That was a refreshing wake up.

After a morning of making bread interspersed with telephone calls and e mails in attempting to sort out "trivial" items I felt the need to clear the old noggin.

The sun was shining, the outside temperature showed -14 at the house and it looked like a light wind blowing.

So out I go, with the dog, and head west. Bloody hell, just up the road the wind hit a hell of a lot brisker than I thought 50 K and -31 wind chill, and here's me dressed for -14 and light wind.
Any way we battled on and headed for the woods on the other side of the dam. Poor old Siutik is baffled by the conditions off the road. It looks so attracting, pure clear snow glistening like diamonds in the suns rays. Alas as soon as she heads into the woods, plop, down to her amamuks [teats], struggles to get out of it and return to the more solid track. Cold on the teats too one would think, but with all the work they are getting these days it may provide some relief.

On our return the pups were lined up like a row of snags [sausages], when i got the camera out to go in mom followed and jumped up on the bed to make sure all was copacetic, as is her wont.











As mentioned before the word trivial got my blood pressure up. It was mentioned in the context of the following:
We just discovered late last week that the wood trim around the interior of the windows, plus the stair rail, of the NMC was good quality maple. For the windows it was 5/8" x 51/2", not sure of the dimensions of the rail. Non the less it seemed quite absurd [diplomatic term] that the paint schedule of 3 coats of a deep brown paint would be applied to wood of this quality, not to mention price.
If the client had been informed back when it should have been informed that this material was to be utilized, then the client would have had the opportunity to offer up it's view as to what finish should be applied. But no, it was not done that way. So when questions are raised just days before the material is to be painted one gets accused of bringing up trivial issues.

The up side is the client is getting the wood clear lacquered and not painted, that is just one of the many trivial issues that have and will be raised, not to mention filed away.