sewing, 2 bdays, painting, bargains, and the garden

Wednesday was the quilt block of the month at the museum. This month we sewed a hen:

It was Heather's birthday on Thursday. Happy Birthday Heather! Hope you had a wonderful day!!!

And congratulations to Alicia and Dallin on the birth of baby Peter on Friday!  Very exciting.

Big goal for the week: painting the outside of the house. First hurdle: choosing colors. It took a while but we finally settled on Winter Sky Grey for the house and Connecticut Blue for the trim. Winter Sky Grey is a blue-grey. We are still deciding on the color for the doors.Very dark blue? Black? Grey? Tan? What's opposite blue-grey on the color wheel? Anyone have any suggestions?

Next hurdle: prepping the house. Glen took care of that. He spent 3 days prepping the house. Then we started painting. Last hurdle (besides painting the doors): it still needs a bit touching up, but the job is mostly done!

just getting started

not exactly Tom Sawyer, but that's what I thought of with him sitting there

mostly done

looks more blue in the sunshine and more grey when in shadows

Zooloretto--So I went to a few thrift stores the other day looking for nightstands. Didn't find any of those, but Alex was very proud of me for getting the game Zooloretto ($40 on amazon) for only $1 (all games were 50% off!). It's a Rio Grande Game (we usually like those) and it won the Spiel des Jahres award in 2007. Anything that wins that is great in Alex's eyes. We've played it twice (and Alex won both times, of course). Not very complicated, but a lot of fun. There are animal tiles and you try to fill the enclosures in your zoo for points.

https://www.amazon.com/Rio-Grande-Games-RGG-320/dp/B000S0PY2G
 
And our garden is finally producing food! We had our first tomatoes and zucchini this week. There's nothing like the taste of a home-grown tomato. Fabulous. Too bad it looks like we'll be getting more zucchini than tomatoes (at least for a little while).

scout camp, painting, and Andrew has a blog

Glen and Alex had a great time camping in Twin Lakes, California with the scouts. They hiked and biked all over plus swam in freezing cold water (ok, Alex says he didn't swim, but "more like jumped in and got out").

While they were gone, I painted a few walls. I painted the front entry (formerly sage green) and the wall in the middle room (formerly blue). They are now "City Loft." It's a warm gray color. Glen didn't even notice. He came in, dropped some things off, went back out, came back in (using the front entry, of course). He only started looking for what I had painted when he noticed the ladder and a can of paint in the living room (dang, I wish I had put them away. I wonder how long it would have taken him to notice then). He looked and totally missed it. I had to turn him around and show him what he had walked past a few times. More painting planned for this week.

not quite the right color in this photo

I think this looks closer to what's on the walls

Andrew has joined the world of bloggers and made his first post!

https://agamedesignersblog.blogspot.com/

And, that about wraps it up for this week.