Our attic insulation has been in long enough for us to appreciate that it works beautifully on the warmer days and our cooler mornings. And… that is without thermal windows. The Climate Chief’s non-toxic Air Krete was an excellent choice that we highly recommend if you are considering insulation.
This is the week Glenn Valachovic starts installing our plumbing and the gas lines to our fireplaces and cooktop.
And, Joe and Randy start putting up sheetrock in my sewing room and replacing the sink in our second floor bathroom. It is a tiny bathroom with very little storage. The new vanity will afford a location for minimal cleaning supplies.
Scott and I have made jaunts to estate sales almost every weekend. Each time finding some item that will work in our cottage. One weekend we went to the same garage sale on Friday, only to return on Saturday, where we made four jaunts over and back to pick up our treasures.
Confession… Scott and I love Christmas… well, we love all holidays, but traditionally, Christmas has the longest run which offers the greatest opportunity to decorate. And as we all know, Scott likes to play with dioramas.
We found an estate sale with a room full of Dickens Christmas village miniatures and decorations. I selected twelve lovely Dickens replicas out of the roomful of choices and a few “action figures” for the village and off we went.
On the way home we both commented on what a fabulous bargain the scaled reproductions were. Throughout the afternoon we
kept returning to the thought of further replicating the Christmas village we had enjoyed years before. About three in the afternoon (just as they were shutting down for the day) we called to see if any of the Dickens Christmas village selections remained.
“We have about thirty houses left.”
“We will see you in the morning!” we proclaimed with glee.
The next morning we arrived at the house about half an hour before the sale started for the day and waited. As soon s they opened the doors we claimed whatever decorations remained. They sealed the room off for just us. Scott loaded the car.
Now Baby Girl is just a “baby car” so she can only carry so much. Once we had the car loaded, they put a “do not enter” sign on the door to”our room of decorations.” We rushed home, unloaded the car, and returned to claim the remains.
After three forty-eight mile trips back to claim our remaining possessions we had emptied the room. So out of the more than a hundred Christmas village reproductions we now possess about forty different houses, stores, and village scenes… not counting the people, animals, sleighs and fences. Scott is in diorama heaven and I am thrilled…
P.S. Bob, the hat boxes were sealed shut so we choose to leave them for someone else…
