facing forward

I did one other thing on the last day of the old year besides cover things and gather all the green tomatoes. I pulled up half my lettuce and half of what I pulled up I put in glasses of water and the other half broke off the roots, washed it, and put it in the refrigerator. 

Then I covered what was still in the ground. I'm thinking I might replant the lettuce in water in pots and keep it in the house for easy access but it is cold cold cold today. Weather service says 30˚ but the water in the bird bath isn't frozen.

Yesterday was mimosas and blueberry pancakes for breakfast and binge watching Game of Thrones all day with one dog on each side. Now, all the holidays are done and a new year is ahead, a year to gird our loins for the upcoming fight for our country.  Everything could change next November and of course, there is Mueller who knows way more than he is letting on. 

Country aside, as soon as Rocky can work me back in his schedule he will start on the little bathroom and then the back bedroom. I'm hoping it will all be done by the end of March if not before. I need to start looking at tile and deciding on how I want the bathroom. The shower will have to be replaced with another tiled shower because none of the preformed units are small enough. It's a tiny bathroom, basically 5' x 5', and we can't really enlarge it without moving walls and tearing up the slab and moving the plumbing including for the toilet. What I had before was a tiled shower, formica on the bottom half of the walls and sheetrock on the top half, and linoleum floor tiles. So, tiled shower for sure as it's the only option and maybe a tiled floor and not sure about the walls or the bottom half of the walls tiled and vinyl on the floor.

I also need to decide what I am going to do about these two little etched glass jobs. Mostly deciding do I want to do them. Still need to sort through the last bag of full size drawings and see if I can find the ones I might need. They don't seem to be listed in the full size art archive, at least not by client name. With my luck, they would have been in the bag that got soaked and I threw out without even looking through it.

On the other 'work' front, I declined to be part of a show in February at the gallery. Ordinarily I would have jumped at the chance to be part of 'Myth, Religion, and Tall Tales' but I only had six weeks from the time I was notified til they wanted the work and the holidays were part of that six weeks and with construction starting up again this month there was just no way I could have gotten something done without being totally stressed out and I'm just not doing stress this year. When I do get back to work on the pate de verre I'll be casting the large drowned feather pieces and starting on a special order for a friend, a hummingbird. She wanted to send me money after the flood and I wouldn't let her so we're compromising.

Well, I was going to go out and look at tile today but it's just too damn cold out there so I think I'll stay home and make potato leek soup instead if I can pry Minnie off my lap.