In the Gutter!

Jon & I are "empty nesters".  Fortunately, that doesn't mean what we thought it would and would have meant if we had taken the job up in Kalispell, MT.  We have little boys, some times little girls and even big boys and big girls traipsing through occasionally.  This weekend, Rob came over and help us, really mainly Jon, to put our rain gutters up.  Rob & I did most of the painting, then he and Jon had the real fun learning experience installing while I went and played wedding set up with Nancy Hays.  I definitely had the better end of that deal!

It's only been 16 or so years that we have been saying, "we should put up rain gutters, shouldn't 

we?"  Hopefully, it won't take as long to finish the job as it did to get the tree out of here!

1.  Cute Jon, he said that I don't have to blog everything.  Guess this is way more exciting to me that it is to him  . . .  and  it is good to remember the times that father and son worked together.  That is, perhaps, more important than when they play together.  2.  It took two years to decide on the color, what do you think?  I had to get  a bunch to do all the way around the house.  Then,I  decided to have the 20 gallons for the main part of the house tinted that night, Friday, so that I can't second guess any more.  It's a shade of off-white.  

I get so tired of "playing it safe"  I did that in the kitchen, couldn't take it.  Then, I went a little wild and held my breath to see if I could live with it after a few weeks.  First try, I just couldn't then tried ONE more time, and still like it!  Thanks to this method, I have between 10 and 12 coats of paint on one of my dining room walls.  Jon calls it our "color of the week phase".  He would come in the front door, look around the corner of the kitchen take a peek and bust out laughing. 

Back to the house, there will be another, lighter shade of the green on the replacement of that nasty old wood trim and some other trim that is going to be added.  I love craftsman houses and Stephen is trying to help me create that "feel" as much as we can, without making some thing too weird.  When he sounds like I worry about it too much, I remind him that some day they will have to unload this place and why make it too hard . . . other than with paint colors.  

If I can find composite material to replace that  wood mess, I will happily pay, we maybe not happily, but I will live on beans to use it . . . Oh,  I already am living on beans, kind of . . . maybe I will walk every where, to pay for it.  HA!  The point is, when I get this done, I don't want to have to worry about it, EVER, again!!  Just a guess, Jon concurs.  Poor guy has some pretty mixed feelings about weekends these days.  Work around the house just doesn't mean the same to him as it does most of us gals.   Men are from Mars, women are from Venus!