All In
Mr Chiots and I don’t go about anything halfway, we jump in and fully commit. The same goes for the Olympics. Yesterday morning Mr Chiots was on the couch watching three different curling matches on various laptops and his iPad and he was also watching luge on the TV.
Now that’s a committed Olympic fan! He’s even trying to take this week off and not do much work, something that never happens around here! I’ve been watching as well, but not quite as much. I’ve been doing work and sewing while watching.
Is there anything you go all in for?
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Tedious Trim
The upstairs bedroom redo is coming along quite nicely. The walls and ceiling were painted with three coats of ‘Classic White’ Benjamin Moore eggshell paint and they look fabulous. The trim is being painted in the same color but in a satin paint so it has a bit of a sheen. The goal was a blank canvas and it worked. I’m excited to get the baseboards painted and installed so furniture can start being added. Those are new wood, simple square pieces that will be painted white as well.
Meanwhile, I’m still painting the trim. It needed a good sanding first, as it hadn’t received that vital step before being sealed. The result was raised woodgrain that defied being dusted or cleaned. I gave all the trim (along with the walls and ceiling) a good sanding before we got started. I also filled all the nail holes with putty. Then a few coats of primer were painted on to seal in any stain.
After several coats of primer, a coat of white paint was added and is still in the process of being added. Painting moulding is a tedious process and seems to take forever. All the trim in the room takes me about an hour for each coat. So far I’ve painted five coats and will most likely do one or two more. After that I’ll take my scraper to any paint that accidentally made it’s way onto the windows.
It looks fantastic though, crisp and clean, light and bright – just what I was hoping for. A good cleaning of the windows also helped brighten the room, if you’ve been reading here long you know I how much I appreciate a clean window (each window takes about an hour since I have to take out the storm windows and clean them as well). I can’t wait to get all the shelves and tables in here along with all my sewing supplies. Then I’ll be searching for a queen sized bed for guests, hopefully I’ll be able to find something old and interesting from a local antique store.
Has anything tedious been taking up your time?
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Homegrown
On Saturday I was making venison stew. As I pulled potatoes out of the bag from the root cellar I found this:
This isn’t the first time I have harvested a heart shaped vegetable from my garden. Many years ago I got a heart shaped tomato as well.
I love all the different colors, shapes and sizes of homegrown vegetables.
Have you ever harvested vegetables that were funny shapes?
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Friday Favorite: Herbal Steam
There’s nothing I love more than breathing herbal steam when my sinuses are feeling the pressure. If I have fresh herbs I’ll use those, if not essential oils. My favorite scents are: eucalyptus and peppermint, sometimes I’ll add rosemary and a drop or two of thyme oil as well. Nothing clears up my sinus pressure like breathing steam!
I became a believe in herbal steam a long time ago when I had antibiotic resistant pneumonia. After a few rounds of antibiotics my pneumonia just wouldn’t clear up. I started breathing herbal steam with: oregano, peppermint, thyme, rosemary and eucalyptus every couple hours and within a week I was almost back to normal.
Do you ever use herbal remedies?
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Working Hard
Dexter is our workhorse cat around here. While the other two indoor cats sleep peacefully on the sofa, Dexter makes sure no rodent that enters the house leaves again. Here he is with his trophy catch last week.
I watched him catch it with speed an precision, it was an amazing thing to see. Having a good mouser is wonderful when live in an older less than sealed home!
Do you ever get mice in your house?
