Busy Bees

So, we've covered a lot of ground in the last month or so. Windows, obviously, which you can read more about in this post. But also a whole bunch of other things.

1. Drywall mud finished in stairwell and upstairs. He made the paneling disappear!

 Lovely smooth walls (and yet another round, hopefully the last, of cleanup on the upstairs landing)

 Trim needed to finish these edges.

 Now that I've spent some time applying mud, I have a lot of respect for guys who do it well. He did a really nice job.

2. Made super cool lamps out of salvaged wood

 I'm going to make shades for them. The proportions are obviously wrong with this shade, but it's functional for now.

3. Finished baseboard in guest room, just in time for my parents' arrival (no pictures of this. Baseboard just isn't that exciting, but what it lacks in interesting, it makes up for with time-consuming. So there's that.)

4. Successfully added casing around guest room window

 ...and somewhat less-successfully added casing around attic door in guest room. Nothing a tube of caulk can't fix.

Primed but haven't yet painted the attic door...

5. Cut down the camellia in front of our house because we didn't like it and didn't appreciate how much light it was blocking.

 In this one, where Todd looks kind of like the "why you" cartoon from The Oatmeal while brandishing a bow saw, you can see the front of our house right now and the place where the siding needs to be patched from the window replacement.

6. Baked a ton of stuffed heirloom tomatoes and drank a lot of wine while doing it

 OMG I love my kitchen. This is almost a year ago that we demolished the old kitchen.

7. Enjoyed another idyllic happy hour at Dunbar

8. Took in Crater Lake (again, fourth time I think) with my parents and stayed at the lodge for the first time. This is the view from the valley side.

 Mirror Pond at Crater Lake. I think this is called "arriving."

 I know Todd's eyes are closed but I look cute with my new haircut. #sorryimnotsorry.

 Made friends with this tame little guy.

9. Considered buying a labradoodle puppy who, at three months, was the best-behaved dog I've ever met

10. Ate a LOT of Buttercloud. With Kristan and Brian, with my parents, with my parents again, with Todd, with my mom... yum.

 11. Got the attic cabinet door in the bathroom painted. But not caulked, and it will need probably another tube of caulk.

 12. Acquired this great ikat shower curtain from Target. I'll be giving it the blue marker treatment. The pattern is perfect but I've never been a fan of muddy gray-blue. I was planning on putting it upstairs, but it might go in our bathroom if I really love it.