Yesterday's Mystery Revealed

It's a nut grinder!!!



Smart folks read this blog!

Y'all were right on the money!

Thrifty Thursday

When thrifting the other day,

I noticed that this item that I had previously admired

was still for sale.

It must have been waiting for me to come back for it.

Care to take a guess as to what it might be?

 

Does it go this way?

Or this way?

Does this help or are you still puzzled?

If you're stumped, don't worry, I was too

until Jane, the owner, told me what it was.

So clever!

(I'll reveal the function tomorrow!)

Wordless Wednesday

Bloomin' Tuesday!

We had an unexpected cool front move through
this past weekend.

Sure made it nice to be outside and take a look at what's coming up.

Enjoy the stroll, y'all...

daisies among the ferns

native milkweed

cosmos

This is growing under our weeping elm.

It winds along as a groundcover...

and has these most delicate yellow blooms.

Anyone know what it might be?

Lettuce is enjoying our still cool mornings.

Bi-color African Iris

Lillies

Native salvia

These wildflowers turn from this...

to this...

and this.

Thanks to Jean for hosting Bloomin' Tuesday!

Can't wait to see what's growing in everyone's spring garden!

Bathroom Project

In our last house,
we shared a bathroom with Lil' Guy.
So, it probably goes without saying that
we really enjoy the master bathroom now.

It's spacious, has plenty of storage

and there's a ton of light in there,
despite the fact that it faces north.

One of the things we are working on before summer

is to repair or update just a few things around here

so that we can have an easier time selling our home quickly.
It's important to feel that we are leaving our home
in the best possible condition for the next owner.
It's just the right thing to do.

We're ready to move on...

One of the projects to tackle is the tile around the shower.



Yuk.

We think it was not properly grouted at the get-go,

because it gets cleaned weekly and this still happened.

Mildew in the grout lines.

I tried so many different ways to clean the mildew to no avail. 

It just wouldn't come clean.

The only solution was to regrout.

Having never done any kind of restoration project myself,

it was a bit intimidating.

A You Tube tutorial was found here.

These items were purchased at our local big box store.

The first step is to scrape all of the grout out of the grout lines.

Then you add the grout (I bought the already mixed kind).

Wipe it down with a large damp, sponge

and after waiting a day, add a sealer.

Here's how it turned out.

It was easier than I thought.

The shower looks much better

and now I can work on the next project

so we can sell our house and skedaddle!

Oh, and our next home will not have hexagonal tile in the shower!

The other two projects are cleaning the carpet

and replacing a kitchen cabinet that had water damage.

I'll feature posts on them as they are completed.

Then the house can be listed with a clear conscience.

What projects are you working on?