I am not going to lie, I am feeling pretty shitty.%u00a0 Today is Washers birthday… So yeah, I am a big sad ass.
It has been little over 3 months sense he died, 3 months of waking up every morning looking for him, worry about him, still look for his fluffy tail in the trees in the yard. There isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t have the sudden urge to rush home to walk him, feed him, love him.%u00a0 It has been hard and today is going to be really tough one.
Every year we would take the pup for a long ass hike, let him run free, get dirty, swim, chew up all the biggest sticks, whatever he wanted. He would get a new toy, a new box of dog treats, usually an apple or sweet potato and all the attention that he could possibly want. We loved celebrating his birthday because it was all about him but also just one long day of dirty fun outdoors for all of us. No matter what we had going on, or what the weather, we were in the woods.
Now I don’t know what to do with myself today. I still kinda want to run to the woods, spend the day outside getting dirty, crying my eyes out. I also kinda just want to hide in a hole and just be all miserable. I know Washer would want the woods, but it just feels all wrong without him. Blah.. This sucks ass.
Sorry for not having the happiest of posts, just need to feel the feels, miss my dog, and be a big sad blob today.
So to the best dog there ever was.. Happy Birthday Washer.%u00a0 Miss you like crazy all the freaking time. I’ll try to walk some woods for you today. Love you.
Hey hey hey.
Crazy freaking past month. I still feel like half of my person is gone and am still trudging through each day feeling the loss of Washer, but things are getting better, just still really sad and miss my pup like crazy. Trick is to stay super busy and that is what I have been doing. For one, we started back at the house again and have thrown ourselves into work. We are determined to get this freaking house done before the end of fall so we have been busting away all the days long. Things are getting done and now all the sheet rock is all up and the mr just finished the tape coat of mud…. Its all roses from here.%u00a0
For another thing, there is so much family stuff lately and to be soon. A new baby just came , little miss Kayla (I keep calling her Keba), We had a family reunion, minus a few family member last week. I have lots of littles wanting attention before school starts again and oh,%u00a0 my little brother is getting shipped of to military school this week, (an actual military college that he actually wants to go too). Add another baby due in a month and the fact that fall is coming on fast and that means only one thing .. Family birthday season has arrived. Well that and apples. But no joke, pretty much a birthday a week for the next 9 months.%u00a0 I already have about 7 cake requests. It’s about to get real around here.
As for cooking, well when Washer died, I pretty much stopped living for a week, but then when I started cooking again, I went through a week of making breads for the mr. (bread is very soothing to make, I think it’s all the kneading) And then it got so super duper hella hot out that we have pretty much given up on preparing food and are just eating straight up cucumbers, zucchinis, and tomatoes, sometimes dipped inn mustard and hummus, by the bucketful. I think I am averaging about 3 cucumbers and 5 tomatoes a day. And now I am starting to get a bit of acid reflux. Hopefully this week won’t be quite as crazy or quite as hot and I will have a little bit more time do some actual cooking, maybe some canning ( so many tomatoes!) and maybe share a recipe or 2.Lots of maybes here… we shall see.
Anyway, it is Sunday Sunday. The mr and I are leaving the house early and going for a little car, coffee, and maybe river adventure and are picking up a cast iron claw foot tub for the bathroom on the way. Wish us luck!
Internet stuff from the past week that might be of some interest to you.
-I am feeling the itch pretty hard. THIS COUPLE QUIT THEIR JOBS AND DROVE A VW VAN TO ARGENTINA…So this could be us soon?!
-If we decide to make hard cider again, a cider press is a must cause blending and squeezing 100 lbs of apple through cheesecloth last year was freaking ridiculous.%u00a0 How to Build a Cider Press
-It was mother F*CKING hot hot hot this week but we survived, and without ac. Too Much Time in Air-Conditioning Is Warping Your Ability to Handle Heat
-I used to get so sick when reading in the car (and sometime still do) Reading Makes You Carsick Because Your Brain Thinks It%u2019s Being Poisoned
-No a watermelon won’t grow in you stomach if you eat the seeds (it would be cool it did) Is It OK to Eat Watermelon Seeds?
-Love love love this house
-The Mystery Of Why Sunflowers Turn To Follow The Sun
-Blow your mind. There%u2019s No Such Thing As a %u2018Superfood%u2019
-So doing this when we finish the house….WOVEN MACRAM%u00c9 CHAIR TUTORIAL.
-Lovely. New Ocean Reefs Comprised of Rolled Paper
And some pictures.
Washer Stem. October 30, 2005- July 24, 2016
I am a pretty trashed person right now.%u00a0 2 weeks ago our puppy dog, Washer, died.
Yeah, you can kick me in the stomach, I am sure it would feel better then this.
