Multiple people have asked me recently what I’m working on mini-wise, and I’ve said I’m working on nothing, and it’s because of Daisy.

She’s around 17 months old now (the vet actually adjusted her age a few months younger than we thought she was), and she’s doing well with training, but she still has a lot of mischievous puppy energy, as well as separation anxiety when she’s apart from me.

I can leave her in her crate for a few hours here and there, but I’m finishing up a novel revision/rewrite that’s taken much longer than I wanted it to, so I’ve been prioritizing Daisy’s crate time for trips to the coffee shop to write. If I try to bring her into the workshop, and tie her up or crate her, she barks and acts bratty because she wants to be free to roam around. As long as she’s full of mischievous puppy energy, that’s just not going to happen.

Anyway, that’s my long-winded way of saying I’m annoyed the Mansard Victorian’s bathroom has taken so long (over a year now!), and I’m annoyed that every time I do have a little time to work on it, I don’t even know where to start because I’ve made the putting-together of this room excruciatingly complicated.

This is a front-opening house with a solid back. I’m adding false walls at the backs of the rooms to give the illusion that there’s a hallway behind them, and hiding wiring and power outlets behind the doors.

Wires attached to the outlets then go through a hole in the back wall.

And they come out the back side, where they plug into a power strip. I’m making the holes big enough for the plug to fit through, so I don’t have to remove and reattach the plugs.

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