Get Back To The Basics + Learning to Unplug
Hello friends! I had another fantastic week in the staying offline department last week.
I suspect it was because the landscapers were here which is kind of like waking up to a live tv show in your very own driveway each morning.
Today the hydroseed peeps are coming out to do their bit. Rain is in the forecast for later in the week but we are going to keep our fingers crossed that it will all work out.
Maine weather can be pretty unpredictable, that’s for sure.
In The Kitchen
The HH made another batch of his homemade chicken soup. I made cookies for the crew. Maybe when things calm down a bit I’ll try to master the pear tart that I love so much.
Then again, maybe I need to sample another one from the bakery first? Yes. Yes I think that’s a good idea.
Kitchen Goals For This Year
- Master the pear frangipane tart from Standard Baking Company.
- Put my Weck jars to use.
- Use two bins of beans {working on it}
Rug Hooking
This past week I got through about 75% of my “personal use” wool bins, listed some big bundles of wool in my Etsy shop and started another rug. I’m hoping to have another grouping of rugs and pillows to offer around Mid-May so far I have 4 pieces made.
This week I am hoping to finish going through the rest of my bins, finish another small rug and continue to work on the giant whale rug I started a few months ago.
Rug Hooking Goals For This Year
Finish drawing out all my patterns, making kits, dyeing wool by March 31st.- Release 10 new rug hooking patterns/kits. {3 down 7 to go}
- Hook 27 of the patterns from the “someday I’ll hook these” bin. {4 down 23 to go}
Go New Places – See New Things
Other than the grocery store or Home Depot I haven’t been anywhere lately. I’m just so happy to stay home lately and work on house things {inside and out}.
The weather has been really nice the past few days. I even spotted a single {!!} tulip behind the fence yesterday. In this same spot last year there were over 200 tulips!
I won’t make that mistake again. I guess if I want tulips {the fancy ones anyway} I’m going to have to plant them every fall.
Travel Goals For This Year
- Travel someplace {internationally} that I’ve never been before.
- Travel somewhere in Maine {overnight} that I haven’t been before.
Places I’ve Been So Far This Year
- Boston {Birthday getaway}
- NYC
Walk And Stretch More
I walked to the grocery store for milk and noticed they had whoopie pie flavored milk. Would you buy it? I wonder if flavored milk is a big seller in Maine. I remember seeing chocolate milk every once in a while as a kid but that’s about it.
Walking/Stretching Goals For This Year
- Get into some sort of stretching routine
- Fast walk a 5K, 10K, and Half Marathon {signed up for a half marathon}
Garden
The garden boxes are in and filled! Yee-Haw. Now I just need to find my zip baggies of seeds so I can plant a few root crops down the center of the boxes.
Tomatoes and peppers won’t be planted until the end of May, but at least I can plant a few cool weather crops while I wait.
And these ceramic flowers… Aren’t they cool? I spotted them online and thought a small collection of them would look marvelous on a wall.
Garden Goals For This Year
- Rework the driveway and garden areas {in progress}
- Go crazy and plant a ridiculous amount of flowers {working on it}
- Step out of my comfort zone and plant some flowers I’ve never planted before
Paint
Other than painting a few clapboards on the front of the house, I didn’t do much painting last week.
This week though I hope to get started on another round of buoys. The HH was kind enough to cut me a few {okay, 32} more buoys for the fence. I bought some new seaside themed stencils over the winter and I’m looking forward to changing up the summer display out front a bit. 🙂
Well, that’s the latest news from the Butterfield compound… Anything cool going on at YOUR place?
~Mavis
Painting Goals For This Year
- The Van Gogh wall
- The gallery wall down stairs
- The captains wall in the hall
- Trim and walls
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