They now have the pre-primed siding on the south side of the house:
And on the north side:
They’ve also installed the attic stairs:
So things are still moving along up there. How was your week?
Siding and Attic Stairs
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Lookin’ good.
My week was late mind-numbing hours in the simulator — 30 hours.
Cooler weather —– and rain!!!! Between yesterday afternoon and this morning nearly 2 inches.
A lighter color roof would go with the siding better, but the dark roof is needed to melt the snow.
WoW you new abode is looking more like a home…won’t be long now and you will sitting on the couch and looking out into the wilderness 🙂
Most of my week has been about experiments…some have worked relatively well; some have done magical things when I was expecting something else; some haven’t made the grade.
The drawing ‘problems’ have been analysed by a number of people either direct to the drawing or in conversation that my ‘tremor problems’ are part of my style and although I would dearly love to have even lines/curves/etc – I should use the wonky and kinky lines as “ME” style. I guess I should accept that and move on…
Breadmaking has been entertaining and I am much happier with the 2 recipes I used – both use the FP to knead and they have worked well. I don’t just have shaky hands but also weak wrists which would make a 10mins knead a really big ask…
I’m not usually here at this time of the morning on Saturday but the school boy soccer match is on this side of town, so I have luxury of being picked up from home! Although, I do like my harbour ferry ride over as there are only a hardy around that time of the morning and the harbour is not completely cluttered with boats…
I still need to spend a few hours art-making as most of yesterday was about trying to find the table top; looking for lost bits of paper needed to send to my mentor next week 🙂
“WoW your new abode is looking more like a home…won’t be long now and you will sitting on the couch and looking out into the wilderness.”
Let’s get real. The wilderness burned down. And Jean isn’t a “couch” person. She stands at her computer even. Oh well. I should let Jean write her own comments. 🙂
I gave up kneading bread 20 years ago when the bread machine came out.
Mike,
That’s great about the rain! We’ve had a bit here, too. Not enough to need major roadwork, thank goodness. We do love rain too.
Hope next week at work is more interesting.
bikehikebabe,
The roof doesn’t look as bad as we thought it would. We didn’t pick it for the color, but I did a lot of research and it was the best choice for quality and ease of installation. We were willing to sacrifice looks for those two attributes.
Cathy,
It sounds like on the whole your week was a plus. It’s good that supporters are saying develop your own style. One of my mottoes is “Doing the best I can with what I have left.” No sense worrying about what we can’t do. I’m really happy you’re doing these art projects, and I’m excited for you.
It sounds as if the food processor is a real boon. I love the smell of fresh bread. 🙂
bikehikebabe,
Actually it’s still as wild as before even without the trees. A bit sad, perhaps, if one focuses on the loss and not on the great views we have now. In fact, I’m really happy down here so I’m trying to figure out what I need up there when I visit or maybe spend the night.
How often do you make bread? I don’t think I’ve ever eaten any made with a bread machine. Andy prefers store-bought bread because they were poor when he was a kid and his mother made their bread by hand several times a week. She was thrilled when money was more plentiful later in life and she didn’t have to do it any more. It sounds as if your family was well off.
I’ve been wondering about the connection between West Virginia and Sumatra, assuming I’m not hopelessly confused.
It is beginning to look good. I can visualise it looking grand when finished.
Busy. Visitors, and driving to pick them up from the airport, shopping and so on. I fell back on some reading and blogging work.
We make almost all our own bread after we grind the grain, oat,rye,wheat,rice,barley,other. I keep sourdough rye bread abrewing on a heating plate. It’s sour & very chewy. I love it but my kids (offspring) didn’t like it.
