Yard Work
Talk about working up a sweat. Yesterday morning after my weekly trip to Walm-mart, I started in on pruning the out of control trees in my yard. By 1:00 I made a large dent in four of the smaller trees and had completely cut back one of the bushes by the side deck. I don’t know how visible the work is, but it felt good to do it. I piled all the clippings and loaded them in the truck this afternoon while I pruned a few more. It’s going to take an incredible amount of work to get the yard into a state that I’m happy with. There’s a lot of stuff that’s not even worth saving. If I’m done by this time next year I’ll be surprised.
After hanging pictures last week I had one that I couldn’t do anything with. It was one left over from my bedroom in the apartment, and it didn’t fit anywhere here. So I got to thinking… the frame would work in the downstairs bathroom with a different picture.
Since I used all the Sun Moon Stars themed stuff from the apartment bathroom in the new bathroom downstairs I thought some nice astronomical photos would work in there as counterpoint to the stylized images on the shower curtain and towels. So I found this shot of the moon:
And this shot of some solar flares:
The printer did an amazing job on both images and they look downright awesome in the bathroom. See, I told you the printer would pay for itself over time (if I had to buy those prints, they would have easily been $40 or $50 a piece). I think I’m ready to paint in there now. Maybe some sort of lighter blue on the walls with a dark navy on the ceiling (where I might paint some dot-like stars to bring the theme full circle). Once I paint and redo the lineoleum, that’ll be one room done.
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