No the title of this post is that because I chucked everything this morning for a quick trip to town... and why did I head off to town.. Oh yeah! I went and got the new flooring. Oh yeah! Like how long has that been in the offing.
I actually have enough flooring to do the whole downstairs. (I don't need to do the upstairs since that has nice pine flooring and because there's no serious traffic going over it I find that the flooring up there can stay just the way it is. Downstairs however... sucks. Teapot and I decided to get rid of the cream coloured Berber carpet when we got Tootsie back in 2005. We've lived with the floor as subfloor style plywood ever since.... which let me tell you is gross, nasty and any other like adjectives that you can think of. I went so far as to paint it red a few years ago and even that has worn off and looks blah. So a few weeks ago I went into Windsor Plywood in FSJ for a couple of sheets of plywood for the wood burned tiles I am making for the ceiling in the sun room. While I was there I had a quick look at the flooring.... and so I fell in love. There before my eyes was a laminate (not wood) flooring that suited exactly what I wanted to do in our house... and nicest of all was that the price was right. It is a vinyl/recycled rubber stuff that looks gorgeous. Really! I know most people will go, "Vinyl!... Yuck!" But really what they can do these days with that stuff is amazing and for us with dogs that barf periodically and cats that hork up fur balls and they all leave deposits occasionally. (Jiggs generally doesn't and Narmie's pretty good but piss Bailey or the cats off and they get mad mad mad and leave a lovely little package smelly beyond belief.) And the amount of mud and dirt would just ruin wood flooring over time not to mention their toe nails. So vinyl is our best option. And what's best is this stuff is awesome to lay... you need a rubber mallet and a saw. Like, that's it. If I was capable of cutting the darn furnace vents out I'd have the sun room done this afternoon. Really! Me. By myself.... it's that easy.
Have a look and see for yourself...
Yesterday I finally got a day to sit out in this beautiful sunshine... well in between thunder storms... I even got a bit of a tan. Nice! While sitting on the deck I had the opportunity to watch a swallow. They have been hanging around and usually each year, they find a way to nest somewhere in the eves of the house... sure enough while I was sitting there a wee barn swallow came and disappeared in under the eves of the house. Somewhere in the roof there are a bunch of nestlings being hatched into the world. Then today I had the opportunity to watch a pair of geese try to lead their goslings across the highway... they got scared and headed back the way they came because of the traffic. But it was so cute watching that long line of little goslings innocently following their mom and dad.
When I went to town last week to celebrate my friend's birthday, I noticed that she had a wee canary in a cage in the kitchen. I asked her about it and she said it was to brighten her life in the depths of winter... I suppose she has a point. The sweet little thing was flying around and chirping like crazy. Bird song is always a pick-me-up don't you think? Still, I felt bad for it since it looked so caged... so unfree. Birds are supposed to zip through the air aren't they? I'm just saying... I'm not sure I could cage something that needs so much space to fly just for my own gratification. I don't mean to be judgemental... I'm sure there are lots of people who love their birds.... (there you go back in the gutter again: ) but I think I can safely say that I am not one for caged birds as pets.
At the time we were discussing her canary she told us how it was not good to give it tap water... I asked why and she said that it was because of the chlorination. Evidently the guy she bought her canary from fed one of his breeding pairs tap water and they died because of the chlorination in the water. This in and of itself is disturbing since we drink that stuff... but then I got to thinking about it once I was home and I began to worry about all the times I've made hummingbird food from tap water.... I mean how many hummingbirds have I inadvertently killed over the years. So from now on it is distilled water all the way in my hummingbird feeders.
So there you have it a little bit about chucking it all for a quickie and some more about everyone's favorite thing.... birds..... now you're all back in the gutter again ... aren't you?!
Well I can't be resting on my laurels today... I have flooring to get to... see ya later...
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