My father/mother moved to Sumatra from West Virginia to work for Standard Oil. (He invented the filter that took oil from dark to clear.) My brother & I were born there. Was a leper colony on an island nearby, cobra snakes, lizards in the small house. Four servants came with the house. My mother never got over the need for full time help. Was an adjustment when I got married, had 4 kids & my life was all work. (Hired help was stealing my stuff.)
bread: even though I am still at the beginning stage, I would like to have additional grains and I looked today but because I didn’t keep to last weeks’ budget all that well…those items will have to wait 🙂 I have always wanted to grind stuff since the 1970s when I was in a big “mother earth” lifestyle but the now ex-DH was a “buy everything from the shop” personage (his upbringing has much to do with it!) I think I will look more into grains because before when I was buying Vogels (a special brand NZ) – there were plenty of grains added. But I am just beginning on this adventure 🙂
upbringing: it’s interesting where everyone has come from and for why…my upbringing was nowhere near as exciting as having cobras and lizards in my house…but that doesn’t mean that I’m any worse of for it. However, what was bad was the ‘age of parents’ – when I was just 4yrs my Dad sold his farm and retired, he was nearly 60yrs old!! We lived in an inland town, Taumarunui – look it up if you are interested…it’s quite small, and even smaller now since industry moved-on 🙂
My parents died when I was in my early 20s and we were not on good terms…my eldest sister is still alive and she has just turned 86yrs
I should have said cobra snakes outside, lizards in the house. When you grabbed them by the tail, they left their tails with you.
Rummuser,
I hope you enjoyed the company even though it was a lot of work for you.
Cathy,
Having an elderly parent can be hard on a child. My best friend’s father was 60 when she was born. Her mother was younger but died when my friend was around 10 years old. The father was from Italy and didn’t know much English so he and my friend didn’t have much in common. Fortunately a neighbor gave my friend a lot of loving attention.
On the other hand, as I recall Cary Grant was reasonably old when he had his daughter and it was a great experience for her. He was retired and had all the time in the world for her.
How much are commercial whole-grain breads where you are? In our grocery store they tend to range from around $3 to $5 a loaf! Wow! We buy white bread for my husband and I rarely eat bread.
bikehikebabe,
No wonder you bake your own bread!
So was it your folks who owned the Jones Department Store? If so when did that occur?
http://www.newworld.co.nz/savings/virtual-mailer – however I don’t know which page is “bread” related. I do know that Vogels which is a natural whole grain bread was on special at $3.49 this week. I also like Burgen which is in the next website…
http://shop.countdown.co.nz/#url=/Shop/SearchProducts%3Fsearch%3Dbread – ordinary old white, cardboard bread a lot cheaper – usually a supermarket brand…
then there are places like Bakers Delight and Brumby’s that are like franchises that only do bread and baked goods with “bread” as the main feature.
You’re taking advantage of my admitting I was a Snob because I was a Jones. The three Jones brothers owned Jones Dept. Store. My father’s business was Jones Fur Service, a wholesale storing & repairing of fur coats of states on the Eastern coast. They handled thousands of coats but after the Animal Rights people came, that went the way of the dinosaur. (The linings of the coats had to be taken out to clean the fur, so Mother got thousands of fancy handkerchiefs, which she boiled (germs). I still have a lot.
I’m just a simple housewife.
bhb: I don’t think anyone is assuming anything based on someone’s upbringing. I guess in all of us is a little bit of “attitude” depending on which circumstances we are in…
Cathy, who regularly has an “attitude” happening…life would be so boring if we were all perfect 🙂
bhb: thanks for the heads-up on various things, I understand (or I think I do) a bit more about your life 🙂
Cathy,
Thanks for the links. It sounds as if your prices are about like ours. We buy store brands because all Andy likes is white sandwich bread and the french bread the store has fresh every day. One of Andy’s favorite lines is, “Don’t forget, I still remember going down to the corner store with a nickel to buy a loaf of bread.” I don’t remember bread prices, but I do remember you could get a one-scoop ice cream cone for a nickel (five cents) and two scoops for a dime (ten cents). And candy bars were five cents for most of them, but ten cents for the fancier ones. I am definitely showing my age!
bhb,
Life does keep changing. I’m sorry your father was put out of business.
our coinage has changed…the lowest coin we now have is the 10c. I can see that going the same way as the 5, 2, and 1 real soon.