First question everyone asks “What happened?” Long story short, for some reason, whether it was something he ate or just from playing way to hard,%u00a0 his stomach flipped inside of him, twisted, then died. There was the animal hospital and surgery and it all happened so fast…. blah, it’s still pretty hard to think and talk about. But yeah, he went from being good and healthy to not within hours and the vets did what they could, but they just couldn’t save him.
How am I doing? Honestly, I am not great but am starting to come out of the hole a bit. For a while there I just feel apart. Washer wasn’t a pet to us, he was pretty much our life, my life.%u00a0 Just about every single thing we did, we did together. All of our decisions, from the smallest things like day to day activities to buying a house revolved around him. (we would have never bought a house that didn’t have a giant yard for him). He went to work with us, on all errands, (he loved a good car ride) family events, everything.%u00a0 I think the only places that he never went was to the gym with me and into the grocery store (the mr and him would wait in the car). I can count on both hands the times over his life that we have left him with other people. Washer was our family…is our family and his absence has been overwhelming.
And yes, he was a dog, but he was more then that to me. He was my soul mate, my best friend, my baby. I spent more time talking or just hanging with him then anybody else. We experienced the world together and he showed me things in life that I otherwise might have never seen. Countless sunrise walks. So many sunsets. All the early mornings in winter when the world is perfectly still, the moon is out, and the snow is falling. All of the outdoors, countless hikes, endless swims.(he could swim forever) He took us out into the world, even when we wanted nothing more then to hide away.
He was all unconditional love and unabashed happiness. And he could totally be a complete ass, but he knew it and always felt guilty afterwards (you could tell cause he looked atyou with the sad eyes) He gave so much and never wanted anything from us other then love, well, and food.
And now I am trying to figure out how to be without him. Waking up in the morning, I still find myself looking for him. When I walk out the front door, I still reach for his leash and a poop bag.%u00a0 And that feeling like I need to get home to my pup, like he is waiting for me,%u00a0 it hasn’t gone away. I still wake up every morning and go for a walk and the mr and I still go for a walk every day after dinner. We pick him flowers and talk about about all the amazing and stupid things he used to do and how much he did for us. It is crazy looking back at our life over the past 11 years and knowing he was part of almost every moment.
So yeah, I am kinda feeling lost right now. I miss him more then I could ever imagine. I know he lived a freaking fantastic, healthy, and long life, and for that I can take a little comfort. But man, I was not ready for him to go.%u00a0 I guess I never would have been. ( I secretly thought he would live forever, or at least another 50 or so years)
He is one of the greatest loves of my life and I am so fucking lucky to be able to say that.
The best dog that ever was (for us), even when he was being a jerk face.
Love you forever puppy.
Short of the long… I am trashed. We just got back from a 6 1/2 hour drive from the Poconos where I now have a sweet ass new summertime home in the woods (actually not mine, but my dad just bought a house and moved there so it’s pretty much mine..haha)%u00a0 Summer fun time all the time long. A short few days for an initial, get to know the place and see the new house, go hiking, biking, more hiking, and basically run around and play with the dogs and the neighborhood deer, visit. It was an all out exhausting, amazing time. (I would tell you more about it, but right now my mind is mush I I am surprised Ian even type right now)%u00a0 So now we are back home to maybe get a few hours of sleep and then back to the house for few hours of work. Got to get ready for the boom truck of a million pieces of sheet rock that are coming in the morning!
Now I am really, really freaking tired and need to like, for real, sleep for a bit before I keel over. Oh thanks the world for coffee cause today is going to be a couple pot of coffee kind of day. Wish me luck.
Some stuff the from the early week internet browsing.
-Not sure if I would want to stick my head in a one after all the other people have. Levitating Clouds Provide a Dreamlike Resting Place During the Festival des Architectures Vives
-I think we could be best friends. Meet a Woman Who Keeps 500 Plants in Her Brooklyn Apartment
–How to Keep Berries Fresh for Longer
-So into these Origami Bird Lights.
-I have got to try and make this mozzarella aquafaba cheese
-It’s that time of year again. Canning here we come! Making Fruit Jelly Using Apples for Pectin
–A coloring cook book. Brilliant.
And a few pictures from the past few days.
We are moving into the house!!! Oh wait, no we are not, at least not for real, but we are thinking about setting up the tent and sleeping in the yard for a while. It’s summer and it’s been so freaking hot and why the hell not right?
And to prolong our move in date some more, the mr and I have decided to re-floor the entire downstairs. HA! We figured we kinda wanted to but weren’t really sure if we should. And so we said screw it, lets just do it now and get it over with. So keep that in mind if you offer to help cause we might just take you up on it.
