we need some RANDOM

Ten thousand phone calls, demo started, a surprise visit from my brother L, and two trips to the mechanic, bitter biting cold, dusty demo house, do I have PMS?
You may contemplate what you wish, or view the carnage.

As the four of us will now be sharing the downstairs bathroom, K decided to install an exhaust fan. We have plaster walls. And look at the wallpaper he found.



Oh, and, that shower rod is NICELY PATINA-ED, DO YOU HEAR ME? PA-TEEN-AH.
Turned out he needed 'the big guns' and had to borrow them from our Australian friend.



The big gun(s).



The first sign of spring.
Yep. When the suet goes on sale you just KNOW that spring is around the corner.



Pork and hominy stew. Which is damn fine.



Gifts from Japan. On Youngest's bedroom door.



I cleaned out my 'office' which is really a drawer and two cabinets.
I'm pretty sure that I have purchased colored pencils every school year for ten years.
And here they are.



This is my impressive collection of paint chips.
I'm sure I could have made business card holders with them (I saw that last week on the internet) but I THREW THEM OUT.



The view from Youngest's room.
Sometime soon I am going to do a post of windows at night.
K says I'm a voyeur, I say WHATEVER.



Yes. It expired it 1994. I had wondered why this lotion failed to take the itch out of bites.



This is medication that we got from the lovely doctor on the island when Youngest had pneumonia. It worked very well at clearing his breathing and raising his heart rate significantly. When we returned home I looked it up - it has been removed from the market (in the free world) for a decade.

Never mind - just LOOK how terrific my office looks:




My reward.