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kareinaIt is now summer in the north, the birch tree has managed to grow most of its leaves, the smultron(wild strawberry) have started to flower, the current bushes are putting out clumps of things which will become flowers, followed by berries. The spinach and chard seeds we planted are starting to grow tiny little leaves, and the day time highs are getting up to around 20 C.
Now that it is warm enough to open doors and windows in the house I have finally started scraping away the wallpaper on the west wall of the kitchen in preparation for painting that wall. I have never liked that paper, and only tolerated leaving it there because we had covered most of the wall with bookshelves to serve as a pantry, so only a few of the huge, ugly, teal flowers showed above the top of the shelves. However,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lord_kjar wanted more room in the kitchen, and we have decided to build a small walk-in pantry on half of that wall, and open up the rest of the space for other use. Step one towards this goal was building the downstairs pantry, where the duplicate packages of food now lives, so we don't need as much shelf space. Now I have moved the remaining bookcases into the living room just on the other side of the kitchen door, so that the wall is empty. Based on how long it took to remove the first panel of wall paper, I think it will take about 12 hours to get the wall clean and empty, then we can sand it up, fill in holes, and paint it. After that we can finally start building my new pantry.
One could argue that pantry building should have been a winter project, because now it is earth cellar building season. Indeed, today would have been a fabulous day for it. But this weekend C. is home for a visit (her summer job is in the south of Sweden, and was too good of an opportunity to refuse just because she had only just moved here), solord_kjar set aside the weekend to relax with her instead of working on projects.
Most of the rest of my free time is spent doing stuff for our Medieval Days at Hägnan event in July, since I am one of the autocrats.
Monday & Tuesday I have an obligatory "meeting" for work (read excursion to see a mine up in the Gällivare area and stay overnight at a hotel there before returning on Tuesday), so nothing will be accomplished on the work front.
Now that it is warm enough to open doors and windows in the house I have finally started scraping away the wallpaper on the west wall of the kitchen in preparation for painting that wall. I have never liked that paper, and only tolerated leaving it there because we had covered most of the wall with bookshelves to serve as a pantry, so only a few of the huge, ugly, teal flowers showed above the top of the shelves. However,
lord_kjar wanted more room in the kitchen, and we have decided to build a small walk-in pantry on half of that wall, and open up the rest of the space for other use. Step one towards this goal was building the downstairs pantry, where the duplicate packages of food now lives, so we don't need as much shelf space. Now I have moved the remaining bookcases into the living room just on the other side of the kitchen door, so that the wall is empty. Based on how long it took to remove the first panel of wall paper, I think it will take about 12 hours to get the wall clean and empty, then we can sand it up, fill in holes, and paint it. After that we can finally start building my new pantry. One could argue that pantry building should have been a winter project, because now it is earth cellar building season. Indeed, today would have been a fabulous day for it. But this weekend C. is home for a visit (her summer job is in the south of Sweden, and was too good of an opportunity to refuse just because she had only just moved here), so
lord_kjar set aside the weekend to relax with her instead of working on projects.Most of the rest of my free time is spent doing stuff for our Medieval Days at Hägnan event in July, since I am one of the autocrats.
Monday & Tuesday I have an obligatory "meeting" for work (read excursion to see a mine up in the Gällivare area and stay overnight at a hotel there before returning on Tuesday), so nothing will be accomplished on the work front.