The cats enjoying the new front doors:
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New Entryway
One and a half days later we have a new front door(s). As expected there were complications (there’s always complications with this house), but I persevered, and the new entry doors look real good.
Only things left to do are redo interior trim, exterior trim, and siding around the door (the rough frame was smaller, even thought e door is the same size as the old one).
Pictures:
Tired
Been busy, cutting down trees, planting a tree, working on the yard, started some new paintings. Blah, blah, blah.
Hoping the paintings will come together soon, so I can post them.
Soon, new front doors. There in at Home Depot, and I need to borrow a truck to pick them up. Should be installed by early next week. Yay!!!!!
Maple Syrup Experiment Finale
Finished up th maple syrup experiment a few days ago. (I’ve been really lax about posting.)
I started real late, and only tapped the tree for 4 days, so didn’t get a lot, but, I ended up with a little over a quart of syrup. I boiled it down most of the way using some roasting pans on the gas grill. This took about 12 or so hours over two days. then finished it up inside on the stove.
Total cost was about $24, which is on par with buying organic maple syrup at NLC, and more expensive than regular maple syrup in the grocery store.
Probably the cost would have been less if I’d boiled it down over a wood fire. So, it was fun, and interesting, but not economical.
Here’s pics of the finished product.
More maple Sugaring
Pictures by request:
Maple Sugaring
That’s the technical term for collecting sap, and making syrup out of it. We have one maple on our property, and I thought I’d experiment with making syrup this year. I bought a tap and some tubing (to go to the bucket) today for $2 and change. The bucket was free (something I already had), and I’m storing the sap in a plastic tote until I get enough to boil down. I’m going to use the gas burner on my gas grill for that. We’ll see how it goes. I think it’ll be fun, and cheaper than buying real maple syrup at the store but more expensive than fake maple flavored syrup.
I’ll get back to you all on how it goes.
Here’s a tutorial on it.
And the book Maple Sugaring by Helen and Scott Nearing
Who Watches the Watchmen?
Me!Yes i went to see a first run movie, Watchmen, something I haven’t done in years. Luckily it was playing at our local theater, (the Alamo) which is a little cheaper than the chain ones in Bangor.
Was it worth it. Yeah. It was a decent movie, that is super faithful to the book. Almost too faithful, some things work in comics, that don’t in film. I’d say that Zack Snyder (the director) didn’t totally screw it up, and give it 2 thumbs up.
And now for a few of my favorite Irish artists
Happy St. Patrick’s Day
Watch out for falling shamrocks.
Francoise Gilot
Francoise Gilot Archives
Wife to Picasso, Mother, Artist in her own right. I’ve loved her work since I read an interview with her, and an article on her monotypes in American Artist magazine sometime in the 1990s.
Even at the young age of 21, Françoise Gilot was one of the most respected artists of the emerging School of Paris, a movement struggling for recognition during the years of The Occupation. Then, in 1943, during the time of her first important exhibition in Paris, Françoise met Pablo Picasso, an artist 40 years her senior. In 1946, Gilot and Picasso began a decade long relationship and Françoise became both a witness and a participant in one of the last great periods of the modern art movement in Europe….
