New Windows!

Here are the new windows from the inside. The contractor just needs to prime the drywall and all the inside work will be done. We are doing the finish painting. Next week they will do the finish work to the outside, including putting up new siding.

I really like the new windows - a bit bigger than the miss-matched set we had. And now we have a really nice wide sill. I have started researching what sort of window treatments I want.

There is a Hole in the House

Here are the 'Before' pictures. We had already taken down the shutters outside and started moving out the living room furniture. So these are the old windows - mismatched and not aligned.

And here are a couple of pictures of the 'During'. The hole in the wall got a bit bigger the next day. I am hoping when I get home today we will have a few windows installed. The goal is 3 windows that match and all line up.

A Full Day

Saturday was a full day. I left the house at 8:30am for the quilt guild meetings and didn't get home till 5pm. The meetings went well but they there were lots of details with the quilt show that needed to be ironed out.

I figured on a pretty quiet evening when I got home - but surprise the new laptop I ordered arrived (3 days early). So I spent the evening setting up the system and software.

Web Image Toys

I have been playing with some of the free cool image tools on the web this week so here is one of those images. This is from a site that lets you build an avatar/cartoon of yourself (or anyone else). http://www.faceyourmanga.com/welcome.htm They then e-mail you the image and you can use it pretty much anywhere. The only mistake I made on this one way that I forgot to change the eyebrow color to brown instead of black. Otherwise I think it is pretty close to what I look like. Damon also went to the site and made an image of himself that he is using on FaceBook - I am not posting it here as his cartoon self is making a rude hand gesture.

Catching up in the Garden

The garden was very busy with me away the past week or so. As you can see the sunflowers are now in bloom. I have a couple tiny tomatoes starting to form and the blueberries are starting to turn blue. Of course the busiest part of the garden was the weeds. Damon's bed of peppers is overrun with weeds - some as tall as the pepper plants themselves.

Ready for Warm Weather - should it arrive

No, its not the weather that has Boris feeling down. He went to the groomer's this week. As usual he comes back looking a bit more like a sheep than a Newfoundland. But he should be more comfortable if we ever do warm up this summer.

Went out to lunch with a colleague today and it was so nice out (not raining) we went down to the Naked Turtle on the docks to eat outside by the water.

Ending the Quilting Hiatus

I knew I wouldn't get to spend much time sewing the first half of the summer due to a conference and a trip but even after I was back home things (like broken fridges) conspired against getting any sewing done - or even started.

So today, finally, I sewed this New York Beauty block. I have high hopes that this will not be a false start and I will be making headway shortly on my current list of projects.