and i know it's a little blurry, but aren't these tulips gorgeous? also, the stitches. i'm happy to say joren did not execute this batch himself. although i hate to admit his self-ministered ones looked a little better. a little. the black thumbnail is unrelated.
look at the bottom of the photo below. see the window hole? if i were down there, i'd be waving. or maybe flipping you off. but probably doing a jig. that's our new apartment. it's fancy, but we try not to get too uppity in our basement digs.
not that i didn't love the glow of the protective yellow paint stuff. or the profile of the tyvek.
this is what i like to call "the cedar staining station", or "potentially hazardous fume central". in between all the resting and relaxing, we stained about seven thousand cedar boards for the exterior--but not before joren milled and sanded every one, bless his heart. his charming wife insisted on 2 inch, perfectly smooth boards. none of that lazy 6 inch crap for us! we like to make things as hard as we can around here.
the tree joren said we didn't need, but i stole one anyhow. i managed to dig into our storage unit and pull out some goodwill, christmas spirit and old bulbs.
the fire box! ready to burn a hole in your coat OR heart!
