One More Month!!

Only one more month until the Tour of Homes....the question is, will the Bryson home be ready???????????

Well  we sure are trying.............here Bob is putting up a chandilier in the downstairs bedroom.  We have that room all "fancied up"

We bought some paint at a very good price, yes it was CHEAP. 

So the colors were somewhat of a surprise. 

I like the way they turned out (and I admit it, I am sure the cost had a lot to do with my satisfaction)

Here Bob is getting ready to make the blue room BLUE 

I put the finishing touches on it today....after buying two bedspreads and returning both,

I settled on white..can't go wrong with white!

I have shopped bedspreads and curtains and fabric (I made several valances) and this and that and....

I love to shop, but .......................

it is all the "do-overs' that may make us crazy

Bob got the neighbor to help him hang a BIG mirror, then decided it needed to be higher

so today the neighbor came back and helped him take it down

Bob measured and drilled and hammered and painted

and will soon get the neighbor back to RE-HANG that mirror!!

Here Bob has moved into the yellow room, to work his magic.

The yellow room will be green

The pink room was finished a couple of years ago - it is now taupe

The blue room is BLUE

and the flowered papered room has been washed and woodwork painted

I will be posting a tour of  our house

When (IF?) we get it alllll finished.

                     

What's Been Happenin' Lately...

It has been awhile since I have posted - trouble with computers - printers - and just a whole lotta trouble!!!!

All those problems seem to be behind me (at least for the moment)....so...

Here Bob is painting the fireplace cover from the downstairs bedromm - I love the way it turned out.

The Tarran Inn

Ken & Linda came for a visit.  We went to Savannah, Hilton Head Island, Plains &; Andersonville. 

The last day they were here, we took them to the Tarran Inn for lunch. 

An old hotel that is so beautiful...

and  where they serve the MOST wonderful lunch buffet!!

AND...our friend Steve gave us a tour of  the clock tower in the newly renovated Terrell Co. Courthouse. 

Steve Highsmith and "the clock"

The view...at the top of the pic you can see the Methodist Church and

 our white fence - our house is mostly hidden by the trees.

Seeing the clock close up was very cool....

THANKS STEVE!!

Georgia????

It snowed all day today.  Temps were just above freezing or we would have had some deep snow.  As it was, it has been the major subject of the noon news - the 6 o'clock news and the 11 o'clock news - reporters  have visited every little town in all directions and reported on people who have headed north from Florida just to play in the snow. 

I shot this pic of our car this morning..

A few hours later I tooks some shots around the yard

And this is the view from the truck when we went out to eat this evening

OK - this was all very pretty, but I would like it a little warmer. 

NOT 90's hot...just 70's would be nice..

So Now We Are...............

Re-visiting  the downstair bedroom, pulling up carpet, painting the trim.  The wallpaper will stay - waaaaay to much to do to worry about that.  My job is washing woodwork and wallpaper - surprised at how dirty the walls are!  We have went in and cleaned the rooms now we are back doing a better job....so if a bunch of strangers wander in.......... it will be presentable!!

And speaking of presentable, my main project of late has been" my room" upstairs

This upstairs bedroom was the previous owners office - it is paneled - now I sure don't understand why anybody would panel a room in a house like this, but somebody did!  A desk, office chair, couch and long table were left in the room.  Cool, I will make it my computer, scrapbooking, reading, etc, etc, room.  BUT I never quite got to those curtains....they appeared to be disintegrating right on the rods...they were the lined fiberglass kind that everbody had 35 or 40 years ago. Yukkkkkkky!

THEN things got out of control.

What a mess!!  All the "extra stuff" got thrown into MY room.

So I decided I wanted a nice clean room to enjoy while I'm here this year.

SO...this is what I've been doing for about the last week.

Now it is nice and clean !!!  GOOD JOB JERI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Apalachicola

The first time we came down here, looking for a place to buy, we drove through Apalachicola, FL and Bob really liked it.

I think maybe he heard Tim McGraw's new song (where he mentions Apalachicola) one too many times on the way down because today he said

"Let's go to Apalachicola" -

so off we went --- to Apalachicola  (just love sayin' the name!)

it is a very cool town

Once we got there, Bob wanted a  fresh fish dinner and we found a very good place right  on the river.  You can see the excitement in his eyes!!!!!

A VERY GOOD DAY!

Only In The South

Today I was doing some cleaning, polishing, getting rid of more mildew (should be rid of mildew about April), when I moved this vase I noticed "stuff" in the bottom.  A leaf and what looked like a little stick - it wasn't until I looked closer that I noticed the "little stick" had a head and legs and a tail!

Yep....you never can tell what you might find.....and in the darndest places!!

Poor little guy made a wrong turn somewhere -

BUT on the brighter, lighter side - only in the SOUTH can you get temps like this in January!  Bob & I went to town this afternoon and this was the exterior temp reading in the car.  Oh yea, now that's the reason we're here!!!

Warmer Weather Coming!!!!!

High of about 52 today - perfect for trimming the shrubs.

The weather lady says this will be our last night of sub-zero temps.

Yaaaaaay!

Deep Freeze!

Missy has decided she really doesn't like the cold.....

she likes to nap on registers....

and she really likes to nap on a rug in front of the wood stove!  Not to worry Missy, mom & dad will take you somewhere warm for the winter.

So off we go - but when will the frigid temps end???

When we stop for the night, the girls usually spend the night in the truck,

too cold this year, they spent the night in the motel.

We got up yesterday morning and continued south...

this was Tennessee...

and this was Alabama.....

well, you get the picture.

So we get to our house -

our drafty old house

that does not have an ounce of insulation

But much to Mimi's relief -

we do have an electric blanket!!!!