Other then house stuff, the week has been full of all the little littles, birthday parties, flowers, and tomatoes! The farm started dishing out the fattest, juiciest, most lovely tomatoes. I have found myself on a few occasions devouring whole tomatoes by accident, like i look at them and just need to eat them. (they take away my will power) Thinking I might have to make a cake with a few of the this week (if i don’t eat them all) and frost them all twirly, whirly sparkly like the cupcakes that I made this week, (they looked so awesome)%u00a0 I think the mr would like that.
But for today, no baking. I would actually like to stay away from anything that creates heat (besides coffee) because it is finally not so hot and humid and my brain needs time to reform from the melt. We will probably just go floor shopping (blah) but that way I can ride with windows down and my head sticking out of the window like a dog. Fun fun.
Some stuff on the internet that isn’t about pokemon (I still don’t quite get it…)
-Slice, Dice, Chop Or Julienne: Does The Cut Change The Flavor?
-I want to turn a really old industrial building into a house.
-Nineteen of Roald Dahl%u2019s Most Important Food Inventions
-This is one bad ass Nike ad. India’s first Nike ad is gorgeous, sweaty, intimidating, and totally inspiring
-And this..A Modern Day “Green Acres”: Family Home with Rustic Mid-C Trailers, Yurts & Cute Critters.. So cool. I oculd totally see doing something like this for the family. A compound of yurts. Ha
%u00a0-Living Room Hammocks & Hanging Chairs.. Huh, thinking I might be needing one.
-Crazy, beautiful. OSSA: The Unwilling Dance Performance of a Deconstructed Puppet
– Not fair. Forget Beanbag Chairs. Amazon Is Giving Its Workers Treehouses.
-In love with these pieces from Henry Street Studio
-Whoa, that’s a lot of people. PHOTOS: For #WorldPopulationDay, How Earth’s 7 Billion Live
And some pictures from life this week.
Ah summertime. I hope that you are finding yourself on a beach or river(or someplace you want to be) with nothing but time to relax and enjoy yourself. It’s Sunday and we all need to relax today. We deserve it.
The past week has been pretty satisfying. The house is going gang busters. We had some insulators come and blow insulation into the walls on the first floor and later next week the upstairs is going to be spray foamed insulated…. And then we can move it (No not really) but this is huge. But now got to get ready for the guys to come and finish so we have to hall ass ans finish wiring, prepping and all the good stuff that they need us to do. We got a deadline to meet, but once that’s done its on. We can start hanging sheet rock (who wants to help?) and finish the bathrooms and kitchen and everything!1 AAAAHHHHH!, but we are all good. It’s getting done and starting to seem like we might actually get to move in before the winter.
But it wasn’t all work. The days when the insulators where at the house we took off for the mountains and found some rivers. The mr went fishing, the pup went swimming (and now I don’t need to give him a bath for a while) and I played with river rocks and read. We also visited with the bees up on the roof just to check how the ladies are doing and so far this season they are doing great, buzzing along like the bees do.
Today is one of those days that could go either way. We can work, maybe we really should work, but it’s suppose to get hot and humid and I really don’t want to. What I really want to do is go to the library and pick up (and drop off) books, go see the littles that just got back from Germany and share the watermelon that has been sitting on my counter all week with them. Maybe even go for a bike ride and take a nap.%u00a0 Sounds nice right?%u00a0 Hum. We shall see. At least I know there is a carrot popsicle in the freezer with my name on it.
Stuff of interest on the internet.
– A Golden Girls-themed caf%u00e9….And now I have the theme song”Thank you for being a friend” stuck in my head.
– A USED CARGO VAN BECOMES A MOBILE STUDIO.
-I have all sorts of ideas for making myself a little reading nook. NOTHING QUITE LIKE A PRETTY NOOK.
–Summer Produce Guide from Saveur
-Did you know there is a naked restaurant? I don’t know about you, but IF I wanted to eat naked, I would just do it at home, for free.%u00a0 The Fascinating (and Infuriating) Experience of Dining in the Nude
-I feel like I have lucid dreams, but that could be just in my dreams….What to Do During the Day to Increase Your Chances of Lucid Dreaming at Night
-I want a concrete bathroom floor. The mr does not. What do you think (that I am right, right!) Raw Beauty: 14 Gorgeous Spaces with Concrete Floors
-I am getting this app just as soon as I can figure out my apple ID. THE %u2018SHAZAM%u2019 FOR PLANTS WILL IDENTIFY ANY PLANT FROM A PICTURE
-All about the shoes. Gravity-Defying Shoes Installed on the Streets of London
–Inside the World of Large-Scale Food Heists. It’s for real, even around these parts (stolen maple syrup happens more then you think)
Pictures of some of the awesome that happened this week.
Have a great summertime Sunday.
-C
Another week gone by so fast and now it’s the first week of June. Wow, I don’t even know how hat happened. I need to up my summer game and get some summer stuff done!
