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[salsabike]

Salsa,
Are the renovations near completion or completed on your house? I need an update. I miss the progress photos, especially your fantastic ability to pick colours.

Hi, you guys! I just finished and emailed in a preliminary report with a dreadful deadline, so can now lift my head out of the morass of papers and spreadsheets and actually do something ELSE. Sheesh.

The house is DONE. That just happened last week. We still have a ton of stuff to do. Our bed, dressers and bed tables are in the new master bedroom, and our horrible old couch is in the living room, so we are OUT of the basement dungeon. But we still have to get everything out of the basement so they can drywall the ceiling and replace the carpets they ruined in their flood. So I think the moving back in process will be quite slow. Key things we still have to do, soon: get window coverings; get new couch(es); get the relandscaping done.

We did end up sponge-painting the living room to try and match that sort of goldy-orange color from the ochre-mining village in Provence. It's more red-orange than gold-orange, but we still like it, and more to the point, have no desire to do it all again just now! I will post pics as soon as I can get them from Chris.

Now to pay for it. Holy ****! It cost a huge amount, with about an $80,000 overrun. About half of that were upgrades we requested, the other half just the builder's poor initial estimates re time. Bleah. It really is nice, though, and I have no doubt about the quality of the work.

In other news---Mom rehospitalized for two days last week with congestive heart failure and maybe a TIA. Now seems fully recovered, discharged back to assisted living on Saturday. I am trying to find an assisted living place out here to move her to this summer, and am going to see one later this week.

Work has been pretty stressful all winter. Because of this recent consulting project, I have not been on my single bike for five weeks, and have only had two or three 30-mile tandem rides during that time. I hope to start fixing that this week, when I have a little time off. Although have to spend most of it on house stuff.

Thanks for asking! I feel like I've been buried in everything for several months, and am just now coming up for air.

[KnottedYet]

Yay, Salsa! Good to hear from you! Glad about the house. Sorry about your mom. There are a couple nice looking assisted living places over in my neck of the woods, too. Not too far from you.

We must do some bike riding: my new work schedule gives me some weekday riding time.

Can't wait to see pics of your house!

[KnottedYet]

Knot's Happy Meal

Big ol' slab of SPAM on brown rice covered with furikake, and a Coke!

MmmmMMMm! So good, and so good for you!

Now I'm off to google a recipe for SPAM musubi (not that I couldn't fake it, but recipes are fun!)

Edit: ok, it's made just like I thought but it was fun to read the recipes anyway. And did you know there is a special SPAM musubi press? The exact shape and size of a slice of SPAM, so your musubi comes out perfectly! http://www.amazon.com/Kitchen-Helper.../dp/B000FWOB5S A couple of the recipes I found mentioned using furikake in the rice, but I like it plain. Musubi party at Knot's house!!!

[mimitabby]

uh, Knot, how can you eat spam? It's like 25% salt!


Salsa, such great news! glad your house is "done"

[KnottedYet]

uh, Knot, how can you eat spam? It's like 25% salt!

SPAM is my friend. SPAM loves me.
(I have PMS and could eat a salt-lick today!)

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

uh, Knot, how can you eat spam? It's like 25% salt!

And the other 75% is ground up pork lips, ears and anii !!!!!!
(the salt part sounds good to me though)

[KnottedYet]

Don't forget the potato starch! SPAM is a complete meal in itself: protien, fat, starch!!!! Meat and vegetables! MMMMMMMmmMMMMMMM good!

[Bikingmomof3]

The house is DONE. That just happened last week. We still have a ton of stuff to do. Our bed, dressers and bed tables are in the new master bedroom, and our horrible old couch is in the living room, so we are OUT of the basement dungeon. But we still have to get everything out of the basement so they can drywall the ceiling and replace the carpets they ruined in their flood. So I think the moving back in process will be quite slow. Key things we still have to do, soon: get window coverings; get new couch(es); get the relandscaping done.

We did end up sponge-painting the living room to try and match that sort of goldy-orange color from the ochre-mining village in Provence. It's more red-orange than gold-orange, but we still like it, and more to the point, have no desire to do it all again just now! I will post pics as soon as I can get them from Chris.

Now to pay for it. Holy ****! It cost a huge amount, with about an $80,000 overrun. About half of that were upgrades we requested, the other half just the builder's poor initial estimates re time. Bleah. It really is nice, though, and I have no doubt about the quality of the work.

In other news---Mom rehospitalized for two days last week with congestive heart failure and maybe a TIA. Now seems fully recovered, discharged back to assisted living on Saturday. I am trying to find an assisted living place out here to move her to this summer, and am going to see one later this week.

Work has been pretty stressful all winter. Because of this recent consulting project, I have not been on my single bike for five weeks, and have only had two or three 30-mile tandem rides during that time. I hope to start fixing that this week, when I have a little time off. Although have to spend most of it on house stuff.

Thanks for asking! I feel like I've been buried in everything for several months, and am just now coming up for air.

YAY! Pictures please, when you get the time. Everything sounds lovely.

I am very sorry to hear about your mom, but encouraged to read she is on the mend. Hugs to her and I do hope you are able to get her into an assisted facility closer to you.

It is wonderfult o hear for you.