Another Week

After another weekend of working on the remodel, something else is mostly finished! The Mayor worked on trim work for the hobbitling room. Crown molding and then touchup painting remain, and then the hobbitling room will done!
Here's the real reason the Mayor remodels - here are the tools he gets to use! The only downside is that everything has to be brought upstairs/outside for every project.
And here you see the Boookie helping put his dirty laundry back in the hamper (after pulling everything out and scattering it around his room).
He's noticed the camera!
One funny Boookie story: He has a cardboard storybook Bible, and even though it's really thick compared to his other books, he reads it faster than the other books. He flips through the pages, saying "Jesus," (turns page), "Jesus," (turns page), and so on to the end of the book.

Third Anniversary

It's hard to believe, but Tuesday marks our third anniversary. To celebrate, this past weekend we went down to Gig Harbor. We stayed at the Waterfront Inn, which is right on the harbor. Here's the view from our door.
And here's a nice view from the deck :-)
They had kayaks, so we took a double kayak out for a cruise on Friday afternoon. The hobbit wife smiled...
the Mayor scowled...
And the Boookie played with rocks at GranDma and Grandpa's house.

Hobbitling Habitat

It's not done yet, but over this last weekend and into this week, the hobbitling room has finally become safe and liveable for small hobbits. Here's the room on Saturday after priming.
And here it is Sunday night after the first coat of paint.
And here's the Mayor's helper. I told him that they were "foam paint brushes" and showed him how to paint the door of the car. When I handed him the second brush and said, "TWO brushes!" he looked puzzled and then stuck it in his mouth. "Brush teeth?" he asked.
And here's the room with the final coat of paint and the new floor. As soon as I let him loose, he grabbed a screwdriver and tried to stick it in an outlet. In his defense, he had just watched me install all the covers with the screwdriver. Outlet plugs are now installed.
Door and window trim, baseboard, and crown moulding have yet to be added, but for now the little hobbitling is enjoying running around his room. This photo caught him as he rounded the crib to start another lap around the room. "Blue wall" and "new floor" are new vocabulary words.

Errata

It has recently come to my attention that I have mis-spelled Michel Delving (many thanks to a certain lovely sylvan elf). I propose to continue using the incorrect spelling of "Michael Delving," under the argument that due to the vagaries of spelling and usage, there are inevitable variations in spelling. Additionally, as the Mayor I have much better things to do with my time than attend to correcting spelling issues. We here at Michael Delving can be famously loose with cpelling.

Michel Delving

Chief township of the Shire. Michel Delving was located in the Westfarthing of the Shire on the White Downs. The Mayor of Michel Delving was the Shire's only real government official. His office was in the Town Hole in Michel Delving. The museum known as the Mathom-house was also located in Michel Delving.

During the War of the Ring, some of the old storage tunnels in Michel Delving were made into a prison called the Lockholes where Hobbits who stood up to the Chief's Men were imprisoned. After the war, the prisoners were released by Frodo Baggins. Stores of food, beer, and goods that had been left by the Men were found in other storage tunnels in Michel Delving, and these were used by the Hobbits to celebrate the Yule holiday.

Names & Etymology:
Michel is from the Old English meaning "great" and delving means "digging."

Source: http://www.tuckborough.net/towns.html#Michel%20Delving