As usual, you guys were exceedingly nice about my momentary lapse of confidence! I think this happens every fall… must be the lack of sunlight or something… But, sincerely, thanks for the encouragement from everyone! I’m doing better… 81 readers yesterday! I don’t know how you are counted… I spend too much time trying to…
Category: Projects
About Winter…
Pop the cork on the champagne, I’m done with the tile in the bathroom! Well… I grouted today… there’s caulking to do… and the rest of the bathroom… But I am willing to celebrate NOW!!! Grouting was interesting… but I was happy with the way it turned out. It’s the one detail where I went…
It’s… Green!
Well, the snow hasn’t hit yet, and the Riverton Weather radar is down… so I don’t have precision radar… but I guess it is due sometime tonight. Yecch. After riding yesterday BY MYSELF IN GORGEOUS WEATHER WITH JUST DALLY (and some ornery 3 year old cows)… snow and low temps will be hard to adjust…
A-nother Picture of Progress
I am SOOO amaaaaaazingly sssssssssslow… It was an entire week ago that I gave you a peek at my bathroom tiling progress. I’m not that much farther… If I had to pay me by the hour… I’d be mighty mad by now! But progress is progress! Slap those last two tiles on the end wall, insert…
A Picture of Progress
Finally, a picture of progress. Before we started remodeling the bathroom… it was classic 1950’s style. Cool mint green *fake* tile… With a neato fishy on the rear wall! Although there was a shower curtain, notice there is no REAL shower. Remember those you could hook onto the tub spout? Yeah. The tub was original…
Chances Are…
I braved the tiling again… this time mixing just one cup of water with the 2.3 cups of dry thin set. I’m writing that down, so that I don’t forget the ratio! I don’t know why it’s not written on the bag, but it isn’t. The consistency of peanut butter… Thanks to internet research, I…
My New Toy
My new toy… no, it’s not a Wii… (people tell me I should want one, but I don’t think so) no, it’s not a new iPod… (I’m very happy with my “ancient” gum stick iPod) no, it’s not an iPad… (though THAT is on my Big Wish List – the one that I’ll get if…
Fame and …
For those of you who don’t Tweet… or follow me on Twitter… or read the little update in the left hand sidebar… I gotta brag (again). My photo of the storm cloud that hit Ten Sleep made the front page of the local paper. Of course, I sent it to them… and the National Weather Service…
Indian Room – Finished!
OK… So maybe it’s only 95% finished… No curtains yet… No bedspread. Though I’m debating between a microsuede from Overstock.com or dyeing my own duvet cover… No baseboards… One little bare spot I’m looking for a photo frame to fit… It’s gone from peachy walls to warm camel… and now it’s decorated! I AM SO EXCITED!…
I’m Cooking… in More Ways than One!
My mother was a great cook. My sister is a fantastic cook. Me. Not so much. I do it because it is part of the job description for ranchwife… like filing cards in the card file when I was a librarian… or paperwork when I was an archaeologist… there’s always part of the job that…
Indian Room and Q & A
I keep returning to the Mills place to paint and clean and arrange. Finally today the end is in sight for my “Indian” room. Although I’m a proud member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, my Indian collection is pretty much a reflection of the high plains area of Wyoming. I had made a list…
Blue Sky Gift
Wonderful Wyoming did it again… We awoke to rain with an occasional snowflake. For a bit, it was a full blizzard, then it backed off! Needless to say, Vernon voted for his tractor and plowing again, and I blasted off for the Mills Place to throw some paint on the walls. I painted ceilings first,…