we must be doing something right
Nov. 3rd, 2013 04:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aryanhwyI've just pulled out a dozen scrumptious-looking raspberry caramel muffins from the oven (recipe adapted from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
madbaker). And what is Gwen continually returning to the counter to sneak surreptitious handfuls of?
Chopped celery, awaiting to be made into soup.
I've lost track of how many bowls-ful she's eaten.
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What's the autumn correlated of spring cleaning? Whatever it is, it appears to have hit us lately. Last weekend, Joel hung up in the bathroom the medicine cabinet that we rescued from the trash in Amsterdam; it had been used in Gwen's bedroom in Tilburg to store miscellaneous things, but here it had just been sitting empty on top of one of her bookcases.
This weekend, he's installed two of the overhead ceiling lights in the hall (the third has wiring problems that he's still sorting out), plus the lights in one of the two nooks in the hall. We'd picked out the fixtures back in February or March, and then they just sat... It wasn't much of a big deal as the days grew longer and the light grew stronger, but lately, even with daylight savings, it's now just too dark in the morning for me to see into my wardrobe (our wardrobes are in the main hall) easily. So it's really, really nice to have the lights up finally, and it's also nice to have these particular lights: We discovered doing fixture-shopping in spring that we're quite picky when it comes to lights, and the vast majority of what's out there you couldn't pay us to have in our house. So the fact that we both agreed on these pretty quickly says something about them.
madbaker). And what is Gwen continually returning to the counter to sneak surreptitious handfuls of? Chopped celery, awaiting to be made into soup.
I've lost track of how many bowls-ful she's eaten.
--
What's the autumn correlated of spring cleaning? Whatever it is, it appears to have hit us lately. Last weekend, Joel hung up in the bathroom the medicine cabinet that we rescued from the trash in Amsterdam; it had been used in Gwen's bedroom in Tilburg to store miscellaneous things, but here it had just been sitting empty on top of one of her bookcases.
This weekend, he's installed two of the overhead ceiling lights in the hall (the third has wiring problems that he's still sorting out), plus the lights in one of the two nooks in the hall. We'd picked out the fixtures back in February or March, and then they just sat... It wasn't much of a big deal as the days grew longer and the light grew stronger, but lately, even with daylight savings, it's now just too dark in the morning for me to see into my wardrobe (our wardrobes are in the main hall) easily. So it's really, really nice to have the lights up finally, and it's also nice to have these particular lights: We discovered doing fixture-shopping in spring that we're quite picky when it comes to lights, and the vast majority of what's out there you couldn't pay us to have in our house. So the fact that we both agreed on these pretty quickly says something about them.
