aka feathers

Not a lot has been happening with the pantry/loft/laundry facelift. Beloved hurt his back and it seems to be worse on the weekends. Or it’s too hot. Or we have a social commitment. Or there’s yard work to do. For weeks and weeks we spent every weekend raking the yard and cleaning up and burning before the burning off season ended and the bushfire season started. Of course the week after burning season ended we had two massive branches fall out of trees (gum trees do that). So they’ve just had to stay where they are and we hope that once again we are spared bushfires in our part of the world.

Anyway, last weekend was it. Cold and rainy, in fact, which was brilliant for someone who might have been driven crazy by the heat less than a week before and shaved all her hair off. Yeah, Sunday I was wearing my wooly hat to keep my head warm. Gotta love Melbourne weather.
But this was what Beloved did on the weekend. Stairs. Yeah. They’re all glued and screwed together. It was a fairly mammoth task, but he did get to use the router, which is one of my favourite woodworking tools (I’d love to learn woodworking). At the moment they’re only G-clamped into place while the glue gets a whole week to dry. And that door opens inwards, so obviously nobody’s got to use them. Except the cat. Mr Black and Miss Puss are both obsessed with the pantry and zip in there whenever they get the chance. Mr Black has been up those stairs checking out the loft.

I hope this gives you a good idea of how it’s all going to work. The stairs will be boxed in, so you won’t be able to see them from the pantry-side, and of course all of the top will be floor soon. The door will be replaced with a bookshelf with a switch ) so the only way in will be through that secret door. I just love the idea of having a loft with a secret door. It fits all of my childhood fantasies. I’m looking forward to having the camping equipment and stuff like the Christmast deckies and fleeces (note to self: must start washing/carding/doing stuff with wool) and other things that only need to come out occasionally.

I hope you are all well, and with that in mind, I ask anyone who is of a mind to please send a healing thought, light a candle or say a prayer for a friend of mine. His parents were in a terrible car smash a few days ago and his mum is in a bad way at the moment, having had a clot in her lung and had to be returned to one of those comas that they put people in. I worked with this young man and I have a lot of affection and respect for him. I really hope his mum gets better.

Take care.

Be safe.

Share on Facebook