Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
To all my Blogging Family!
Have the best ever Christmas!
Blessings to All!
Jane and the Boys

Ride in the New Year???

Well, here I am sitting waiting for the New Year to come in and I thought I would do something different this year. This afternoon I got Gilly our for a short ride, wow, it was great! I hadn't ridden for several weeks or has it been longer? Oh, well, I got to sit on that big broad back of a magnificent creature and just let him take me down the road.
I got to thinking this was the last ride of this year but.....wouldn't it be fun to ride out the old year and ride in the new?
Well, that's what I'm gonna do!!! Gilly is in the barn now with Pokey quietly munching some hay, and he is still CLEAN, imagine that??? Well it's only about 5 after 11 as I write this so in about half an hour I am going to saddle up. Mike is going to take some pictures and I have the date and time stamp set on the camera so you will know it's the real thing!!!
Will post these pictures (they'd better turn out!) later!!
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!
Jane

New Year's Day

Today we started installing bamboo hardwood flooring in our big walk-in closet by our bedroom. This closet is quite large, 9'x16'; it grew to that size when we added on 8' to the house 3 years ago and brought the bathroom up to the level of the rest of the upstairs. Long story but now all the upstairs is on the same level, no more stairs to go up and down to the upstairs bathroom.
Mike spotted this flooring when we were at Lowe's last year. We put this same flooring in the computer room when we renovated it. This is great flooring and the color we chose for upstairs and down is called spice; it sort of reminds me of maple.
Here Mike is working away with a rubber hammer tapping the tongue and groove in the boards together. The funny looking orange handled thing is the pneumatic nail gun which makes the work go really fast!
A shot farther back, I was actually in the bedroom taking the picture so I could get most of the length of the closet. You can't really see the actual color of the bamboo because of the lighting and it's night time. It has a soft warm glow to it.
This is a little closer to the color we were getting close to calling it a day, we worked for 6 hours and got half of it finished. Oh, sore achy muscles! More Mike than me, I always get to be the go-fer person on these jobs. I handed boards, laid them out on the floor, swept up the sawdust when boards had to be cut. Carried out the empty flooring boxes, ran up and down the stairs for all sorts of things. When the floor is finished then we have to decide what kind of wood we will use for the base boards and then work on trimming the windows, yes, this walk in closet has windows in it! There is also a pocket door to be installed and the trim around it. This is one of those projects that we don't get in a big hurry about; it'll get done when it's done!
Although sometimes I do wish I had a magic wand that I could wave and it would all be finished!
(sigh), wonder if Lowe's carries them????