Thursday, December 15, 2011
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Secrets
This time of year, is hard for blogger-crafters. I can't show much of what we've been doing. Here's just a peak at what we did this weekend.
Abram's been working on a special chainmail project for Owen
while I have been doing a little of this and a little of that - including a bit of crocheting.
Owen likes to do some of whatever he sees - chainmail and crocheting simultaneously. The last I saw the crochet hook he borrowed, it was outside being used as a cat lure. I don't think they took the bait.
Abram's been working on a special chainmail project for Owen
while I have been doing a little of this and a little of that - including a bit of crocheting.
Owen likes to do some of whatever he sees - chainmail and crocheting simultaneously. The last I saw the crochet hook he borrowed, it was outside being used as a cat lure. I don't think they took the bait.
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
New Roof
This one's been in queue for a while. . .
On this rainy day, I am so very, very grateful for a sound roof over our heads, and so I present our new roof.
First the old one had to be removed. There were four layers of old roof - 1 of cedar shakes and 3 of asphalt shingles. As it turned out, all of it didn't fit into this huge dumpster.
The new roof is lifetime guaranteed metal. It arrived on a big truck, and they left it by the road. I was a bit worried about it sitting our there, but it was just so dang heavy, no one was likely to idly happen by and take it. They unpacked it all over the yard.
After waiting a couple of rainy days, they headed up - one last look at the old roof.
It took days to get the old roof off. The foreman, Francisco, kept telling me what fine and extremely hard wood we had up there. We left the first morning when it was still a bit cloudy (but forecast to be sunny and no rain),
and returned at lunch time to one section nearly cleared under a beautiful sky.
After lunch, they began covering the cleared section,
and as you can see from the shadows, putting it on was slow going too. Apparently, our 110 year old wood roof breaks metal screws like no other.
What had been projected as a 2 or 3 days took 7 work days to complete. Thankfully all those days and the Sunday of rest were all very dry ones.
We love our fine new roof and are ever so glad that they are done - because it's been rather rainy of late and because it was pretty noisy here that week. There were no decent naps for Caedmon, and Owen even asked one day during his rest and show time if I could go out and ask the guys to stop hammering. No, buddy, I couldn't.
On this rainy day, I am so very, very grateful for a sound roof over our heads, and so I present our new roof.
First the old one had to be removed. There were four layers of old roof - 1 of cedar shakes and 3 of asphalt shingles. As it turned out, all of it didn't fit into this huge dumpster.
The new roof is lifetime guaranteed metal. It arrived on a big truck, and they left it by the road. I was a bit worried about it sitting our there, but it was just so dang heavy, no one was likely to idly happen by and take it. They unpacked it all over the yard.
After waiting a couple of rainy days, they headed up - one last look at the old roof.
It took days to get the old roof off. The foreman, Francisco, kept telling me what fine and extremely hard wood we had up there. We left the first morning when it was still a bit cloudy (but forecast to be sunny and no rain),
and returned at lunch time to one section nearly cleared under a beautiful sky.
After lunch, they began covering the cleared section,
and as you can see from the shadows, putting it on was slow going too. Apparently, our 110 year old wood roof breaks metal screws like no other.
What had been projected as a 2 or 3 days took 7 work days to complete. Thankfully all those days and the Sunday of rest were all very dry ones.
We love our fine new roof and are ever so glad that they are done - because it's been rather rainy of late and because it was pretty noisy here that week. There were no decent naps for Caedmon, and Owen even asked one day during his rest and show time if I could go out and ask the guys to stop hammering. No, buddy, I couldn't.
Friday, December 2, 2011
Look!
First, I thought you'd all enjoy some gratuitous pictures of my kids eating yoghurt this weekend 'cause I think they're awfully cute:
Then I thought I'd share what we did this morning:
I've had this idea filed away for, well, four years. Thanks to my friend, Jessie for the inspiration. We have lots of Christmas ornaments. Some of them were just too old/chipped/wonky to keep, but lots of them have sentimental meaning to us and I was really excited to find a way to display some of the surplus and in some cases hide some of the imperfections of thirty-odd years of use.
We used tons of ornaments, a grapevine wreath from Christmases past, and loads of hot glue. Owen got the hot glue love, Caedmon napped and then rocked out to some Christmas music on my back, and nobody got burned!
So, what Christmas crafting have you been up to or planned? Anything that's been on your list for YEARS?
Then I thought I'd share what we did this morning:
I've had this idea filed away for, well, four years. Thanks to my friend, Jessie for the inspiration. We have lots of Christmas ornaments. Some of them were just too old/chipped/wonky to keep, but lots of them have sentimental meaning to us and I was really excited to find a way to display some of the surplus and in some cases hide some of the imperfections of thirty-odd years of use.
We used tons of ornaments, a grapevine wreath from Christmases past, and loads of hot glue. Owen got the hot glue love, Caedmon napped and then rocked out to some Christmas music on my back, and nobody got burned!
So, what Christmas crafting have you been up to or planned? Anything that's been on your list for YEARS?
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