A 1 year old session from 2 weeks ago. Check it out
our radishes are up!
Matt and I are going to celebrate our 4 month anniversary tomorrow (is that it?? it seems longer:) And since he had the day off yesterday he took it upon himself to give me my gift early!
So traditional gifts for 4 year/month is Flowers or Fruit - he gave me fruit!! He gave me 2 pear trees for the farm we are building:) Now I have to admit it took me about 30 minutes to get the full extent of the gift. When I got home last night I saw the trees and when I went up to them I saw this hanging in the tree...
and as I said it was some time later when it dawned on me - he gave me a Partridge in a pear tree! I love you Matty - you are perfect and your gifts are great! I can't wait to walk around the back 40 and decide where we are going to plant these - they are a perfect pear just like us:)
Stay tuned tomorrow for what I am giving him :)
I made a new post on the business site - I have Theresa and Mikes post and gallery complete... check it out here
We got started on the renovation this weekend. It was all hands on deck for the demo part, which I think everyone likes because it is really just destroying stuff. I can't tell if the rainy weather was a benefit or not. On the one hand it was not a benefit b/c the weather was cold and raw and since the heat was removed from the house it was cold and raw inside the house. On the other hand you certainly didn't feel like you were missing anything having to work inside during the rainy weather. And if you were working you didn't really feel that cold.
So lets see where we are at
This was my living room:
... this is now my living room:
This was the view from the other side:
This is the view from the other side of the room:
You can see my shiny new kitchen in that picture!!! Ahhh at least that room is done!
Now, before we tore these walls down we thought that the wall that seperated the middle room from the living room was the old counter from when this house was a gas station
But turns out that might not be so...when we removed that wall the hardwood floor that is in the middle room/living room ran directly underneath the wall. So the floor had to come before the wall and I know the floor isn't original. But how old is the floor - well we haven't been able to figure that out yet. But we do know the heat was installed around 1993 and that was put in AFTER the mop board... but the floor might have come after that b/c the floor doesn't run under the mop board. The mop board is looking original but the floor is not. And if you take a look at the picture above and then look at the landscape of my house I am starting to doubt that this house was even in this location to begin with. Questions are popping up in my head about this whole thing. I know the house was lifted to put the basement it is not a stretch to think that it had been lifted AND MOVED! My neighbors behind me have some ties to this house, I need to pop over and talk to them as well as just go to city hall and see what I can find. And where did the gas tanks go that were in the front yard? They would have had to have been dug up at some point but at what point? I have much research to do.
Take a look here, that large beam running upwards in the middle is almost a dividing line of the house - and the framing changes on either side - one side has boards that are in line with the floor and others are open further down.
In the meantime we continue to work on this, I won't like I am nervous becasue it appears my dad might not be able to finish this and my electrical skills are limited. I was accidentially electricuted on Sunday when my dad left some tools attached to a live wire, which isn't like him, which leads me to believe he might not be able to finish. That being said I wonder how much knowledge I can cobble together between me, Brian and some books...
between now and then the planning continues:
I am still knee deep in this session and have two others to work on but I wanted to post just these two quickly, right now they are some of my favorites but that is subject to change.
um this weekend was p-nutty busy! I had two session this weekend and while I haven't even gotten to the pictures yet I do plan on finishing up the couples session tonight - so I promise something on that tomorrow.
When I got home Saturday nightI actually went out to work in the garden. This is one of those areas where not having cable/TV comes in handy. If there had been a TV in my house on Saturday then I would have come home dog tired from the session and plopped down in front of the couch for a few minutes of mindlessness. But since one wasn't there I went home, put on my overalls and Matt and I went outside to work. I planted 2 rows of peas, a row of beets, a row of radishes and two rows of lettuce. I told Matty that by May 24th we can have a lettuce and radish salad. He told me that the dates where usually general so it would be around then but I held fast to the timelines listed on the back of the salad package.
I felt good after doing that work, Matt cooked us up some yummy veggies and then we had Martel's ice cream. It was a seriously perfect day all the way around.
Sunday was dinner at his grandparents where I also learned out to play 83 - its a card game. And here is what I learned. Matt has the same demeanor/face at work that he has in competative games - I am not going to say its my favorite face - he gets all serious and rolls his eyes alot and is not tolerant of mistakes. Geez, I was just learning how to play the game but when I played a card that he wasn't happy with his face told me so!!!!!!!!!!!! I don't know - playing games with him isn't as much fun as I thought. I am going to bust out Clue the next time he is over and see how that goes:)
Today's post from Better than Chocolate
According to the spiritualist Shaykh Fadhlalla Haeri, one of the essential factors in a person's happiness is their level of self-discipline. Regular overindulgence in food, alcohol, sex, even thinking can tax and weaken our body, mind and soul.
Practicing self-discipline in these areas strengthens our mind and self-image, as we begin to see ourselves as master of our body, rather than its slave. Restraint leads to stability, stability to contentment. Take a few minutes to evaluate your life. In what areas do you lack self-discipline? What are three simple things you could do to tame these weaknesses?
