Lost

We we're really productive and we got a ton of things done this weekend, not that I'm bragging. Believe me most weekends I am lucky to get laundry hung out. This weekend though we finished the plaster repairs in our bedroom where huge chunks had fallen from the wall when we removed the wallpaper last month. At first we were worried because we thought all the walls were falling down until we realized that in both places there was an old conduit --one for the chimney and the other for the heating unit downstairs and the plaster was old and weak in those places.

Plaster is really difficult but I thinks we've mastered it. We worked as a team with me making the batches (a lot of small batches because you don't want too much at one time) and Seb doing the actual filling. While I mixed plaster he sanded the walls and then he'd run over and do the filling when I told him it was ready. At the end of the weekend not only did we have the plaster done but we were ready to start thinking about wallpaper and paint. I can't wait until we have one complete room finished in the house.

We also worked in the yard a lot because it was such beautiful weather and we couldn't resist going out every hour or so to cut something or rake some leaves. Sometimes when one of us comes in after being gone for an hour on any given weekend these days we will explain to the other apologetically"oh yeah, I got lost in the garden..."


It's not a bad thing and the other person knows exactly what you mean because the garden is extremely seductive and wonderful. I got lost for 45 minutes on Saturday pruning roses! I found these fabulous pruning shears that are just like a pair I own but that are in storage and I was so excited that I had to go immediately and cut the brambles ! So getting lost in the garden on the weekend around here is totally normal.