girl at large

Bonding with Uncle Mike

Zio Mike and Zia Kelly are in town for Lisa and Phil's wedding this weekend. The three day Festa Italiania started last night with pasta and pillow forts!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Steps

(Left) BEFORE : mauve baseboard trim, pink walls

(Right) AFTER: cream and clean

It is subtle in a photo, but makes a huge impact in person. Painting the stringer (the previously mauve stairway baseboard) and the walls my favorite putty-cream color (Benajmin Moore Natural Cream) makes the stairwell and hallway feel clean and bright. Like everything in this house, the walls and baseboards were a dirty beige pink color, as well as just plain dirty. But now the newly revealed stair paint history is even more amazing. I love it.

Viv has been climbing these steps now, after showing no interest for months. Now it's "step! step!" And counting as she climbs with her little stick legs and big clunky baby shoes. My favorite number is "eleventeen".

(left) BEFORE: Dingy walls, no light and nasty nasty carpet.

(Right) AFTER: Clean walls, a skylight and a bit of colorful history.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Progress

Finally, a painter who isn't a flake! Two rooms painted and it feels like real progress; until I see that there are 8 rooms more to go. I wonder if I can keep the painters on a rain day retainer?

Greens

It's potato salad season....tonight's with fresh chives and Italian parsley from our first Highcross Farm CSA box full of fresh grown goodies. Now, what to do with this giant mystery thing growing on the side of the house? I think it's a rhubarb out of control.

 

 

 

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Perfect Timing

Viv, to an overly-eager guy at the grocery store (I think he was trolling for single moms) : "Are you pooping?"

 

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Nebraska

It was really hard not to write Grandma Eileen a letter this Sunday. I will miss her forever.

 

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