Labor day, indeed!

Today was supposed to be a day off, right?   Well not for us, J is flying,  JFK to FLL and FLL back.  Then home.  I'm here supervising (ha) the fella doing the drywall repair in the kitchen.

Very nice fella, has been here since 830 this morning.   Works alone.  I can appreciate that!  He says no A/c because the mud will not adhere if it dries too fast w AC. So I have the windows open even though it is 93 degrees, it is "cloudy" which only helps a bit.


I have been taking turns staining the new door and painting kitchen cabinets.  Nothing sexy about either of theses jobs. Lots of sanding and sanding and MORE sanding.

The new door is interior, base of the stairs, I got it at a discount import store, not a big box store. $130. It's actually very nice, with beveled glass in each of the 12 panes.  I'm using a combo product of stain and poly in one can.  Each of the 12 panes have a very detailed step-down groove that you have to be very precise or risk getting stain on the glass itself.  This I am trying to avoid.  My index finger has had cramps from the detail staining.  I need a hand massage!

The cats are lounging, not much different here.

I'm sorta feeling sorry for myself…not being a traditional family that has holidays off.  But we have NEVER had holidays off!
But it would be nice, once, to have a traditional holiday with the requisite outdoor BBQ with friends.  But most of our friends have traditional work schedules.  And now they live several states away.

So I started planning out next cruise as I was hiding in my office while the crafts guy worked on my kitchen.
Basically we can vacation in Jan or Feb and possibly SEPT OCT.

I found a transatlantic repositioning cruise.  We use Silversea line for cruises, having worked our way up from Carnival back in 2001. Silversea is MORE expensive, but worth every penny.   I would rather go one one silversea cruise ever 2 yrs vs another cruise line once a year.

We went to Antarctica in Jan Feb this year---it was amazing!  It seems like such a long time ago but it was only 7 months ago, less than a pregnancy.

I was just looking up an Aggie local club as I was feeling a bit homesick.  There is one, of course.
Odd how we only lived there 6 years but I feel that that was home!
Lots happened there!

ok  well back to 1950's reno,   Happy Labor day to all!