December Daily 31:

Chester, Abby, and Bill playing catch at Rhoades House.

December Daily 30:

" Jana's Face"

"Teeth"

"Jesse's Finger"

"Emily's Face"

Christmas Picture Outtakes 2009. They are worth clicking on to see them bigger.

Then vote in the top right corner.

December Daily 29:

10:30am

12:30pm--2 hours start to finish. 3 minutes per row.

Completing my New Years Resolution from 2009. Knitting--sort of.

December Daily 28:

We made it home! Blizzardy out tonight in MQT.

December Daily 27:

Redoing this bedroom for a Christmas present.

December Daily 26:

MQT to NH.

December Daily 25:

Merry Christmas!

December Daily 24:

Golden rings? Chicken pesto pizza! Pre-made crust, purchased pesto sauce, mozzarella, cooked chicken breast, roasted red peppers, red onion, and feta crumbles.

December Daily 23:

Chex Mix!

December Daily 22:

Christmas Cookies!

December Daily 21:

Sister Picture 2006 (I'm hiding)...more here.

The kitchen process started with removing everything that the owner had worked so hard on...

I think our color choice - green with white trim was chosen to contrast the purply grandma feel that the house had when we bought it. The trim and cabinets took the most work.

After living in the house with the green kitchen for about a year we decided to tone it down to the light blue. So one day we headed to Menard's picked out the new paint color, and painted it --one day only. We have also removed the gross ceiling fan replaced the ceiling with new tile.

The ceiling.

New window treatments!

The latest kitchen color - curtains made from a shower curtain because all of the other choices were so ugly.

September 22, 2008.

First kitchen redo: Kermit Green, white trim, removed frosted glass, doily curtains, and replaced drawer pulls.

This was the summer we moved into the house.

August 11, 2007.

March 30, 2005 and April 2, 2005.

Frilly, lacey curtains, frosted glass, sponge paint, flower borders, and bad drawer pulls.

December Daily 20:

Lawry's Pasty - veggie.

December Daily 19:

Camera strap before (above) and after (below).

December Daily 18:

Popcorn garland 2009. It takes a lot of popcorn to make garland.

December Daily 17:

It's beginning to look a lot like that time of year...crafts in the basement last weekend. Photo credit: Bill

December Daily 16:

Scrabble at altitude. Colorado Christmas 2008.

December Daily 15:

Drawing names for the Christmas Exchange.

December Daily 14:

2005 snow shoe at Little Garlic River near Big Bay, MI.

December Daily 13:

Computer camera picture in front of the tree. We tried. This was the 7th picture.

December Daily 12:

Pine cone garland on the fireplace.

December Daily 11:

It was warm once. Not this summer, but last summer. It was warm and it will be warm again. This morning on the radio the news guy said it was -27 wind chill. We walked to work wearing our warmest coats and winter boots. Legs were cold.

December Daily 10:

Bill on top of Hogback in Marquette. We did not do this yesterday. Instead there were 5 sessions of heavy snow shoveling--6am, 9am, 12pm, 3pm, 5pm.

December Daily 9:

Tis the season. Peppermint ice cream and snow days.

Good thing we bought another shovel last night. 3 shovels, 2 people. I have a system where I can use 2 shovels at once. The snowfall last year in Marquette allowed me additional training opportunities with the two-shovel technique.

December Daily 8:

Cinnamon Cookies before being baked. The first out of the oven turned out FLAT but tasted delicious. Next time might try half Crisco half butter.

Felt Garland for Christmas

Three styles of the felt garland: circles, square with red and white, squares with light green, dark green, red, and white.

December Daily 7: Garage Christmas lights and big oak tree. 2009