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.”
Glad the hay went well. Meteorologists are scientists – they don’t do simple words like cloud! After my creative writing courses, I did a meteorology course as a fill in few points to complete my degree. It was the only science I have ever studied, and I was amazed at the (almost) illiterate nature of the course materials!
Jock must have earned a doctorate in knocking holes in walls by now, we’ve adopted/adapted/improved/built so many houses. Nice to see the coupe from the inside.
If you want a laugh C. listen to George Carlin’s Hippy Dippy Weatherman routine! 🙂
I do like to rearrange furniture, switch up the bedrooms and and move objects around. My poor husband is beginning to ask that maybe I curtail this creativity! It’s hard on the back! 🙂 Weather is a fascinating subject to me. I might have thought about meteorology as a career had I known a thing about the science many long years ago! BTW…I thought about your kefir bread all day yesterday! LOL!
Why am I not surprised – Celi taking out walls and windows. A desire to have everything open I do understand. Perhaps we relate closed spaces to closed minds. XXOO V.
It’s amazing to me how much has been accomplished on the coupe — in Winter, no less! You poured the concrete not quite 3 months ago and you’re already talking about knocking down walls. At this rate, you’ll be booking Bed & Breakfast guests by Summer.
I think the weatherman said ‘considerable cloudiness’ because if he said what he really wanted to say to describe this weather pattern, the FCC would have thrown him off the air.
March comes in tomorrow. Spring won’t be far behind. Hang in there, Celi!
Great to see the coupe taking shape 🙂 I love going into other houses and thinking, I’d do this, move that… and for our own house I’ve offered up reconfiguation suggestions to the G.O. whose restoration baby it was, and knocking out a wall is a no go, so we will go on with compartmentalised internal rooms and the solace of open verandahs and outdoor living space. I love our old house and would be hard pressed to part with it but I have dreams of a recycled warehouse-like space, if we ever built our own.
Oh wonderful hole in the wall!! NOW it sure looks like progress!
We’ve got a bit of sunshine here but it’s starting to turn overcast ready to dump its third allotment of snow, rain and sleet this week! I’ll have arms the size of a sumo wrestler if I have to shovel that drive way with the wet snow again!
Okay spring, I’M READY FOR YA!
I’ve always wanted to knock walls down – the one between the kitchen and the sitting room and then the outside one so we could have floor to celing glass, the minor problem being that it’s listed and the planners won’t play knock-down-walls with me. I suppose I could move, or of course enjoy what I have!
I’m sure considerable cloudiness comes from the point that the weathe rperson must get so bored with the same old descriptions all the time
I love knocking holes in walls too. Suddenly space jumps into the room. ‘Considerable cloudiness’ – this made me smile. I imagine a considerate forecaster who can’t bear to deliver more of the same so each day s/he thinks up a new description, to avoid saying, ‘more dreariness folks, so sorry’.
poor things are just as sorry as we are, having to experience it as well.. the sun must come back soon! c
Knocking holes in walls IS deeply satisfying. I went to Mississippi a few months after Hurricane Katrina swept through. We were doing some work on a school there that involved removing some interior walls made from concrete block. It is tremendously cathartic.
On another thought – you should consider permanently attaching wheels and a handle to your pump.
that is a very good thought.. though we need to carry it up the steps and into the house twice a day, c
It’s easier to get a fridge up a set of stairs if it’s on a dolly.
absolutely true.. c
Love the way you show us the coupe without the unwanted advertisements! Inspiring!! Yes, with me it is a forever argument twixt books/paintings and windows too 🙂 ! And am laughing about accents on words: writing letters I can quickly change to a language which does have them – on blogs don’t have a clue how to use the proverbial ‘accent acute’ or ‘accent grave’ 🙂 !
I am trying but a few creep in every now and then with then paper covering the windows! Ah well.. c
Well, its raining again, oh yes its raining again – I think we have had one sunny day since the last week in January. Not complaining mind, its very mild with it. Much better than heatwaves that usually accompany our summers. I love re-arranging walls and windows. Joy
So much activity, so much progress, and so much good hay! Love the HS kids and their pictures with writing. Takes me right back to my classroom. 😉
I have seen many round bales of hay in our area. What I don’t understand is the netting that holds them together. I understand why they use it, but it looks like plastic and makes me think it is not good for the animals gut. However, I know nothing about feeding ruminants. (I need to get started on my education NOW, well before the goats arrive. Yes?) 😉
I pull the plastic off before we let them at it then roll a panel of pig fence around it to hold it all together and try and mitigate the waste.c
I should have known you had a solution! 🙂
What a great stress reliever! Knocking holes into pretty much anything is fun!