Don’t you think?
Do you ever go to peoples houses to visit and silently imagine knocking walls out, reorganising doors, rearranging their furniture and redesigning their lighting. I do. It is an affliction. I console myself with knocking holes in my own walls. I just don’t like walls very much you see.
When I was a child I dreamed of having a house with walls made like wooden blinds and in the morning I would just roll them up.
Now the builder and I can enter the Coupe from the Cloakroom without having to climb through the window. That window is shifting by the way, it is being reused elsewhere. 
The round bale of hay arrived for the animals in the back fields. I fully expected the truck to get stuck in this field with all the swearing and growling that accompanies vehicles stuck in the mud, but I guess the ground is not that thawed yet. So it all went smoothly and the bale rolled obediently into its corner.
Not fast enough for some though. 
Queenie really is very very happy to have her dinner delivered. She wishes she had a happy face in repose. She always looks stern when she is thinking. 
I understand Queenie, honey. I am the same. Once a perfect stranger came up to me in a train station years ago and said “Don’t worry love, it could be twins.” Then off he went. It took me YEARS to work that out.
Good morning. We had another day of the lightest snow yesterday. Not enough to be a bother and just enough to keep watering the fields. It has been above freezing for three days now which means we have been able to leave the pump out in the barn. Not having to carry that 60 pound pump in and out of the house twice a day and drag it across to the barn in the red wagon then carry it in and out of there makes life much more comfortable.
The forecast for today is for light snow and considerable cloudiness. I wonder who it is that actually writes these words, filing them into my internet weather report. These weather words that millions of us read and cling to, groan over or smile at. Who is this anonymous person. Stand up and show yourself and tell me why ‘considerable cloudiness’ was your word choice for today.
Have a lovely day.
celi
The Kitchen's Garden 
62 responses to “Knocking holes in walls is Deeply Satisfying.”
good morning Celi i woke to a dusting my self; just love it! that looks great looking into the coupe.
the bale ( thanks for a pic that helps) is a 4×5 or a 5×5 looks like great hay ,the weather people have no class or are not blessed as you with infinite word power ; excuse the pun but you have a way with words have a Blessed day SAINTS
It is not too big but then it was not too expensive either and we were abloe to easily roll it into place though i am still thinking of adapting an old small trailer I have out here as a mobile hay feeder, I do like that idea… morning saints.. c
I love that you are reusing the window elsewhere C and would you look at that big bale of hay!
I would love to see the design you had in your head growing up of your “blind’s house”. Must be pretty awesome!
Have a lovely day and thank you again for your beautiful compliment about my photo’s of my Godson.
😉 Mandy xo
Your work is just lovely Mandy,esp your portrait images. Everything is reused. And putting old windows from the main house into the coupe helps the structures to blend..Morning Mandy! c
I’m with you C about the walls. When Liz and I do finally settle down all we want is a big open floor plan.
When i grew up my Dad built a 2000 ft room – kitchen, dining and huge living, it had a ceiling that arched right up, and huge balconies, we loved it, there were 8 of us and the room never felt crowded..Morning Jed .. i wonder where you and Liz will settle down..c
I think we’re in DC for good now, but will wait to purchase a home for a few years.
I absolutely agree about the theraputic nature of knocking holes in walls…Right now, I’d dearly love to have something to swing a sledge hammer at!
Inch and a half of rain yesterday, and the ground frost broke this weekend…along with the sump pump. It wasn’t a fun day.
Oh MAN! not the sump pump, that happened to us once and the basement was flooded up to the fourth step .. everything bobbing about in there, like a horror movie, poor you, i hate cleaning up after dirty water.. c
Only two inches this time, and it’s mostly dry now. We caught it quickly – after the last time, we got an a little battery-operated alarm that sits right by the basement door, and SCREAMS the second the water touches it…Took longer to fix than normal, since I had to stay upstairs with the Little One, instead of helping.
Oh i want that alarm.. it sounds fantastic! c
Yesterday we had showers, followed by periods of heavy rain, followed by intermittent showers over night, followed by rain today. And I thought, “Yup, it’s raining. Oh no, wait, was that a shower…or maybe that was the intermittent shower?” We also had periods of cloud and sun which the weathermen didn’t even mention. Weathermen, they lie like a rug! 🙂
Morning veronica, i must come over and see how you are doing.. and hope that things are getting better but that rain will not be helping.. however better rain than drought I think, some time soon it MUST start to warm up and then we will be so grateful for all this precipitation.. c
There is always Derek The Weather Sheep for your forecasts! http://weathersheep.com/
He can get a bit naughty sometimes but it’s funny to see what he writes about the rain every day :-).
I bet! i shall pop in and see what he says about today.. i hope all is well with you, i need to find your site and pop in.. c
Considerable cloudiness is better than massive cloudiness, I guess…
If you’re knocking out doors, windows and dust mites does that mean that there will be access between the houses?
yes, there is a corridor for ease of movement, though in the summner we will be running along the verandahs in the winter we need a covered entrance.. c
“Considerable cloudiness” what a way to describe the weather… I’m still at a loss..is that total semi or on and off… ??
covering their bases! brilliant isn’t it!! c
I guess that the bale of hay is the ultimate take-away if you’re a cow!
Christine
They are all standing out there having a munch now, even daisy, i ned to get out there with my camera.. c
My gosh those pictures look cold enough to shatter. It’s cold here, too, (my builder guys are singing “Stand By Me”) … and I’m off to Denmark for a few days where it’s even colder. Take care, and love to each and all.
Fly safe and see you back soon Misky darling. c
I’m sure if you wrote the weather forecast, you’d be longing for a little creativity now and then, as well as holes in the walls to see the weather. You’d like our family house, which is mostly on the open plan — the only door downstairs is on the bathroom. We have forty-six windows.
It sounds wonderful, forty six windows it must be a considerable space too! that would be lovely and light.. c
Yes, I love good light — I’ll miss it when I leave here (not that I am crawling into a dark hole or anything — Johnny’s kitchen has good afternoon light and looks outside to a yard).
How wonderful to be beginning a new adventure with a wonderful man.. good for you! c
If you ever journey to Minnesota, please come to my house and explore and give me your vision. I do not possess your gift for rearranging rooms. We knocked out a brick chimney in our house several years ago and there is now a hole in our dining room/kitchen wall covered with cardboard. I don’t know what to place there. A built-in? Shift cupboards or the kitchen peninsula? Perhaps I could send photos, or should blog about this and get input.
I would love you to send photos, it would be fun to have a look! do you still have the bricks?.. c
Oh yes, nothing I like better than kncking down walls or making holes for new windows (more ight, more light)! Would love to have my dinner delivered on a truck – how marvellous 🙂
I know you like smashing into walls and letting in the light and i have seen the results!! Wonderful.. c
I can’t say that I think about knocking walls out in other people’s houses, but I’ve cut/knocked holes into walls for my own doors and windows in the past. As much as I like light coming in through windows, I think you need some walls though, or there’s nowhere to put shelves and cupboards 😉
or art, it is hanging the art that keeps a few walls up!! and the books. In this project i have designed a double sided floor to ceiling book shelf that doubles as a wall though not solid as you can imagine, it will even have windows!. It will be my ‘piece resistance’ .. (sorry i don’t know how to put accents in using a keyboard!) .c.
Exactly – books! Windows in the bookshelf sounds like a good idea 😉
watch this space and we will see!! c
I have some walls I’d like to knock down around here, and what a fabulous idea…a wall of blinds! Have you ever tried working that out? The expression on Queenie’s face is priceless! Clearly she thinks that whole bale is just for her. 🙂