I’ve been so busy that last few days, trying to accomplish just a few more things before the holiday is over (and we don’t get another one until the end of MAY!) that I haven’t had time to update this. Anyway…

Christmas fridge finally arrived on the 29th. Only five days after they promised it. At least it got here in working order, I suppose.

I wish I’d had just a couple more days to work on this, but at least D & T did like their “menu site” a lot. So…here’s my scabrous ceiling. I scraped off all the loose paint I could, then filled with drywall compound. It’s still wet here, which is why it looks sooooo bad.

01-01-16 was the first time the pond had ice in it. It was out in the middle, so it didn’t affect the Babbling Brook, but colder weather is still to come. I really would like to find a way to keep the pump running because those little birds love their birdy-pool drinking spot. They’d use the main pond, I’m sure, but I want their pool open for business as long as possible. Not sure yet how I’m going to work that.

I’m not sure what kind of vervain this is, but it’s tough stuff! 02-01-16, and it’s still got a couple of little blobs of flowers. Dayum!

On Saturday night, I did the first wave of patching on the ceiling, and (being determined to have at least one pink wall), I put one coat on one wall. Not much, but something, and although I’d thought the colour was going to end up too dark, I was wrong. I like it!

I also got a new 6-cell battery for Cute Little Pink Netbook. My original intent was to use this to run a couple of cameras on Zoneminder, but I wasn’t able to get Zoneminder set up before I had to move on to other things because I was running out of time and tired of an ugly lilac purple bathroom with a badly peeling ceiling. I’ll probably go back to ZM at some point in time, and I like the new battery because it’s bigger and holds the back of the laptop up, allowing for better cooling.

When I was sanding the ceiling and a few dings/etc. in the walls, I had the door closed for dust. Good thing…it was like Halifax harbour at 5:00 on a June morning in there. I had to tape my dust mask to my face because my breath kept fogging up my safety glasses, and working in there without safety glasses and a dust mask would have been utterly foolish.

My hair was particularly glorious. It looked (and felt) like it hadn’t been washed in weeks. I had to use P’s shower on Saturday night, and I washed my hair twice. Ew!

I ended up getting two coats on the west wall, one on the south, and one coat on the little bit above the door. I also got a coat of primer on the ceiling so my showering wouldn’t undo all of my hard work before I’d even had a chance to finish it, and I used up extra primer in the pan by covering the ugly purple around the shower.

Making progress. It does make the bathroom look “different from” the rest of the house, which is all light colours, but I really do like the colours.

I liked it even more after I put my plant shelf back; the contrast between the darker walls and the white trim, and white shelf…it’s crisp and looks clean. I have my Tahka Butterflies shower curtain, and I bought another to make a valence, and also bought a couple of small bath mats in sage green. For that matter, I just now bought a Tahka Butterflies bath mat, but it’s primarily white, so that ain’t nevarr goin’ on no floor! It would make a pretty wall hanging over the toilet, though…I think. Dunno. Anyway, I’d seen it before for $40, but no bath mat is worth that to me, and I just happened to find one for $22. Pretty bathroom is worth that to me.

P was asleep Saturday evening, and I couldn’t sand because of the noise, so instead, I fired up Pink Power and mounted my TV in the living room. It’s easier if it’s mounted because then I can swivel the TV instead of my head when I’m lying on the couch, pinned in place by Miffy.

I went to water the plants last night, and they looked so bad that I did a little grooming and rearranging. I stuck Palmzilla in the corner. Barely fit, but at least it’s not out in the middle of the floor (where it left a damp spot on the carpet, so I stuck a styrofoam cooler lid under it. That tree has it in for my squishy mauve carpet!).