Playing catch-up, sort of

I started a remodeling project about the same time I stopped taking a daily photo. Imagine that! What a coincidence! I've taken only a handful of shots the last couple of weeks with the intent of posting them. I think I'm probably done with trying to keep up. Looks like my Project 365 is turning into my Project Less-Than-90 for the second year in a row. Sigh.

Here's a knitting project I started before I started the big paint job. It's now finished and is hanging as a valance in the bathroom.

Jumping on the "recession garden" bandwagon, although we actually started planning the garden last fall. I bought a gazillion peat pots and started seedlings two weeks ago.

Ta da! Three days after planting, these showed up!
The best part of a painting project is removing that pesky blue tape and hoping you don't have a lot of touch-up to do afterward. I do (have a lot of touch-up to do), but that'll come later. If I squint, I don't notice the flaws so much.

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A late-winter snowfall is a real treat. It's beautiful to look at, but you know it'll all be gone by the end of the day!

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The lime tree (which was the first photo I posted this year) has four little flower buds on it – future limes! Sorry for the fuzziness, my auto-focus didn't know where to land and manual focus was a joke, since I'm the manual focuser. Heh.

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My $10 indulgence in the ongoing home-improvement project – the original vents were rusted and nasty-looking. This is so elegant and pretty that I smile every time I look at it. And since it's front-and-center in the kitchen, I look at it frequently!

Recent Photos

I can't even remember what day of the month it is, let alone the year (a la 60/365, my usual naming format). But if I'm ever going to get these photos up, I have to throw the rules out and Just. Do. It.

Cheapest gas price on my whole trip to NC/FL.

Practicing the balance beam at an outdoor park.

The obligatory first palm(etto) sighting in South Carolina.

Gizmo (lookin' kinda yellow, oh well), so happy his daddy is home from the hospital. Me, too!

A day after my arrival home: Snow! It didn't last, thank goodness.

Finally printed out and framed my favorite photo from my last FL trip.

The ice melteth. These icicles formed below the seat
of a wrought iron patio chair. Very cool looking.

It's been hard to get back in the photo-a-day groove. I did this last year, about the same time. Hope to get back to shooting and posting daily soon. SOON!

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See that stack of coasters there to the left? They've been buried in a kitchen cupboard for 12 years. Nearly all of our surfaces are impervious to liquid, thus we don't use coasters. But I decided I needed something pretty for the salt grinder and pepper mill, so I polished a couple of them and put them to use. They make me smile every time I make dinner.

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How cute is this? You know that fat people rarely look in the mirror, don't you? But I can't help looking at the cute new 'do I got Tuesday. Love those little spikes! Amazingly, I have product to maintain the look. Heh.