Happy Friday!! It is a rainy one here. Good thing I just have TILING on my To Do list today. Yes friends, I actually stuck tile to floor last week! Check it out.
Here is what I have learned so far if any of you happen to want to tile your own floor. 1) It is not hard. 2) It IS tedious. 3) It IS messy. I am still quite the novice at this and have not started cutting tile yet. If you notice in the picture I just got the whole tiles down. Today’s challenge is to test the cutter out. I have a manual cutter and hopefully that will work for the most part. There are a few pieces that will have to be cut lengthwise and I’m 99% sure my cutter will not do those. Bless my friend Helen. She has a wet saw we can borrow.
My goal is to get all the cut pieces down and mortar set so by Wednesday I can start the grout process. I need this first room done before we can move on to the rest of the house. You know, that whole move stuff out of one room so you can do the other room process.
All artwork is on hold probably until July. There simply is no time. It is all I can do to keep up with my design work right now. Gardening season is upon us and D. is chomping at the bit to get seeds in the ground. I am throwing a box of stuff in the car every trip up to D’s in my attempt to make a SLOW move this time. My last couple of moves have been fast and stressful. Now that process is reaching critical mass and we are having to make more and more decisions on what stays and what goes and how fast can it go.
Next week my town is having a recycling day. I am dropping off a carload! The next weekend the theatre company I work for is having their annual yard sale. Guess who will be dropping off a TRUCK load? Can you tell I am beginning to feel a little overwhelmed???
With all this going on I have avoided thinking about spending any time drawing or painting and started distracting myself with gardening ideas. Too much time on Pinterest will make you crazy. I started studying medicinal herbs, and decided to expand my herb garden this year. That started me thinking about my future bees and how to help them. That lead me to studying permaculture and now I have another whole list of projects for the farm. Someone please take my ipad away from me or slap me when I am on Pinterest or YouTube!
Soooo, about those bees. I spent Easter with Mom & Dad. Dad got me the bee hive for Christmas and has it put together now. It’s time to get the bees for it. The plan was to hopefully get a split from one of his hives. No such luck this year so I told him to go ahead and get me a nuc when he and my brother-in-law pick up their order next week. Then I asked him when we can get the bees settled in their new home.
Dad sort of hesitated and replied “Well, I need to keep them here for a little while so I can keep an eye on them and make sure they are alright.” Ok, I have to admit that my thought at that moment was…”Dad, I got your grandchildren to adulthood without losing, starving or maiming them, I think I can handle some bees.” I refrained. MAYBE I will get bees these year.
Since I have been slack for the past couple of weeks about including some environmental information I will recommend the documentary Vanishing of the Bees. The link take you to the website, but you can watch it on Netflix. We need the bees.
Have a wonderful week and go plant some flowers for the bees this week.
Flooring photos by yours truly.
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