A Vibrant Sunset

The front of our house faces West, so we occasionally get to see some amazing sunsets through the giant front windows. This was a particularly vibrant burst of color.

Explorers

Brian took these photographs at Packard. Yours truly, in exploration mode.

The Redshirt in the pics with me is Josh.

Full-Speed Towards The Weekend!

Riding In The Hood

Green & Red

So, here's the scene that went down yesterday afternoon:

I'm sitting in an elementary school chair that's four sizes too small for my butt, talking up at Zach's teacher, Miss O'Brien. She and Zach had just gone over his report card and performance with me for this past grading period. He did very well, much improved in the behavior department over last time.

Except...

We started talking about St Patty's day and since Miss O'Brien is obviously Irish she said she did not forget to wear green on Tuesday. At which point Zach thought it would be really clever to say:

"My dad wore green...green leather underpants!"

There was an awkward moment of silence as Miss O'Brien looked at me and tried hard not to picture in her mind whether or not this rather embarrassing act of Irish solidarity might actually be true.

Then we all laughed nervously and I silently resolved to strangle Zach later in the day, slowly and at my leisure.

Heather's New Do!

Just Be Cos

One more wine bottle today...this is my reject picture from the wine tasting invitation. I ended up using something else.

Colors

We met with our painter yesterday. Quite a character. He was expecting us to give him two or three shades of "White or Almost White" from his thin pamphlet and he would be done with us.

Man was he was wrong.

We were his worst nightmare. We showed up with a list of colors that would make a rainbow turn green (or purple) with envy. Every room and hallway is a different color.

Or two.

He's going to start painting today, and it will take him a week and a half of taping and rolling before he gets to leave. I can't wait to see what the whole thing looks like when the dust settles. We took some dramatic chances...

We were pretty surprised that he agreed to do all this painting, he was clearly not expecting such picky and demanding customers bearing paint chips.

On the down side though, we were looking forward to Ingrid flying in to town to help us paint. Now we'll have to think of another excuse to get her here.

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Happy Birthday Mike & Mark!!!