Yes, the tree is still up!

If I had my way I'd leave it up all year 'round.  But, then...I'd have to dust it.  So... can't.

Bernie found a buddy to sit with him and stare at the sparklies.

I've been taking a few more shots of my little origami ornaments that I love so much... because, well, just because....................there is nothing but drywall dust and mess everywhere else.

Tomorrow....the tree may have to come down.... amidst helping hold up cross bars for a suspended ceiling in the tv room downstairs....sigh..yes, still renovating....this time on a previously finished room.  The ceiling was drywall.  Painted in some areas and stippled in others.  And, a nuisance for trying to fish wires through between the floor joists of the upstairs and ceiling down here...even when we put some of the stereo wiring in tubes prior to doing that ceiling several years ago.  And, we did have it figured out pretty well too. But ......

Last year, the upstairs reno caused problems ... because the guys who did the heating and ducting weren't very careful, and, in trying to make things fit "their way", squeezed the cables and wires between pipes making it impossible to move them unless we took things apart down here.   Dammit anyway.  So, Somebunny decided on Boxing Day that we must re-do the ceiling.

I resisted.

Two days later.....we were tearing down the ceiling.

Five hours later..we were vacuumning, and tearing off poly and cleaning up the mess.... man, we're good.  And, well we should be too.  Been doing our own renovations on this house for over 28 years now.   Miraculously, we didn't make any mess on the carpet.  Well, not miraculously really ... we were just our usual careful selves.  We seem to be the only ones who don't wreck our own stuff.  Gotta love tarps, drop cloths and taking care.

Today we are removing unused wires...running a few new ones for the tv in my exercise room, so I can move it to another wall.  To make it easier to get at the wiring behind the cupboard door on which it has hung for the past few years.  We are getting too old to be hefting it on and off the bracket holding it on the cupboards.... and it is just too awkward to get at the wiring even with it off there....so move it.  Re-do the wiring.  Re-make new cupboard doors ... oh, and remake another box for the projector before we can pu tup the new ceiling... so, now ..in freezing weather ..the garage needs cleaning and we have to move a huge work bench into position where the car usually is... in order to have something to work on to build boxes....

off I go to clean, move furniture and move stuff..............see ya later....

And, I don't wanna hear no laffin' and snickerin' from family and folks who know me.....  you know who you are.  You've known me and my ongoing situation with dear Mr. BV and his penchant for demolition and rebuilding for many years...well, ALWAYS .... ...it's a sickness...what can I say?  And, I do still love him.  We are the only couple we know who does renovations and manages to stay together.  At least he isn't off gambling, carousing or anything like that....I always know exactly where he is......sigh....... ....


I wanna play with pretty things.