leave me alone, and I will leave you alone.

This is the newest addition to the property. One day we looked up and above the cars was this, an ever growing wasps nest. Now this thing is high up so I haven't had any sense of swarm yet. I was thinking I could leave it until winter and then take it down and jar it or something. It's quite a piece of work.

the driveway

We had a little problem with our driveway. We ordered these rocks, shown in the photo, but before we got these, they actually had dumped a pile of the super huge rocks...#2, by mistake. They weren't able to pick them up so we had to get rid of them by hand. We ended up putting a big for free sign to get rid of most of them. But boy were they heavy! Now we have our new rocks to spread out.

the progress in the garden

waiting to eat!

One of my spaghetti squash plants has 3 almost ripe squashes. I have no idea when I can pick it. This plant has had some bug attacks, but in general has flourished all over the patio. The other ones...our on the brink of death. They will probably find themselves in the compost.

my indoor plants are still alive.

my succulents! such bazaar and fun plants.

the fridge

the chalkboard front, having fun with it!

Thanks MOM Wright!

My mother-in-law was in town for a few days, 2 weeks ago. We took her around Hudson shopping for antiques. We hit this cool store on warren street that had these rugs in the windows. We thought it was so fun! she bought it for us as a gift. Thanks MOM wright!

the refrigerator

On Tuesday, June 26, 2007, matt went to work picking up a car and I decided to tackle the refrigerator panesls. We had bought an older sub zero for our kitchen but it had these black formica panels. I bought the magnetic primer and the chalkboard paint inhopes to make a chalkboard door. I started sanding it, followed by rolling the primer on. The roller wasn't giving it a smooth surface at all so i decided to get the paint sprayer out. We had bought it for big jobs but had not used it. I got it working and it did a much better job. i did 3 coats of the magnetic primer. it was so hot out it dried very quickly. Then I loaded up the sprayer with the chalkbaord paint and it wouldn't work at all. I had cleaned it oiled it and even thinned it out to no sucess. The chalkboard paint talks about using a sprayer, so it seems like it should work. So the chalkboar layer had to be rolled on my perfectly sprayed primer panels. and to add to injury bugs kept landing in it becauseI was working outside. The paint can doesn't tetll me how many layers it needs, but that i need to wait 24 hours between coats. I had to leave town before it cured so I will check it out when i am back and see how i feel about a second coat.