Spending Time in Desert Hot Springs, Ca.

Yes, we did get the storage area cleaned. Sunrise, found here in the midst of "stuff" did work aggressively both inside and outside getting things organized. When finished the first time, there were aisles; they quickly got filled up putting more and more back inside. Yea, stuff is still outside too.

And Horizon is carrying things around from place to place getting ready to do her "washer woman" duties. Never did find out what was with her "costume". Guess she got cold working in the storage building and put the top on, never realizing it had crawled up. But then again she is covered up, just looks silly. No, I never did get a pix of the inside of the shed before it got crowded in there again. Seems it is such a lost cause for me, trying to help "the girls" get the shed in ship shape to be able to move around in there and do crafts. They have too much stuff and it's too hard to toss anything out. Or there isn't time now and they will go through things later and toss stuff out. Haven't we all been there before? After three intense days we turned to something more fun--beading and stringing jewelry. Yea, making jewelry is a lot more fun than moving and arranging and moving.

This beautiful purple Sedulite (I believe) is from Russia and not readily available anymore. Below is gold, pineapple quartz and chunky yellowish glass beads.

The first day of stringing was a marathon 11 hours of stringing. Sunrise and I loved every minute of those 11 hours. Horizon had gone to LA for her work so it was just the two of us. In total we strung 12 necklaces and earrings for all but 2 over a two day period. Sunrise just couldn't wait to put together this pretty pink quartz, purple and black heart necklace. Heart beads are her favorite. Fun to make and pretty and fun to wear! The girls had been to JoAnn Fabrics before we started playing with the beads and Sunrise remembered a 6-drawer rolling stack of drawers that just might work for all the gems, crystals, glass beads, seed beads, and findings they have collected over the last 5-6 years.

Yep, we took the drive into JoAnn Fabrics, about a 40 minute drive through the desert and across I-10 to Palm Desert. Came home 4 hours later after visiting Michaels, Trader Joes AND JoAnn Fabrics, with 3 of those 6-stacked drawers. Since Sunrise drives a small, 2 seater car there was only room in the trunk for 2 of those big devils. The last braced me into the car between my seat and the front window. Made it home without incident, thank goodness.

Don has been busy too, adding some electricity outlets to the inside of the shed. The long and short of the whole day meant Sunrise and I had to take bunches of the boxes and plastic tubs back outside so he had aisles to walk down. (Understand Horizon, lucky girl is still in LA) Don is also going to hang two fans. I helped him by placing the round gray insulator along the outside of the building. Don suggested we should try to hide the insulator as much as possible which I took to mean hiding it behind the cement blocks placed here and there under the shed. I volunteered to do this mind you and came away with lots of scratches and a swollen hand (hematoma) tugging this damn stuff along the ground and around the blocks while squeezing between the tamarac pine tree and the shed; from my knees to bending to standing. Oh yea, and I was suppose to watch out for recluse spiders too, hoping they would be more afraid of me. At last, at last it was finally time to hand off to Don who put it through the hole he had drilled into the shed wall. The next day we attempted to shove the insulated electrical wires through the gray insulator. Don pushed and powdered and pushed that wire trying to shove it from the shed to the electrical box on the other side of the shed; and from the electrical box back into the shed. No luck either way. He couldn't shove the wires around the corners. What to do? We talked the options over and decided he would pull out all the gray tubing we had placed yesterday and shove the wires through the tube then weave everything back once again under the shed, around the cement blocks, and past the tameric; everyone assuming the same tasks. Thankfully it is complete once again and he has started to attach wires, etc.

It hasn't been all work. Don and I did take a drive through the mountains one day, story of which will be posted on another day.

TTFN Katydid