What’s Not To Love…

Thought I’d take a break from posting about our old home. It gets a little hard on me and I’m going to have to get my old computer up and going to try to retrieve photos that I know I took before we sold the house. We thought we had gotten all the pics, but there are some missing…

So let’s switch gears to my girls. You hear me yakking about them but I haven’t posted anything about them in a while.

My beautiful Chloe… she’s 9, going to be 10 on January 1, 2010.

She’s my watchful laid back girl and she doesn’t like 2 legged rug rats.

SueSue is my blond. She loves everybody, even rug rats. She is as ditsy as her mom some days… or maybe ADHD like me.

She is always watching mom to see if it’s time to play ball. She’s my little (almost) firecracker, born on July 2, 2003… 6 years old and still plays like a pup.

I love it when my girls do what I call ‘frog dogging’… All four feet laid stretched out.

The love to chase each other…

Suess likes to sleep on the back of the couch… when we have a couch with a wide back.

And I don’t understand how they can sleep like this… but they can and the do.

Suess is on the back, Chloe is hanging off the front.

But this is when I’m dead meat…

What a baby girl!

Look at those little pads on her feet…

Got an itch!

My girls. Chloe cuddling the Baby Suess and laying with mom on the recliner.

Whatcha doin’ mom?

Okay, folks. I'm closing this with SueSue frogdogging on the ramp in the sunshine. I gotta get back to packing but I hope you have sunshine in your world today because we are sure enjoying sunshine in ours… despite the packing to move.

Later, my friends.

Here And There…

And everywhere…

Well, here we go again… These next couple of posts I decided to do have to do with there. Bartlesville,  Oklahoma.  Where I really got into the gardening.  And doing home decorating.  Carol would look at me funny when I suggested the colors for the sunroom but she loved it when she saw how it was coming around.

In our home in B’ville we had a built in porch on the east side of the house.  It was not closed in  but we hired it done because of our love of plants and flowers.

  I loved this rubber plant.  We were able to have a lot of indoor plants because of this room.

I would sit in the living room in my easy chair and watch the sun move and how it shone on the different areas and on the different plants sitting around. You can see my safety glasses there by the canned air.

So I’d take my breaks and look at the whiteness of the room and I decided that I needed to paint it a very clear yellow for several reasons.  One reason was the plants would really *POP* against the yellow.

Here’s a shot of the yellow in progress.  You can see where I taped off the ceiling from the bead board above the walls.   I wanted to keep that white to give the illusion of crown moulding… wide crown moulding and also I kept the door mouldings white.  And it added a crispness to the whole room. 

Here you can see why Carol thought I had finally gone ‘round the bend, as it were… I painted the inside of the windows with a firey orange.  In the mornings and during the day it was an incredible effect, if I say so myself, and one of those rare ideas that really worked.

The ceiling I painted and sponged with three colors of green.  Carol doesn’t care for most shades of green, with the exception of  living green as in the plants and money green, but she loved the ceiling because it wasn’t just green.  The sponging almost gave a cloudy effect.

With my next post, hopefully tomorrow, I’ll take you to where this all began… You know me, I do things a little bass-ackwards.