Thursday, October 22, 2009

Maintaining...

You know what's maintaining… the stock market due to it only slightly fluctuating minimally from its 10K high, and today it was there once again.

We are also maintaining our interest in being clever in utilizing existing objects.
Yes, I came up with a decorative way to use some more of the cedar fencing that we have left over, and Hubby put my idea into a reality!
My idea was to make valances for over the waffle shades in our sunroom.
The design was unanimous when I searched online and I found one site that had several choices and we both said that’s it at the same time!
It is a scalloped design with two rounded ends and a pointed section in the middle, very eye appealing. My idea is to make them look a little like awnings, and they will be painted with stripes, dusty blue (Wedgwood or light denim blue), satin white and my apple green that I concocted from white latex and a mixture of green and yellow from my acrylic paints that I painted our bar stools solid white tops only.
The intention is this: each valance is 52” wide, and so I will be making the blue vertical stripes two inches wide, ¼ inch for the green, and the white an inch and a half then green again and so forth and so on, and continue the motif over and over to the end, what do you think?
If it looks not so good we do have a lot of white to remedy any problems, and Hubby has already done two coats of primer and two coats of white satin, so the rest is up to me, but it will be tomorrow to make sure the paint has cured. The painter’s tape insists that it must be cured before using it.

Hubby is also maintaining the veggie garden by the fact that he started containers of seeds to plant as soon as they are all ready for transplant! Fall and winter veggie gardens do well here in the south! The only thing that is different at this time of the year is that the sun moves and we plant accordingly to make up for that allowance.

The other thing we maintained down here is; the beautifully warm weather!
Jealous?

President Obama will be visiting us Southwest Floridians next Tuesday to check out the new biggest solar power plant in the nation actually one county over in Desoto, in their main city of Arcadia.

On that insightful information I will bid you all a wonderful good night and everyone please help our main man, why you ask? Because he’s trying to help all of us!

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