Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday.. Ahh, it must be Quilters day! It was, so I went. Had a lovely time chatting and *gasp* actually managed to get a couple of sets of triangles hand pieced together.
Then when I got home, I found Mr Beloved had done this:
Yep, that’s where the architrave was. The whole door frame had to come off because of termite damage.
And this is what remains of the board framing the doorway. The wrinkly layer? Is PAINT. The little buggers had eaten away every scrap of wood in some areas. All those layers of paint were all that was holding it up.
That’s higher up on the same board. Sickening.
HOWEVER, it does give us a chance to redesign that doorway - we were going to do a sliding door, but have decided that a good curtain with a pelmet is more practical and will keep that room warmer. There will probably be a small bookshelf over the door now because - well, we need the shelf space!
You can see in this shot that the termites even managed to damage some of the native cypress - which is supposed to be termite proof! We’ll see how this looks once it’s had a sanding, though.
(See that hint of the 1940s apple green hiding in there? That’s the colour the house was originally painted in 1947 when it was built - that colour EVERYWHERE!! Walls, doors, kitchen cupboards… unremitting apple green. I like it - but not THAT much!)
Two quilt mags arrived today - and oddly enough, both had feature articles on “Packing for a quilt retreat”.. the May/June Quilter’s Home (my favourite mag!) and the May issue of Quilters Newsletter. I took them to quilting, so I haven’t read them yet… looking forward to that this evening. I notice that Quilters Newsletter have 3 pages of pictures of Gloria Loughman’s quilts - nice to see an Aussie featured, and her quilts are stunningly beautiful.
On the weight management thang: The “milkshakes” are better than I though they’d be, and I seem to only be feeling hungry about 10 minutes before the next time I’m meant to eat - so that’s fine! I must say I am really looking forward to my 90 grams of lean lamb and lots of veges tonight, though.
BTW - I put mascara and a nice new lippy on today. A friend at Quilters said “Are those new glasses?” I said, nope, I have mascara and lipstick on today and she said “OH! That’s why you look so much brighter!” (or words to that effect.)
I WILL MAKE AN EFFORT from now on, I promised myself, to at least do that much - I’m not a spring chicken anymore, ya know, with 40 happening… THIS WEEK! ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRGHHHHH!
Think I’ll go read those mags now - see ya later, chickies!
* Yes, I have listened to waaaaaaaay too much Monty Python in my life!
