Here's Lookin' at You!

Here's a couple of pictures of some animals who showed curiosity towards the cameras that were pointed at them!  When I was transferring pictures from my point-and-shoot camera I found out that somehow I had changed the size of the pictures to the lowest resolution.  I think that they will still look good here on the blog...just can't do a lot of cropping or making large prints from them.  I have no idea how I managed to change that setting...I've never done it before accidentally.  Oh, well...they are good enough quality to enjoy and bring back a memory of a fun barn excursion.

Woody worked outside quite a while today.  He raked, blew, and hand picked up leaves and debris that gets caught in the gardens and in the yard.  He also made his weekly trip to the public library.  He helped me do the one job that I couldn't do by myself in the bathroom...get the shower curtain rod back up.  We managed, but not easily!  

Putting up the shower curtain rod just about out the bathroom back to the way it was before my painting effort.  I haven't hung anything on the walls except for the mirror and I think that I may wait till after the new floor is done.  So for the moment I am saying that I am finished with that job!  I will say that I never generated enough energy to do anything in the other upstairs bathroom.  I took a Saturday afternoon nap instead!

Friday Finish

Here's the next installment of photos taken on our barn excursion yesterday.  We took the first photo of the herd of cows in a pasture...then one of us turned and realized that it looked like one of the cows was standing on the shed...and, we couldn't resist capturing that illusion!  We saw lots of cows on this journey...even a dead cow beside the road...not the most pleasant of sites seen on our trip! Wwe moved on down the road fairly quickly and left the interested buzzards sitting in the trees.  I did get a picture of a buzzard on this trip...but chose not to take the unfortunate cow.

Woody headed off fairly early to do our grocery shopping.  He delivered the groceries back here for me to put away and then headed off to take his friend to do errands.  He was gone for several hours.  I got an S.O.S. from the teacher who heads up our Facebook sewing club.  She needed a PDF that I had written changed a bit so she could use it in a class that she is going to teach next week.  So I made the changes and emailed it to her.  Then it was time to get busy and paint.  I am pleased to say that the painting job in the master bathroom is finished at least the part I planned to do before we get a new floor in there.  I will do the woodwork at another time.  I am waiting for it to dry and then I will put towel bars, light switch plates back on...I'm planning to do that tomorrow.  I'm not sure if I am ready to tackle the other upstairs bathroom or not.  I'll think about that job tomorrow! I'm ready to rest tonight.  The hardest part of today's painting (the walls) was the cramped quarters...it is a miracle that I didn't step in the paint tray or kick over the paint can.  There was no room to turn around once the step ladder was in there with me.  But I managed without any disasters!  And, I think that it looks pretty good!  

Woody cut up and steamed two cauliflower heads this afternoon.  He worked a little outside. It really has been a pretty day out...a bit warmer than it has been.  That warm air isn't probably good as a cold front is on its way and when that warm and cold air bump together, we could get some strong storms. Rain and storms are in the forecast for tomorrow and then colder temperatures once again.  

Many, Many, Many Barns Later!

We saw so many barns today and we took a totally different route than we had ever taken before...so...all new barns.  It was hard to choose one to post first, but I decided that I would post a red barn that is housing a boat!  I don't think that we have seen a boat in a barn on any of our trips in the past!  We had a very pretty day for our barn excursion...really delightful weather and pretty blue skies with just a few clouds every now and then.  We found a quaint restaurant/cafe to eat lunch.  I'm always on a quest to find a really good old-fashioned hamburger.  Today's fit that bill and their fries were nice and crispy...and HOT out of the frier!  For locals, we were mainly in Bedford County...we have blog readers who live there...in fact, we passed by their road on our way to the country roads that we traversed today.  I have managed to download all my photos from the three cameras that I took with me today, but haven't had a chance to go through them all yet...but what I have seen, I'm pleased with.  We saw a variety of animals also.  I'll be posting some of their portraits along with the barns over the days to come.  Once again, I have quite a bit of new fodder to choose from for blog photos!  I guess tomorrow I will get back to painting!

Woody held down the fort at home.  I know that he has done a little yard work and has been working on cleaning off our porch for "spring porch sitting," though I think that storms are coming again and going to cool things down once again.  Typical back-and-forth temperatures for the start of Spring in Middle Tennessee.

Next Step: Paint

I should have new barn photos tomorrow.  A couple of friends and I are going to head off in the morning in search of more/different barns in surrounding counties.

I did find good information on the internet about caulking which made the job rather easy...and the end result looks okay to my eyes!  I needed blue painters tape to create the boundaries of the channel for the caulk.  Only one problem...I didn't have enough on hand to make it around the tub/shower insert.  Which meant a trip to get some more.  I had the tape placed before going to work in the church library.  And, after I got home I got brave and got underway with the job.  It didn't take all that long.  There was even time for me to make a pot of chicken noodle soup for our supper.  I rested for a while after we ate and then attacked the kitchen.  After I blog I will get my camera bag ready for the barn photo trip.  I will put off the painting till I have a long stretch of time...probably not till Friday.  At least the part of the painting that I was dreading, the caulking, is behind me!  For a while I wasn't sure that I was going to get the caulk off my hands...but finally...

