Racing in place....

This is the time of the year that I feel like I am

racing in place..  So much to do.. yet with rain,

wind and just the temps..  I can't do 80% of it.

So I pace myself with cleaning out sheds.. placing

different lawn art in places. Trying to change some

of it around..

In the mix of this is.. I can't do much around the out

side of the house itself...because we are going to paint

the house.  I have cut all the roses back, trying to keep

the climbers in check. Clematis and etc. 

First really decent day, I have to get serious about

clean and scrubbing and scraping off the old paint.

I have been peeling off paint, kind of in the same

fashion as popping bubble wrap.. Start in one place

then jump to another, while talking on the phone or

to someone visiting..  

Then comes the power wash and maybe some more

scraping.  I am trying to give us a goal of mid May.

Then find 4 days straight that is warm but not to hot..

no rain, no moisture at all.. so we can paint. Which

also brings us to what color.  We have an off white with

blue.. kind of a steel grey blue.  We are thinking of

light grey with dark grey around the trim.. But will we

like it for 10 years or more of that?

Here I sit.. with so much to do, yet can't really get

started.  After all, this is still just April, even if it

feels like May.