It’s been a super busy week, what with a bunch of our old tenants moving out and new ones moving in. Apartment turn over is always such a bear especially June ones. There is always a bunch of things that need fixing or painting and it all needs to be done within a matter of a few days, if not a few hours.%u00a0 Then there is the overwhelming amount of garbage people seem to accumulate and then dump when they move. Needless to say, we (the mr even more) have been super duper busy. But its coming to an end and so far so good, our new tenants all seem great and things are starting to calm down so we can get back to the serious of finishing our house. And guess what,we have officially move the location of the downstairs toilet to it’s new bathroom home at the new house. Yay for toilet!
Today I am planning on spending a little time over at the house, transplanting kale to the little 4×4 raised bed that I have permitted myself for the year (I want to spend all my time outside, but it’s the inside that needs to be done first). Then probably going to harvest a shit ton more rhubarb before it starts to rain, come home and make a pie and jam and then sit on my butt and read for the rest of the day. I am so looking forward to an afternoon of reading, drinking coffee and maybe even taking nap.(I am already ready for a nap). I am definitely in need of a little rest today.%u00a0
Things from the world wide web that caught my attention.
-Your Dog Has an IQ..Huh, I wonder what Washers would be (no genius, that’s for sure)
-I have been toying with the idea of adding some black to the kitchen.
-Really into the look of these tattoos
-All the pretty house plants and the many reasons to have them
-Check out this, totally not needed, but totally awesome 16 person tent
-I love all of these wallpapers.
-The Lasting Benefits of Growing Up Around Books..So many benefits.
-An answer to a question I didn’t know I wanted to know until now. WHY THE HELL DID WOMEN START POPPING OUT OF CAKES, ANYWAY?
-A little info about your store bought tomatoes and why they taste just mah. The Search For Tastier Supermarket Tomatoes
-You could get paid to poop%u2026for science. Sounds gross, but is really cool.
A few pictures fro the week.
Let’s just hit the weather for a minute here. Snow one week and 90 freaking degrees the next. Oh Vt, you can be so cray cray, but do me a favor and stop being 90..I can’t sleep, I am constantly sweating….I think I am pretty much melting, not to mention slightly bitchy.%u00a0 Just be 80 with a nice cool breeze. I would like that a lot. Thanks.
The past week has been one full of the fullness that comes with owning apartment buildings. . A handful of the apartments are turning over so we have been running around dealing with repairs, cleaning, and over all property maintenance.%u00a0 There has been lots of weeding, mowing, and tree cutting, you know, all sorts of fun stuff. The buildings are looking good but you should see our little fenced in yard right now. It kind of looks like a junk yard from all the shit we have been piling up for lack of time or space to deal with it all. That and we are also in the processes of getting a new work car. (the process being craigslist) , so until we do, moving stuff is on hold. Why is it so hard to find a working truck that doesn’t cost a million dollars and will get us from point a to point b without falling apart and being fancy.? We pretty much just need something to haul trash and lawn mowers and the occasional toilet. Is that to much to ask? Apparently it is. (we will find something, I am just being a whine ass)
Anyway, we have managed to get to the new house this week and get the rest of the metal roofing on, a temporary gate up so now Washer can roam free, and lots and lots of nails removed from the floors.Things are still moving along. I even spent some time with the plants while the mr mowed the front lawn (We do it mullet style. Short in the front yard,long in the back) And hopefully today we will have a little time to get over there as well. I really want to harvest some rhubarb and get a few more plants into the ground before it’s to late.
And hopefully you are having yourself a long and enjoyable weekend. It’s pretty much summer now so it’s time to do all the summer stuff that needs to be done.
Some internet stuff to keep you occupied if in need.
-I wonder what my rock collection would look like (I have a shit ton of rocks) A Kinetic Artwork that Sorts Thousands of Random River Stones by Age
–The Highly Anxious Herbivore%u2019s Guide to Moral Vegetable Consumption.. hahaha.
-Fake banana flavor could actually be really banana flavor? The History of Banana Flavoring
-Let it roam..How to Make the Most of a Scattered Attention Span
–It’s about time we know exactly whats in the food. An ‘Added Sugar’ Label Is On The Way For Packaged Food
-I always kind of thought smoothies were more a dessert then a meal. Ask Well: The Downside of Smoothies
–This California House Has a Vertical, Living Succulent Wall and I love it. I would be all about something like this except I live in Vt. All the plants would die.
–Scientists Are Trying to Solve the Mystery of Awe… I think it will forever be a mystery, that’s why it’s awe.
–These mountain are like whoa.
