recent happenings around here....

It has been awhile. There aren't any pictures of recent sewing...but there were some pictures in the phone that seemed blog worthy.

I said I wouldn't be painting my auction chairs. I was wrong.

I bought some paint! They are taking a little longer than I thought.

Washing, painting on the primer...then finally starting with the green.

I will be back at it this morning.

This is the neighbor boy, when he was over a couple weeks ago. He found this old truck and wanted to play with it, then chased down the cat to see if she wanted a ride.

He likes to come over and see what we are up to.

He is not bothered by tractor joe's grumpiness.

He is like a Dennis the Menace,

and tractor joe is now Mr. Wilson.

Painting the chairs also took longer because...

I remembered that I needed to put out recycle stuff,

While getting that ready, I found some old jars that could be stored out in a shed.

So, I took them out there and got sidetracked weeding.

That is when I decided to transplant some ferns.

I was watering them and there sat my tomato plants.

So those went in the garden.

As long as I was out there, I transplanted some marigolds.

But wait, where are the flower seeds I bought?

Found them and they went into the ground too.

I also stood around a lot watching the county guys dig deep holes. They needed to unplug some tile.

There are huge ponds north and south of us in the farm ground. They don't go away.

They thought they had it figured out yesterday and left saying that "by morning the ponds to the north would be shrinking." 

I looked this morning. The north ones look the same, but the south ones are gone.

On one of the last days of school we went bowling and then to the second highest point in Iowa.

There is a tower there and the view is awesome. We all climbed up to have a look.

I now have a frequent painter card! 

Paint 6 and get the 7th free!

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was in Bancroft. We did the wine glass that night. 

I told my sister I wanted to add words to it.

Her idea.....

The good life is friends, wine and art--in Italian.

Karen had this in her car the night we painted. It is scrap vomit fresh from the quilter.

She pulled it out to show every one. When the top was finished, it made her gag. 

She didn't like it much at all.

The light must have been just right. It looked beautiful!

She fell in love with it.

(HERE) is where she blogged about it.

Okay, back to the green paint.