Snapshots: So Much Rain!

2.5 inches! Yay!

As excited about the rain as I--and my garden--was, I was definitely less enthused by the constant mud tracked into the house for days. Including into Calvin and Jack's bedroom.

To be fair, white carpet is a stupid thing to have in a room near the front door. 

A couple of years ago, A. transplanted some cuttings from a rose bush growing at an abandoned house in the village. They've been growing well, and last year, there was one bloom on one of them. This year? One bloom again.

Maybe next year, we'll get one on each plant. What a bounty that would be.

We've been working on cleaning out the very large barn/shed that's next to our house. It's split into two parts. One part was mostly cleared out when we moved in. The other part definitely wasn't. It was full of boards, metal, fencing, screens, windows, plywood, stovepipe . . . sooooo much stuff.

We've finally cleared all that out so we could put the chicks in there, and in the process sort out all of the materials that were piled up in there.

We've done a LOT of cleaning out of different barns/sheds/attics in our marriage, and it's just terrible. Like cleaning out a garage, but about 100 times more filthy and exhausting.

It always looks worse before it looks better.

But! It's mostly done now, and A. has a pretty good stockpile of materials for future projects.

I bet some of this will end up in the casita in some way. (This is the "after" of the bigger side. We can walk in there now!)

And lastly, I finally got fed up with my pathetic mixing bowl situation--one very old plastic bowl from a dollar store that's starting to crack, one excessively heavy large ceramic bowl, and two ceramic bowls that are too small for almost everything I need mixing bowls for. 

So I bought a whole set of different-sized stainless steel mixing bowls. With lids.

The lids were supposed to be red, but they're actually pink. Poppy approves.

And there you have it! My life, snapshotted.