Cynthia, that quilt is positively exquisite!
I love all of the colors and how soft they look all together like that. It reminds me of an Impressionist's painting! Top notch stuff you're making there lady! Makes me impatient to be done with this house so I can more permanently set up my sewing machine and join you in all of this quilting fun!
They say that good things come to those who wait.....we'll just have to see about that, huh?!?
Cetawin? It's been the better part of 4 hours now since your last report. Any news? I'm starting to feel those pins and needles you must be sitting on right about now. Even I am getting antsy to hear that she's on her way!
Do let us know as soon as you hear anything!
Beth, sweetie, BREATHE!!! Whew! You're making me tired just thinking of all of the running around you're doing today!
Nella: Have you thought about making two of the translucent panels per door, and setting them in a groove track so that you can slide them back and forth? That would give you better control over ventilation and regulation of the temperatures inside of the brooder. If it starts to get too hot, then slide one of the panels back to allow more outside air in. If it gets to cold, then simply close it. It seems to me that this would be far more preferable to a single, stationary panel. And I know darn well that you're clever enough to come up with a track system to do it too!
Brandon: Congrats on your award of Employee of the Year at work and the reward you've given to yourself for a job well done!
I like the way you think!
Now you need to stuff that sucker just as full as you can get it with a good run of Delawares!
Though BR's are going to be delightful as well. You do understand, don't you, that you now need to post pictures of your new toy, all full of eggs, so the rest of us can drool all over it! Right? Right!!
Well, I got a bit of the tile laid in the laundry room today. Better than 2/3rds along on that little project, but now I'm going to have to kick Denny and his desk out of there so that I can get that area taken care of as well. I just wish I knew for certain what I'm going to do about the trap door in that floor that goes to the small root cellar we have down in the crawlspace under the house.
If I tile that with the same tiles as the rest of the floor, then the door will all but completely disappear into the rest of the floor. But, using the same tiles would be terribly heavy too.
We can use some of those small gas filled shocks like they use on the rear door of minivans and SUVs to help counter the weight. It would be fairly simple to rig something like that up, I'm sure. But part of me wants to do a mosaic scene and really make the trap door stand out from the rest of the floor. Decisions! Decisions! Decisions!
There's also the chance that I might finish it off in hardwood to match the great room. Except I still have no clue what kind of hardwood we'll be using in the great room as yet.
*sigh* So many choices to make. And the choices we're making now are of the expensive kind...finish materials and such...never a cheap proposition at best! We certainly don't want to screw it up at this point due to the expensive nature of the materials. Redo's could be prohibitive cost wise!
Tomorrow we're expecting company from Olympia [our previous location] from folks we haven't seen in about 4 years or so now. They'll be stopping by on their way to see their grand daughter who is attending college at WSU in Pullman, about an hour and a half drive south of us. I guess it's the kid's birthday or something..... so they're just stopping in for a break from the road and a couple of cups of coffee. It should be fun. Neither Pat nor Tom has seen the place, or even pictures of it, since my last email update....and that was nearly 2 years ago!
Yeah, I'm the Queen of Procrastination here! Can't wait to see the look on their faces when they see a nearly completed home!
OK kiddiwinks! It's getting late and I still haven't adjusted to going off of DST, and I can't find any toothpicks to keep my eyes open any longer! I think I'm heading for bed now.
I wish you all a good night's sleep, filled with sweet dreams. Yack with y'all in the morning...ooooo!! And no getting up ridiculously early to chase silly animals all over the place!
