Slow down World V

I am slowly getting the photos from my Victoria Grid shoot tweaked and loaded to Flickr. I seem to be having trouble even thinking about doing the gravestone photos from the Chinese Cemetery. I may not post them at all. Thanks to a few good friends on Flickr for their patience while I get this and few other things done, before visiting their photostreams to do more than just peek at their stuff.

I have been reading voraciously in the last week too. I read Sue Grafton's T is for Trespass in a couple of days. Scared the woo hoo outta myself reading the ending late last nite. I had to leave the lights on as I found my way to bed. I don't think I woke Pat up, though.

Its a bit of an adventure cooking meals. Some of the stuff is migrating back into the cupboards and I forget which things are back in the kitchen and which ones are in the library or the guest room. Well, we should have the corian countertops in within 4 - 5 weeks and then I will be permanently back in the kitchen. Hopefully with flooring and lighting done also. Maybe even the painting, if we are lucky.

The apples I put out for the deer were gone in a day. I must put out more for the deer before the squirrels take them all off the deck. The hummingbirds are met with frozen food in the mornings but it is thawed quickly with all the sun we have been having. Sun, but not too very high temperatures. Lots of birds at the feeders that Andy and Tara put out. I cannot seem to get a good photo of anything, though. Not enough patience or time to wait for the shot, I guess.

Slow down World IV

I managed to get six photos ready and loaded to Flickr for the Victoria Grid Project. In this photo, I was shooting into the sun and over Gonzales Bay through the monuments in the Chinese Cemetery. I played in photoshop on this one for quite a while to get it to look a bit better.

Yesterday David finished installing the cabinets and building the kitchen trolly and the curio/hutch. The design of the cabinets is simplicity itself... no grooves or lines to collect dust, just lovely flat "honey spice" cherry wood from floor to ceiling, with bronzy nobs and drawer pull handles. There are a few finishing touches to do, but before David does them, the corian counter top people will be here and so will Hourigans to install the flooring.
This morning, Rob, from Countryside, the countertop people, was here to measure and talk to us about backsplashes, types of edges and etc. We are having a lighter sandy color that will be very similiar to the floor, called Oatmeal, with a tiny red pinstripe, bullnose edges and a 4 inch backsplash... I think. They will phone us when the guy has the template ready to bring down to show us. We can request any changes at that time. We are getting a new double sink that sits down below the edge... I forget what he called it. We will use their plumber. We have yet to get taps. The outside time line on the countertops is 4 - 5 weeks. Rob, from Hourigans is coming next Wednesday morning to measure for the lino in kitchen and bathrooms, and the carpet in my room. I hope we can get Wally to install it again.
I vacuumed and planned where to put things in the new space. I like how it all looks. The trolly will take a bit of getting used to as it uses up space that we were walking through to my room, past the desk. I need to get one drawer in the cabinet by the door, moved to the middle compartment and to as close to the bottom as possible; then this compartment will be for coats and boots and the one closest to the door for the brooms. The other side, I want to move the shelves down and store my camera gear in here, including paper for printing, old 35mm and Holga photos,etc.

Slow down World III

Yesterday, I managed to get a few more photos tweaked and added to Flickr for the Victoria Grid Project. These two are my favourites. I really liked the black and white reflection in the window. The skyline photo I attempted to process in photoshop to make it appear as an old photo for the Retro group. Do you think it looks like an old 1900 kind of photo?

This morning was a trip to the pharmacy and walk home, which is good for me. Really should do more of that. Probably should eat breakfast first, though. I found a book that is 'post apocalyptic' The Road. Apparently there will be a movie made. I cannot seem to put the thing down, but had to, as I have other things that are must do.

David has the cabinets installed, except for the two extra things. The kitchen trolly and what I am calling the hutch/curio cabinet. David said that this wood is real 'quality... its very nice. Solid wood doors, some heavy duty tracks for weight bearing drawers to run on... well... there will be pictures. The corian guys from Cobble Hill come to measure for the counter tops on Thursday, when David said he would be finished. It is all looking very good. We bought a new range hood .. black.. from Home Depot. I think it will look fine. The top of the stove is black, but the rest white. David thought it should be white. It needs its light bulbs.. not included. I hope he can connect it to the vent with the same old pipe we had before. I think it should work.

We had lunch out, and supper was some of the previously prepared cabbage rolls. Yesterday was pizza. The stove and fridge are now back in place (except the range hood), so tomorrow, I suppose I can cook.

I did not get time on Flickr or time to look at tweaking any photos for the grid. I have just a few left to do, though.. 10 more days to work on them. The new site is getting stuff done and some new things added in. Oh my, this is going to be some incredible place to play!