-I have moments where I want to whitewash the entire house. This place is inspiring (and the stairs.. love love love)
THE LOVELY CRAZY
September 18, 2019 by maximios • Blog
I am not going to lie, I am feeling pretty shitty.%u00a0 Today is Washers birthday… So yeah, I am a big sad ass.
It has been little over 3 months sense he died, 3 months of waking up every morning looking for him, worry about him, still look for his fluffy tail in the trees in the yard. There isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t have the sudden urge to rush home to walk him, feed him, love him.%u00a0 It has been hard and today is going to be really tough one.
Every year we would take the pup for a long ass hike, let him run free, get dirty, swim, chew up all the biggest sticks, whatever he wanted. He would get a new toy, a new box of dog treats, usually an apple or sweet potato and all the attention that he could possibly want. We loved celebrating his birthday because it was all about him but also just one long day of dirty fun outdoors for all of us. No matter what we had going on, or what the weather, we were in the woods.
Now I don’t know what to do with myself today. I still kinda want to run to the woods, spend the day outside getting dirty, crying my eyes out. I also kinda just want to hide in a hole and just be all miserable. I know Washer would want the woods, but it just feels all wrong without him. Blah.. This sucks ass.
Sorry for not having the happiest of posts, just need to feel the feels, miss my dog, and be a big sad blob today.
So to the best dog there ever was.. Happy Birthday Washer.%u00a0 Miss you like crazy all the freaking time. I’ll try to walk some woods for you today. Love you.
Hey hey hey.
Crazy freaking past month. I still feel like half of my person is gone and am still trudging through each day feeling the loss of Washer, but things are getting better, just still really sad and miss my pup like crazy. Trick is to stay super busy and that is what I have been doing. For one, we started back at the house again and have thrown ourselves into work. We are determined to get this freaking house done before the end of fall so we have been busting away all the days long. Things are getting done and now all the sheet rock is all up and the mr just finished the tape coat of mud…. Its all roses from here.%u00a0
For another thing, there is so much family stuff lately and to be soon. A new baby just came , little miss Kayla (I keep calling her Keba), We had a family reunion, minus a few family member last week. I have lots of littles wanting attention before school starts again and oh,%u00a0 my little brother is getting shipped of to military school this week, (an actual military college that he actually wants to go too). Add another baby due in a month and the fact that fall is coming on fast and that means only one thing .. Family birthday season has arrived. Well that and apples. But no joke, pretty much a birthday a week for the next 9 months.%u00a0 I already have about 7 cake requests. It’s about to get real around here.
As for cooking, well when Washer died, I pretty much stopped living for a week, but then when I started cooking again, I went through a week of making breads for the mr. (bread is very soothing to make, I think it’s all the kneading) And then it got so super duper hella hot out that we have pretty much given up on preparing food and are just eating straight up cucumbers, zucchinis, and tomatoes, sometimes dipped inn mustard and hummus, by the bucketful. I think I am averaging about 3 cucumbers and 5 tomatoes a day. And now I am starting to get a bit of acid reflux. Hopefully this week won’t be quite as crazy or quite as hot and I will have a little bit more time do some actual cooking, maybe some canning ( so many tomatoes!) and maybe share a recipe or 2.Lots of maybes here… we shall see.
Anyway, it is Sunday Sunday. The mr and I are leaving the house early and going for a little car, coffee, and maybe river adventure and are picking up a cast iron claw foot tub for the bathroom on the way. Wish us luck!
Internet stuff from the past week that might be of some interest to you.
-I am feeling the itch pretty hard. THIS COUPLE QUIT THEIR JOBS AND DROVE A VW VAN TO ARGENTINA…So this could be us soon?!
-If we decide to make hard cider again, a cider press is a must cause blending and squeezing 100 lbs of apple through cheesecloth last year was freaking ridiculous.%u00a0 How to Build a Cider Press
-It was mother F*CKING hot hot hot this week but we survived, and without ac. Too Much Time in Air-Conditioning Is Warping Your Ability to Handle Heat
-I used to get so sick when reading in the car (and sometime still do) Reading Makes You Carsick Because Your Brain Thinks It%u2019s Being Poisoned
-No a watermelon won’t grow in you stomach if you eat the seeds (it would be cool it did) Is It OK to Eat Watermelon Seeds?
-Love love love this house
-The Mystery Of Why Sunflowers Turn To Follow The Sun
-Blow your mind. There%u2019s No Such Thing As a %u2018Superfood%u2019
-So doing this when we finish the house….WOVEN MACRAM%u00c9 CHAIR TUTORIAL.
-Lovely. New Ocean Reefs Comprised of Rolled Paper
And some pictures.
Washer Stem. October 30, 2005- July 24, 2016
I am a pretty trashed person right now.%u00a0 2 weeks ago our puppy dog, Washer, died.
Yeah, you can kick me in the stomach, I am sure it would feel better then this.
