There is always something to do when you live in the country.  In the city there are green projects to ensure that vegetation is present.   In Mendota, we have to beat vegetation back with a stick just about every day to keep it from getting into the house.   What type of weed eater one owns is a constant source of conversation.    It used to be who had the fastest car…now it’s who has the best weed eater.

I just finished mowing my small part of the yard.  I like to do the push mowing for the exercise, but I’m so over it now.     I am ready for fall.

I go to a small country church, and as I’ve mentioned before, the weather is included in the prayers each Sunday.  Last week, Joey said…”Father we appreciate the rain and pray for those who need it so badly to get some of it…we could probably use a little less.”    Always grateful. 

I have been very busy today.   Our son, possibly daughter in law,  and granddaughters are coming for a visit, and this requires that we clean everything possible.   Anyone else have this fixation?    We have no food in the house for them, but the house must be clean.    I’m not sure why we have this mindset but I knew that the windows must be cleaned for their visit.  And then…I started rearranging furniture.  Now the living room looks like this…

I  decided to move the old, ancient entertainment center out of storage.   It’s an Ethan Allen piece that we bought when Fred and Wilma Flintstone were popular.     I wonder when it will become an antique?  It’s over 30 years old.   I am actually not minding it.   Imperfect but fine with me.    Notice that I decorate with a vacuum cleaner hose…it’s in almost every picture on this blog.

Also check out the giant B.   That might be part of collage of pictures.   Or it might go under the bed.

Here’s another shot….

See the Post It notes on the wall?   That is where I’m reminding myself or Mike that a paint touch up is needed.   There are quite a few Post Its!!Also, the couch used to be floating in the center of the room…now I’ve got it in the corner and we may leave it there.

Mantle…I like propping up pictures so I can change them easily.   That picture in the black frame is the first in the Bristol Rhythm & Roots series by P. Buckley Moss.   I may buy the second one…need to think on that.

 

Hey…look at that fireplace!  Doesn’t the way the gas logs are stacked up make it look like some sort of little monster?     I have a fire monster in my living room!   Grrr….

Back to the mantle atop Little Fire Monster…those dried hydranges do NOT go there.   They are just resting for a bit..something else goes there.   I want some long twiggy branches, but I keep trying to find a good tree and cut them myself.    Fake ones at Hobby Lobby are $11.99 each.  I am not going to pay that for a fake stick.   I put some great tree limbs with leaves up there last week, but even with water in the vase, they wilted terribly.  The look was IT throughout the afternoon and evening but gone in the morning.      Maybe the fake ones are the answer…if I can locate a 40% coupon. 

When I get this room put together a bit, probably about 8 minutes before our company arrives tomorrow, I’ll take pictures.   See Luckie’s butt in the picture?   What a sweet butt!

I mentioned earlier in the week that I was buying slipcover material for a chair and ottoman, and I meant to show it to you.    Like everything else this week, I have a delay.     I have not finalized the fabric.   I’ve shopped the local stores, and I’ve ordered a bunch of samples online.   When my swatch arrives, provided it is the right color, I’ll wash it and see how it holds up.  I’m keeping my fingers crossed I get the right fabric.  I want to get this project started.

I have a lot of unfinished projects going on right now.   I am also  starting to pull some fabric together for the master bedroom.  I don’t have any before pictures, because…well…I’m ashamed. 

The walls in the bedroom are brown but they do not have the intensity of color that I like.   They are like diluted coffee brown.   I want to add more coffee!    I’m not changing them, however, for a while.     I’ve bought a Pottery Barn pillow tic (is that tic or tick?)  duvet cover and a few pillow shams while in Georiga in May. I’m hunting for a floral print that will have blue, berry/pink and some brown in it. The only one I’ve found it this…

Is it too 80’s?

Have a great weekend. Our granddaughters may do a guesthost thing on the blog next week, so please come back and check out their creative work!