Last night, Otto the storm stormed through, with galeforce winds that made the house shake and rattle and all the vents whoosh every once in a while. By 10 pm, it sounded as if we had a freight train going by the house nonstop. I read in bed until close to midnight and it never really let up once. But this morning I woke to sunshine. It clouded over pretty quickly, but the sun is peeking out again now, though there are still clouds and I can see the tops of the trees waving. <\/p>\n
I filled up the bird feeders when I got up, and hosed out the birdbath and refilled it with fresh water, so we’ve had a constant stream of feathered visitors all day: mourning doves, wood pigeons, a big male pheasant, jackdaws, magpies, crows and all the little finches, tits, and sparrows. Martin and I did a run up to Flyinge Plantshop, which just reopened after their winter break, and I found a cool succulent with long wavy green “fingers” to put into the white ceramic peacock planter I found at an antique shop in Malm\u00f6 last weekend. I also found a Lisa Larsson moose figurine for a reasonable (though still spendy) price, so I was thrilled. I’ve been looking for one of those for YEARS. It’s now happily part of the herd in the moose bathroom. <\/p>\n
Martin got the last of the crate stuff moved and put away, and we put all of John’s things up in the attic, so the house is back to normal. We moved the bird chair from my mom into the living room, moved M\u00e4rta’s tapestry chair to the side where the Poang chair was, and moved the Poang chair and its ottoman into the computer room. I’m very pleased with everything. I figured out a place to put the peacock, and the bellpull that my mom gave me, and Anders just hung it up for me. A little lift in the house always makes everything feel new and exciting! <\/p>\n
He is busy at work in the kitchen, continuing the renovation project. We have decided against ripping out the spice cabinet, which is over the stove. We were going to tile that all the way up, and put in one of those freestanding fans, but after thinking about it, Anders decided it would look too squeezed in the narrow space we have, and because we also don’t have another good solution for the spices, we are going to just replace the small horizontal fan that we have with a better, more modern one. We’ll use the tiles that were going there behind the microwave instead, so it will look more cohesive with the tile backsplash on the long wall. He’s working on the trim and sides of the cabinet that goes above the microwave now, which required some adjusting first, and was very glad to find a long piece of the trim saved up in the garage attic. I don’t think he’ll get too much done this weekend, however, and he’s away again next week. <\/p>\n
I’m doing laundry and otherwise taking it easy. We don’t have any plans out and about this weekend, for which I am glad. We watched the P\u00e5 Sp\u00e5ret<\/em> final last night, which was HARD…I think I only knew the answers to 5 of the questions. And I really liked both the teams, so was cheering them both on. Tonight is another Melodifestival show, and then we’ll most likely watch another episode of For All Mankind<\/em>. We’re in the middle of season 3, only 5 episodes left, and season 4 won’t start before the end of this year. Next week B\u00e4st i Test<\/em> starts up again, though I’ll miss some of it while I’m away (it will be available on SVT Play when I get back). Not sure what we’ll watch when we’re done with For All Mankind<\/em>. Russell and Kathey recommended Counterpart<\/em>, so we’ll probably try that first. <\/p>\n Off to take care of laundry, empty the dishwasher, and clean out the Tupperware cabinet, then I’m going to spend the rest of the afternoon reading!<\/p>\n Mood: happy Last night, Otto the storm stormed through, with galeforce winds that made the house shake and rattle and all the vents whoosh every once in a while. By 10 pm, it sounded as if we had a freight train going by the house nonstop. I read in bed until close to midnight and it never really let up once. But this morning I woke to sunshine. It clouded over pretty quickly, but the sun is peeking out again now, though there are still clouds and I can see the tops of the trees waving. I filled up the bird feeders...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,4,8],"class_list":["post-8383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-adayinthelife","tag-beinglizardek","tag-blogalicious"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8383"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8385,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8383\/revisions\/8385"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nMusic: India.Arie\u2014The Heart of the Matter<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"