On a side note I'm now 0-2 for 4th of July things I wanted - or kind of wanted - to do. NASCAR always has a night race for the 4th weekend and I was sure it was Sunday night, so Sunday morning I checked the schedule - and saw the race had been Saturday night - bummer.
Then the WDM parade is always the evening of the 3rd of July and for years it has started at 6:30 pm at Valley High School which is 3+ miles from Vine and 4th so it's a good 45 minutes before the parade even gets to my corner. Dad and I weren't really dead set on going to the parade but about 7:20 I said why don't we go. So I take Butler out to do his thing and we spray on bug spray, grab a couple of chairs and start down the block - to see a big WDM Public Works vehicle and a police car turn the corner at 4th and Vine south and then regular traffic going through the intersection of 4th and Vine - and people walking away from the corner of 4th and Vine. Then the police vehicle that had blocked the intersection of cross traffic at 4th and Vine drove off - missed the parade. I found out from my neighbor that the parade started at 5:30 this year.....
So we're thinking of going to WDM's fireworks tonight and I know where I want to park - the place Mike and I went the last two years we watched fireworks - and I KNOW they are tonight and I KNOW they are at dusk - so I shouldn't be able to goof that up - I hope :)
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Last time the house will look like this - white with blue trim and in desperate need of painting.
Even the kids got into scraping - if they didn't have a paint scraper they grabbed a hunk of concrete to use as a scraper :)
Getting instructions from Phil (blue t-shirt in background) on what to do next.
Scraping, scraping and more scraping.
Working way up high.
Ken figuring out his next mode of attack on scraping.
Darin starting to tape.
That would be my pastor, Josh, taking a moment to pose for the camera on my roof. The person going in my front door that looks like a stooped over elderly person with a hat is me. Not sure who the other person is next to Josh - who appears to be working while Josh is posing......
Julie and my small group leader, Rob, taping windows.
Now it's getting serious - one of the doors is being taped over :)
Butler made lots of new friends!
Lunch time!
Dad mugging for the camera :)
Another shot of lunch time.
Josh taping.
The kids spent the day in Legion Park playing, eating pizza at lunch and then wading in the wading pool.
The "grey" look aka over spray :)
Rigo literally got into his work when he was spraying paint.
Victoria - Rigo and Heather's little girl - gave me these pretty flowers Saturday from their yard.
Me and Lynn - my friend that invited me to Living Waters Fellowship last August.
Butler and me.
After everyone had left I took a couple of pictures - and I can't believe I actually got my hand in the picture - I never do that but with the sun shining and no true view finder on my camera I couldn't really see what I was taking a picture of. The house looks so bright and shiny - and it's getting some looks since all the paper and tape is staying on the windows until this next Saturday :) I may have to cut some holes in a few strategic windows before Saturday so it doesn't feel like I'm living in a cave :)
Surprise in the frig! Heather had taken a picture of a HUGE, silver grasshopper sculpture that is on a lawn in Newton that she posted on Facebook that we kidded about. After everyone had left, I had taken my "after" pictures of the house, seen the snake in the front yard, let Butler out and was putting what was left of the 2 liter of Coke in the frig I saw this and totally cracked up. Then I saw the grasshopper on my kitchen window ledge (scroll back up to the picture with the flowers and do a "where's Waldo" to find the grasshopper in the picture). Then the one on my table in the living room. Then the one on the sink in the downstairs bathroom. Then the last grasshopper on the stairs going upstairs to my bedroom. I LOVED it - it was like a scavenger hunt!
Butler at the end of his big day - I was wondering where I was going to sleep. I sleep on the left side of the bed looking at this picture - the other side was Mike's - so I laid down like normal and somehow got my legs down the side of the bed by Butler's behind but trust me - he was more comfortable Saturday night than I was :)
