Just for fun

Who says you can't have fun with bees? I was bored the other day and not feeling well so rather than work on the house I thought I would do something artistic with our beehive in the maple tree, or should I say with the pictures of the beehive. Here's what I came up with:

(My artistic ability is limited to point and click on the computer.)

Little Things

I titled this "Little Things" because that is what we have been focusing on since the first of the new year. With the temperature dropping our heating bills have gone up so in order to stay within our budget we have redirected some of the home repair money to heating. The plus to this is that now we can focus on the little touches that tend to get neglected from time to time. So the first one is the china cabinet. Image the cabinet without shelves, the top falling in, the back and sides missing and plaster (along with other debris that I will not mention) inside of the cabinet. That is what it looked like several weeks ago but now we can actually use it. Here are the results:

We have been without a shower for 3 years (but don't misunderstand, we have taken baths during that time). It is nice to have a shower now. We needed to do a tub surround but plastic just didn't look right so after some research we decided that wood could be used, it just takes more preparation. Then came the shower rod, we needed a rod that was free standing and circular in shape. We couldn't find one locally and to order it would have cost a fortune, which we don't have, so we made our own. Copper tubing works just great. Finally the curtain. It needed to be much longer than the ones sold in the stores so Chris made one by sewing panels of plastic/vinyl together.

Although not complete here is what the rest of the bathroom looks like. Chris made the curtains and hung the wallpaper.

                        












Last, but certainly not least, we wanted to use the speaking tubes. Couldn't find original mouthpieces for the tubes so Chris decided to make her own until we could locate originals. And yes, the tubes do work. She can talk to me from the bathroom when I'm in the kitchen.

Stay tuned for more of episodes of "Life with Chris & Richard"

Now that the holidays are over...

Last month was a busy time for us. We had two of our daughters (Camille and Marie), one grandson (Kanoa) and Marie's friend (Daniel) here for the Christmas Holiday. So we had to prepare rooms for them. Nothing finished, just drywalled. They were lucky, the major cold spell came after they went back home. Now that the holiday season is over I should get back to working on the house. Maybe after this week is over. But I did want to post some of Winter's Artwork for those of you who follow my blog. In keeping with the adage "A picture is worth a 1000 words" here goes: