Door dreams

So clearly I'm a complete slacker for not posting with any kind of regularity- the writing project has been monopolizing my time and energy but that's no kind of excuse. Progress is, actually, being made on the house - albeit incredibly slowly. The best news is that the color choices in the living room, which I've been agonizing over, have been made and look fabulous. Walls are painted, ceiling is painted and the floor is being sanded and scraped (inch by painful inch - not kidding) to prepare for stain. I may soon, fingers crossed, have a real living room. This would be a huge step for me because it would mean that I could finally hire movers to get all of my stuff here - given that i can't even remember half of what I have, that will be like Christmas all over again.

We've run into a minor problem in terms of the back door though. The cement around the door was crumbling and the jam? The sill? The bottom part, at any rate, of the door was rotting out. Dad and I chipped the whole thing out (involved a wedge and a rubber mallet - highly satisfying) but now there's a slightly alarming gap below my door that is actually big enough for Cat to get in and out. Going to have to fix that before I develop a varmint problem. Mostly I just wanted to use the word varmint in a sentence...

In cheerier news, I've planted my little vegetable garden, and apparently have enough onions to feed an army - I'm really not sure what I'm going to do with them all if they come, but I've got a similar excess of spinach and lettuce, so expect lots of random food to be distributed this spring. I've also planted peonies, for the first time, which are apparently ridiculously picky and have to be the right depth to bloom. Naturally I just shoved them in and covered them with dirt like everything else, so I'll keep you posted on peony progress (because I'm sure you're all waiting with baited breath).

I've also taken a ridiculous ton of rose cuttings so if anyone wants climbing roses, I'm going to have some spares. Put some morning glory seeds to soak this morning, so I'll start those indoors and move them outside in a few weeks. Clearly I'm more excited about the garden than anything else. But that's probably because I don't have to scrape anything to work in the garden.