Tearing down walls, literally and figuratively.

Apparently we are the kind of people who will look at each other and say, “Let’s knock down that wall.” Thirty minutes later I’m vacuuming up drywall dust and tiny screws, a pile of smashed drywall and metal studs behind us. There’s something so satisfying about demolition work! In the basement we had two little rooms at the bottom of the stairs, one of which was roughed in as a bathroom, the other one containing the electrical panel. Graham’s been needing a place to keep tools and Guy Stuff in the house, so he got the idea to knock out the wall in between these two little rooms to make himself a small workshop in the basement. My reaction was something along the lines of “HELL YEAH” because it means that I will no longer have to suffer piles of tools in the front hallway, and those two little tupperware containers filled with screws that have been sitting by the front door for a month? Well, they will now have a little home all their own, and that makes me happy. Graham likes to work with tools, needs a place to build stuff and fix stuff, and now he’ll have it. All we’ll need to do is drywall in one of the doors so that the room is enclosed. Score!

You can see the middle wall in mid-tear-down in this shot. The right-hand door will be filled in.Some of you have noticed that I’ve been “entertaining”, shall we say, the idea of having a baby. So far that’s it. I am not pregnant and I’m not planning to be pregnant anytime within the next oh, eight months or so. But I feel like I have a slightly new perspective on building a family of our own, and it seems like Graham does, too. We’re considering it. We’re thinking about how it might bring some more joy into our lives. How satisfying it might be to build our own family and be parents, because I think we’d be damn good parents. So we’ll see. Stay tuned, as my dad would say.

Yesterday we shoveled the driveway a few times. Well, Graham shoveled the driveway a few times. I helped during the middle shoveling session. We got a lot of snow! I think it’s nice to have snow for Christmastime, but as Graham put it this morning, “It feels like we live in Alberta.”

I took this from inside the warm, warm, cozy car. I told you I left the camera out there.I ordered several gifts online this year, and this week I’m expecting them to arrive in the mail. Thank you, Text Link Ads, for helping to fund my Christmas shopping this year! Please continue to be generous so I can afford to go to San Francisco in July.