What stinks, you may ask....well, it's something in my dining room. Something I cant find. I have moved the china cabinet, the small pantry cupboard, the microwave cart, everything in the room. Yesterday it smelled like rotting chicken...you know that sweet sickly smell? Today it's more like old broccoli. I cant pinpoint the exact spot that smells and it's driving me nuts. I am starting to wonder if something is dead in the wall or ceiling. I say this because the smell is the strongest right under the ceiling fan and there's no furniture under it. There is, however, a very bad patch job the handymen did when when they put in the ceiling fan that has small cracks in it.
I may go crazy trying to find the source!!
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| Redwoods in Oakland |
Hiking for the last 2 weeks has been good. The week before last we went to Redwood Regional Park in Oakland. Yes, there are redwoods in Oakland! I know! I was shocked too. The trail description says it's a moderate trail. I think I might disagree, and not just because I feel and skinned the hell out of my left knee! The first part is nice and up and down small hills going around the Chabot Space and Science Center. Then you descend quickly. And you know what happens when you go down a trail? You have to come back up.
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| Up and up and up |
The trail we went on was a loop, so we figured, no big deal. We went down, we can go back up the other side. And up, and up, and up, and up, and up...which was weird since we only went down, and down, and down. There was definitely way more going up than coming down. But that's because the back end of the trail goes up 200 feet higher than your starting point. All in all it was really beautiful, and worth all the uphill hiking. (just so you know how hard it was...there were 2 groups of people practicing for a big backpacking trip on the trail!)
Redwood regional park will definitely be visited again. We both loved it there despite my skinned knee and aching calves afterwards. It'll probably be a good summer hike too since it's nice and cool in the redwoods.
This past weekend we went to Don Castro Regional Recreation area in Hayward. It's a small lake with a swim lagoon, picnic areas, and some wooded areas. It was a short walk around the lake and you could hear the freeway no matter what part of the park you were in. It wasnt a bad walk, but if we want a short walk around a lake, we'll stay in Fremont and hit up Lake Elizabeth. It was nice to go see a new park and put it on our list, but we probably wont go again.
Next week I should have some crafting pictures to put up. My desk has it's first coat of teal paint...and some cat prints and fur. *sigh* Just like everything else in my house. I am recovering my old ironing board with some nifty new fabric. I am also making myself some mesh produce bags for grocery shopping. I may even have some preliminary pictures of my new crafting area. I have commandeered about 1/3 of the livingroom to set up a permanent crafting area instead of just a folding table that has to be put away all the time.
2 comments:
lol...I know exactly what you're going through Brandy! About a month ago, I went nuts trying to track down a "compost" smell that was coming from somewhere in my kitchen/dining room. I finally tracked it down to rotting lemons in old corona beer bottles...lol...because i had a really bad cold, it was soooo hard for me to figure out exactly where it was coming from. Took me DAYS! Hope you solve the mystery soon, and hopefully it won't be too icky :S
Oh...hope you find the source soon!
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