A Pinch of Joy

Eat Healthy, Do it Yourself, Live Well, Have Fun.

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Visiting the Big City this week to celebrate multiple birthdays.  It’s been a busy summer catching up on all the delayed maintenance outside.  Fortunately the weather has been unusually cool so we were able to get lots done.  Looking forward to downtime and catching up with Nate the Great and his family!  May you enjoy […]

Busy Monday 675

Thanks for the empathy and suggestions for my noisy shoes!  I think the manufacturer made a change in the material they use for the insole.  I will write the manufacturer.  In the meantime since, I mostly wear them for my daily walk at midday when most of the neighborhood is empty –  the neighbors can’t […]

Busy Monday 674

My new walking shoes arrived – the same ones I have bought once a year, every year for — well, years. I opened the box, followed a you tube video on how to lace shoes to conform to your foot and tested them by walking into the kitchen. What is that sound?  I must have […]

Busy Monday 673

The pentagon has 1.5 coats of paint.  But we have accumulated a lot of rain since we started.  If we had known that was what it would take to break the drought, we would have painted long ago!  The color went from green to a beige white  to go with the stone on the front […]

Busy Monday 672

Had a question about our Pentagon garden shed — I will  plan to do a post on that this week.  Or whenever Bytes gets a chance to finish painting.  He has the first coat on and it has been rainy every since.  Mighty glad for the rain!  May you make progress on your projects this […]

Busy Monday 671

Working on the Pentagon in the backyard.  The garden shed, that is.  It actually fits into the yard better than a square shed.  Two sides align with the corner of the fence and three sides face the yard itself and that’s what you see when you look out the window.  It takes up less visual […]