Pioneer Woman at Heart

  Today is definitely a "happy" homemaker day.  Waking up to new floors in the hall and the kitchen is a game changer.  It really brightened up the house.  If you didn't see the photos of the hallway progress, you can see the post HERE .   Today is the last Monday of February 2024.  How will you be spending your day today?  Time flies by way too fast. We are getting a lot finished on the to-do list, and boy it feels great.  No more pattern binders piled in the living room, another lap afghan finished, kitchen blinds/windows cleaned, and so forth.  We still have a bit of work in the hall, but it's 98% done! We haven't decided on the next course of action, but with spring around the corner, we may be back to working on our waist high, raised beds (a project from last spring).  There is the complete garage clean out, and the drywall repair/new outlet and window project too, to think about.   I think I forgot to buy new s...

  Friday was an extremely foggy day.  I was a bit worried about my husband's drive to work. By 11am, the fog had lifted. My husband and I were not happy with the glue-down flooring that was installed in the kitchen, after half of the  floor was torn out  for joist replacements and new subfloor over a year ago.  it was coming up, spreading apart and dirt was sticking in the cracks. A wrench in my winter hallway repairs, but the flooring was on sale, and the installers were free, so my husband made arrangements. On Wednesday, we emptied the entire kitchen, other than the refrigerator.  The flooring/installers were to arrive at 10-11am Thursday to install (same flooring as hallway).  Around noon, I am notified that they are not going to make it.  Friday they arrived, but had to come back on Saturday to finish up.  Hence my delay on posting. During my waiting process, I had collected all of the pattern binders (but one), purged them all, tossed o...