Liz | The Road Home

Barking up the wrong tree

It continues to be warmer than is normal. The snow continues to melt. The sun pops out now and again…also some squirrels. I guess the squirrels are taking advantage of bare ground to further add to their food stores. They are also teasing Bear and Auggie by chittering from the trees.

That’s the varmint!!

Ferocious Beardog!

Yes, well…I don’t think the squirrel is up there, but a small bird is…

Bear has about had enough.

Time to relax on Beardog Point.

Soft light: December

It is December 20.

Five days until Christmas.

Here, in Northwest Montana, we should be knee deep in snow.

But, we are not. The ground is mostly bare.

Sad.

But inside the house…

Soft light…

I LOVE the new furniture arrangement…the chair in the kitchen with ottoman and lamp… It has changed my routine for the better. Hard to explain, but in some way, it helped to separate work/non work and I am actually getting to my desk for “work” more timely.

And evenings – EVENINGS!! – I have had evenings.

Auggie’s room….

The bedroom…sanctuary…peace.

Fireside…Bear’s room…

Soft Light…December.

Around the house

I’m not sure who the winner is here…

So, I’m still a bit out of kilter on my bedtime/wake up time, but it is better than it was! I’m in bed 7:30 ish and up 4:30 ish…BUT, I normally wake between 10 and 11:00 p.m. and Bear and I have a nighttime outing. I love being out especially the last few nights when it was crystal clear with a zillion stars.

But back to morning… I was up shortly after 4:00 this morning and got on a bit of a cleaning binge and then cruised a few food blogs while making coffee. I do mean a few as I’m down to a couple that I keep an eye on and a couple more that when I think about it, I look.

This morning, I looked at The Kitchn. And there was a link to the sister site Apartment Therapy – a post about sitting areas in the kitchen: Sitting nooks in small kitchens. I first thought: “How funny”. But, the photos were intriguing. I read the comments and it was kind of amazing how many said they had a reading nook in the kitchen.

Huh.

I looked at the dark corner where my little, uncomfortable table with 2 chairs sits…and I wondered…and then I rearranged furniture…at dark o’clock in the morning…

Right away, I thought: “NO! – I do NOT like this…not working.”

Then, I thought: “Well, maybe I’ll try it through Christmas.”

Shortly, I was kind of liking it.

I liked it more and more.

So…at least through Christmas and then ???

You never can tell what might work around the house.

The dog bed

I never get tired of seeing what happens on the dog bed…

Fog

No sooner had Margaret asked about fog at my house…

FOG!

Damp, dreary, fog.

All day.

Fog.

Playing in water

Wild Thing: Bright and Shiny!

That might be an exaggeration, but the temperature was above freezing, most of the snow was gone and the forecast was for colder temperatures so I decided that this was my chance to get the road dirt and ice melt chemicals off the motorhome before they had a chance to do damage.

I have an adapter for my kitchen faucet that allows me to hook my hose (garden hose) to it and have warm water. I used that to fill the hose with warm water, thus making the COLD hose easy to work with vs a cold non-cooperative hose.

Once the hose was warmed up, I re-connected it to the outside spigot which has LOTS of pressure and rinsed off Wild Thing and her undercarriage and her newly installed propane tank!!

Whilst undergoing this operation, it was raining. It was 37F. I hope that the folks that pulled into the new construction project did not see the crazy person “washing” a motorhome…in the rain…at barely above freezing temperatures.

Oh, well.

There was no soap involved and it was not really a wash, it was just a rinse off of the worst of the road dirt and ice melt chemicals.

But she looks much better.

Meanwhile…