I strongly dislike mornings. I am always the last one to saunter into the hospital for rounds, I love to sleep and am not afraid to admit it. I keep things very dark when I wake up…practically showering in the dark even. I wish I liked coffee because I am sure it would improve my morning disposition, darnit.

With the renovation of the house the walls in the bathroom we are currently using are peeling BADLY…one morning I am rinsing my hair, cursing the fact that there are such a thing as mornings to begin with and I look up and what do I see…

Goodmorning!!

Yep, he taunts me EVERY day…it looks like he is winking at me. I want to scrape his face off except will not because of the hilarity of the situation. But, he will only be a part of my morning routine for about two more weeks thank goodness and then he has to go…along with all of the walls in that room!

Blogging in a bubble of sorts

I’ve been somewhat out of commission recently. As we continue to renovate, remodel or whatever you want to call it we have been going from room to room.

Well, it was the office’s turn. Adam fell through the ceiling last year while working on the master bath upstairs (above the office) so there was a teeny tiny hole (see photo below) that needed to be repaired. Not to mention the fact that we placed four new can lights in the office and insulation is EVERYWHERE and the 100 year old walls (literally) needed a lot of tlc too. So, to protect things from sheet rock dust, insulation, paint, etc…we kind of just pushed everything together and covered it.

oops

So Adam sends me to Menards on Wednesday with a little list. He also needed some lumber. I went to the construction desk thingy and a very nice man helped me place the order for the lumber I needed.

I checked out and the lady told me to “just drive around the back to the lumber yard and they’ll load your wood”.

Fast forward one hour: I arrive home without my lumber~yep, I forgot to “just drive around the back..” geesh!

We live in a itsy bitsy town-1800ish people on a good day. Once or twice a year there is a “city-wide” clean up which I think is pretty standard for most communities. The ol’ everyone get into the spirit to make our community more beautiful, clean, etc… This year there is something new, though.

For the past several days people have been encouraged to put their trash/junk/what have you items out on their curb for anyone to take.

Basically, it is a free-for-all. People are driving around taking lawn mowers, computer monitors, used mattresses (yuck-makes me itch just thinking about it!), bicycles, you name it. And then whatever hasn’t been claimed by Monday the city will pick up and dispose of it.

I don’t know why I find this whole thing fascinating-I just do. The problem, however is that the homes that really do have stuff that need to be carried to the curb aren’t the ones that are doing so…therefore, the trash still continues. For example, any number of you that live around here are aware of our “new” neighbors across the street that have decided to park a horse trailer in the middle of their front yard~it sure would be nice if someone would back up to that and hook on and pull it off….surely it is included in this whole deal doesn’t it?! We won’t tell if you don’t.