Last weekend's home improvements included starting to fix the entryway to the shed in which we keep my tricycle, the ride-on lawnmower, the rock moving cart, and other things with wheels. The floor of the shed is a very thick layer of fine gravel, and there is a slight slope leading to the door. Consequently, when we moved in the gravel was gradually working its way out the door and blending with the coarser gravel of the walkway. Therefore, when we obtained a bunch of used curbstones cheaply some years back, we put one across the entryway to keep the gravel in, and then placed a board in front of it, at an angle, to make it possible to roll things up and over the large bump of the stone threshold. This worked, but there was always a fair bit of effort involved,to get the heavier items over the bump. Then on Friday evening, when I wondered aloud if perhaps I should re-do the raspberry patch with a stone edge the same way I did the strawberries, Kjartan suggested that perhaps a better use of energy would be to use some of the large old cobble stones we have to make an entry ramp for the shed. This sounded like a brilliant idea, so Saturday I started digging in the first row of them. Over the course of the weekend I did 5 hrs and 40 minutes worth of work on that project, which was enough to get half of the ramp done, and oh, is it ever so much nicer to roll things in and out!
Monday through Wednesday I started each day with meeting Johan for about a half an hour of acroyoga before heading to the archives, where I sorted and inventoried the papers turned in for the Gammelstad Lions Club for the time period 2013 to 2018 (after which the club disbanded due to having only a small core of older members remaining, who no longer had the energy to keep it going). They had previously archived their club records on two other occasions, so I needed to print out the list of the previous inventories to compare the codes used then for various topics so as to be certain to be reasonably consistent. I had pulled that set from the "to do" shelves because it looked small enough, and already well organised enough, to complete during my final week on the job, and it was, just. I wound up leaving work early on Wednesday to run some errands, and stayed 1.5 hours extra on Thursday to finish it up. Well, everything besides actually putting it onto the "done" shelves and adding the shelf number to its database entry--one of my colleagues, who has a key to the archives, said he would do that step.
Then I said goodbye to my boss (no hugs nor even handshake, because pandemic), and agreed that I would be in touch later this summer to determine when I should start my next short contract with them. I could have started already in June, but my garden needs some attention, and I need a break from working two half time jobs at once.
Wednesday's errands included a stop by the tip shop to get more decorative pots in which to put indoor house plants, and whilst there I found a small wooden chest, tall enough for our ceramic water jug, for only 150 SEK. While we could certainly make a nicer chest for feast gear, that would take time, and we couldn't do it for so little money!
Therefore that evening's Frostheim Zoom craftsnight hangout I started sewing a wool lining for the box, and now, that done, I am also making a nålbinded cover for the jug, which I started Saturday morning during my Sister's Zooom Happy Hour, and continued during Crafternoon. I have wanted to attend![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
fjorlief's Crafternoons since first she mentioned them, but now that they have gone virtual, I can! So nice to get to see her and other friends from An Tir, and to meet new people.
Yesterday I managed to get some seeds and the seedlings that my friend Barbara gave me into two of the three planting boxes by the house, and need to go buy more dirt for the third today (we had thought that two bags each would do it, but it turns out they need three). So in a bit I will head to the store to get more dirt, and another water hose, since Kjartan has planted potatoes on the field (having borrowed fro his dad a tilling tool to drag behind the tractor to prepare the ground), and it would be nice to be able to water them, and our hose just doesn't reach that far.
Tomorrow I need to get productive on LTU work, and start doing Durham research again, now that the archive job is done for the spring.
Monday through Wednesday I started each day with meeting Johan for about a half an hour of acroyoga before heading to the archives, where I sorted and inventoried the papers turned in for the Gammelstad Lions Club for the time period 2013 to 2018 (after which the club disbanded due to having only a small core of older members remaining, who no longer had the energy to keep it going). They had previously archived their club records on two other occasions, so I needed to print out the list of the previous inventories to compare the codes used then for various topics so as to be certain to be reasonably consistent. I had pulled that set from the "to do" shelves because it looked small enough, and already well organised enough, to complete during my final week on the job, and it was, just. I wound up leaving work early on Wednesday to run some errands, and stayed 1.5 hours extra on Thursday to finish it up. Well, everything besides actually putting it onto the "done" shelves and adding the shelf number to its database entry--one of my colleagues, who has a key to the archives, said he would do that step.
Then I said goodbye to my boss (no hugs nor even handshake, because pandemic), and agreed that I would be in touch later this summer to determine when I should start my next short contract with them. I could have started already in June, but my garden needs some attention, and I need a break from working two half time jobs at once.
Wednesday's errands included a stop by the tip shop to get more decorative pots in which to put indoor house plants, and whilst there I found a small wooden chest, tall enough for our ceramic water jug, for only 150 SEK. While we could certainly make a nicer chest for feast gear, that would take time, and we couldn't do it for so little money!
Therefore that evening's Frostheim Zoom craftsnight hangout I started sewing a wool lining for the box, and now, that done, I am also making a nålbinded cover for the jug, which I started Saturday morning during my Sister's Zooom Happy Hour, and continued during Crafternoon. I have wanted to attend
fjorlief's Crafternoons since first she mentioned them, but now that they have gone virtual, I can! So nice to get to see her and other friends from An Tir, and to meet new people.Yesterday I managed to get some seeds and the seedlings that my friend Barbara gave me into two of the three planting boxes by the house, and need to go buy more dirt for the third today (we had thought that two bags each would do it, but it turns out they need three). So in a bit I will head to the store to get more dirt, and another water hose, since Kjartan has planted potatoes on the field (having borrowed fro his dad a tilling tool to drag behind the tractor to prepare the ground), and it would be nice to be able to water them, and our hose just doesn't reach that far.
Tomorrow I need to get productive on LTU work, and start doing Durham research again, now that the archive job is done for the spring.