be my new hell for the next month or so. But I decided not to get to into it until next week, I need to meaty prepare. And I am apologizing now for the excessive amount of bitching I will be doing durning that time.

Thursday into Friday we got a good old dump of snow, at least as foot and a few inches. It came hard and fast and was everything a good snow storm should be. Work was even canceled! So the past couple days all I have been really doing is so much shoveling (the mr can’t really shovel cause his hand…) and playing outside. Finally got enough snow to pull our snowshoes out. YAY!

And here we are again at another Sunday. It is suppose to be gorgeous again today so once Judah wakes up (him and the mr had a boys night) and we do a little house cleaning (there is popcorn and cheese doodle dust all over) I hope to get out on the snowshoes again. Maybe I will just spend the entire day walking around outside. I might just do it.

Internet from the week.

-Whoa dude, these are freaking amazing. These eye-popping, hand-painted trucks rule Pakistan's roads

-Sprawling, Color-Coded Arrangements Expose the Intricate Underbellies of Mushrooms. Mushrooms are so cool!

-This is right up the mr’s alley. He falls asleep to The Office. I know this because ever once in a while his earbuds will die and all of a sudden I will wake up to Micheal or Dwight screaming. Funny yes but I want to punch him when it happens. Meditation App Calm Has Released a Soundscape Inspired by “The Office”-

-Loving This California Cabin and this House in England

-Baking Soda & Baking Powder Are Absolutely Not the Same Ingredient. I just had this conversation with a little.

-So I want to buy this toaster. I won’t cause it is expensive but if anyone out there wants to bu it for me…Hay’s New Toaster Is My Most Countertop-Worthy Appliance

-8 Projects DIYers Should Always Leave to the Pros I agree with these but also we do them ourselves. HA!

-Awesome. Photographic Composites Document the Mesmerizing Flight Trails of Vultures, Crows, and Bats

Pictures from the week.

Sunday Happy

Holy FUCK FUCK FUCK!!!. That is what I have been saying every time I step foot outside my door. The mosquitoes are INSANE! I think I have gotten at least 100 bites in the past few days. No joke, they swarm around as soon as the door opens. They have chased me inside more then a few times and have taken more of my blood that I am willing to give. It is terrible and disgusting and I really really hate mosquitoes. (my white walls also hate the mosquitoes, there are blood splatters everywhere)

Other then the nasty ass mosquitoes, the week has been pretty good and super productive. Windows are re glazed and painted, half the siding is up, yard is clean and porch is painted. Give us a bit off good weather and we can get stuff done. We also managed to have dinner with Shannon one night then had Miley and Judah for dinner and crazy messy chalking another night (they discovered water and chalk makes a paste and covered themselves in thick war paint like chalk) I got a few new house plants and I am officially turning our house into a jungle. (makes me very happy)  The mr has been working on some sweet stencils so there is little pieces of paper and spray paint everywhere and I am thinking about where to set up my pottery wheel. ( I think the loft is going to be my new pottery studio) So yeah, a full week of fullness and summer and all the people. Oh, and the mr would like me to mention that he has invented a new way to cook an egg. He calls it a broached egg. It's when you are trying to hard boil and egg and accidentally break the egg when putting it into the water and the egg kinda seeps out and cooks that way. Half hard boiled, half poached... Broached. So smart that one.

Today brings with it some more fine weather. I don't know what we have planned for the day, but I am hoping it is not too much. Maybe take the kayaks out, maybe burn some more siding? Hopefully not much work related stuff, but you never know. Whatever we do end up doing, I want to be outside. I just really hope that the mosquitoes are all dead.

How I interneted this week.

-Cherry Season! ALL THE CRAZY THINGS FARMERS DO TO BRING YOU THEIR CHERRY CROP.  Where do I get a cherry cheat sheet?

-When I was a kid, every time I saw a banana peel I was sure someone was going to slip on it. The History of the Banana Peel Slipping Gag

-Does drinking a few cups of coffee a day help you live longer? Yes, yes it does.

-If your in need of some advice. This Is How You Get Stuff Done.

-Airline Passenger Checks Single Can of Beer As His Only Piece of Luggage hahaha

-Birds are smart so do forget that... Ravens Surprise Scientists By Showing They Can Plan

-The Uninhabitable Earth. Scary and very real shit people.

