Painting Kitchen Cabinets- What I did today

Not a very exciting day, but Avery and I went out to visit best friends Jen and Walker on Maplewood Farm and Jen and I tackled her kitchen cabinets this morning.

They were this lovely shade of *ahem* diarrhea upset tummy orange. Sorry but they were.

In 5 hours we managed to entertain 2 little boys, feed them lunch and send one off to kindergarten- In addition to stripping (6 layers of paint including the aforementioned orange, Mylanta mint green, lemon yellow, stale old beige, dirty sock white and doo-doo brown- why are so many paint colors so heinous?!), sanding and priming the entire bottom section of cupboards AND their doors.

Once the primer dries, they'll be painted the same soft green color as the wainscoting that runs around the rest of the kitchen walls. (Which you can sort of see peeking out from behind our disastrous mess in both photos!)

And that's what I did today. Phew!

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Umbrellas, Little Boys and Sunflowers

Spent a lovely, drizzly afternoon at Maplewood Farm with the boys and their good buddy, Walker- son of my best friend and family that owns the farm.
This is Sabi (Wasabi) he followed us around the zinna patch and then decided he was all set when the puddle stomping began!



Busy as a bee, so the saying goes...

Inspecting all the cool gadget and vehicles, a necessity for three little boys.

Oh my gosh the sunflowers...


Getting these two to cooperate with a smile proved near impossible.

Save for this one -out of focus- shot that I managed to snap. Boys.

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Farming Around

As frequent readers might recall, my oldest and bestest friend in the world lives on a lovely farm out in Portsmouth, RI. Sunday was her son's birthday and we spent the day out on the farm.


Love this photo of Aidan
While the kids went berzerk in the ginormous bouncy house,

I wandered off to take photos and do a little herb and flower shopping (of course!)

This is what came home with me:
a 6 pk of Portuguese Hot Peppers,
a 4 pk of Green Bell Peppers,
a Golden Cherry Tomato plant,
an Early Girl Tomato plant,
3 pots of African Blue Basil,
2 pots of Sweet Basil
and 2 Sonja Sunflowers.

Can you see that little cherry tomato?

Mmmm, Basil heaven!

Busy little bee!

Beautiful flowers everywhere




Spotted while walking by the truck graveyard

Walker and Aidan


Don't forget, there's still one more day to enter my $40 CSN Stores gift certificate giveaway!

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