The almost invisible dog.

Sugar's haircut begins
A mysterious ceiling light

Carry Wood

The firewood people delivered the wood while I was at the animal hospital...I hadn't expected it to be quite as far up the lane....
Japanese oak. Very slow burning. It seems a shame that it is turned into firewood, but there is probably some reason it can't be used for anything else. It is very slow burning. I hadn't realized that everybody didn't have to check their wood fire every fifteen minutes.....

The Tea Room

White paper doors repaired using stained paper with holes in it. Why did I just do that?

Advanced recycling; papering old cupboard doors using paper from inside the old cupboard doors.

X is still a little wary of things that move. Especially large dog-like things that move.

X

the Pig nose
And a Mt Fuji hairline for good luck.

King Tide

spilt coffee for cleaning motivation

School? Time for a bob.
Doors complete. Chuck all the extras into the garden.


installed, it looks like it only needs an hour of cleaning.
Some black lacquer doors are really red. some tinted glass is really not.

X the kitten was waiting across the road from the Meat Shop. I gave him some of the mince I had bought for dinner and he swallowed it down like water. He had been attacked by crows who punctured his trachea, and his skin had filled up with air. So he was actually only half the size and half the age I had thought he was, and it was very lucky that he was still hungry. X will come home from the Hospital on Wednesday. X has two little black dots on his nose. He looks like a little pig. I think X will have to live here.

50-70 year old doors? 1 door, 3-6 h0urs of cleaning. Ridiculous amounts of sticky tape.
toxic green substance for getting ancient sticky tape off lacquer doors.
the floors are getting softer......maybe it's a problem.
School Information. bad map. maybe it's a problem. Wireless printer? It'll never work.
no problem here.

Cold Spaces on the Edges

refrigerator to cold edge of house.

The Woodpile

three different kinds of glass, lots of old sticky tape.


Wood from the 100 year house, delivered after a year of storage. Doors, lacquer worn thin.

What you need to Paint

One 6B and one 8B pencil.
Good oil paint. Black, white, red, blue, yellow.
Two brushes; one thin, one thicker.
A Medium and optional Muse.
Some good canvases.
Time.
No erasers.

The fire

BD
Sugar
Rug


oregano, sage, rosemary, basil, parsley, chives

The Chimney

crusades...
finally, fired
The Chimney man is also the Roof Man, finished off the entranceway roof painting I could not manage. Next year more of the roof will need to be painted.
Two visits to the hardware store for parts. The problem of the chimney? Each time the chimney cleaner only cleaned out the front part of the pipes, leaving those at the back to fill. So hopefully this winter it will work okay.