Our house

Has anyone else out there had a hard time choosing a shade of gray paint that doesn't look blue when you actually paint it? Man, I have. We managed to finally get some painting done yesterday--the kitchen, family room, and entry way. The kitchen is the gray room, or what looked like a nice light gray on the paint sample. In some lighting the walls look gray, and in some lighting the walls seem a skosh blue. Nonetheless, I think we'll leave it. No pictures of kitchen yet until it's all done. We color matched the family room since I like the color already. The rest of the house is the same color.

We have major termites here in VA. I set my eye on some yesterday for the first time. It's amazing what damage those little critters do. We had to invest in some pretty expensive spray to help keep them from destroying our home. Fun fun. There are also lots of mosquitos, flies, and anything else you can think of. Gretel got 3 swallowtail catapillars from a class the kids went to this week and one is already starting to make a cocoon. It is so cool. I love staring at the juicy little things as they nibble continuously on the parsley in their little 2-liter home. Their names are Pierre, Plum, and Mimi. I am sorry to announce that Belle the Goldfish has passed on. We thought she was fine after the trip here, but was looking a little pale and then all of a sudden died. The kids were sad.

I took a gander in the backyard this morning only to find a little squirrel trap that Christian made. He said he put some of Gretel's "rotten" cereal (cinnamon Life) out there to catch a squirrel. Well the cereal is gone, but no squirrel. I also saw how big our junk pile is getting. My goodness! It's time to take a load to the dump! All of this home remodeling is great and exciting, but I'll tell you, I'll be so happy to have an orderly house and yard one of these days.

Holly's winning color combination--navy blue front door with door knocker and white garage door. We love it Holly!! The A/C guy even complimented it. Will you be my personal home designer?


Have you ever seen gardenia bushes so tall?

I know you're just dying to see our garbage pile!

Christian made his squirrel trap out of an old cupboard from the junk pile

Isn't it cool how you can see the yellow and black stripes on the catapillar telling you it is going to be a swallowtail?

Christian was the first to mow our lawn

Can you see the rain pouring off our roof? No rain gutters here. Go figure.