Diligence

Diligence means assiduousness, industrious, meticulous, conscientious, thoroughness, attentiveness, carefulness all good attributes to strive for.
And many of those describe ‘our Hubby’, when he sets his mind to do something since that is how he carries it out.

With that said, today his project, ala my request, was the front door and with my design concept and his ability to do it so far half the beautification of our entrée has begun!
Tomorrow, he will attempt the wrought iron and wood chair that was purchased; gosh it must be nearly a decade or more ago from the store Big Lots. They buy lots of things in large quantities; thus the name and all the bargain prices.
And that chair has had a renaissance of injections of artful concepts of paint from its original wooden blah beginnings the last being a sort of Harlequin design, with peachy wrought iron that consistently would turn pink in our harsh sun or perhaps it was due to how I concocted the color from my acrylics, but many other shades have previously held up. The wooden slats were in alternating black and white thus the idea of a smidge of a Harlequin design.

And I am still not willing to reveal this color palette for my readership, although it is a bit chancy, and may even cause some conversation on taste.
The fact is that the rest of our home is a very neutral Navaho tan… and that is the biggest hint I will allow now!
And after all this is in the state of Florida, oops too much.

This is the third home that we have owned in the nearly twenty-six years we have been living here.
The first two had a quasi lighter version of our northern furnishings, but in golden oak and beiges and fall like colors, etc. Many consider them warm colors; but who wants to be that warm in Florida, really?
Most all of those furnishings were given to our sons when we moved from the east coast to the west coast and then resting in our little bitty home here.
And now being in our final retired little gem of a home we went native with a Floridian flair, but only on the inside, the outside was switched from blue block to white block and finally to the stucco Navaho tan, and a very mild welcoming and acceptable color in these areas. Mostly in gated communities having this shade with their barrel tiled roofs, Tuscany design, and so it is considered rather anti-gauche.

But we are in a semi-tropical area and so many people from either side of our peninsula celebrate that with an outpouring of interesting ideas and more often than not, a Caribbean feel to their homesteads. Miami and the Keys are two of the many that revel in the colors of the happiness that cheerfulness expressed when in tropical tints of peaches, limes or even purples. Many a home reflects that in those areas.
Why even our area of southwest Florida it is seen quite often making tiny cottages stand out.
We have a street here in River City AKA Punta Gorda, called Sullivan Street that has quite a few shops in those popular island shades.

Even as far north as our panhandle in a little bitty artsy village called Seaside; the cracker style homes with pastels were what make the area welcoming to most tourists, of course the authors’ conferences and artists of every type medium that you can think of somehow all ends up there at one time or another.

We were there in 2005, just before Hurricane Katrina hit the area, since it is only a stones throw from New Orleans about four hours by car and I do believe they received a bit too.

Instinctively, we cut our trip short, being only five days out; when we planned on a week or more.
It could have been due to Skipper, Hubby and I all falling ill with different ailments, but at the same time, how odd?
PS that was our last real vacation too.
But less than a year and a half later Hubby retired and the rest is history!

Lovely place and they had an interesting contest of artwork on display there, Adirondacks chairs decorated however you wanted, from people’s likenesses to inanimate objects and beyond, yep beyond; quite memorable.
What a nifty fun idea, hmm?

Any-who, now I have done it, that is given you some more ideas on how to have some fun… you see someone I know thought that my white backgrounds of furniture, floors and walls with pops of colors in accessories was cold, not warm and as I have said before color that it is pure happiness in my book so BOORAH to them!
On that note of too bad the way some think, allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and ask you to kindly count all your blessings and share those overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!

HOT, HOT, HOT I RATHER NOT BE TOO HOT BECAUSE I ALREADY GOT THAT, THAT IS HOT, HOT, HOT… WHAT I WANT IS HAPPY, SO THERE!