Woody has stayed in most  of the day.  He did go outside and plant a little grass seed...trying to get some bare spots (we have many) in the yard to grow some grass.  He has done his usual reading, crossword puzzling, and TV watching today.

Well, I guess I'm going to go pack cameras, batteries, etc.  I'm hoping to get some good shots of some new places tomorrow.  If I do, I'll be sharing them here on the blog over the coming days/weeks.  You can decide if that is a promise or a threat!!!

More Preparation

I continue to get ready to paint our master bathroom.  I vacuumed and then washed the walls.  Later in the afternoon, I went to the paint store to get paint and supplies.  I looked at paint colors for the kitchen while I was there and brought home some more possible paint color to look at.  After supper I chipped away at the old caulk around the shower/tub insert.  Caulking isn't my favorite job...and only have done it once...at the house we lived in before coming here...long time ago.  I'm hoping that the formula has been improved and will go on smoother than that time!  We'll see!  I will probably gladly go back to sewing (or anything else but painting) once I get this painting job done!  I'm glad that we have such a small bathroom!

Woody made his Apple/Zucchini bread today.  He has done more reading, crossword puzzling, and tv watching today.  His leg is bothering him a bit more today.  He sat with an ice pack on it for a while this afternoon. Just before supper, he went to the prayer room at church.

I guess I will go finish cleaning up the kitchen from our supper and then see if I can do a little more towards getting ready to paint.  I think that I will at least spackle a few little holes and dents so the spackle compound can dry overnight.  Then I can sand those places tomorrow.  I'm not sure that I have enough energy to tackle the caulking tonight...plus don't think that I want to smell it all night.  I may watch something on the internet about caulking to see if I can find some helpful hints.

Stormy Afternoon

It was a bit stormy this afternoon...several loud booms of thunder...and, look who came to sit in my lap!  It's hard to take a selfie when you have a lap full of cats!!  They begged me to come in because it was raining and thundering...and, I gave in!  This is the first time that they have both gotten in my lap at the same time.  Sweet kitties!  They were purry happy to be safe and dry from the storms.  I think that we had at least three storms roll through this afternoon.

Woody left shortly after eight this morning to get a tire fixed.  We had a new warning given by our car as we were driving to church yesterday morning: "tire pressure is low." So he checked to see which tire it might be after we got home and he discovered a screw in one of the tires.  So this morning he took the car in to get the tire fixed.

I spent the morning cleaning.  I am getting ready to paint the master bathroom before we get new flooring in it.  It's on my list of "to-dos" before the kitchen remodel gets underway...the floors in all three bathrooms and the sun porch and laundry room are also getting new floors along with the kitchen.  I also hunted down where I had put some dishes that I'm going to need when we have guests for lunch next week!  I think that perhaps there is a saying: "IF you pack it away you WILL need it!" I'm really glad that I have labeled boxes very well!  After lunch, I had a couple of appointments and luckily managed to get in and out without getting wet.  It was sunshiny when I left the house...about half-way there it started to rain, but by the time I got there it had stopped and it wasn't raining when I came out.  I decided to run to WalMart and noticed after I got into the parking lot that there was a pretty dark heavy cloud hanging overhead...a wall cloud...that was how I described it Woody when I got home and then when the weather came on TV the weatherman talked about the wall cloud...so maybe that is what I saw.  I decided to go on into WalMart and just wait out the downpour, that I figured was coming, inside Walmart.  It was just starting to sprinkle as I went in.  Not long after I got in I heard thunder and then hard rain on the roof.  I got what I needed and then just poked around until the worst had passed.  It was still raining some when I left, but not really hard.  And, most important point: I didn't melt!!

After supper, Woody headed off to church for the Monday night Furnace Room Prayer meeting.  He hasn't returned yet, but will probably be home shortly.

First Spring Saturday

And, a pretty first Saturday in Spring it has been!  I guess I am getting ready for our next barn photo excursion that we have planned for this coming week.  This is a photo from last year's Spring barn photo trip...we took it about a month from now...so this next trip's photos probably won't have this much green in them, but we will see!  Things are starting to green up around here.

Woody spent a little time outside today...me not so much!  He made his weekly trip to the library and has spent a good part of the day reading, doing his crossword puzzles, watching TV which includes some March Madness.  I spent a good part of the morning and some of the afternoon getting my Sunday School lesson in order.  I have worked on it throughout the week, but needed to get it in a seemly order and the notes printed out.

I guess that tonight's photo is getting me in the mood to take some new barn photos this coming week.  We have plans to take another barn photo trip.  I'm thinking that the above photo was taken in late April last year, so probably things won't be quite as green, but things are starting to green up around here. We like to go out when the leaves are still missing from the trees and vines so they don't get in the way of the barns!  The barns can get quite hidden when the trees and vines are all leaved
out.