An historic day

Today was Crys' last day at her day job in Alamosa at Adams State University.

We worked long and hard to pay off debt and got to a place where she can quit that job and just work at the 2 or 3 part time jobs that she loves.

Me? I got another 3 years 9 months and 26 days. But who's counting :D ?

It's a new year

We have been getting good rest for the last few nights. It feels so good. I went to nana's for a few days on this little vacation. I spent the time cleaning, dyeing, spinning and cooking. I didn't feel rushed or pressured. We had a little upset with some family getting sick from carbon monoxide poisoning. Thankfully they are on their way to recovery. We are all checking with friends and family to be sure that their detectors are up to par. Seriously people, this shit can kill you. Anyway, when I came home, I was super tired and happy to be here. I did some cleaning. I was too tired to sleep well that first night. The next night I slept 9 hours, the next two nights I slept over 10 hours. Now my brain is functioning again. We are doing a couple projects around the house. The kitties will have a new place to sit in the window. 

I wanted to post pictures of my ravelry exchange because I love all of it so much. 

Catching up a bit

We had our traditional hoppin john, greens, and cornbread for New Year's Day. It was delicious and even though we were quite inebriated, it was fun to make.

Nothin you would notice.

It's been a nice 2.5 week vacation.

We had a really nice thanksgiving holiday, had visitors from here and there and had a great time.

I got shelves put up and the shed cleaned up nice for a long time to come.

We have a winters worth of wood sawed up and ready for splitting, along with a good covered place to keep it all.

I got most of my yard wiring project done, until I ran outta parts :D.

Now it's a bath for my sore hip, a nice glass of rum and waiting for the woman to get home. I always like her best out of all the choices anyway.

Today was wood stacking day around the old household. Earlier this week I cut a pile of stove length chunks out of the log pile. I figured today was sunny and nice so I spent the morning dragging all the chunks over into racks so that they're easier to find and split later on. Now I can chill out for the rest of the winter, this should make it through till Spring.

A little Thanks of this, a little Giving of that.

It's been a nice holiday around the old homestead.

It started out, as many holidays do when guests are coming, with a project. This Thanksgiving visitor project was new shelves in the studio. From my local lumber yard (Valley Lumber in Monte Vista) I got four 8' long particle board shelves and a pile of 2X2's. They turned into 2 sets of shelves 15" wide by 16' long above the pottery wheels. It was a bit of a trick hanging them above all the junk I needed to move up onto them. :D . Good thing I've got 6 hands.

Then all the stuff moved up off the floor, Bill Burch came by and all the recyclables moved out. I even found an old carpet remnant on a different set of shelves that will make it nice for Crys when she's working out there on her fiber stuff.

Our friend, Val, from Denver brought her 3 dogs and that space was perfect for them to be warm and safe and our cats to be neither assholes nor dead.

Then we made a great holiday meal, our friends Melissa and godson, Mason, came out to enjoy it with us.

Today I'm prepping a wire project for later next week. I'm off for a while yet so I can work on stuff around the casa that I never seem to get to.

A good bid came back on our solar supplies for replacing all the stuff we got on the solar shed. They even included a healthy repeat customer discount. It's gonna be hard for anyone else to beat. I may have to change my opinion on wholesale solar. They kinda made me mad a few years back.

The rest of the weekend will be playing, drinking, relaxing.

Life is good.

Framing, framing, framing

Now is the not showy part of the greenhouse building. It was fun and made good pics when the posts went in and the outside plywood went on. Now is the part where I put in the 2X4 supports which involves lots of cutting and digging and screwing. I got my top and bottom boards on yesterday along with a few of the mid supports then had to quit for lack of wood.

HOLDING FOR WOOD

I'll hope to get back on my framing on Monday, as there are no lumber yards open on Sunday unless I want a nice 3 hour drive.