Rainy days...

give me a chance to catch up on paperwork. Luckily for me, it's been raining a lot lately. So I've already caught up on paperwork, now I have time for blogging! Yay!!!

I'm back in the groove of mowing lawns everyday, besides your basic yard work and gardening. My own lawn and garden look sorely neglected, though I have managed to mow twice and have gotten some nasturtiums, eggplants, zucchinis, and mini sugar pumpkins planted. I still have to get in and pick up the leaf piles I raked up months ago... I was also hoping to get up to the picnic ground to do some clean up work so that I possibly can have a couple picnics this summer too... We'll see. Unfortunately my days off are rainy days and those days aren't good for doing outside work...

A couple weeks ago I managed to talk my friend Chris into coming to Moscow to deliver some artwork I wanted to buy from him. In return for the art, I let him work with me for a week. I thought it was a pretty fair trade...





Although he wasn't a very fast worker since he had broken his heel bone the month before and was still gimping around from it. And also while he was here he came down with the single-wide sickness I've been battling since I got home from the ice.




Last weekend I managed to get out of town. I got my yard work done on time despite the afternoon rain storms. My friend Chris and I did some yard sailing and some Good Will shopping. I found a sweet $20 BBQ to bring home, propane tank and all! And at wiped out Good Will of all of their wool sweaters!!! I'll be rolling in felted craft projects in no time at all! I'm quite excited.



This picture above is Chris on his brand spanking new clay brown velour sofa in his cozy little pool boy cabin near downtown Boise. He was being a little camera shy.

Besides trying to get the felted crafts rolling, I've started another knitting project. I'm knitting squares of different colored yarns, then am going to felt them and then sew them together into a quilt. It should be rainbow-tastic.



As far as bathroom progress, it's still coming along slowly. The rewiring is close to being finished. Since the walls are thinner than the standard thickness (being built with one by ones and all... It is a single-wide you know) a few of the electrical boxes need to be 'custom fitted' to fit in the walls. The plumbing is just about done, and soon the tub will be in and then we can put up the backer-board for tiling and the drywall. Soon is such a relative word.



Besides the bathroom work. I've found that some of the other outlets need replacing also... by means of testing them with a space heater.