-I get it, sometimes you don't want to get out the salad spinner but when you don't wash your greens you are probablyeating dirt (and maybe some bugs) Here's Photo Proof That You Really Should Wash Your Leafy Greens

-Desperate Ways to Stay Cool on the Hottest Days of the Summer

-Just Smelling Food Could Make You Gain Weight. But who wants to eat without tasting... that would suck.

Pictures from the week.

Happy weekend!

-C

Sunday Happy

Yawn, stretch, throw on some pants and back to it.

But it's taking a whole lot of will power to get up and go. It's just too perfect out to do much of anything. Is it weird that I love this cold and rainy weather? These are the days that I can spend all day in a ball of blankets on the couch next to a window looking out with hot beverages and good books.. I will get there soon, but not today. We started tiling the bathroom wall yesterday and need to finish it, along with he rest of the house.

This week flew by fast. It included a very quick foliage drive(stopped by a river so the mr could fly fish),  Barbara turning 17 while watching her field hockey game, a tiny little baby that fell in love with me and wants me to be it's new mommy, and the scraping and painting of so much everything. I think the highlight was when the 17 year old Barb stopped by the house to bring us coffee, hung out with us, and lent me her sweater that I love but probably won't ever get a chance to wear cause all I wear are grubby, paint stained clothes. But none the less, it was great and maybe I'll just wear the sweater to bed.  And the colors. Every time I walk out of the house and see all the trees, all the colors...it just blows my mind. So good.

Other then that, not much else. I am giving myself a political detox for a few days before i barf, eating lots of roasted celeriac and missing my kitchen. I can't freaking wait to spend all day cooking in baking in my kitchen. I can't freakin wait!

And now I got to find those pants.

Internet for the looking.

-Everyone Should Make Time for Daydreaming. I do me a lot of it.

-The Difference Between Pepitas and the Seeds from Your Halloween Pumpkin

-6 Things You Need To Know About Cycling On The Sidewalk. I sometimes bike the sidewalk, but only when I have to and very slowly.

- Maybe this is the reason I hate wearing shoes. ABSORB EARTH’S FREE FLOWING ELECTRONS THROUGH THE SOLES OF YOUR FEET(EARTHING)

-Read this book this week. One of my new favorite books. It changed the way I look at the world, especially trees.

-Forget Tomayto/Tomahto: The Real Debate Is, Should It Be Refrigerated?  II never do unless it's 100% necessary

-feel like this is a close representation of my knitting basket. A Mass of Tangled Red Yarn Unravels from a Loom to Overtake a Brazilian Chapel

-What Tree Is that has been a frequent question. Trees With Leaves - A Deciduous Tree Leaf Key

-Speaking of trees, I would live in this tree house.The tree alone is pretty amazing.

- A little preemptive in looking, but I told myself I that I get to buy knew sheets and duvet cover when we move into the house (I am a linens slut) This bed set is looking good, although can't go wrong with these either.

And pictures.

Have a great day.

-C

Sunday Happy

Hey hey hey.

Crazy freaking past month. I still feel like half of my person is gone and am still trudging through each day feeling the loss of Washer, but things are getting better, just still really sad and miss my pup like crazy. Trick is to stay super busy and that is what I have been doing. For one, we started back at the house again and have thrown ourselves into work. We are determined to get this freaking house done before the end of fall so we have been busting away all the days long. Things are getting done and now all the sheet rock is all up and the mr just finished the tape coat of mud.... Its all roses from here. 

For another thing, there is so much family stuff lately and to be soon. A new baby just came , little miss Kayla (I keep calling her Keba), We had a family reunion, minus a few family member last week. I have lots of littles wanting attention before school starts again and oh,  my little brother is getting shipped of to military school this week, (an actual military college that he actually wants to go too). Add another baby due in a month and the fact that fall is coming on fast and that means only one thing .. Family birthday season has arrived. Well that and apples. But no joke, pretty much a birthday a week for the next 9 months.  I already have about 7 cake requests. It's about to get real around here.

