Hello Strangers ...
Where have you been?
I've been all wrapped up lately as you can see...so is most of the stuff in the front part of the house!
I can see where Christo got a charge out of wrapping things...from entire islands to the Point Neuf in Paris and more.
I kind of like the idea of wrapping , but in actuality, it was a little tricky...yards of plastic and me. Thank-goodness that Lynn helped me last week-end to wrap up the china cabinet, but mid week I had no choice but to go it alone to enclose the kitchen and hall. Despite the
plastic wanting to fall down at every chance, I finally got it hung up. Much to my dismay,however, one main corner came down and let the drywall dust cover the kitchen shelves, the floors and go right down the hallway... mucho mess. A little more to do upstairs and down and then we can begin the cleanup, and the painting... Might as well do it while everything is out of the living room! Now what colour to do it? Cherry Cheesecake? Mocha Juicy or maybe Mellow yellow? I'll think on it... I have many colourful things that need to go with it reasonabley well... maybe pale white... can white be paler than it already is?
My kitchen behind wraps
Beautiful photos by Chris from Bali where they are vacationing... picturesque, isn't it?
And from underwater, a sponge bob starfish... amazing colour eh?
So the week-end hasn't been a dull one...Canada winning more medals than any home country of the Olympics! Yea Canada! And wasn't that a hockey game to behold? And mens curling,and speedskating? Wow!
Yea Canada!
Closing ceremonies...did you note the size of those Beavers??? Like they said...right out of any gift shop at the airport... what the world sees as Canada...but they forgot the Maple Syrup!
Then there was the earthquake in Chili...a biggy that sent every Pacific coast city into tsunami alert from Australia to Hawaii to our own coast... kind of scary, because in 1964 the city of Port Alberni was almost wiped out entirely, as the result of a tsunami wave.Sonia was kept busy and said she sent her dad home a day or two early! He is glad to be home tho! Morgan came out and gave him a hand down the basement and now just one last chunk to go and the ceiling will be in, and then we just need the mud! I tried my hand at that today and filled in a big crack at the top of the stairwell... At least it will give Brad something to build upon as there was a giant gap to fill up.
This is also the week-end that Mataya moves down to the Koots...Yea! I get to give her lots of duplicates out of my cupboards and up in the suite... The shelves look better already since I sorted through the kitchen in the suite and piled all the "to go stuff" on the table...and bed...and into a black plastic garbage bag... What she doesn't take... its going straight to the Transition house!
And Lynn had her great Norwex party on Saturday night. She can probably still take an order or two so give her a call quick! It is supposed to be the best antibacterial bunch of products on the market!
Also talked to Annette in Halifax...so far far away...however we are getting good at looking up things using Google Maps Streetview
Have some fun with this baby...plug in an address and move the little yellow man to the street where the marker is and voila! You get a real live photo of the place ( if it has been street photographed for google) Of course we aren't on there, but city folk are there in living colour. I was able to see the street where Annette works and the area where her and Shawn are looking at houses... Truly amazing... try it out and have some fun...you can look at downtown London if you like! So now I have a better sense of what Halifax looks like and where she works... Thanks Sonia for clueing me in.
Another revelation is that many books are downloadable from local libraries to be read on your Kindle...or Sony book reader... and its FREE! Just need the reader and a library card!! Maybe you can download it to your computer... I don't know that yet.
If I missed anything, I am sorry...too tired now to think. I washed down the suite today,(after I mudded) and my knees are still achy from doing the floors. It will be presentable now, in case John and Ronda spend the night tomorrow night!
Oh yes, nearly forgot, our new neighbours to the west, had a sleep over for the first time, on their new property and today they did some serious work over there...beginning to take shape in baby stages. We are so pleased to see some progress on a piece of property that has been left to the Invasive weeds since we moved here, that I can't tell you how happy Emil and I are! Further more, they seem like really nice people! Yea!
Hokey dokey ...have a good week! Love ya all...
