Jury Duty - a bust

To date, I have faithfully phoned my court system each Friday night as instructed. For the last four weeks, I get the same message, "Trial has been cancelled for the week of...". Do I live in a low crime area, or is the judge out sick? (You might note that I am assuming there is only one judge in this one-horse town.) Two more weeks to go.

No jury duty is not a problem. We are still working on the house. The windows and siding were a piece of cake, since the contractors did it all. Naive me, I thought the windows came finished on the inside; what do I know? So I spent weeks taping, and Charley stained. His reach is better than mine (ha), and he is fussier than I am , so it was a perfect distribution of work.

Next came the painting. The drywall was replaced on one wall completely, where we removed the fireplace, and alongside of each window. Alas, one cannot paint just the new drywall. So we repainted the ceilings white (boring us!), then picked a warm, creamy color for the walls. I t reminds me of the color of french vanilla ice cream, and works perfectly with the amount of morning sun coming through the new windows.

In the middle of this, Charley and I both came down with the dreaded summer cold. S o the work is on on hold for a week or so.

This has been a summer of lots of work, and too little play, but the rewards of our home improvement project will last longer than the work takes (I think.)

And, I still need a camera.