Weekend Recap

Our local grocery store had ground chuck for .99 per pound, I had no idea. I came home with 10 pounds on Friday & made meatballs for the freezer. I added a lot more seasoning than usual & they came out great.

My indulgence on weekend mornings is fresh brewed tea. The entire month of January I wanted to mention that January was National Hot Tea Month & I never fit it in. Currently I am using loose tea that Nicole brought back from London as a Christmas gift & I love it. I just recently learned that 1 teaspoon of tea per cup. The cute pot that holds two cups of tea was a gift from Sandy. I have such generous & thoughtful friends! Saturday David & Tracy were in Potsdam so we joined them to watch the basketball game. I only took one picture this time. Tracy received her first SLR camera for Christmas & is learning how to use it. There is so much to learn & I gave her my number one advice. Practice, practice & more practice. Sunday Mick started framing the door to the cellar. He worked all weekend refinishing the doors.
I had to get involved with my cleaning assignment & it's NOT going well. I'm going to look into buying acid to dip everything in. Does anyone know where I can buy acid?

Hope you had a wonderful weekend!

Super Bowl XLIII

We're ready for the game. Who knew this is part of the preparations?

Jane Austen

This month our selection for book club was Persuasion. Reading the book was very difficult. It was almost like reading a foreign language.

So I would be able to better discuss the book at our meeting I watched the movie. Even watching the movie was difficult. I had to pay attention to every word. It was almost like they were speaking a foreign language. The furniture & the scenery in the movie was wonderful. Jane Austen is very popular and I think it's a following from the movies and not from her books. Next I would like to watch, not read, Sense & Sensibility. This weekend I'll be watching the Super Bowl. Although, it will NOT be like last year, no Giants. I'll be routing for the Cardinals. It would be nice to see a team that has never won the title win. Make sure you vote in my poll. Curious who you want. Have a chicken wing, guacamole & pizza weekend!

Tip Thursday

Candle Maintenance

Put a finger over the flame while blowing out a candle to prevent wax from spraying all over.

A special "thank you" to Amie my hand model.

Wordless Wednesday

Winter Randomness

This was the temperature when I arrived at work yesterday morning, that is a minus sign in front of the 14! The thermometer actually registered 15 below at one point, I try not to take pictures while driving. I have a one traffic ticket a month quota, I've already reached my limit for the month. Mick is so good about clearing the snow around my flag. It gets more difficult with each new snowfall.
Got good news yesterday. It won't be necessary to report to the county office building for jury duty this week. I'm free for another six years!
I lied. We are not finished with our first floor renovation. We have a stack of doors in the attic that used to close off all the rooms on the first floor. Mick decided to change the door in the downstairs powder room and install a door going down to the basement.

So it's cleaning the doors, framing for the basement wall, dry wall, taping & painting. Oh, and I'm sure sanding of all that drywall taping. I've I mentioned how much I hate dust? My part, cleaning & polishing the brass knobs & hardware.

First Floor

The renovation of our entire first floor is completed. I can't tell you how happy, thrilled, relieved & restful, restful even thou Mick did all the physical work, to have this all behind us. I am not good living in mess, dust, disorganization and thinking about all that work. The first photo is the one that shows the wall color of the dining room the best.

This photo shows the gold, blue, brown and also the wallpaper. I thought long & hard deciding colors that would blend. A better photo of the three frames. I didn't want to mess with attempting to bring 2 framed prints home with me from LA but I am so glad I did. I actually went back to the thrift store a second time, after 3 days of thinking about buying them.

I hope those keys will stay up. I only used double sided tape.