Keeping On

The nice thing about not commuting is not sitting in the car commuting. It get me back 40-1:30 every day, which is awesome. Also means I'm not putting miles on the car or burning gas. Yay!
I'm been doing a lot of other things with my time and nervous energy.

I've been finding more flowers.

Everywhere.

I've been going for nice long walks in the woods and finding interesting things.

There was drywall last weekend.

And so there's spackle this week.
My life is could be told in layers of spackle.

I started stripping the trim in the office. It has already started stripping it's self, as you can see.
Fun fact - the profile on the wainscotting on the right doesn't match the profile on the left.
The left has a bead between the board surfaced, the right does not. The right appears to be older.

Moving right along. There's no good lighting in this room,
so I can only do it for about an hour after work every day right now.
Which is fine, because stripping is tedious.

Some random ink marks under the lowest layer of pain on the "old" side of the room

Today I decided to get outside and see the sun for a while. Lots of things had left me frustrated, so I took it out on the dirt. The bottom of the driveway wasn't very pretty, so I started there.

There's no good before picture, but when I did start digging, I immediately hit this pipe buried next to the driveway.

You can see the pipe in the far left. How much you want to bet if we dug up the driveway, that pipe follows the crack diagonally up the driveway?

Back filled with stone left over from the Not-A-Flowerbed.
Added benefit to this project - it used up the rest of the stone and got it out of my driveway.

Much cleaner, with less scraggly grass that never grew well because of road salt.

I'm sure this weekend will see more flowers, more stripping, and more mischief.
Until then, be smart, be safe,  and stay healthy.