Close to installing sheet rock in the bathroom. Have chosen the paint colors...2 shades of a light green. The TV is mostly installed in the kitchen. Now, I just need to figure out how to set it up! I've read the directions and got the giggles! So, we'll see.
Yesterday I made a pistachio pie,,,it is so light and delicious. Vern really enjoyed it. We had guests last night and I served it for dessert, then we finished it up at lunch today.
I've also been rethinking kitchen color. We still are going to install bead board around the lower part of all the walls and behind the counter as a backsplash and it will all remain white. Have decided on a light yellow for the upper cabinets and a slightly darker yellow for the remaining walls. I think Vern will hurry and get that paint soon before I change my mind again!!! He loves a yellow and white kitchen, but was willing to go blue. He's pretty sweet that way!
You cannot believe the projects there are in this house! Started to make a list but it was too exhausting!! We are still having a great time bouncing back and forth between projects, forgetting our list when we go to Home Dep*ot, misplacing the spray paint can to finish a little project, losing a little bag of screws, laying a tool down and can't remember where, etc., etc., etc.!! Fortunately, we're both a little "nuts" and don't "bolt" from challenges!
Last evening, friends came for dinner and brought with them a wooden sign they are purchased at a chili cookoff in a neighboring community...it reads Down on the Farm. Really cute, so they bought it for us. A few minutes after they arrived, Vern drove up after spending 3 1/2 hours in the alfalfa fields, unplugging nozzles, moving pipe, fighting hot sun and mosquitos. He was wet and muddy and happy as can be, as usual! So we made him stand by the new sign and took his picture. He was a little embarrassed, but couldn't hide how happy he is to do the work he does.
I took a picture of what an 80 year old house looks like "behind the scenes"! Vern is going to tear out the remaining lathe and plaster, then insulate and install the sheet rock. Then we can paint, put down the new baseboard and install all the remaining items...toilet, sink, cabinet, faucets, light, medicine cabinet. He also wants to take out the window over the tub and enclose that in with a small, long window at the top that opens...sort of like in a modern house!! Not right away, though...too much else that has priorities.
Earlier this week, we went fishing with friends, or I should say the guys fished out on the lake in our friend's boat, and we girls drank coffee, talked, picked blueberries, read books and talked some more! I also bought some pink hair color that washes out and made tiny little strips of pink color in my hair that Vern really liked!! Today, I walked into a salon at Fred Meyer and asked them to cut the back length of my hair. Very spontaneous and am so glad I did it. Yesterday, I stopped by a yard sale a couple of miles from here and bought a pink flamingo! She is ceramic, very graceful in a beautiful green dish,,,see picture above. Also bought a b & w picture of a little girl bathing and it says "clean living keeps you young". Will hang it in our "new" bathroom.
So, enough of a "reality" post of our daily life. Should be some great pictures coming up soon, but these will have to do for now.
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