Day two of the "sabbatical": beans are soaking and will go in the oven around 11:00. Plans for the day include the annual Ballistics and Vegetable launching party. I begged our way in during our inaugural toddler camping trip. So, potato canons here we come.

As for yesterday - about 400 pounds of magazines removed from the studio. Progress! And the toolroom has been clean for a whole week. It's rad.

I'm thinking about painting the studio. I worked VERY hard to get it squared away originally - it was one of those epic projects which took about a year and should have taken a weekend. The walls are sort of a tuscan yellow and the floor is red. I can certainly live with it, but I'm just feeling a need for different colors. The floor is sealed on top of the red, so it might be funky to paint it, but...ultimately doesn't matter because it's old linoleum underneath, so one day I can just peel it all up. hmm. Anyway.

Oh, and the laundry room is picked up a bit too. So swell.