What a difference a day - or a pizza- makes...

I took the crew into town, as there was yet another delivery from Big Box Hardware Store to wait on, and I was determined to get the darn adhesive from the law office's logo OFF my windows. I went in armed with Goo-Gone and one of my favorite things in the whole world (I am not kidding): a Mr. Clean 'magic eraser'. Ninety minutes of grueling, orange-scented upper body calisthenics later, the glass was spotless, Destructo-Kenny had shown up, and I had rivers of sweat running down places it just shouldn't have been. Tired and hungry, we went to have pizza and pepperoni breadsticks... while Kenny did this:

Pretty amazing, huh? Wait'll you see it tomorrow. As I was leaving he told me he'd start getting some of the beadboard up. I can't even imagine how glorious that will look, when the ceiling is atmosphere blue (hey, you do what Alexandra Stoddard says!) and the beadboard is a clean, beachy white. Still, there is much to do, grasshoppers, and not too much time left in which to do it. I'm going to have to open the store with minimal stock, which is okay... what I've ordered is beautiful. Just to make sure I don't lose anyone, I'm putting this hypnotic glazed tile on the counter by the register:
All you'll remember is that you want to come back... come baaaack... oh, and I still need to find carpet. Cheap, I-can-afford-to-rip-it-out-every-year-to-make-it-pretty-again carpet. I'd love to have bleached wood floors in there, or a pretty tile, but the insurance guy says otherwise. "Slip and fall" artists being what they are, we're sticking to the commercial carpet, at least until I can afford to turn the shop into a private club... you know you wanted it that way, just 'fess up.

This last photo is not for the squemish, but if you can take it, click on the image and look at the bottom of the egg sack. Yep. That is a perfectly formed spider, about the size of a grain of sand. He just liberated himself from the 'crib and is enjoying the afternoon air. I've named them all 'Icky', 'cuz they're awfully hard to tell apart. Hope everyone has a wonderful evening. Tomorrow I'm stripping wall paper border, so there may be no post... unless I have to do a LOT of grousing (edited for Annalea;) in my head and have to commit it to a post to make it 'go away'. My Spidey-senses tell me there's fresh coffee in the kitchen... Cami