With the weather being almost perfect today, I sure was glad that I was ready to do some painting outside. I needed to get a couple of fences painted, and with some luck I was able to get them done. I also needed to repaint the cement on our front porch. It really wasn’t too bad, but I’ve never really liked the color and wanted to repaint it. It was a color that when I looked at it I would think to myself that I could do better. This new paint was a little bit more brown, but to be honest it’s still not the color that I wanted. But since I had a gallon of paint of the new color in my one hand, and a paintbrush in the other – – – it was going to be the color that it was going to be painted this summer at least. I still have a couple of porch rockers that I need to paint and then some touch up on the Roadhouse, and then I should be done for this year. Well that’s my plan anyway.
One of the two fences that was painted today
Kyle made it home late yesterday afternoon, but left again today to head to Chicago with some friends. His girlfriend from Canada traveled back to Iowa with him, and will be staying with us for a couple of weeks. We tease her that it’s just in time for picking rock, but I’m thinking that picking rock isn’t quite what Kyle had in mind. She’s never been this far in the Midwest, so hopefully we’ll be able to do a couple of fun things before she heads back up north. We should all go to see the Worlds Largest Ball of Twine – but I’m thinking that no one else is seeing this as a fun trip for us to do. They are so missing out on the fun on this one!
With the weather being so warm, William has been on watering grass duty. The new grass is coming up pretty good, but now it needs to be watered. He doesn’t really like it that there are some spots that the grass isn’t coming up, so he planted some grass in flat containers and was hoping to make some type of sod. I didn’t think the areas looked so bad, but he said he wanted to give it a try. More power to him if he can make it work. William and I also started to work on moving some black dirt over to the south side of the Roadhouse. I would like to still get some landscaping done over there before next weekend . It didn’t take us too long to figure out that we needed to go about this a different way. You know when you’re working on something and you’re thinking to yourself that there has to be a better way to do this? Well that was what William and I were thinking this afternoon. We’re going to look at it again tomorrow and come up with a different plan on how to make this job easier.
William watering the new grass
I had a couple of orders for Mother’s Day candy platters, and I’m soon going to have to make the decision about ordering my own supply of pecans. Usually I’ve ordered them from a local town, but I can get them much cheaper if I just order them. The only problem is that I will have to buy quite a few at a time. I think I’ll look at that in a couple of weeks. After I got done with the candy, I decided that I needed to do something with my extra flowers that I had. I don’t know if you do this or not, but I just buy some flowers that look pretty and then figure out where I should put them. I tried to get some of my own started this year in the greenhouse, but I didn’t have very good luck. So now that I’ve been planting flowers in all the usually spots, I had some leftover. Then I remembered that I had that old milk house tub that I used for Christmas lights on our porch. When I found it, I knew where I should put it. I have the worst luck with the spot by our garage. The ground is kind of lower that the rest of the area, and for some reason the weeds call it their home. So I looked at what flowers that I had, and then of course I thought that I should have one big flower in the middle – so I went and bought more. Isn’t that the way it usually goes? You try to just get the job done fast and then you make more work out of it than you probably should. But I do like how it looks (I might lower the one planter that’s hanging) and I’ll be anxious to see how it looks once the flowers grow more and I’ll have to wait and see if I put the mulch thick enough to keep those darn weeds down.
Home for my extra flowers