It’s felt like a crazy busy week. Maybe that’s because I see
the end of the year racing toward me and still have too much to do.
The garden is in disarray and needs to be put to bed. But my excuse is that the tomatoes are still
producing and the sweet potato vine is not yet dying off. No matter that about
70% of the garden could be weeded and tilled.
In addition to the typical writing I wanted to get done this
week, I also went to Marian’s to do pottery on Tuesday. I had a casserole dish
to glaze. I’d also been thinking about making trivets for next year’s Relief
Society Women’s retreat. I wanted a picture and saying to convey the
theme. Alas, we have not yet chosen a
theme. But I created two trivets that
might fit a possible theme- a well with “drink living water” and a sunflower
with “follow the Son.” I had a fun time
with the different carving tools and actually made letters that look like calligraphy. The goal is to fire the tiles and then make a
latex impression of them. Then that
impression can be used to duplicate the pattern on other tiles. I hope it will work.
Tom has started on his newest project- putting a porch where
there was an aluminum cover down stairs in the porch area between the living room
overhang and the garage. He took down
all the old covering. Then he created a
box to match the beam that supports the living room overhang. That sucker was REALLY heavy.
He convinced me to help him hoist it up onto two ladders…
with a bunch of blocks of wood to align it to the correct height. Then it needed to be lowered to be wrapped
with aluminum to match the other beam.
Then lifted it up again. Then we
put metal Greek columns (to mostly match the ones under the living room) under
the beam and set the beam on top. We
were concerned that the cement might slope and so wanted the beam level and
then the columns built under it.
I was really glad when the beam was finally attached to the
posts and the wall! I had vivid images
of me dying from falling beam. We—mostly
Tom, also got the header up against the brick wall of the house. Next are joists and then the roof.
Saturday was the women’s session of General Conference. Tom
and I went to church to meet with other women to listen to it. It really was a
great session. Today we had a good choir
practice and then the children’s primary program for Sacrament. It was so fun to watch and listen to the
little children.
No comments:
Post a Comment