Satisfied Saturday & Super Sunday

I was going to write a quick blog last night, but I got distracted with other things. Steve spent the majority of yesterday afternoon cleaning up outside again. It snows here, you know! He enjoys the exercise, and Cocoa enjoys it, too. 

As long as they were outside, I decided it was a good day to work on Ellen. Ellen Esther Devoll Hoyt (1854-1940) was my great, great grandmother. We discovered her portrait in my grandmother's closet when we were cleaning out her house in September. We have photographs of Ellen, but I especially love this color portrait we found of her as a young woman. A complete cleaning was necessary, as it was with the other old portrait I wrote about in a previous blog. You can see how dirty it was.

I carefully removed the portrait and convex glass from the frame. Here's a photo of the frame before I cleaned it.

Even after cleaning the frame, you can see that I had a lot of touch up work to do on it with stain and a Sharpie marker.

After cleaning the glass and the portrait itself, I put it all back together and attached a new hanger. Again, here's the before photo.

Here's the after photo of the completed project.

That made for a Satisfying Saturday. Steve and I felt good about our accomplishments.

It's still unusually cold today.

We had another 6" of snow overnight, and it has continued to snow lightly most of the day. Steve dug out the BBQ grill yesterday, but he had to clean it off again this afternoon.

That was after he cleaned it off. I hope you remember why he had to clean off the grill. It's Super Bowl Sunday, and that means steaks on the grill! Steve isn't going to let a little snow stop him from grilling.

I'm sorry that photo was a little blurry. I was inside the warm kitchen - steaming the broccoli and working on the rest of the meal.

Steve was hoping Baltimore would win the Super Bowl. Right before the lights went out during the 2nd half in New Orleans, Steve was saying that the game was a little boring. That sure changed after the power was restored. San Francisco came alive, and the game got exciting - although the last 2 minutes were a bit dull. Steve was happy with the outcome, however, so we have definitely had a Super Sunday.

All is well in the Keweenaw.

P.S. The steaks were delicious!