First question everyone asks “What happened?” Long story short, for some reason, whether it was something he ate or just from playing way to hard,%u00a0 his stomach flipped inside of him, twisted, then died. There was the animal hospital and surgery and it all happened so fast…. blah, it’s still pretty hard to think and talk about. But yeah, he went from being good and healthy to not within hours and the vets did what they could, but they just couldn’t save him.
How am I doing? Honestly, I am not great but am starting to come out of the hole a bit. For a while there I just feel apart. Washer wasn’t a pet to us, he was pretty much our life, my life.%u00a0 Just about every single thing we did, we did together. All of our decisions, from the smallest things like day to day activities to buying a house revolved around him. (we would have never bought a house that didn’t have a giant yard for him). He went to work with us, on all errands, (he loved a good car ride) family events, everything.%u00a0 I think the only places that he never went was to the gym with me and into the grocery store (the mr and him would wait in the car). I can count on both hands the times over his life that we have left him with other people. Washer was our family…is our family and his absence has been overwhelming.
And yes, he was a dog, but he was more then that to me. He was my soul mate, my best friend, my baby. I spent more time talking or just hanging with him then anybody else. We experienced the world together and he showed me things in life that I otherwise might have never seen. Countless sunrise walks. So many sunsets. All the early mornings in winter when the world is perfectly still, the moon is out, and the snow is falling. All of the outdoors, countless hikes, endless swims.(he could swim forever) He took us out into the world, even when we wanted nothing more then to hide away.
He was all unconditional love and unabashed happiness. And he could totally be a complete ass, but he knew it and always felt guilty afterwards (you could tell cause he looked atyou with the sad eyes) He gave so much and never wanted anything from us other then love, well, and food.
And now I am trying to figure out how to be without him. Waking up in the morning, I still find myself looking for him. When I walk out the front door, I still reach for his leash and a poop bag.%u00a0 And that feeling like I need to get home to my pup, like he is waiting for me,%u00a0 it hasn’t gone away. I still wake up every morning and go for a walk and the mr and I still go for a walk every day after dinner. We pick him flowers and talk about about all the amazing and stupid things he used to do and how much he did for us. It is crazy looking back at our life over the past 11 years and knowing he was part of almost every moment.
So yeah, I am kinda feeling lost right now. I miss him more then I could ever imagine. I know he lived a freaking fantastic, healthy, and long life, and for that I can take a little comfort. But man, I was not ready for him to go.%u00a0 I guess I never would have been. ( I secretly thought he would live forever, or at least another 50 or so years)
He is one of the greatest loves of my life and I am so fucking lucky to be able to say that.
The best dog that ever was (for us), even when he was being a jerk face.
Love you forever puppy.
Short of the long… I am trashed. We just got back from a 6 1/2 hour drive from the Poconos where I now have a sweet ass new summertime home in the woods (actually not mine, but my dad just bought a house and moved there so it’s pretty much mine..haha)%u00a0 Summer fun time all the time long. A short few days for an initial, get to know the place and see the new house, go hiking, biking, more hiking, and basically run around and play with the dogs and the neighborhood deer, visit. It was an all out exhausting, amazing time. (I would tell you more about it, but right now my mind is mush I I am surprised Ian even type right now)%u00a0 So now we are back home to maybe get a few hours of sleep and then back to the house for few hours of work. Got to get ready for the boom truck of a million pieces of sheet rock that are coming in the morning!
Now I am really, really freaking tired and need to like, for real, sleep for a bit before I keel over. Oh thanks the world for coffee cause today is going to be a couple pot of coffee kind of day. Wish me luck.
Some stuff the from the early week internet browsing.
-Not sure if I would want to stick my head in a one after all the other people have. Levitating Clouds Provide a Dreamlike Resting Place During the Festival des Architectures Vives
-I think we could be best friends. Meet a Woman Who Keeps 500 Plants in Her Brooklyn Apartment
–How to Keep Berries Fresh for Longer
-So into these Origami Bird Lights.
-I have got to try and make this mozzarella aquafaba cheese
-It’s that time of year again. Canning here we come! Making Fruit Jelly Using Apples for Pectin
–A coloring cook book. Brilliant.
And a few pictures from the past few days.
We are moving into the house!!! Oh wait, no we are not, at least not for real, but we are thinking about setting up the tent and sleeping in the yard for a while. It’s summer and it’s been so freaking hot and why the hell not right?
And to prolong our move in date some more, the mr and I have decided to re-floor the entire downstairs. HA! We figured we kinda wanted to but weren’t really sure if we should. And so we said screw it, lets just do it now and get it over with. So keep that in mind if you offer to help cause we might just take you up on it.
