We Are Getting Closer

I am going to try to post some pictures again here today but not sure if it will oversize them and cut them off again. I want to avoid the messy look earlier in the blog of half a photo showing.

I have been working on my front room for about a month. Maybe a little more. Off and on every chance I got. Lots of things are happening around there all the time that either keep me busy or pull me away from the house all together. We are finally getting the floor down and in one of the following pictures, I have a piece of the trim just laying there up against the base board so I could see what it was going to look like. I think the place looks beautiful.

I have already bought a matching set of rugs that will look really super nice on the new floor and some pads for the bottoms of all the furniture that will need to be fixed to protect if from scratching up the new floor. I would so love to have a group of people come over and finish this up before Dan gets back from his weather spotters class. That would be a neat surprise but I doubt that's going to happen. :(

I broke down and bought myself the Recumbent trike that I have been wanting now for near 7 years. I used to ride my bike all the time every single time the weather permitted. However, I got away from that because with the defibrillator I have been a little afraid to ride a regular upright bike for fear that the defibrillator would fire and send me into traffic or I'd simply just topple over and hurt myself pretty good. With the trike if something like that were to happen....I really wouldn't go anywhere and I couldn't hurt myself.

The bike set me back a load of money but I have wanted the bike for a very long time. The opportunity came up for me to get it and the price has been going up year after year. It wasn't going to get cheaper if I waited. So I bit the bullet and got one. The guilt from spending that much isn't so bad now as it was the first day or two but I am sure that if the furnace goes out or something like that, I am going to be kicking myself in the butt again.

I was in the house last weekend and there was a knock on the door and someone asked me if that was my green car out front and if I knew that there was a tree on it. Well no I didn't. I had been out there less than a half hour before, loading up a bunch of gallon jugs of water for work. It was an extremely blustery day out and that tree there in the pictures has now fallen on every person car that lives in the neighborhood right there in those four home area and some that have long since moved away.

I am supposed to take it to be looked at the body shop as soon as I can get it there. I just don't want to be without a car for the day either and have to depend on others to haul me around. :(