The past week was pretty routine for this time of year, with only a few projects occupying our time. Pam took on a detail painting project and I did updates and housekeeping on the web site. The details are below.
Pam decided to improve the looks of the kitchen by adding some artwork to the splash panel behind the sink. The row of hearts adds detail and interest to this area. Additionally, the semi-gloss-painted hearts serve to keep splashing food particles from staining the white paint.
Another of Pam’s projects included maintenance on JoJo’s feet. We had rain, snow, and ice over the past week and JoJo’s feet are like mops with all the hair growing around her toes. Pam unpacked the dog grooming kit [she received as a birthday gift] and began trimming. As a result, JoJo’s feet are much tidier and she tracks in far less material from her outside excursions. Pam reports the cordless clippers in the kit performed well and will be used again when the other dogs, particularly Bru, need to be groomed.
Speaking of Bru, she has a habit of occasionally licking the air around her. This looks very reptilian in nature. I was able to video her a couple days ago when she was “at it” again.
The appliance repair guy showed up on Thursday and installed a new “igniter” in the oven. (We have not yet received a bill for the work.) The job took about 40 minutes and looked to be fairly simple, but having the correct parts and tools was the key element. It’s great to have the oven back in working order.
Per usual, I was occupied by some outside work; I shoveled light snow from the sidewalks. The new “evaporative pad” for the furnace humidifier was received and installed. However, most of my time was spent updating the web site.
Most of my computer updates are “under the hood” and aren’t that visible. However, should you be interested, I added a few photos to the Heart House and Cats galleries. The video of Bru licking the air was added to a revised Dog Videos page. Squirrel videos were collected and a new Squirrel Videos page was created. Even the Birds Video page was modified with the addition of the Birds at Feeder video. A few typos were corrected and other maintenance performed.
The next time you view this blog, start at the top image and – slowly – scroll down. The block that has “AppleAttic Blog” will turn opaque and allow you to view the image underneath, just about the time the letters hit the top of your screen. I did not have anything to do with this as it is a feature built into the software but I do think it is cool. The image, by the way, is one of mine as the background image can be changed from the default. I will be using other background in the future.
And that is about it for this week. Dog grooming, painting, snow shoveling, and web site maintenance were the top activities that took up our time and energy. I suspect next week will be equally quiet.
Photo Archive
Columbine is the state flower of Colorado and I have taken many photos of them over the years.
That’s it for now. Thanks for looking in!
Pam’s Penny
I feel accomplished — the holiday decor has been sorted, reorganized and stowed away. One of these days I will move furniture and start spackling the walls of the quilt room/guest bedroom in prep for painting. One of these days…
Happy Trails.
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