January Blues

No posts last week because both Mike and I got worse before we got better. Mike is back to work this week and I am finally on the mend too. The weekend was unusual in that I had no voice. I think maybe Steve liked it because I was very quiet. We did get to a Walleye Hockey game with our friends Ed and Hilary and although the Walleye lost it was great to see the new arena. The seats were fine in our opinion and according to Ed and Hilary much better than the benches with numbers on them in some stadiums. The local buzz is that the seats are too small and too close together.

We have a little snow this morning and it looks like January in Ohio. Steve will take to the ski slopes in Northern Michigan this weekend with the RCO group so I will have some down time. I have plans to see a chick flick and get some cleaning done. We are at 22 days and counting for Hawaii now. Better start doing some golf stretches to get ready.

Some pictures from the last weeks.


Pretty centerpiece from the RCO Winter party





Dining room with paint and wall paper waiting for the crown molding


Finally pulling the plug on the outdoor Christmas lights :(

Tuesday

Slow, make that very slow weekend. I was down for the count on Sunday...better now but it was sinus, head and stomach yuck! That left plenty of time for Steve to finish painting the woodwork in the dining room and it is almost ready for the wallpaper. This project moved along quickly.

I am off to BG to see MIke this morning. He called and seems to have the same thing I was suffering with Sunday. I am bringing him some chicken soup and hugs along with a medicine chest of cold remedies. Just a mom making sure it is not something more serious.

We continue with the grey weather this week. Temperature highs in the mid 30's but no sunshine.

Friday Updates

Chistine is now a certified RN. Congradulations and glad we could be part of it.

The dining room project continues with most of the walls and woodwork primed and ready for paint which will be this weekends tasks. The wall paper is in but I will not start that until all of the painting is done. Besides the odd wall is a conversation piece. The decorator I have been working with finally got me to consider window treatments in the kitchen and she delivered those with our picture today. This just about completes the kitchen.

Wednesday

We saw sunshine and warmer temperatures today! What a relief. The winters might not be quite so terrible if we got the sunshine more often. I think the gray skies are the real problem with our winters here in Northwest OHio. It is actually suppose to get above freezing for the next 4 days so we may see some of the snow disappear. Still it is kind of nice to cocoon in for a few weeks after the holidays.

Monday night we had the pleasure of John and Christine Stanford's company. Christine was in Toledo to take her NCLEX nursing certification test on Tuesday morning. We haven't heard yet but are hoping it went well so she and Marcus can boggie off to Oklahoma.


Tuesday was a down day. Mike had been called to serve on a Wood County Jury but when we made the call he was told the case had settled. Too bad. He had to go to work then. I spent a little time in the dining room and took this picture to remind us of our first attempt at red 9 years ago. When it was definite it was not going to happen I guess we went a little crazy. It will remain under the next coat of wallpaper to surprise someone years from now.



Wednesday was my day to spent at the computer working out the details of our Hawaii trip. It still looks like tourism is down based on the bookings of condos in Maui. No one is really dealing yet but there appears to be plenty of space available. Just need to make the right contact I guess.

Busy Weekend

Taking pictures everyday has been easy. Getting them uploaded and writing about them takes more time. So this morning I will be posting Friday Saturday and Sundays picture.




Friday was our first major snow day. We got about 4-6 inches of new snow from late Thursday through mid day Friday. It was the light fluffy snow because the temperatures were in the low 20's. It was very picturesque.




Saturdays picture show that Steve and I are at the redecorating projects again. The dining room was the first room we decorated when we bought the house 9 years ago. It has worked well but we always felt it was a little too formal for the house and the way we live and entertain. So it was off with the wall paper and crown moulding and in with the winter weekend paint and paper projects.



And Sunday is my favorite picture story. After Kristin moved out last summer Mike needed a couch. We found one in BG at a garage sale for $50, on a Friday after work. Not having the cash or a check we decided to think about it and come back later in the weekend. When we got back on Sunday the couch had a FREE sign on it. So it became Mike's first couch. The $50 was probably too much for the couch but the free was a deal. Flash forward to fall and Mike was home and saw a garage sale in the neighborhood. He walks down and sees a nice couch and wants me to go back with him. It didn't happen but voila in January the house has to be cleared out and the owner calls me up to see if Mike still needs a couch. His second free couch. This one is much nicer than the first.

Gone "Fish" ing

Can't quite read the name on the game of cards but it is Fish. We played and of course AJ beat me.


The snow came in around 1PM and we have about 3-4 inches on the ground.