Dec 5

I am trying to use the program windows live writer to write my blog on the computer and then post it to the actual website at a later time .I am also trying to see if I can post it to my old blog that was on Blogger I would like to post to both if I can figure out how .Here is a nice winter snow picture .It is not my place but is my favourite brothers front yard it looks like it should be a Christmas card

the next picture is how to put up your Christmas lights if you want to bug your neighbours

 

I think I will pass on this one this year

December 5/2011 reactivated

I am reactivating this blog just to see if I get any traffic I will be using the windows ilve writer and post the same thing on both my sites. that's it for now

Begining of November

Life in the slow lane sometimes gets hectic ,at least it seems that way to me . I suppose that for those of you speeding along at a frantic pace in the fast lane or those living on the "edge" my life is pretty slow but for me it sometimes gets too busy . This past week was like that there were just too many things to do that I didn't get a chance to do any work on the house . The trouble is that we are close to finishing and there are lots of little finishing touches to do that just don't seem to get done ,it is too easy to let them not get done because the house is comfortable already

for more about what is happening check the other site which I update more regularlyhttp://bobslifeintheslowlane.wordpress.com/

Thursday

It was raining most of the night and is still raining this morning ,but it didn't stop me from walking to the bus. I am afraid if I give in and drive once I will make excuses to drive all the time and I really want to keep walking .I think it is a good exercise program for me not too hard and at the right time and it doesn't cost anything.Sometimes I get to think as I walk along other times I just look at the things around me and have a blank brain, sort of like putting it out of gear and coasting for a bit . It takes me about 10 to 15 minutes to walk so that works out to almost an hr. every day, I try to walk fairly quickly it is exactly 1 kilometer. so I don't know if that is a good speed of not but it is how I do what I do.
It was raining pretty good for here when I came home so I had to change when I got in . It is too wet to work in the yard and I don't have an inside project scheduled so I will take the day off and relax I know tough life I will day dream about an adventure for next summer and remember the ones from this past year and drink a bunch of coffee. I was supposed to get the wheels painted on my bus but it is too wet. tomorrow there is always tomorrow.I need to find a picture . here is one of my favorites . It is a picture of my car when we went to Laguna Seca for the races

there is also more stuff over here

 http://bobslifeintheslowlane.wordpress.com/

What is life in the slow lane ?
well imagine that life is a highway some people will definitely be in the fast lane, I however choose to be in the slow lane .I make a conscious effort not to rush and "live life to the fullest" I am enjoying every moment of my life savoring it rather than gulping it. one of my favorite poems is by Robert Frost  " two roads diverged in the woods an I took the one less traveled and that has made all the difference" . I like to think I am traveling on the road less traveled . I have been lots of places and done and seen lots of things, but there are still a lot that I want to do ,it is just that it doesn't have to be done today.  I am not going to put things off so they never get done I just want to do them slowly so I can enjoy the experience.

Tuesday the 27
A sort of busy day in the slow lane. I had to finish my tile job on the stairs when I put the tile on yesterday I had one set of 8 tile on the face of the bottom step ( if that makes sense) anyway I had to put a thin plywood on the floor to keep the tile up off the floor so this morning when I removed the plywood ,you guessed it , but only one , of the tiles came off so I put a new on back on along with another 10 small face tiles on the edges of the steps . This is a picture of the tile on the stairs ,we still have to put grout in the spaces between the tile.

that kept me busy most of the morning then I put casing moldings around the girls closet door and a handle on it. Almost all the doors in the house are glass french doors and we have used glass doorknobs on all the doors , the exceptions are the bathrooms and the closet and the wine closet. We tried to put a glass door on the bathroom ,ordered specially to fit, but it was too see through . we thought it would keep visitors from spending too much time there . the door that we ordered for the bathroom was used on the girls bedroom

this is a picture of the door at the top of the stairs going into the kitchen.

example of the fancy doorknobs ( yes the door will eventually get painted )

we ordered one more door today to go at the top of the basement stairs this will give us a sort of enclosed back porch, you come in the back door then either go up to the kitchen or open the door to go downstairs .

we usually keep the kitchen door closed it helps to keep drafts out .

Monday the 26

We got a lot of work done over the weekend, the panneling ,the window sill and the closet organizer ,the closet is almost a dressing room . Today I got the tile on the stairs replaced , about a dozen tile had come off the stairs when I had to twist the stairs to get the wall panneling off that had suffered water from the window leak. From one storm here is the repair : replaced sidewalk (to eliminate water draining towards the house), replaced window with glass blocks, replaced wall pannel, replaced stair tiles. All that is left to repair is the laminate flooring in the sitting room . So here are some pictures of the closet almost finished. Nice heat pipe.

I decided to take a picture of the back yard today it looks kind of sad but that is the time of year . The leaves are comming off the walnut tree but they are still on the linden tree I have raked the back yard twice already looks like I will have to do it a couple of more times . I had the idea of taking a picture of the front and back yard the same day each month and then comparing to the previous year I know I have too much time on my hands ,but it seemed like a good idea we will see if I can follow through.