Oh Crap!!!!

Today I worked on valances for the transoms over the doors upstairs - NOTHING went as planned.  While on the ladder wrestling with a curton rod over the transom that looks out the front of the house I see -----

AND

OH CRAP!!!

I scurry down the ladder, run downstairs...

Robert.... ROBERT....

they are outside with a camera

and the porch is all messy

(a couple floor boards pulled up,

cushions piled on funiture),

WHY didn't they tell us they were coming???

Bob hollers out to them

Then hollers to me

We're going to be on television!

OH CRAP....

maybe those minor imperfections with be over-shadowed

BY THE CRAZY LADY PEEKING OUT THE WINDOW WITH HER CAMERA

A Day Off ----Yaaaay!!!

It seems silly little jobs are taking about 3 times longer than they should lately .... so today we did NO JOBS at all!!  We hit the road, going nowhere in particular.

We went to the west side of the state, near the border, and headed north.  We came to a dirt road with a sign that said Eufaula Wildlife Refuge and decided to check it out.  The refuge covers about 4 counties on both sides of the Chattahoochee.  We crossed a little creek and came to a locked gate, the end of the road....BUT we did see this little guy, just enjoying the sunshine

I took this pic from the car -- just in case mama was nearby!! 

Next we saw a sign that said Rood Creek Park...

this time the little dirt road took us to this beautiful park -

sooo pretty, wished I had a picnic lunch!

We stopped at Providence State Park - then drove through a couple of little towns before heading home.

A very nice day----

Tomorrow we play catch-up!

YELLOW

Today Bob took his paintbrush and headed to the kitchen.  I knew he had gotten another of his "deals" on some paint, but didn't know what color he got - I thought it was silly to even paint it - because he says his project next year is gutting the kitchen and "popping out" some walls. I thought an explanation about future plans as the people were headed out the back-door would be sufficient..... BUT, if people are coming through...he needs to paint.

I spent the weekend, looking at some things we bought on Friday for the "Azalea Room" and they just were not working.  (The very fact that I spent so much time thinking about it and worrying about it is  more than a little sad)......So I headed out to do some returns...YET AGAIN!
This shopping trip was the best one yet, I actually found what I wanted AND found it quickly... maybe because I am getting rather sick of this and my expectations (and standards) have lowered considerably.

Bob had suggested a yellow bedspread and I said, "I KNOW WHERE TO GET ONE!!  IF it isn't too bright, I really can't remember" 

Bob was mowing when I got home, I made 3 trips from the car to the kitchen (bought some groceries also) --- 2 trips upstairs, got everything put together and went to get Bob to get his yea or nay...

Now Bob was the one who had suggested the yellow quilt, so when he aked me how I liked the yellow - I said I really like it!  He said I think it is a little too bright!  Well I thought he was just giving me a hard time, as Robert has a tendency to do... so I said, "you didn't even see it, it's not bright at all". 

Bob says,  I am talking about the Kitchen Walls...

What are you talking about???

I went back into the house...

and couldn't believe my eyes....

                                                            

I had walked by these YELLOW walls 3 times and did not even notice!!!

This picture does not even show the INTENSITY of these walls!!

I laughed and laughed at my powers of observation or I guess I should say lack of powers of observation

(too darned focused on that crazy bedroom)

Anyway, I agreed with hubby....yep, a little too bright ----

He will fix it tomorrow.

The Dawson News

We are the featured home this week!!!!

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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!