We've
warmed up to more normal winter temperatures and I'm finally emerging
from my state of lethargy. This week I have actually accomplished a
few things, mostly minor but at least I'm ticking some things
off...made more progress on the chandelier, finally got the piece of
copper tubing I need to hang my other art light fixture, filled and hung the big
bird feeder back up, took the recycling to the center and the
newspaper to the vet, returned the tile samples and had lunch with a
friend, got my prayer flags back up (and I do wish the Dalai Lama
would send me some new ones, these are looking a little tattered),
a few other things that I can't recall
right now. Not yard work though. I've stood out there on these
beautiful blue sky days this week looking at the flood and then
freeze damaged flower beds which are pretty pathetic right now
thinking I should be working in the yard and even though the birds
and the 10 petal anemones seem to think it's spring,
I'm just not
feeling the urge yet.
My
goal for today, however, is to jerry-rig one of the antique glass
shades from the light fixtures from the old city house. When I bought
that 100+/- year old house in the mid-70s, one of the first things we
did was to take them down and put up ceiling fans in those three
rooms. As I recall, there was a pink one, a clear frosted one, and a
blue one. I don't know what happened to the blue one, it disappeared
many many years ago and since the clear frosted one needs a
completely different fixture from the one I'm working with, I think
the pink one will go well in my room.
Rocky
stopped last Sunday while I was out pulling up my
hand-full-of-clover-a-day from amongst the bluebonnets (if I don't
pull the clover up it will quickly overwhelm the bluebonnets) to let
me know he thought he would be able to get started on the rest of the
house one day this week which I mentally amended to next week because
that seems to be how it goes. In any case, since I was reminded
yesterday that I promised to donate a piece to a silent auction for
the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo financial aid fund from which my
granddaughter Autumn was the recipient of a grant last year, I need
to start on a piece specifically for that whether Rocky starts next
week or not.
