short weekend for me!!

Friday night Abbie came to visit.. Saturday was the baby shower for my niece and Abbie's mom and sister were the hosts.

Rich was busy though....

We have a new screen door on the sun porch..

The door he removed was a nasty brown aluminum thing.  And it didn't fit the space.  This one has the spring on it so it will slap shut and make that summertime sound I love so much...

And remember this?

This is the sewing room...  Do I need a fireplace in the sewing room?  No!  I need wall space... So Rich did this..

And then I did the old "mud and tape" dance.  I am so over the mud and tape...  Now where did the fireplace go?  Nowhere...   We just covered it up..with all the bits and pieces safely tucked in.  When we are gone, deceased, worm food, dead the kids can very easily remove this and sell the house with the fireplace intact.  Meanwhile we will paint all of the brick and it will all blend in...

And then we went back to the sun porch...

We painted the white trim...and the gray walls...

and a dark gray floor...

And we locked the door and hopefully it won't rain tonight and wash it all away...  fingers crossed...  And back to the sewing room...

we painted the ceiling... never realized how nasty it was until we started..  but we ran out of paint and only half of the ceiling got painted...

And now for some random photos...

a new family of kitties showed their faces this weekend.  Mommy and 4 babies.  One gray and three tortoise shell..

As I was vacuuming the sun porch before painting we found this ant trying to carry the dead fly.  He kept going around in circles...  I guess the fly was a bit too heavy for him.  I took the photo...then sucked them into the vacuum..

and my John Deere hat came in the mail...  I look TERRIBLE in hats, but I think I might wear it Wednesday when we go out to cut the grass..     You know, cutting the grass and sweating I don't think anyone will care...

Nancy