the monday morning sizzle!

 Well,  97F (36.11c), sunny and very humid today...hot enough?  Hot as Hades?  We say over and over, It's not the heat, it's the humidity...It's oppressive.  I wait all year for heat and bare feet, but when it gets REALLY hot and humid, I just melt into a big sweaty puddle.  

But I cannot complain.  We put a window unit in our bedroom yesterday, we being Paul.  The rest of the house is in the high eighties right now, cool in the morning, ha.  I puttered around this morning, watering all the flowers, made a new batch of cold brew coffee, and I started to melt a little.

But, I cannot complain.  I am going to the pool in a bit for water aerobics, then:  we're going to the beach.  I am uncertain if that will be refreshing or just way too hot.  The walk from the car across the sand to the water, well, I won't think about that.  (oh, how pessimistic I can be, is it because I'm getting old?  I mean, hey, a beach day!  Why even think of the negatives?)

So we have been working on Jonny's old room, which we will call The New Guest Room.  

Camille...

Char...they sanded the walls then gave the ceiling the first coat while I painted the inside of the closet.  The window was pretty bad.  We installed wood Anderson windows when we built the house.  They were recalled years ago for rotting out, but could we find our paperwork?  ha.  So Paul replaced the window...they are so expensive, we have to do them a few at a time.

The walls aren't painted yet, and we will put up new trim.  All the wood trim in the room will be painted with white enamel, I like the wood but it's not in the best shape.  The chair you see is holding up the closet door, which got two coats of primer.  The bedroom door itself got a coat too, out in the kitchen propped on stools.  They will be white enamel too, from wood.  The walls will be a softer, warmer white, a yellowish beige-y white.  

Yesterday morning, I dragged Paul...no, he went graciously...an hour and six minutes each way to pick up a daybed from Marketplace.  A Pottery Barn daybed with a trundle, for one hundred dollars.  Of course I looked them up new, and just the trundle is $599.  The bed itself is over a thousand.  It didn't come with mattresses which is just as well, because we have a few, and yuck, right?  Anyway, it was listed with the description:  has some marks on it.    My expectations weren't too high, but I thought at least it would be nice and sturdy, versus buying a brand new cheap one for a few hundred bucks...well, the marks aren't anything!  Just a little scraping.  It looks really really nice, isn't put together yet, but I'm excited about it, it's just what I imagined for that room.

Now I'll try to find a rug, and will put some white sheers, and new mini blinds, and try to leave it relatively empty.  Maybe a side table, a dresser sometime...

Anyway.  It's always fun doing a reno project.  After giving the doors their coats of primer, I went out to swim with Kathryn and Darius.  The water is so refreshing, the air so hot, it was hard to get out.  We decided to order pizza and come here, then we went for ice cream.  

The first part of the weekend was great too, on Friday Paul and I went to our friends' place for a cookout with several couples that we've known for years and years.  It was warm and good and fun...then home, Suzanne and her Lab Winnie were spending the night!  (her husband was going on an Adirondack hike with his brothers).  Home, I made popcorn and we caught up.  

Saturday, Grace came over with her three kids, Kathryn with hers, it was warm out so we filled the little pools and hung out in the front yard. 

My feet on the cooler, I'm classy like that.  Suze in the little pool, she might kill me for posting it, but it shows what a sweet girl she is.  She's always had such a heart for the kids.  

Popsicles!  

Ah well, time to get out the door...hope you all are enjoying the warm weather...(and yes, I am purposefully avoiding mentioning world events...my head is not in the sand, but I am not going to get all worried either...things will happen whether I condone them or rebuke them, I can pray and I can be faithful in what I understand, it's written that when these things start happening to look up, so that's what I am doing...)