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and then I changed my mind...

we are progressing with the horizontal stripes...

four down... one to go...

but that means, climbing up and down the ladder, so I've saved it for last...

this is the accent wall Kenneth mudded over, 

It was suppossed to be Green, But I changed my mind... WHAT!

  OK, so I am known for making changes in the middle of just about every project,

and I must admit Kenneth is getting much better at going with the flow. 

I really like this.

 

 I felt like we were on one of those remodel shows last night...when Kenneth removed the bottom trim we discovered this... termite damage!

 thankfully we had the house treated a few years ago so there was nothing alive.

So back to town for a replacement piece...

Luckily only the paneling was damaged.

Flowers and weeds...

I found this picture online this week and thought it was so cute...

it tells the whole story of what's been keeping us busy lately...

because along with the flowers there is always the weeds...

I love the flowers which are blooming around here now.

we have some bird seed planted sunflowers blooming...

see the tiny grass hopper...

 this is the hydrangea in the backyard... It  stays shaded...
But the ones in the front have started getting to much sun, so I improvised, and made them a shade cover...

the lantana in the front bed...

and the day lillies...

But along with all our free bulbs we transplanted we also ended up moving...

WEEDS!

Growing up, every Saturday my sisters and I had to go out and pick a brown paper bag of these small weeds that continuously grew in our yard.  It had to be packed down, full.  We were not aloud to get by with fluffing the weeds to make it seem fuller.  All the years we lived there we never got those weeds under control.  I am now pulling up a 5 gallon bucket full of weeds each morning trying to get these weeds under control.  I think some of the weeds I'm pulling now are the same type of weeds we had to pull up then. 

It brings back memories...

before we moved from Oklahoma, we transplanted this flowering bush  from our house to my Mom's. 

It had originally come from Kenneth's Mom's backyard.  After she passed. 

It' was blooming when we went to visit in May. So pretty.

we brought back this four o'clock from there this visit,  

its going to have red blooms.

while there we also went by a field of Canola. 

It looks like bushes of thin green beans. Inside is the seeds they use to make 

Canola Oil.  The seeds are very small, about the size of sesame seeds. 

It has a bright yellow flower which blooms and its such a contrast to see the acres of yellow flowers in amongst the wheat fields...

COL...DOL...

we now fight over the cat...

I think DOL (dog on lap) is just as good...

pictures...

she climbed up...

she would sit...

she climbed down...

and she pushed them around...

I was exhausted... LOL...

she's up... she's down... she's all around...

16 months old...

We interrupt this redo...

We started painting in the craft/sewing/computer room last weekend, Kenneth hates the paneling, but we can't afford to replace it because that would mean redoing all the window and door trim in the room.  So while Kenneth mudded one "accent" wall,

 I decided to play a paint trick with the paneling by painting it with horizontal stripes. I'm hoping that then instead of seeing the verticle stripes from the panels your eye will follow the stripes across.

 

we also pulled up and burned the old carpet. Kenneth even got all the nail edges pulled up while I was painting. It ended up taking three coats, but are your eyes fooled...

my next day off I was going to start painting the alternate stripe. We had picked a color which we both agreed on! No Yellow, No Blue, Pink, Purple, Black, Gray...

"Behr Paint Honeydew"

but when I put it on the wall...

it came out too yellow (on the right), so we went and had it darkened, 

 It's also got painted over to see the difference.

BUT... the girls came to spend the night and since their room looks like this...

I made them a pallet and a tent over it, (their Dad's idea) made from the silk sheet and dining room chairs.

We'll get back to painting on my next day off...

Learning to Quilt...

 I liked this block, "Drunkards Path", I think they look like birds...

now I just have to quilt it...

cut "piece" work...

then we added sashing.

This is Sunbonnet Sue, an applique technique...

Last week we went to Oklahoma, I wanted my Mom to start teaching me how to quilt,

 by starting with the basics.  We had a wonderful visit,  

Now to get the Craft/Sewing room done...

Yeah, we have some work to do... 

Painting, remove carpet, new flooring, you guessed it, this is our next project.

Believe me, Kenneth hasn't been bored since he retired!

Now where did he go?

Tracks...

these tracks were on the hood of my car...

do you know what animal made them?

updates...

 the "Kitchen Garden 2013"...

 cleared off the patio, so now we can actually go out and have coffee...

 moved the roses and Lemon/Lime trees out into the sun...

 garden this year, green beans, butternut squash, onions and cherry tomatoes...

 the azaleas planted last year survived and are growing, maybe we'll get some pink blooms next year...

 Kenneth made a top for the bench and now we're waiting for the flowers to start blooming...

 picture of the new fence in the front...

taken this morning, Thursday, June 6, 2013, it's raining and 68* at 11:00am.