The House Is Painted!

As of about 1:00 p.m. yesterday the house was painted and looks beautiful!  I was saying at church this morning that I'll have to watch how I describe my house now when I give directions because it had been "the white house with blue trim" for so long but now it's the "white house with dark green trim". 

It was great to start to take the tape and paper off the windows - which I did with glee!  After everyone left and I went inside to let Butler out, I was shocked to see the back yard through the windows of the back porch :)  I made some comment to Butler about how nice it was to see the outside again.

Enjoy the photos from yesterday's painting gang - I didn't take as many photos as last week because I was doing more hand's on work.  Last Saturday I ran more errands getting ice, water, lunch, etc.  And again I realized that painting is not my calling - especially when it comes to edging :)

Figuring out how to make a Little Giant ladder into a big ladder.  Mike always used to like to stop at the Little Giant booth at the Iowa State Fair and watch them manipulate the ladder.

 Darin back up on the roof with Justin joining him yesterday.

Boaz (Bo) had asked Josh if he could paint with the sprayer so Josh let him do this little spot on the back of the house.  Here's Bo getting instructions........

And here's Bo spraying one spot like crazy!  Check out Josh's face.  Bo hit the trigger to turn the sprayer on and kept spraying one spot without moving the sprayer around on the wall.  We all told Bo he had done a good job and the smile on his face was priceless.  If you look at the picture really close you can see how much paint Bo sprayed - I found a paint brush that wasn't being used to smooth out the paint a little :)

And that's Justin leaning over the side of my house to paint the trim at the highest peak.

We found out there are several ways to get trim painted; by ladder, by lying flat on the roof and leaning over like Josh is doing, and I'm not quite sure what Justin is getting ready to do.

The kids playing in the front yard - Blindman's Bluff.  They had played in the park for quite a while yesterday morning.

When Pastor Josh got to my house he said he had a very important present for me from Darin and him and this was it!  Mike and I were HUGE Bulls fans during their hay day and we freaked when Rodman was traded to them.  I read my book last night and then placed it in our Bulls shrine in the living room :)

All painted - and beautiful once again.  This 100 year old house looks great!

Last night Butler was panting pretty good when we were upstairs but I didn't think much about it but after a couple of hours I thought I better check the temp and it was 85 - with the AC running.  Today the AC is not working very good so I'll be calling my AC guy in the morning.  I'm hoping it's a freon thing.....

I had to run errands after everyone left yesterday and then headed to the hospital to see how Mom was doing - not good.  The fluid they pulled from her lungs Wed was bloody and they still don't have the results from the cultures.  One person told Dad things looked good but they don't have the results - so I told Dad they shouldn't have told him anything.  Friday night I told Dad to ask for a Pulmonologist to get involved since they didn't know where the fluid was coming from - her lungs were filling up again - so yesterday he requested a lung doctor to get involved.  Dad called me this morning before church to tell me the doctor that is assigned to Mom canceled the lung doctor consult - which irritated me to no end.  And this same doctor wants to put Mom in an ambulance Monday to take her to their sister hospital in town to place her in/on a machine to get a definite result if the spot in her lung is cancer.  Remember me saying the biopsy of the lump in her lung was not malignent - well now they are not so sure.  They claim sometimes they don't get a piece of lumps that may have cancer cells.  I told Dad I don't care what they say - the lump should have had a high count of white blood cells I would have thought to alert them to something being wrong at least.....  I also told Dad today on the phone to tell them if the results from the bloody fluid would come back Tuesday to give the same result as what the test in the sister hospital would give - don't put Mom through the stress and trauma of transporting her to the other hospital tomorrow - wait for the culture results.  Dad was concerned last night when I left what we would do if the result was cancer.  I told him to not even think that way - why worry about something that we don't have the results yet.  And if the results are cancer - we would deal with it then. 

I know there are lots of prayers being said for my folks - which I am very thankful and greatful for.  If you could especially remember them in prayer the next few days that would be awesome.