Scattered 50's Syndrome Part II

So...on Monday of last week, I felt like things were finally getting under control.  I was chatting away with my sister (on the phone) and making cute little pom poms with a fork...ahem....Pinterest...ya know...

I put them on a wire tree that my Shug made me years ago.  We saw the wire tree idea somewhere on one of our garden type vacay's we used to take.  I just set it around here and there, but never really knew what to do with it.  I think it would be perfect for a fairy garden!  And I just happen to have one, but I'm going to 'plant' the tree once I bring the garden inside.

I was also finally getting around to painting the doors that we have installed in our new home.  Yup, we've been living here for a year and I never have painted the doors...until now.  (I still have five to go)

And I was canning apples...still.

Doing all of this house-wife, homey, nesting type stuff that I LOVE to do.  

It's right under nature

1.  nature

2. nesting

3. crafting

Not painting!

  

But I got the phone call.  From the Realtor.  And if you read my house blog you already know this. 

The VA Appraiser wanted all of the potting shed windows scraped and painted.  Only our realtor THOUGHT she just wanted them scraped.  He said they did not have to be painted.

  Here's the thing.  

We already scraped them, before we put the house on the market!

 We figured it was a potting shed, it sits way back on the lot, and as long as the paint wasn't chipped it would be ok.  Well, My Shug said to tell the realtor he was just going to remove them.

I said. "You can't remove them now."  So he called the realtor and I was right, you can't remove them.

And when I told my parents, my Mom said, "we will help!"

Gotta love my parents!  I would have been there every day all day long were it not for them.

And Dad wasn't near as happy about it as he looks.  He was just smiling for the camera!

Mom wasn't going to waste a minute of time!

When I got the call from the realtor I wasn't near as upset about it as my Shug was.  But, the next morning, I woke up at 2:15 and didn't get back to sleep.  And when I'm tired, I don't feel like scraping windows.  And as we said....

it wasn't the windows that needed scraped, it was the caulking around the windows.  Which means they needed re-caulked.  I've never caulked windows before, but I've grouted tile and I've grouted ceiling tiles, so I figured I could do it.  Kind of like decorating a cake right?

What a pain.  What a loooooooong day. 

And when we went to see the realtor that evening, and we were signing some paperwork stating what needed done for the loan to be approved, I saw the word.  The dreaded P word, on the paper we signed.  Paint the windows, it read.  Inside and out.

And make sure there are no paint chips on the ground.  Must all be removed from premises. 

"Oh just slap some paint on there", he said,

"I want to hurt somebody", I said.

He laughed.

I didn't.

We also replaced this cracked window. 

I gently finished it off with the hammer.

See how the caulking came out with the window.  They are old, old, old windows.  From the 1940's.

After two FULL days of work, we got them finished.

They look pretty good too.

So hopefully,

This will pass the VA appraiser

and I can get back to canning, crafting, and painting doors (sigh)

I do not like painting anymore - - - at all.

So here is the question of the day....

How do you get rid of Scattered 50's Syndrome when you HAVE things that you HAVE to do, and you try to squeeze in stuff you WANT to do?  I know we all do it. But it seems I am always doing, doing, doing and not finishing anything.  Evah...ya hear me.

How do you do it peeps?  I see you out there...in blogland.  So I know it's possible.  How's it done?  

Cindy Bee

May stuff

Good grief peeps, did anyone miss me at all?  Did you think I got swallowed up by that swarm!   I hope everyone had a nice Memorial Day today and got to spend time with loved ones, and remembered those no longer with us.

As you know, My Shug had Achilles Tendon surgery.  Well, it ain't no walk in the park...for either of us.  "Can you get me this, can you help me with this, can you do this...".and God love him he has a big honkin' plaster cast on his leg and we are still (and forever) living in this one room and well....I've started several blog posts, and started reading blogs, and while I was trying to do a pos,t my computer shut right down on me so I took it as a sign and gave up!

So besides working on house stuff, which I have done a little bit of (insulating-ugh),  and making lots and lots of bee frames, here is everything that happened this month that I did not post about. 

I worked at the yarn store one day for Groovy Girl.  I don't think I made any mistakes, except she said we couldn't open any packages that came in the mail.  After much begging, we did open these really cool project bags that didn't officially come in the mail, they came by UPS.  She only has two left at this point though.  Rumor is there are more on the way.

We celebrated Vickie's birthday.

By spending the night at my Sister's house (her husband was gone that weekend)

and we had mimosas for breakfast.  That sounds so good I'd have one right now if I had the fixin's which I do not. I also made us some french toast, with real french bread, which was real yummy...and bacon.  Mmm

We also went to Allisonville nursery and did a little bit of shopping. 

I have a tree like this made out of wire, which I put pom poms on, and now I think I'm going to have to change it because I want to make one of these.  Cute huh?  This nursery has a ton of stuff...and plants.  But kind of pricey....just sayin'.

 Anyone every read the book or seen the movie, "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil?"  Well it's good.  And based on a true story, which I did not know until I went to Savannah, GA on vacay for a week a few years back, and toured the house.  Someday I am going to get this statue.

 

I think she looks a little evil in the eyes, and she had a chip in the front, so I decided not to take her home with me.

I did, however, take a few things home with me one day while my peg legged Shug and I went to visit his Mom, and saw a garage sale right across the street from her Assisted Living Facility!

 We got this mirror, which is going to go lovely with our bathroom vanity upstairs in the half bath.

 And I got this mail thing which I am not using right now, but I think it will be cute to drop keys into when we move upstairs.

 And My Shug came home with this, which I have not used yet, but I like.  Looks like a big martini glass!

  Something I did not bring home this year....mushrooms (sad face)  I went mushroom hunting in our woods several times.  I did not realize until I went walking that we lost a LOT of trees last November when we got the tornado.  Look at this one!

Looks kind of scary!  Or mad! 

 And the sweetest news of all....Ty Joseph was born.  My Great Nephew!!!  A boy in the family!!!!  I now have two nephews, a nephew-in-law, and four nieces, and I love them to pieces!

 

Look at that precious face.  He was just a few hours old here, and I got to hold him.  "SMILE"

Well, I must go now.  My Shug is here and we are going to watch a movie.  

I do not get as much done when he is home.  

I am missing all of your blogs...and I hope to visit soon.

By the way, you all cracked me up with your comments. When honeybees swarm they are the nicest ever.  I've never been stung getting a swarm.

Chat later...

Cindy Bee