Other then house stuff, the week has been full of all the little littles, birthday parties, flowers, and tomatoes! The farm started dishing out the fattest, juiciest, most lovely tomatoes. I have found myself on a few occasions devouring whole tomatoes by accident, like i look at them and just need to eat them. (they take away my will power) Thinking I might have to make a cake with a few of the this week (if i don’t eat them all) and frost them all twirly, whirly sparkly like the cupcakes that I made this week, (they looked so awesome)%u00a0 I think the mr would like that.
But for today, no baking. I would actually like to stay away from anything that creates heat (besides coffee) because it is finally not so hot and humid and my brain needs time to reform from the melt. We will probably just go floor shopping (blah) but that way I can ride with windows down and my head sticking out of the window like a dog. Fun fun.
Some stuff on the internet that isn’t about pokemon (I still don’t quite get it…)
-Slice, Dice, Chop Or Julienne: Does The Cut Change The Flavor?
-I want to turn a really old industrial building into a house.
-Nineteen of Roald Dahl%u2019s Most Important Food Inventions
-This is one bad ass Nike ad. India’s first Nike ad is gorgeous, sweaty, intimidating, and totally inspiring
-And this..A Modern Day “Green Acres”: Family Home with Rustic Mid-C Trailers, Yurts & Cute Critters.. So cool. I oculd totally see doing something like this for the family. A compound of yurts. Ha
%u00a0-Living Room Hammocks & Hanging Chairs.. Huh, thinking I might be needing one.
-Crazy, beautiful. OSSA: The Unwilling Dance Performance of a Deconstructed Puppet
– Not fair. Forget Beanbag Chairs. Amazon Is Giving Its Workers Treehouses.
-In love with these pieces from Henry Street Studio
-Whoa, that’s a lot of people. PHOTOS: For #WorldPopulationDay, How Earth’s 7 Billion Live
And some pictures from life this week.
Ah summertime. I hope that you are finding yourself on a beach or river(or someplace you want to be) with nothing but time to relax and enjoy yourself. It’s Sunday and we all need to relax today. We deserve it.
The past week has been pretty satisfying. The house is going gang busters. We had some insulators come and blow insulation into the walls on the first floor and later next week the upstairs is going to be spray foamed insulated…. And then we can move it (No not really) but this is huge. But now got to get ready for the guys to come and finish so we have to hall ass ans finish wiring, prepping and all the good stuff that they need us to do. We got a deadline to meet, but once that’s done its on. We can start hanging sheet rock (who wants to help?) and finish the bathrooms and kitchen and everything!1 AAAAHHHHH!, but we are all good. It’s getting done and starting to seem like we might actually get to move in before the winter.
But it wasn’t all work. The days when the insulators where at the house we took off for the mountains and found some rivers. The mr went fishing, the pup went swimming (and now I don’t need to give him a bath for a while) and I played with river rocks and read. We also visited with the bees up on the roof just to check how the ladies are doing and so far this season they are doing great, buzzing along like the bees do.
Today is one of those days that could go either way. We can work, maybe we really should work, but it’s suppose to get hot and humid and I really don’t want to. What I really want to do is go to the library and pick up (and drop off) books, go see the littles that just got back from Germany and share the watermelon that has been sitting on my counter all week with them. Maybe even go for a bike ride and take a nap.%u00a0 Sounds nice right?%u00a0 Hum. We shall see. At least I know there is a carrot popsicle in the freezer with my name on it.
Stuff of interest on the internet.
– A Golden Girls-themed caf%u00e9….And now I have the theme song”Thank you for being a friend” stuck in my head.
– A USED CARGO VAN BECOMES A MOBILE STUDIO.
-I have all sorts of ideas for making myself a little reading nook. NOTHING QUITE LIKE A PRETTY NOOK.
–Summer Produce Guide from Saveur
-Did you know there is a naked restaurant? I don’t know about you, but IF I wanted to eat naked, I would just do it at home, for free.%u00a0 The Fascinating (and Infuriating) Experience of Dining in the Nude
-I feel like I have lucid dreams, but that could be just in my dreams….What to Do During the Day to Increase Your Chances of Lucid Dreaming at Night
-I want a concrete bathroom floor. The mr does not. What do you think (that I am right, right!) Raw Beauty: 14 Gorgeous Spaces with Concrete Floors
-I am getting this app just as soon as I can figure out my apple ID. THE %u2018SHAZAM%u2019 FOR PLANTS WILL IDENTIFY ANY PLANT FROM A PICTURE
-All about the shoes. Gravity-Defying Shoes Installed on the Streets of London
–Inside the World of Large-Scale Food Heists. It’s for real, even around these parts (stolen maple syrup happens more then you think)
Pictures of some of the awesome that happened this week.
Have a great summertime Sunday.
