Making some personal care products
(Photo by Caleb)
Deodoerant
Snapped a few photos while driving of the sheets of icicles that formed on the cliffs ….
this is the best of the bunch.
I took this picture of a person fishing… turns out it is a mooring or whatever you call a post that you can tie a boat to.
Dave at the Minneapolis Home and Garden Show.
It was a great weekend, but the show wasn’t much.
Kevin’s current knitting project. I love the color combination.
Jeb is visiting again.
Jeb with his new tire tub leash. Kind of cool.
Can you see them?
Hanging out in the back yard?
Alert, but not too concerned, three deer
It wasn’t until I spoke did two of them decide to get up.
We drove by, but I made Dave turn around so I could get a few shots to share with you all. I’ve never see deer so close to a house in the middle of the day, just hanging. When I got back in the car they all settled back down.
Hansel and Gretel
My mom and dad got these two lovelies in Europe about 45 years ago.
Sunflash
Lake Pepin. Can you imagine the Ingalls family (Laura Ingalls Wilder) driving the horse drawn wagon across this worried the whole trip that they might have timed the crossing too late in the season?
Bald Eagel right outside the national eagle museum. It took me awhile to whip out my camera, when I first spotted it she was sitting next to the garbage can.
She is fishing.
We saw a handful of eagles that day, mostly flying overhead.
This is an old drawbridge in Prescott WI
Have you ever been to Prescott? Very nice little town,
Dave and I would like to go back in the summer.
This is for you, Colleen G.
Happy Valentine’s Day
Erin made this yummy cake.
Well, I might not have shot each and every photo on the dated indicated and there might be one or two photos that my oldest took back in December, but there is a photo for every day in February and that is saying something, cause February was a crazy busy month!
This is our Christmas gift from my mom isn’t it nice!
It is simply beautiful. Thanks mom
Once when I was in College I drew a tree by drawing the negative space,
I’m pretty sure it wasn’t like this.
Lake Pepin on the Mississippi.
Along the Mississippi
There will be many shots of the River… so beautiful.
Happy Birthday Kevin!
What came first, the innate need to organize one’s life in the winter months or the commercial hype about January and February being the months to get your life organized? I don’t know, but I always seem to find myself with that desire to bring more order to my life in the first two months of the year. Remember this photo I shared a few months back?
All of that junk those treasures just waiting for a proper home have relocated to
here
and here
and here
and the storage closet now looks like this
and this
I had to take everything out so that I could pull up the gross stinky carpet. The PO installed off white berber carpet throughout the entire upstairs and the stairway. It made for a unified look, BUT we have animals with bladder control issues and a homestead so keeping it clean became an issue and we knew early on we were going to tear it out. This closet area had the last of it!
So glad to have it gone even if we are left with this
The floors are the original wide plank flooring. I believe the entire upstairs had painted planks with large area rugs and floor runners which we will probably mimic.
The walls are not in that bad of shape, some patching but not as bad as the bedroom that we just finished. This room will serve both as our bedroom closet and a storage room so we are building storage shelves that will line both walls including above the doors.
Here is the work-plan for this room:
- Patch walls
- strip trim
- paint trim
- paint walls
- build storage shelves
- wash floor
- paint floor
- move in storage
then it will be onto the bedroom trim project that I talked about starting in Janurary.
Oh, and I am still working the 365 project February’s photos will be posted soon. It was a long month for the shortest month of the year!
