Can’t sleep so naturally I’m writing a post…lol

What I really need to do is hit the gym and walk down to the ocean and back up again. (Steep hill for about 4km round trip) That will make me tired enough to sleep thru the night.

What I did was garden for an hour or two and I dug up our potato harvest.

Now you might be sniggering at my so called potato “harvest”, but it’s not too bad for the seven plants plus a couple forgotten potatoes left in the ground from last year. I really try with this little urban space. 🙂

Actually, it’s not an intensively cultivated space. It’s more of a potager; an ornamental veggie garden with a lot of flowers mixed in. But it’s so fulfilling to grow my own food. (Oh, there are a few garlic bulbs too! Very excited about those!)

Inside, the sun is shining thru the windows today and my things are back. (remember I left two months ago with all things still in storage?)

There’s still so much work to do on the house. Niggly little things, like, some nails have been pulled out of the old plaster walls during removal and the moving things back in crew said they weren’t allowed to rehang the paintings if the nail wasn’t there, so I have to patch the plaster, drill new holes and rehang the paintings myself.

Over the past two months the floors have deepened the colour beautifully and I think that maybe I’ll move the carpets back in for the winter. I don’t think I need to keep the carpets off for a full year.

The floor finish looks good and has that deep gloss of the original 100yr old floor, but the finish in the dining room is very shoddy and looks like an amateur job. There are spots of “crumpled up” varnish…do you know what I mean? Like if paint was left to drip and run down a wall. Like that. And there are spots where the finisher didn’t have enough varnish on his roller and so it looks something like if you were painting a wall with not enough paint on the roller and the old wall paint was visible in places.

I’ve called a meeting with the project manager and will see what is to be done. I can safely say that I would not recommend this floor company to anyone and I hope the project manager has a solution. (like a new and competent floor company to re-do the dining room)

I’ll chronicle the problems later in the daylight.

I have to buy a long ladder. And this presents the problem of trying to find a place to store the ladder. Long aluminum ladders are ugly and…well…long, so present a tiny problem with hiding the darn thing so I don’t have to look at it in my lovely space.

I need one to deal with the Virginia creeper and English ivy which are trying to take over the windows, and also to deal with the leaves which will end up in the eves as soon as my two large maples and my neighbour’s huge copper beech decide it’s time.

But for now I love looking at the fresh, green curtains and am looking forward to seeing the Virginia creeper turn red. Chloe made me this flower arrangement as a welcome home prezzie and put it in my bedroom. I put it in the living room because the chrysanthemums are too lovely not to be around all day.

And here’s Morgan. That little cat is being Velcro cat from hell. It’s like, “oh good, you’re home, I’m going to sit on you!” I was sitting there a few minutes ago and Morgan cuddled up and before I knew it, somehow I was relegated to three inches of the sofa with Morgan doing her “longest cat in the world” impression.

Yeah, she does look smug about that. 🙂