I guess I got busy, and I just realized I haven’t been on in a while.

IT and I are finally on a break from house projects (we had 3 or 4 last year), we visited the U.K. at Christmas, and I switched companies last year. That’s about it for news. How is everyone?

What about the garage doors? (Saw IT's posts next door....)

Things are quiet, after a bit of activity when my Mom broke her hip late last year. She's recovered pretty well.

Besides that, my kitchen has turned into an Instant Pot lab with lots of tasty experiments.

Nice to see you again!

Hey. Nice to see you.

I am busier than a one-armed paper hanger, so the line goes. Work is crazy. Thinking about retiring. Always a struggle between fixing things around the house and letting everything go to heck because when I retire, I plan to move out and the house will be bulldozed.

Not getting much motorcycling in, especially this week with 11 inches of snow. But I am still riding the BMW.

I need to get back to the U.K. again soon. Made a challenging trip to France last fall to take step-daughter to college there... didn't get to play tourist much.

Victoria Requiem is back in my bedside CD player for night-night music.

Tell IT I say "hi".

Great to see you here! Been working like mad on art projects, a couple of portraits (then I am done with commissions for awhile) and trying to get paintings ready to hang in the local artists cooperative gallery I joined this month. I’ve been making handmade inks and watercolors from found and created pigments since the fall, and I also joined a ceramics studio and have been playing with clay and making little inkwells. The tops are cork with vintage buttons and beads.

Those are gorgeous, Jodi.

And hello, MusicaSacra! Good to see you here and don't be a stranger!

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Originally posted by well-tempered gardener:
What about the garage doors? (Saw IT's posts next door....)

Things are quiet, after a bit of activity when my Mom broke her hip late last year. She's recovered pretty well.

Besides that, my kitchen has turned into an Instant Pot lab with lots of tasty experiments.

Nice to see you again!

I guess IT has been keeping everyone updated on TNCR!

I haven’t been on TNCR either so didn’t realize. I bet he posted his design for our garage doors. Nothing fancy, but we need a better solution for our 1928 house. What did they garage then, Model Ts? And why do we have a two car garage? Did 1928 people really have two cars or was my home builder a visionary?

Hello!

It's good to see you.

Please give my regards to IT.