If I’m wrapping the mackerel, it must be Friday

Hey, this is getting fun. It’s as though the hands on my life’s personal timepiece are speeding up and spinning round and round and going ever faster. It’s like three days until Christmas vacation. Oh, that was last week while I was still a kid. I do get some time off beginning on the 21st, but it’s not like it was when I was a kid. Still, a few days of no work demands, replaced by those of a more familial orientation, will be a nice change.
We’re getting ready. The Limoncello needs sugar and water and then we bottle it. That may happen later today or tomorrow. I’ve a batch of holiday ale fermenting in the new bathroom that needs to be done by the time guests get here (so as to free up that bath for actual use.) Finished fermenting, that is, the way it’s going it’ll be all ready for next year. It’s a very malty brew bittered with wormwood and sweet gale (they give it a very nice herbal quality) and then spiced with cinnamon and nutmeg. It’s too early to know for sure how it’ll eventually turn out but the wort, after I finished the boil and before I added the yeast, tasted delicious; like a cinnamon chocolate-malted or Ibarra, that Mexican hot chocolate. Hot chocolate beer, okay.
We paid a local landscaper to remove the leaves in the yard and he just finished. What an unholy mess that was but now the yard is showing again and, at least outside, the house looks sort of refreshed. In inside news, the fireplace is ***almost*** done. I’m having a little issue finding the right screws for the side vents, but it’s sealed and the mantle is up and it’s all decorated for the holidays. Yes, we’re still looking for a screen and yes, that IS The Goddess.

This weekend I’m going to mount a new medicine cabinet in our bathroom, install a new toilet, and maybe put some hardware on the vanity drawers and cabinets. KG is sort of managing the bathroom remodel but she’s working both nights this weekend so I’m helping out. It’s the old bathroom but KG’s excellent design sense has allowed us to refresh it for a relatively small sum. It’s a miracle.
So that’s the haps.