So even if the bread is priced at $1.99 the only way you get it at that price is with an electronic payment 🙂
Jean got a one scoop ice cream cone for five cents. I got 2 scoops for that. A friend that was older got 3 scoops.
I just learned something. I don’t have to type ten cents when 10c will do.
bikehikebabe – or you could hold down the “alt” key and type 0162 on the keypad…. ¢
° the degree symbol is the same, except that the number 248 is typed on the keypad while holding down on the alt key.
If you’re using Windows, there is a character map on your computer…. Just click Start >> Accessories >> System Tools >> Character Map …. for all kinds of crazy symbols. (I just learned this, just now 😉 )
???????????
? … but pasting from the character map didn’t work here 🙁
Didn’t work on my Mac. You must be using a PC.
alt and 0 made a degree mark. º
alt and 4 made cents. ¢
I just looked up what cent and degree would be in WordPress. If you type & cent ; with no spaces it will give you ¢. For degree (°) type & deg ; with no spaces. The & and ; specify it is a special character. Thank you all for raising the question. 🙂 Where did you find your solution, bhb?
I’m trying bhb’s solution:
alt and 4 ¢
alt and 0 º
Is that just for the Mac? It works if I type it in a test post.
If I type in 0-9 holding down the alt key I get:
º ¡ ™ £ ¢ ? § ¶ • ª Interesting choices.
Mike,
I couldn’t try your method tonight because I’m using my MacBook and it doesn’t have a numeric pad. I’ll try it tomorrow using our regular Mac.
Forgot to say thank you, bhb. That’s an easy way to do it.
I just wrote my post for Cheerful Monk and found out I had been hacked at least two times. One was last week, the other on May 5th. I phoned Hostmonster about it and the fellow said the hackers were just trying to increase their Google ranking by having me link to them. The interesting thing I happened to look at last week’s HTML file and there was something at the very end. It was didn’t show up on my blog, but in addition to the link there were the code for the characters
идея за подарък
in one case, and the code for the characters
геоложки проучвания
in the other case. According to the tech support person they accessed my account through WordPress, not by guessing my password. I’m up-to-date with WordPress, so there’s not much I can do. And apparently no real harm was done.
Life is full of surprises!
Mike,
When I tried your numbers with the & and ; I got
& #0176 ; °
& #0162 ; ¢
& #248 ; ø
Again, I needed to put in the spaces so WordPress wouldn’t convert the string to a character.
It’s interesting where a “building status” has led. I haven’t been able to try out any of your characters as my PC laptop doesn’t have a numeric pad – and nothing else worked. But I guess “word” does have those type of things…
Thank you all for raising the question. 🙂 Where did you find your solution, bhb? (from Jean)
I asked my husband & he knew even tho’ he doesn’t use º or ¢ not sending email.
°
¢
for Jean…
I was feeling a bit financially challenged from the downed tree in my yard; everyone wanted a fortune to remove the debris. The insurance company will not cover it; it didn’t cause any damage, is their reasoning.
I resolved not to worry. The tree might be around for a year, until I save the needed amount to have it removed. Such is life.
Then I had a visitor who wanted firewood. This oak is perfect. He claims it will be enough to last for at least a year. So we agreed…no monies exchanged… he gets the tree and I get my yard back! I might also put in a coy pond where the huge hole is left from the tree. Wouldn’t that be nice?(smile)
Cathy,
Thank you for trying. Did you put the ; last?
Dixie,
I’m sorry about the tree but glad someone will take it away for you. I love win-win solutions!
Jean, I just and paste what you had sent in an email…never-mind one day, it will happen “just because” 🙂
Cathy,
I’m sorry it didn’t work. It must be just another one of the mysteries of the universe. 🙂