Angela Law

animal lover, gardener, knitter, and gourmet cook
 
do-it-yourself

so tired

I cannot wait until the playhouse is done. I really need to sit down and relax for a few minutes. Tonight, we stained half of the siding. The other half is planned for Friday. We ran out of time this evening, but it doesn’t really matter because we would’ve run out of stain anyway. I guess a trip to the paint store is in order.

The only thing that’s keeping me going is the fact that once this playhouse is done, we don’t have anything else pending for the summer (that is, since we decided to contract out the one major job that was previously planned). Sure, there’s a lot of little stuff to do, but I can handle that. It’s the jobs that take four weeks that wear me down.

And I’m still behind on my gardening and I’m still blaming that on the weather. The weather is supposed to get nice starting tomorrow so maybe if I can find some spare time this weekend, I can get caught up on things.

All I can say is that the little bugger better like the playhouse!

music

rocky 92

It’s a stupid name for a radio station, but I’ll take it. They’ve apparently replaced “The Rock 92.1”. Brian alerted me of the change this morning. I’ve been listening to them this morning, and I have to say, it’s quite an improvement. They seem to focus on new stuff and metal from the 80’s and 90’s with a little bit of classic rock thrown in. I can live with a little bit. Check it out.

do-it-yourself

playhouse update

Despite the weather, we’ve been working our butts off on the playhouse. We’re not as far as I hoped we’d be at this point, but we still have a good shot of completing this before Jake’s birthday. Even if it isn’t complete, I suspect that only minor stuff–like trim–will be left. Close enough. At this point, the structure is built and the siding is up. Up next: some painting and staining. After that, we’ll shingle the roof.

Jake still doesn’t have a clue. He sure is gullible. 🙂 I really think he’ll like the playhouse. I mean, who wouldn’t?

food & drink

wine update

Last weekend, Brian and I bottled two batches of wine–Pinot Noir and Mataro-Shiraz. Both were quite tasty. This bottling came just in time–my wine racks were starting to look rather bare. But, that problem has been solved as I put the wine on the racks yesterday.

I have two more batches going at the moment–Chardonnay-Viognier and Riesling. We’ll probably be bottling those next month. Not sure of the exact schedule…

I have one more kit that hasn’t arrived, an Australian Petit Verdot. I’ve never heard of this type of wine, so I’m looking forward to trying it. I won’t be making that one until the summer, though. I’ve decided that I’m definitely making strawberry-zinfandel this summer and I always like to have two batches going at once (it takes less time to bottle two batches at once versus two batches separately), so I’ll make the Petit Verdot after I get the strawberry-zinfandel started.

This concludes this week’s wine update.