Saw my first lightning bug of the summer (is today the solstice?)!
Finished priming the bedroom (there's so many closets and doors and outlets that the edging out took for-freaking-ever). The washer is so small that I think I did eight loads of laundry, mostly the new sheets and new bath towels. Got rid of yet another trapped chipmunk (alive) that had been here for the past two days. Need to throw the rabbits body a little further from the patio. Noticed a rotted/broken piece of the shingles/roof out back. Need to borrow the power washer to clean out the gutters so the rain stops rotting out the threshold to the front door. Landlady better front the cost of the repairs. I'm still miffed that there's no garbage pick-up in this town.
Mum is visiting next weekend, so I desperately want to get the dining room/kitchen painted before she gets her two cents in. I chose to paint 2 out of 4 walls in each room to paint a buttery creamy yellow, and the other 2 blue-green, so when you look through the door into the other room, it's all the same colour, and yet when I'm lying in my bed looking the other way, it's a different colour but still all the same. But the dining room and kitchen I want to separate and make hot and festive.
And then there's still the trim and the ceilings. So wish I had the money to pay someone to paint.
The campanula outside is starting to fade but the scaevolea I planted is continuing the same shade of purple and looking quite hot with the orange marigolds.
Sara, what about those films you can get at Home Depot/Loew's? They have the pretty pictured ones like stained glass, but they also carry light-reducers that don't destroy visibility, as well as the ones that I got, which look like bubbled glass, let in a lot of light, while giving me privacy and nice filtered light without making it dark and gloomy.
I don't want something to permanently block the light/view.
I was watching them tonight as I talked on the phone on my porch. Never had them growing up, always associated them with visiting the grandparents in the midwest. So I think of Rockford and Pipestone and those lazy summers with cousins whenever I see them.
Loki's doing his nightly "I'm gonna die if I don't go outside" routine. He's
pining!
It's comical. And loud.
Maybe just a sheer white curtain that encompasses all the windows and can be pushed to the edges when wanted? Which is far too much work for me. I've become addicted to my new blinds (faux wooden 2" slats) that with a simple pull open to let the light in, and I can pull them completely out of the way if I want more light. And they look nice (so much classier than the cheap-looking aluminum venetian blinds).
Oh noes, the ants are descending.
Double oh noes, the cats slept all day (the day it wasn't raining) and now I'm ready for bed.
How about like a bamboo shade?
Matchstick blinds are also nice, and then there's those canvas blinds that fold up. I was drooling when I saw some copper (very orange and shiny) blinds that did the tilt/pull-up. I'm doing the white faux wooden blinds for privacy/shade, and sheer orange curtains for accent.
sara, what about a shoji screen that you can move in front of the windows when necessary, then move elsewhere when you don't need them? I think World Market has some nice screens.
