We are slowly working on a few other projects around the house while we are sheltering in place.
This weekend/week Jeremy has installed a new water softener. In the kitchen, he installed a new faucet with a sprayer in the head, and also a drinking water filter with its own faucet. He also ran a new hose from the drinking water to the ice maker which required moving everything out of the lower cabinets, moving the stove, and the fridge. He is a regular plumber this week! And he made about 7 trips to various home improvement stores, even though he tried to order everything on line and just pick it up. (I will say that Lowe's remains not great with online orders, geesh.)
Sylvia helped with installing the faucets in the kitchen.
I've been working on trying to reorganize our den. It has become a dumping ground over the past couple years, and I really want it to be organized and usable. Plus, I love my red shelves and I want to be able to see them because they make me happy!
This is an in-progress photo. Since Annah finished school this month, she moved her school things out. We bought a new iMac and cleaned the desk when we set it up. I moved the tall white hutch into the bathroom and switched the rusty white cabinet into the den. It is full of yarn. I condensed my finished crochet projects into 2 red bins and took a bin of party supplies upstairs to go in the hallway closet when I get around to reorganizing that. I condensed yarn into fabric bins on the red shelves. The biggest part of the mess in the den now is actually items that are waiting to be donated to Goodwill or Mission Mart, but no one is accepting donations in the middle of a pandemic. I will keep plugging away at this room forever, I'm sure...At least we can walk through it now.
Annah decorated the front and spine of a cardboard binder for me to use for crochet patterns.
Sylvia doodled the back. I love that it has both of their very different artistic styles on it!
About a month ago, we got Caeden some audio recording equipment and software. He has been using basic Garage Band on the iMac or his iPod/iPhone to make beats and produce music, and we wanted to invest in him a bit more since he seems to have a talent for it. When we discovered our old iMac was too old (We've had it almost 10 years!) for downloading updates anymore and we got the new one, we also bought a little Sauder desk and moved the old iMac into the music room for Caeden to use. Sometimes he lets us listen to his songs in progress.
The music room is also in progress...The shelves I bought for music books a few years ago are leaning, and Shannon is going to reinforce them for me when he comes back to help with the entry way project. So...we are trying to get some things done around here, slowly.
