Spring is Less Than a Month Away!

Hello. Good morning. This last week has totally kicked my ass which is why I have been so remiss at blogging. I have completed painting the dining room! And today I will get some prep done to start painting the living room. I also must run errands today because stuff. Stuff is needed in the grocery category as well as the personal care section of shopping. One of the joys of this past week was five below zero nights in a row which necessitated moving all nontolerant to freezing items from the garage to inside the house. Paint, spray cans and such came inside where it is warm. This is the first time in my five winters here that I have had to do this. The generally mild winter temps here plus the solar gain on the brick exterior kept the temperature above freezing in the garage. The recent cold snap was the coldest stretch thus far here. Back in frigid South Dakota clearing all the things from the garage was a fall ritual that even included cleaning out the garage fridge and decommissioning it for half the year.

Is it freezing in the garage?

Yes. Yes it is.

There was a tiny bit of pampering on Valentine's Day! Once again the amazing Bonnie at the Brick House Salon cut my hair. She gets my curly, cowlicked head and sends me on my way looking fabulous. And right in line with the various water-related issues with this house, the toilet in the basement is sucking water to the tune of a twenty dollar hike in my most recent water bill. After peering into the tank and discovering that there is nothing obvious that my limited plumbing skills can fix, I expect I will have to call my plumber to sort this out. This is a newer toilet that he installed soon after we moved in. The best news would be that it's still under warranty and all I will have to pay for is a house call.

Also, the newest vacuum cleaner in the house has been trying to die for a month or so. The nice people at Shark are sending me a new motor that should arrive in just over a week. Which gives my son a week or two of respite in cleaning duties downstairs. I'm hoping the next few days will be far less interesting. A little mundane is far more fun than appliance and weather disasters.