Farm

Another hard day of lambing here at the Loafkeeper residence. We wake up, go to work, come back, and find Pearl with these:







The black one seems a little less aggressive than the white one, so I think Cabol will go down later and maybe give her a little nutra-drench. They both appear to be girls.

I think another might soon be on the way, too. Check out Sadie:

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The birds are chirping, the bees are buzzing, and we're staring at sheep backsides. At least this year Andy knows the difference between a sheep pooing and a sheep having a lamb.

This time around we only bred Pearl and Sadie because Pumpernickel and her baby (who sadly still does not have a name) are puny. We don't need to make more puny sheep. Pearl appears to be getting pretty close to popping. Her uddery bits got a lot bigger this weekend, and today she looked really waddly. Sadie has pretty big uddery bits but not as big as Pearl's, so I think Sadie has a bit longer to go. Who knows.

I really hope everything goes okay this year, and I don't have to put on those elbow-length gloves again.

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Today, after almost two years of searching, I found our Loafkeeper flag that Cabol's old coworkers sent us!



It was cleverly hidden on the top shelf in the office the whole time.

Of course, with my amazing only-knowing-one-knot tying skills, I expect it to last about 1 day before the winds here blow it into the trees.

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This weekend I finished caulking the trim in the basement room (the trim that is up, anyways) (don't use the phrase 'a little caulk' around Cabol). We moved the bed, which involved a lot of grunting and groaning and Cabol hurting her wrists.





We still need to:

• Finish the pocket door frame


• Finish the room and door trim


• Frame out the little window and put trim on it


• Replace the older outlets, and put face plates on all of them

But hey, we can sleep down there now! And we can move the full bed out of the office and set up the tables to get the seeds started!

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Before Andy was struck down by the mighty gods of bronchitis, he put in many hours of sweat and toil in our bedroom. He almost got all the flooring down, and it looks really great. Anya thinks it is pretty nifty, too, and likes how the walls match her outfit.



I think there are about two rows left to go, but they are the most difficult because that side of the room is where the weird angle walls are. We also need to get a threshold to go down between the bedroom and the rest of the basement. Eventually the rest of the basement will have the same flooring, but we won't put it in until we build the kitty room and get the kitty boxes out of the basement.

Speaking of floors, Anya can now slide around on them a bit. In reverse. She can also do this neat thing where she puts her arms over her head and bounces. I'm not sure why her arms have to be over her head for her to bounce, but it seems to work and helps her move a few inches.

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Andy finished repainting our dresser. I'm not sure if he's going to do the mirror.



With the green walls, I think the room is looking sort of woodsy. Next weekend we hope to get the floors put in and get started on the trim. After that the only thing that really needs to be done is replacing the light fixture, but we aren't really sure what we'll put in. I'd love to have a ceiling fan, but the ceiling is sort of low. Another issue is that the current fixture was put in to be centered in the basement as a whole. Now it's way off to the side in our room. We should probably move the electricity stuff before putting in a new fixture, but I think Andy is sick of messing with drywall for a while.

We'd also like to find some groovy new sheets and a groovy new duvet cover. I think with the woodsy-ness that we have going on, we should try to find some sheets with deer on them. I know they make flannel sheets with deer. Don't know about regular sheets. Hm. And for the duvet cover, I'm thinking bugs. Like maybe a print with a swarm of japanese beetles on it.

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Today was Christmas, so I celebrated by priming the basement. It looked like this. Pretty snazzy, huh?



And because I was feeling really ambitious tonight, I decided to put the first coat of paint up (hey, it's not like I have to work tomorrow! Just take Anya to the doctor's office and pick Kenny up at the airport!). While we were at the store, trying to pick out just the right green, we went back and forth on many colors. Asparagus. Carolina Parakeet. Pregnant Gecko. We thought we had one we liked, but when we looked at it under the little light box at Lowe's, it seemed too dark. We like bright. Happy. Cheerful. So we chose another one in the same family. And it's bright, alright.



I believe the swatch is called Muppet In A Blender.

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Many people go to church on Christmas Eve. Some wrap presents for under the tree. Here at the Loafkeeper mansion, we...sand walls. After all, it's a day off from work, so better take advantage of it. I put some last bits of mud on the wall this morning before we left for errands, and this evening I sanded everything smooth and even.

There is a lot of dust in the basement. My snot looks like cottage cheese. I could possibly be an extra in a mime musical. My eyes are full of grit. But now everything is ready to be primed and painted!

Well, once the dust is cleaned up. From the basement. And the stairs. And the floor around the top of the stairs. And probably the whole house by tomorrow morning.

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We've been working on mudding and taping the new walls in the basement. By 'we', I mean Cabol's dad. He's a lot better at that sort of delicate and patient work than I am. So instead, I worked on spackling old nail holes in the window trim since we'll be painting them when we do the walls.

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Now that Anya has a new room, and we almost have a new room, the kitties said they want a new room. We don't have many rooms in this house, so we decided to build a new room for the kitties. Since my parents really, really think the kitties need a room of their own, they decided to give us our Christmas, Birthday, Anniversary, St. Patrick's Day, and Flag Day gifts for the next ten years all at once.

Kitty Room Part I: The Floor







Eventually, we'll close in the slab part and make the Kitty Room.

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