T Stands for Tuesday & Progress

Good morning everyone,
   I am writing and posting a little early-Sunday Morning-as we just got a cold front that dropped us over 25 degrees and I am taking advantage of this much cooler weather for a break and to work and play at the computer.
   Hubs is gone for the day with a close friend to buy a fishing boat for the river. They are headed to Arkansas. This sounded like a very cool boat with everything included-it is very long a little wider, and was originally made for Missouri conservation department so this is an older boat but sounds like it is in very good condition. I am very excited for him. Hubs has worked all his life even as a child and is finally taking time off for recreation. He will be 74 next week and has never had quality health- I remind him it's time for fun and for sleeping in when he wants to--way past time really.
    The float trip idea got him into thinking he would love this way of fishing instead of always driving to the lake for fishing which takes more driving time. He hasn't gone on his float trip yet-but thinking they will probably use this fishing boat instead. Will be much easier for him to get in and out of too with his severe arthritis. 

   On Tuesdays I am so enjoying posting with the T gang for a drink related post and a visit with friends and artists. To join us link on right hand column-our hostess Bleubeard and Elizabeth.

  Nothing new to report-lol-we have had perfect weather-well a few days near 90 but still perfect for my painting project. Yesterday I put the second coat on the walls since I had plenty of paint left over. I am pleased with the color. I had two gallons of semi gloss white and 1 gallon of very dark blue semi gloss-so I mixed these together hoping for a lighter blue-to go with my tan ceiling color.
    Surprise it was purple-wow not what I wanted at all. So I grabbed some left over cans of paint that were in the brown tones that had just a little left in them. after much stirring it came out to a slate blue.
    This color actually intrigues me-it looks light grey in the pan, goes on the walls light, and then as it dries it darkens up allot. At first I wasn't sure if I was still seeing a lavender-but asked a friend that came over and asked him what color do you see-and he said a slate blue-so that made me happy lol  
     Yesterday after the second coat of paint went on-which it really did not need-I was quite pleased. and depending on how the light goes on the wall I see blues, or greys interesting paint color for sure 
   I did have one mishap-I hardly ever use painters tape-but the line I needed to break from the ceiling was not clear so I had to use something--when I pulled off the tape-ugh and double ugh it took off chunks of paint from the ceiling and started to peel off the wall paint--and I had no ceiling paint left since I had dumped that into the wall paint mix. I did manage to scrape enough off the sides of can to paint a little so not as noticeable  so I will not ever use painters tape again that's for sure lol I had thought of buying a sample of the ceiling color since I just need a little to really fix it-but I think mentally and getting up and down ladders-I am done with this I can always do that next year if it still bugs me
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In the middle of the room are pieces of furniture that have been wrapped and covered-a couch and matching chair, a large ottoman and two full size bed frames. We are on the hunt for a couple mattresses next.

Also the rest of the stairs and deck project got finished too last week. The stairs were done last year and now finally the deck. This turned out to be an expensive project even though we had most of the wood already. It is hard to pay out allot of money knowing when we were younger we could have done it ourselves. I am remembering what my late Mom telling me-- it is a given that one needs to budget money for help as we age. so that's just the way of it.  By taking over the sanding and the painting we saved over $600.00 of labor.
   My sanding of the drywall mud definately was not perfect and the walls show that-I did spend three full days hand sanding too-but this room is clean and useable so that's a good thing. sanding plaster is just not my "thing" lol

  I took a couple photos of the view looking down from this space as you can see in this pond (and also in our other ponds) they are covered with duck weed brought in by the geese that visit us-that is another project to kill that off as it robs the ponds of oxygen.

If weather permits I hope to brush on Thompson's waterseal on the deck and all the steps and railings-but we are pushing it to get that done-and it rained over 5 hours last nite so they are good and soaked now. The stairs turned out gorgeous with a turn and another landing-so much construction debris lying around I couldn't get a nice photo to share.
   Right now we just have the big sheets of plywood on the floor so I am working on cleaning all the plaster dust off and will stain the floor hopefully next year we can find a 16 x 20 indoor rug for that space
  So I still have a few more days of work in there but with it warming back up to the 70s on Tuesday I plan to be done before end of next week.

  On my last post someone had asked what deer camp was. We retired and moved here for hunting and fishing and to live in the woods as simply as possible. Up until two years ago we only heated with firewood that we cut and split ourselves-I actually really miss that but hubs is not in shape now to do that-it is allot of hard work and one handles the wood so many times as well. We do still have a good amount of firewood we split-cut-and stacked last year so we would have it if the power goes out or if we have some severe cold coming in-save on the propane gas
     We have almost 300 acres of woods with up and down terrain and lots of wildlife. Turkey, deer, bobcat, cougar, bear and more. Since we bought our property back in '98 and then retired to here in '03 we have friends that drive down for deer season. We also enjoy lots of really good food and we catch up on each other's year. As we are all getting older most of us don't care if we harvest a deer or not. lol  I would like to butcher one for the freezer this year though as we didn't do that last year.

Through out the week I have been enjoying cups of tea and my herbal coffee substitute in my favorite Yellowstone cup. Photos show a cup of spiced apple tea which is really delicious has lots of cinnamon, and my herbal coffee substitute has added pumpkin spice creamer-yum  I just started using a little creamer I love this brand as it is all natural ingredients no artificial anything 

Happy T Day everyone!!

Just a note: Elizabeth pointed out in comments that many are thinking this space is in my home-but no this is a little barn shaped building that we built over 12 years ago for a garden-tool space. Over the years it has changed its usefulness-the first floor is my husband's business, and this space shown is the second level with steps to it outdoors-we are fixing it up for house guests that come for a visit-like a big extra bedroom. There is also a bathroom and shower in the downstairs shop.

I just posted about hubs birthday lots of photos-go here