I’ve started to paint our new mailbox decoration. I have to tell you, I’m intimidated by this one. There is SO much detail – all painted. I did some color blocking on him day before yesterday. I’m planning to go back out and do more today. I don’t want to disappoint my husband, but I’m not really an artist. I’ll just do the best I can and hope for the best.
I hope I’m not boring you, telling you how beautiful our weather is. We’re having lots of sunshine and blissfully cool temperatures now. The high is supposed to be 82 F today. Simply glorious.
I discovered that a piece of edging around the ceiling on the porch fell down recently. We had a wonderful man and his partners redo our ceiling last year and he did a beautiful job. I called him, ready to try to remind him who I was and he remembered me! I’m still shocked. He and his crew are working in another town right now, but we’re on his list when he can work us in to reinstall the edging piece and see if he can make it more secure. (One of the problems with an over 30-year-ol house is that sometimes there is little to nail and edging board TO.) I hope he can figure out something.
Our sweet 4-year-old yellow lab, Amber, is now bringing deer ‘parts’ into the front yard and gnawing on them. This time of year, for some reason, our dog ‘finds’ pieces of them in her travels and delights in bringing home truly awful-smelling parts. She has done this three days in a row now. We can’t find the source of the parts, but I gather them up – while holding my nose or trying desperately not to breathe – put them in trash bags and dispose of them with the next trash pick-up. UGH. Yesterday morning I found parts she had ‘given back’ in the utility room where she sleeps at night. UGH again. I truly don’t understand the attraction dogs have for smelly, awful things to roll in, plus making them sick. Amber continues to gather what parts she can find, smiling all the while.
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