Or on yet another gloomy day. Although the newspaper said the sunshine yesterday and tomorrow, and perhaps Monday and Tuesday, will keep this from being the cloudiest December on record.
It was a quiet, good day here…at least after I got out of work. I was so tired that I slept for two hours near dusk! Now we're watching the movie Michael. :-)
Pretty, bright, warm and sunny. Good, 'cause we're heading into a cold stretch (non-remarkable). Just playing catch up after an exhausting (if fun) day yesterday.
Getting acclimated to my new space heater which has a picture (moveable) of fire on the front. It's placed on the other side of the table so I hear the fan more than I see the picture, which is fine.
listener--I am not where I can access the link or the recipe for mincemeat muffins, but I will send it to you when I get home. I thought I had posted the link here, but evidently not.
A light frost again this morning; ground not damp enough for more than a bit of fog. Beautiful sunrise (the sun peeked over the mountains at 0711 hrs). Lowest temperature ont the way to work was -1C, so about 30F. People seem mostly to be finding things other than going to the hospital to do today. The new non-slip work shoes/Chelsea boots Santa brought me REALLY are non-slip! (Tested on a just-mopped, still wet linoleum floor.) Hmmmmm..guess I am dating myself; it hasn't really been linoleum for decades, but the modern equivalent, whatever that is.
The bit about "linoleum" triggered my curiosity because I knew the term is still use. So I looked it up. Most of what is today referred to as linoleum is really polyvinyl chloride, but true linoleum is still occasionally used.
When I was rehabbing my slave era overseers house, the kitchen had, about four layers down the original linoleum from about 1910 (kitchen addition added that year). The center had been walked down to the black, but the edges were still new looking and pretty. And impossible to get up. (Evidently they just glued the perimeter.). So I just penciled a square box on the now bare wood floor, and filled in the jaggedy area with small gray and green checks--colors matching the original linoleum. Then did a band of gray and a band of green. And painted all our new recycled kitchen cabinets in the same green. Looked like I'd planned the whole thing. My favorite kitchen, evah!
Dean is First, in snow or rain.
ReplyDeleteOr on yet another gloomy day. Although the newspaper said the sunshine yesterday and tomorrow, and perhaps Monday and Tuesday, will keep this from being the cloudiest December on record.
ReplyDeleteIt was a quiet, good day here…at least after I got out of work. I was so tired that I slept for two hours near dusk! Now we're watching the movie Michael. :-)
ReplyDeletePretty, bright, warm and sunny. Good, 'cause we're heading into a cold stretch (non-remarkable). Just playing catch up after an exhausting (if fun) day yesterday.
ReplyDeleteGetting acclimated to my new space heater which has a picture (moveable) of fire on the front. It's placed on the other side of the table so I hear the fan more than I see the picture, which is fine.
listener--I am not where I can access the link or the recipe for mincemeat muffins, but I will send it to you when I get home. I thought I had posted the link here, but evidently not.
ReplyDeleteA light frost again this morning; ground not damp enough for more than a bit of fog. Beautiful sunrise (the sun peeked over the mountains at 0711 hrs). Lowest temperature ont the way to work was -1C, so about 30F. People seem mostly to be finding things other than going to the hospital to do today. The new non-slip work shoes/Chelsea boots Santa brought me REALLY are non-slip! (Tested on a just-mopped, still wet linoleum floor.) Hmmmmm..guess I am dating myself; it hasn't really been linoleum for decades, but the modern equivalent, whatever that is.
--Alan
The bit about "linoleum" triggered my curiosity because I knew the term is still use. So I looked it up. Most of what is today referred to as linoleum is really polyvinyl chloride, but true linoleum is still occasionally used.
DeleteWhen I was rehabbing my slave era overseers house, the kitchen had, about four layers down the original linoleum from about 1910 (kitchen addition added that year). The center had been walked down to the black, but the edges were still new looking and pretty. And impossible to get up. (Evidently they just glued the perimeter.). So I just penciled a square box on the now bare wood floor, and filled in the jaggedy area with small gray and green checks--colors matching the original linoleum. Then did a band of gray and a band of green. And painted all our new recycled kitchen cabinets in the same green. Looked like I'd planned the whole thing. My favorite kitchen, evah!
ReplyDeleteDon't you love it when that happens?
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