One Third

I'm really happy to say that I met my 1/3 goal by Sunday night.... meanwhile I can't show pictures still since the d--- camera batteries died and I can't find the charger... Anyway... I was really happy last night when at 11:30 p.m. rolled around and Hubby came home from working on report cards, and my goal had been attained. I did a research question last night and finished that. I managed to get two cotton questions in my book and I actually started on another cotton question... two actually.... I will spin enough cotton on the charkha to finish the cotton roving question.... and the sizing question... clear as mud?!! Then after all that, I was just too tired to keep spinning while waiting for Hubby to return. After he called to say that he was just leaving, I sat and carded punis... which is a totally mindless job perfect for waiting while being too tired to do anything else.

I do have to get back to the big j.c. and this is the day that I have to do it so.... no level 3 homework. I'm going to miss working on it, that is for sure. But the big j.c. is calling me and I need to have that done by mid March and so the pressure is back on for that one.

I cannot believe that it is the first of March... last year, at this time, Hubby and I were preparing for our house renovation. We were planning and getting things in order for our start day which was April 1st. A year later and there is still a lot of work to be done but I'm not pushing. March break looms and I'm hoping that Hubby will do some then... we will see. If not then we will wait till summer and try to get the rest of the work done then. I am hoping to finish our bedroom and having all winter to ponder it has given me time to think about what I want to do in there.... I have decided to finish the paneling on three walls, drywall one wall and do wall paper on it... then I want to have all book shelves on one wall so that I can do lots of reading in there... (I'm a total read-in-bed addict). I've chosen our bedroom furniture and we have chosen a black leather headboard and footboard in a sleigh bed style with a platform (with drawers in it) for under the bed. That will give us drawers for clothing storage. Then I just need to pick out doors for our closets and I even have room for a small slim electric fireplace.... I can't wait to get it done.... I'm even going to splurge and buy a nice new set of bedding in a pear green shade.... which is a very soothing colour, and of course, that is the point. Soothing... a haven... isn't that what a bedroom should be?

Meanwhile we are all trying to figure out what colour is our new couch.... I say khaki green, Hubby says brown.... and there is now a big debate. The other day I saw in a magazine that the colour of our couch is called espresso.... whatever... there's still flooring to be done in the living room and the sunroom needs flooring, some paneling, and a ceiling and light fixtures. Sadly we are seriously looking at revamping the kitchen to accommodate a wood stove which means more kurfluffle. Suffice it to say that we have a bunch of work left to do.

With spring in the air... (plus temperatures all week this week)... I'm starting to think about house, home and garden.... Life turns outward again and I'm looking forward to spending some time on my deck with a fire in the fireplace... flowers all around.... a new orchard (which was part of the house renovation plan as we will be changing the driveway to accommodate the new front veranda making room for an orchard where the old driveway was). Funny how life is like that. In winter we hibernate, but come spring and life changes... I look forward to it

So life is more than the four walls of this house and my spinning and weaving, and I'm starting to think of other things.... all the more reason to work, work, work, and get the big j.c. finished and then the level 3 homework.

I'm off.... have a real nice day...