-C
Another week gone by so fast and now it’s the first week of June. Wow, I don’t even know how hat happened. I need to up my summer game and get some summer stuff done!
It’s been a super busy week, what with a bunch of our old tenants moving out and new ones moving in. Apartment turn over is always such a bear especially June ones. There is always a bunch of things that need fixing or painting and it all needs to be done within a matter of a few days, if not a few hours.%u00a0 Then there is the overwhelming amount of garbage people seem to accumulate and then dump when they move. Needless to say, we (the mr even more) have been super duper busy. But its coming to an end and so far so good, our new tenants all seem great and things are starting to calm down so we can get back to the serious of finishing our house. And guess what,we have officially move the location of the downstairs toilet to it’s new bathroom home at the new house. Yay for toilet!
Today I am planning on spending a little time over at the house, transplanting kale to the little 4×4 raised bed that I have permitted myself for the year (I want to spend all my time outside, but it’s the inside that needs to be done first). Then probably going to harvest a shit ton more rhubarb before it starts to rain, come home and make a pie and jam and then sit on my butt and read for the rest of the day. I am so looking forward to an afternoon of reading, drinking coffee and maybe even taking nap.(I am already ready for a nap). I am definitely in need of a little rest today.%u00a0
Things from the world wide web that caught my attention.
-Your Dog Has an IQ..Huh, I wonder what Washers would be (no genius, that’s for sure)
-I have been toying with the idea of adding some black to the kitchen.
-Really into the look of these tattoos
-All the pretty house plants and the many reasons to have them
-Check out this, totally not needed, but totally awesome 16 person tent
-I love all of these wallpapers.
-The Lasting Benefits of Growing Up Around Books..So many benefits.
-An answer to a question I didn’t know I wanted to know until now. WHY THE HELL DID WOMEN START POPPING OUT OF CAKES, ANYWAY?
-A little info about your store bought tomatoes and why they taste just mah. The Search For Tastier Supermarket Tomatoes
-You could get paid to poop%u2026for science. Sounds gross, but is really cool.
A few pictures fro the week.
Let’s just hit the weather for a minute here. Snow one week and 90 freaking degrees the next. Oh Vt, you can be so cray cray, but do me a favor and stop being 90..I can’t sleep, I am constantly sweating….I think I am pretty much melting, not to mention slightly bitchy.%u00a0 Just be 80 with a nice cool breeze. I would like that a lot. Thanks.
The past week has been one full of the fullness that comes with owning apartment buildings. . A handful of the apartments are turning over so we have been running around dealing with repairs, cleaning, and over all property maintenance.%u00a0 There has been lots of weeding, mowing, and tree cutting, you know, all sorts of fun stuff. The buildings are looking good but you should see our little fenced in yard right now. It kind of looks like a junk yard from all the shit we have been piling up for lack of time or space to deal with it all. That and we are also in the processes of getting a new work car. (the process being craigslist) , so until we do, moving stuff is on hold. Why is it so hard to find a working truck that doesn’t cost a million dollars and will get us from point a to point b without falling apart and being fancy.? We pretty much just need something to haul trash and lawn mowers and the occasional toilet. Is that to much to ask? Apparently it is. (we will find something, I am just being a whine ass)
Anyway, we have managed to get to the new house this week and get the rest of the metal roofing on, a temporary gate up so now Washer can roam free, and lots and lots of nails removed from the floors.Things are still moving along. I even spent some time with the plants while the mr mowed the front lawn (We do it mullet style. Short in the front yard,long in the back) And hopefully today we will have a little time to get over there as well. I really want to harvest some rhubarb and get a few more plants into the ground before it’s to late.
And hopefully you are having yourself a long and enjoyable weekend. It’s pretty much summer now so it’s time to do all the summer stuff that needs to be done.
Some internet stuff to keep you occupied if in need.
-I wonder what my rock collection would look like (I have a shit ton of rocks) A Kinetic Artwork that Sorts Thousands of Random River Stones by Age
–The Highly Anxious Herbivore%u2019s Guide to Moral Vegetable Consumption.. hahaha.
-Fake banana flavor could actually be really banana flavor? The History of Banana Flavoring
-Let it roam..How to Make the Most of a Scattered Attention Span
–It’s about time we know exactly whats in the food. An ‘Added Sugar’ Label Is On The Way For Packaged Food
-I always kind of thought smoothies were more a dessert then a meal. Ask Well: The Downside of Smoothies
–This California House Has a Vertical, Living Succulent Wall and I love it. I would be all about something like this except I live in Vt. All the plants would die.
–Scientists Are Trying to Solve the Mystery of Awe… I think it will forever be a mystery, that’s why it’s awe.
–These mountain are like whoa.
-I have moments where I want to whitewash the entire house. This place is inspiring (and the stairs.. love love love)
Pictures from the week.