Daily: April 2007 Archives

What I planned to do: Prime and paint large window frame in kitchen. Prime and paint small window frame in kitchen. Prime and paint corner of baseboards behind woodstove. Scrub kitchen floor with ammonia then wax to a gleaming shine. Begin painting the dining room to coordinate with the lovely finished kitchen. Make curtains for kitchen from fabric purchased nearly two years ago that is now discontinued and can't be found anywhere at allwhatsoever. Work in backyard, spray clover and weeds, trim up and clean up noticable public areas that are showing signs of neglect from the last snow storm. Pot up plants for hanging baskets for front porch. Scrub planters for front porch and place lovely ferns on either side of the front door. Fill planters with lovely flowers for the front porch steps. Work on blog template requests. Finish quilt. What I accomplished in 1 week: Prime and paint large window frame in kitchen. Prime and paint small window frame in kitchen. Prime and paint corner of baseboards behind woodstove. Make two of eight curtain panels. For three days get Colby to work. Pick Colby up from work. Try to find rims for her Explorer that do not cost $400+ each. Cook three meals a day, every day for children home on Spring Break. Bring in firewood and keep fire going in woodstove due to temperatures barely cliimbing into the 50's all week. Wash dishes. Wash clothes. Wash dishes. Wash clothes. Wash dishes. Wash clothes. Rinse and Repeat. Wash dishes. Wash clothes. I am really struggling to get things done today. Colby doesn't have to go to work so she is going to help me with Steven today. Maybe I'll get to the point I can show you a few photos tomorrow. Then I dropped a piece of firewood. It nearly broke two of my toes. One toe is cut and bruised. There is no way I can wear a closed toe shoe but the foot is so ugly in its current state that my cute sandles and slides don't look so cute with black and blue and bloody toes poking out the tip.

It is a cold spring break. I am keeping the fires burning. We are carrying as much firewood now as we did back in January. The children are out of school for the week. J. is with us. While them being home creates far more work with the need to cook more meals and offer more snacks, etc, it is also easier as they play with Steven and I can accomplish larger projects in the day. I am finishing the painting in my kitchen. Almost done! Today is day 2. I am making great headway! Yayyyy me! I'll have photos of the kids from Easter to post later. No Easter egg hunt though. It was far too cold to have the baby out and it was way too wet to hide eggs. I do not remember a spring this cold. All of my plants are doing great in hot house of my kitchen. Though space is running very short on the counter tops. I'll be posting photos of the vegetables that have sprouted and will be transplanted to the garden in a week or two. I am so excited to get things underway. Last year the rains flooded out my garden. This year I hope it doesn't freeze. I want a bumper crop of good things. Oh, the tv series 24. I hate that show. Why do so many people like it? Keiffer Southerland - ugh!