Dawn Brocco's Life & Design Blog

Elbow
Well, not only did the digging yesterday give me new blisters, but the old elbow is acting up again. Never had a problem til we moved here and I had to rake for (seemingly) endless weeks, every autumn and spring, thanks to all the lawns and trees that dump their branches and leaves every time a breeze blows!

Last year we managed to get a cleanup team in to handle the spring cleanup, and it was hardly any surprise that they filled a huge truck to overflowing with the organic debris, as we have raked and hauled and chipped all this every year ourselves. But this spring, they were booked solid and couldn't squeeze us in - "not" what I wanted to hear.

More Seams
So, today, it'll be more wallpaper seam repair - this "should" be the last day of that. That room is really 2 rooms, one, 9'x9' and an attached 5'x7' room, and nearly every seam had to be redone. But it's working well. Next is to bleach the ceiling. Last spring (well, spring, summer, autumn) it was very wet - way more rain than we're used to, which made mildew on some ceilings, not all, just a few and particularly in the shaded rooms that get no direct sun, like the dining room, front hall and this bedroom. I bleached the hall and dining room ceilings months ago, but as it's, yet another, workout for my right elbow, it'll have to wait at least a few more days.

2nd mitten
I almost finished mitten #2 last night - so many interruptions. But I should get them both buttoned up today and washed with the hat. (I always wash my newly knitted samples.) I "would" like to get the jacket started today, but we'll see. My grandmother's back in the hospital again. She's 87 and has been in and out several times lately, and it's not looking good, her heart is just wearing out.
Dawn