No, not an exciting post. More reflective than anything. I felt sick today, so I left Steven over at our rent property putting in the final touches in each bathroom, installing baseboards and finishing up the plumbing….yay for him! 🙂 I did help him caulk the baseboards and liquid nailed finishing pieces onto the cabinets in the kitchen. I am convinced that paintable caulk and paint can fix a multitude of ugly! I started to feel ill, so I came back over here. Hopefully he won’t read this post and realize how much of a slacker I am being this evening while he is over there slaving!
These beautiful flowers have been blooming in the backyard of 94 Bungalow (the rent house we are currently fixing up). They are gorgeous and almost look like roses. They come from a ten foot tall bush. I cannot identify them. They do not have a scent and their constitution is very weak, they did not last one day in a vase. So, if anyone knows what they are, please drop me a line.
Yesterday, I had the day off. I realized two things: 1) I seem to never get anything done on my TO DO list, even if I take the day off; 2) that my dog shares my affinity for people watching.
And believe me, there are some interstin’ people to watch on my street! Viv and I packed up the boxes of Christmas presents that we send to Handumanan Village, Bacolod City, Negros Occidental, Philippines. We send gifts to the children and a box of supplies for their school every year. This year, when I emailed our contact over there to ask what they need, she said: the presents are nice, but send school supplies and books. LOL….it is funny to me that the adults find the presents frivolous. They just want basic needs met. But, the kids LOVE the gifts we send. Some of them do not even take them out of their packaging. When some people from our church visited this Spring, they noticed that several of our gifts were on shelves unopened. They did not want to get them dirty. It was more like a trophy not to be touched than a toy to play with. Very interesting. I hope they get around to playing with them.
Vivian had a great time helping me. She kept asking me, “Are we sending these to the kids?” Too cute. Speaking of cute, Vivian and Taavi are getting along better now. She has completely gotten over being jealous and is actually enjoying him now. I catch her singing to him sometimes.
Taavi has a little blue and green turtle that we call Louis. It is his teddy bear. He loves the dumb, stinky, smelly thing. He picked it out himself from PetSmart. Since he would not part with it in the store, I bought it for him.
Taavi is looking more and more like his dad everyday. Would you listen to me? You would think I was talking about my son or something. 🙂 Fortunately, I am not. I do not think Steven would appreciate me comparing Taavi’s looks to his. Here is Taavi’s dad.
When posting these pictures, I saw that Steven snapped this picture of Vivian Thursday. I wonder if she got a whooping right after it was taken. She is positively staring daggers! If looks could kill…
Well, besides a lot of other boring details, I have had a very busy week. Soon to come will be pictures of the finished 94 bungalow. We are finishing up, affixing the details and next week we will refinish the floors and clean up. At that time I will take good after pictures and post the whole album online.
Happy Saturday!
Andrea
Perpetual Renovator 