As for cooking, well when Washer died, I pretty much stopped living for a week, but then when I started cooking again, I went through a week of making breads for the mr. (bread is very soothing to make, I think it's all the kneading) And then it got so super duper hella hot out that we have pretty much given up on preparing food and are just eating straight up cucumbers, zucchinis, and tomatoes, sometimes dipped inn mustard and hummus, by the bucketful. I think I am averaging about 3 cucumbers and 5 tomatoes a day. And now I am starting to get a bit of acid reflux. Hopefully this week won't be quite as crazy or quite as hot and I will have a little bit more time do some actual cooking, maybe some canning ( so many tomatoes!) and maybe share a recipe or 2.Lots of maybes here... we shall see.

Anyway, it is Sunday Sunday. The mr and I are leaving the house early and going for a little car, coffee, and maybe river adventure and are picking up a cast iron claw foot tub for the bathroom on the way. Wish us luck!

Internet stuff from the past week that might be of some interest to you.

-I am feeling the itch pretty hard. THIS COUPLE QUIT THEIR JOBS AND DROVE A VW VAN TO ARGENTINA...So this could be us soon?!

-If we decide to make hard cider again, a cider press is a must cause blending and squeezing 100 lbs of apple through cheesecloth last year was freaking ridiculous.  How to Build a Cider Press

-It was mother F*CKING hot hot hot this week but we survived, and without ac. Too Much Time in Air-Conditioning Is Warping Your Ability to Handle Heat

-I used to get so sick when reading in the car (and sometime still do) Reading Makes You Carsick Because Your Brain Thinks It’s Being Poisoned

-No a watermelon won't grow in you stomach if you eat the seeds (it would be cool it did) Is It OK to Eat Watermelon Seeds?

-Love love love this house

-The Mystery Of Why Sunflowers Turn To Follow The Sun

-Blow your mind. There’s No Such Thing As a ‘Superfood’

-So doing this when we finish the house....WOVEN MACRAMÉ CHAIR TUTORIAL.

-Lovely. New Ocean Reefs Comprised of Rolled Paper

And some pictures.

Sunday Happy

I have been having some crazy dreams lately, especially the past few nights (spring time and the full moon will do that to me) But waking up this morning I realized that I need to know someone that has or is willing to get a weiner dog and name it Hamburger. That person will be my best friend.

Anyway, besides from the lingering illness that made me feel like complete shit and took my voice away for about a week, things have been rolling right along. I got a good clip of work done this week (making phone calls without a voice was a challenge) and the house is still standing strong. And let's just give mother nature a high five here cause the weather has been aces, well besides the snow on Monday. Warm, but not to hot. A little rain here and there. There is green stuff every where! The lilacs are all bloomed and smelling up the world in the best way possible, my strawberry plants are starting to make their strawberries and my rhubarb patch is out of control. So much, so good. This is definitely my favorite time of the year.

And it's Sunday, my favorite day(usually) cause it's our day to relax, or at least pretend to, and drink all the coffee in the world. Today though, I think I am going to be productive in my free time and do a bit of yard work and some gardening. I got some veggies starts in need of dirt and am going to planting a few more things (some zinnas, sunflowers and lots of kale). I am even thinking that this is the day I give the dog a bath (he smells nasty) or maybe give the mr a hair cut. (I say he either needs to cut it or go all out and do a man bun) At least one of them has to go down today.....

Things I saw on the internet.

- Food not lawns.... Make so much sense. An All-Volunteer Squad Of Farmers Is Turning Florida Lawns Into Food

-Making one in my very near future. Everything You Need to Know About Hotdish

-The use of nails. These are all sorts of fantastic.

-I have known some craaaazy picky eaters (one of my sisters didn't eat anything beside peanut butter sandwiches our entire childhood. She has sense grown up a bit and has included pizza and beer) Breaking Down The Science Of Picky Eating

-Something I would love to see in person. China’s Apricot Blossom

-Some serious house love. A Chic Fixer-Upper on Fire Island, Budget Edition

-Check out these tiles, they are freaking awesome. The mr and I are much inspired and thinking of doing out own screen printed tiles for the kitchen floor.

-There really is a reason why old books smell so good.

-I need good light for so many reasons. The Best Light Bulbs For Maximum Visibility in Your Kitchen

-Street art at it's finest. Site-Specific Elephant Murals on the Streets of South Africa by Falko One

Pictures from the week.

Now have yourself a fantastic day!

-C