which makes me feel that there is no earthly reason for going outside at all. i did feed the birds, doling out extra food so i won’t have to go out again more than once, maybe not even that.
the snow is back. it is ridiculously cold. why, again, do we live here? why, again, aren’t we planning some kind of winter escape?
it was pretty back on january 2nd, when there was no snow and the sun was fading and the lights came on. a fancy supper club for the animals out there.
yesterday, there were many birds plus this squirrel.
here’s he’s clearly posing for me, looking right at the camera.
while i sit here upstairs andx look out at the birds and the water and i know it’s so beautiful but i don’t want to be outside, kevin has been down in the basement, hard at work yet again. on tuesday the 4th we took down all the christmas crap. kevin dragged the tree out the front door, leaving a huge wake of needles, and when he got it out the door he took down some lights on the front porch and knocked over the chair and made a spectacular mess, which i should have recorded for posterity, but i was too busy sweeping up. damn my obsessive cleaning :).
he carried the many xmas tubs into the basement and said he was going to stack them in the pool room until he moved the wall, when he’d stack them in the part of the basement where they were before.
yeah, it’s a crazy huge place down there, and i figured it would be at least a month or so before he started in on the wall, if then. see, the new part of the basement is sectioned off, and the pool room has this one wall that is much too close to the pool table and ever since we moved in, kevin has talked about moving the wall back so there would be more room, plus moving the metal pole in the floor.
hmm. if you move the big metal pole, won’t this whole side of the house cave in?
anyway, THAT AFTERNOON he started in on the wall. the thing that bums me out is that i have absolutely no pictures of what the room used to look like – it’s never been the most photogenic place, and i never had a reason to take a picture.
here he is, taking off the supports for the shelving on the OTHER side of the wall, the place where we had many tubs stacked. why didn’t i walk around to the pool room side and snap a photo?
here’s mom taking a look, the nbext day. she’s basically standing where kevin had been, and behind her is the pool room. at this point kevin has already moved the wall.
oh, what a mess. kevin thinks it’ll be easy to clean up because mostly everything is in tubs.
yeah, we have an extra fridge down there, plus to the right of it is a stove. it was grandmother’s stove; it’s electric, and it gets really hot and is fabulous for making pizza. one time i flipped a pizza over on the floor of the oven, and i’m not sure if it ever got cleaned off. i think the mess burned off over time. it’s also great to have an oven down there in case i’m making many things at once, which i do more often than you’d think, plus it’s nice that i can cook something down there and not heat up the house in the summer.
here’s the room with no wall. he hasn’t moved the pole yet – it’s covered with halloween lights – and he’s decided that he might not move it after all. the pole by itself isn’t such a huge impediment to playing pool, not like the big wall. plus, of course, it would be nice if the whole house didn’t come crashing down into the basement.
here’s the whole place.
here’s the new wall on thursday. he’s hard at work down there right now, putting more…what is that stuff called? on the seams. he put in an extra electrical outlet, and he’s been working like crazy.
ok then, i hope your saturday is warm.
mrs. january hughes.