A Depends Moment.

Do you remember the post I wrote a while ago about meeting a bear while driving down the road near our house?  Well, it just gets better and better.


Last night as Mr LC and I were taking our daily constitutional we happened upon a bear about 50 up the road from us.

Definitely a reenactment.

I turned around and headed for home so fast it would make your head spin.  I did wait long enough to see the bear run off when he heard me screaming talking.  I turned around to see Mr LC head off toward the spot where we saw the bear.  What are you doing? I shrieked while running in place.  I just want to see where he went says Mr LC all calm and crazy like.

Finally (it seemed like an hour)  Mr LC heads toward home behind me.  I turn around again and wait for him to catch up.  Wow he marvels aloud. I didn't know you could run that fast.  Aggghhhh!

Reenactment photo from here

Brain Explosion.

I don't know where to start.  There's so much going on around here and I don't even have time to write posts much less take pictures to go with them.  I ran outside just now and snapped a couple.

It's been really hot here this summer which is amazing.  Things still look pretty green though.

I'm still getting orders for cushion covers.  It seems unbelievable to me.

The living room is almost finished being painted.  It's slow going because Mr LC is repairing the plaster and I have to follow along with painting at his speed.

I know I still haven't taken pictures of the bathroom because I don't have any dodads or pictures on the walls yet.

Mr LC is making four sets of drapes for other folks as we speak.  Besides looking like a tip, the dining room is now festooned with drapery fabric.

I have a repetitive stress injury in my left shoulder which  involves physio therapy and acupuncture.  I'm not allowed to be on the computer more than twenty minutes a day.  Laptops are the devil.

I'll now insert a picture.

We have to go to a wedding this evening.  Did I tell you I hate weddings?

My shoulder is killing me so I have to go.

Guess what,  WE'RE GOING TO FRANCE FOR THREE WEEKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm going to Paris and eat a macaron.  Don't anybody try and stop me either.

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I'm On a Roll.

I mentioned in my last post that I won a blog giveaway from Frugal Farmhouse Design blog. Well guess what, I won another giveaway as well!

FringeGirl from The Domestic Fringe had a dress giveaway.  I'll let her model the dress for you.

Image stolen from here.

Isn't she cute?  Isn't that dress cute?  Believe me it looks much better on her than on me.  The poor girl had lost some weight recently and it was too big for her so she had a giveaway.  Companies are always sending her free clothes.  She told me her secret was to just put your photo out there.  I'm too shy. I'll just hope she keeps losing weight and passes the clothes on to me.  Go visit her blog.  She'll make you laugh, she'll make you cry, and she'll make you think. She's one of my besties.

I've also won a couple more giveaways so stay tuned.  I tell you, I'm on a roll and I don't mean bread.

I WON!!!!!!!!!!

A little while ago I won a gorgeous giveaway from Lori at White Flower Farmhouse .  She was giving away one of her gorgeous little sailboats made of driftwood with a linen sail.

Photo from here

Lori also included the starfish and a huge bouquet of sea lavender.  I've been drooling over her little sailboats for a while now.

She has a wonderful blog called Frugal Farmhouse Design and she does the most wonderful things to houses for next to nothing.

When she announced me as the winner she told everyone about my blog and my Etsy shop.  How sweet is that?

Thanks so much Lori for your generous giveaway!  Everyone sprint on over to visit her.

Almost Finished. Gardens.

My bathroom is almost finished!  Just some paint touch ups to do but the bathroom is fully functional.  I just go in there and look around a  lot.

Here's my floor:

Here's my shower tile:

I love the gray grout.  I wasn't sure before I saw it, but I'm glad I chose the gray.  Who wants to clean white grout all the time?  I've got better things to do.

I'll show more photos when I get the room purtied up.

In other news Mr LC finally built me a raised garden bed.

I already want another one!  Next year I hope.

I hope the birds and or deer don't get to it before I do.  I've put Sassy on guard.

Sassy on guard duty.

My white roses are out in full force.  They smell so wonderful.(ly?)

Nestled among the forget-me-nots. 

Well, gentle readers, that's all I have for now.  I hope you're enjoying some fine weather where you live.  If it's anything like ours, you may freeze tonight!

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

Look at my poor bathroom.

This was yesterday.

It gets worse.  Here's today:

That blue stuff is spray foam insulation that we did a few years ago.  It made all the difference in the world in keeping the house warm. Those floor joists are too far apart by today's codes.  I can't believe we haven't fallen through the floor by now!  Last night the guys hooked the toilet back up for us.  Tonight, maybe not. At least we have an outhouse out behind the house. ewww.

Beyond those studs is our back porch/laundry/junk room.

These clapboards were found under an inside wall.  Looks like this part of the house was built on later.  Why oh why weren't they taken off?  Ah, sweet mystery of life.

The builders found some dog and cat food between the old floors.  Looks like Millie isn't doing her job.

Well, that's the bad and the ugly.  The good part is that we are getting it done!

Tomorrow, I will show you what I got for the floor tile and the wall tile.  (If I can find it!)  Now all the bathroom stuff is also in the dining room along with all the living room stuff.  The contractor guys just laughed when they saw the living room.  I don't know what's so funny. hmmm

When All is Said and Done. Extra- Broken Item of the Week!

I'm so finished with this.  There's nothing I can say.  There's nothing I can do.  I'm so tired of it.  I've all but tuned out.

I'm so over this living room.  Why, what did you think I meant?

The living room has now been cleared out by me and the carpet rolled up.  Mr LC started repairing the walls himself but now he's outside finishing up a shingling job from three years ago on the back of the house.  I may never see my living room finished. 

The shingling job ended up in a Broken Item of the Week.

Shaken off the window sill by incessant hammering outside.

My dining room still looks like an episode of Hoarders even though I donated two carloads of stuff.

You should see the floors!  No, maybe not, you may never talk to me again.

Tomorrow we are having our bathroom redone.  Don't worry, Mr LC's not doing it this time.  I want it finished so we hired the job out.  He offered to do it but I kindly told him I really wanted it to be finished in a timely manner.  He just smiled.  He knows.

Then he offered me a trip to Cuba!