Keeping Myself in Stitches!

Let there be...

 

... LIGHT!

Finally... after months (and months... and months) of procrastination... I fixed my light fixture in the bedroom!

The pull chain on the old one broke last year and was unfixable so all I really needed to do was put in the new fixture that I bought.  But since that required turning off the power, etc it always got "backburnered".  but this morning I turned this:

 

into this:

 

And all without electricuting myself :) yay... bonus!

So... let's see... from my "household stuff to do" list:

1) put together my two bedside tables that I bought last year and never assembled

2) fix the light fixture in my bedroom

3) fix the moulding in the bathroom

4) strip and paint both bedrooms

5) strip and stain the woodwork in both bedrooms

6) paint the wall in the hallway

7) strip and stain the stairs and railing

8) dig up those *&@# *&@#*&$^*@ shrubs in the front and side yards

One and a half down... six and a half to go :)

I made a pretty chart :)

So my knitting's been a little lackluster lately.  Although I do have one nice FO I need to blog soon.  I've had to frog the pretty tank I was making due to a guage/sizing issue and in frustration I decided that I needed a quick project that I would enjoy and shouldn't be too hard to "make right"

Enter the Necessity Vest. I had some dark and light green Patons Shetland Chunky that I got at a yard sale last summer:

 

 

I need to use both colors in order to have enough yardage (I'm not doing the hood though... collar is slightly up in the air although I have some ideas).  I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do, but then I made up a color chart that would transition from the dark green on the bottom to the light green on the top.  Here's what it turned out like:

 

I couldn't be more pleased with how the chart looks :)  I'm hoping that the rest of the vest works out the way I'm picturing it!

It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood!

Today was about as perfect as could be... (well... a couple things would have made it even more perfect, but I'll take what I can get :))

First, I was up bright and early with my kitty cats who have been being pretty darn adorable this week.  Here's a picture from yesterday:

 

They were very excited that the door was open :)

And then this morning I got to watch this for a little while:

 

too funny

Next, I spent a lovely morning with my sister and niece. We went and did a "test run" of the Sea Dogs Mothers' Day 5K race.  Course isn't too bad!  Then we went to Whole Foods to do a little shopping.

By the time I got home, the sun was shining and it was simply gorgeous out. Perfect day to get some yard work done!

 

16 (yes 16!) leaf bags later... my front lawn is looking good! (now just need to find the time and buy more bags to do the back and side yards... never ending...)

With that finished I attacked a job that I've wanted to do since I moved in here... removing the shrubs from the front yard (there are a couple on the side of my house too that I will remove, but those can wait)

Here is the house before:

 

It's the shrubs closest to the steps that need to go (the others are very nice rhodedendrons that I'm definitely keeping)... oh btw... note the cats in the window?  What... can't see them??

 

There they are! But I digress...

Well a couple hours later and... voila!

 

No more shrubs!  Just stumps... which I will have to dig up at a later date.  And then plant something pretty sometime.

 

And the shrubs are waiting to get hauled off to the dump (have I mentioned yet how much I miss my truck???  This is going to take me at least 4 trips with my little car (including those leaf bags) :( 

I am going to be really darn sore tomorrow (those shrubs were "demolished" with a hand saw... yay fitness! lol) but I'm so pleased with today.

And today's not over!!!!  On the agenda: nice warm shower, ordering out for dinner because I deserve it, and a night of vegging in front of the TV with my knitting... yay

AND I took tomorrow off from work... so one more day of productivity to come!!  So happy :)