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| Original Toll house recipe except 1/2 cup butter and 1/2 cup coconut oil. Plus Dick's favorite with pecans & coconut added. My friend Marcia makes them perfect, her secret..... take them out of the oven before the center is brown (looks like they are not done), the best cookie ever! |
Remember the song? The toe bones connected to the foot bone, the foot bones connected to the ankle bone, etc. In my case the woodwork's connected to the walls, the walls are connected to...... It's spring and my mind says, freshen up the house. Something the hub just hates to hear because he knows one thing leads to another. The first inkling he got that I had painting on my mind was when we went to Olean and I asked to go to Home Depot.......the first thing he asked, "What are you going to do?" It took 4 days for the woodwork around the windows and floor to be sanded, primed and painted. That was really all I planned on doing but getting so close to the walls made me decide they also need painted. First thing tomorrow off to Olean for the wall paint for the living room, dining area and kitchen. As long as I'm painting the hall might as well get freshened up. So my song for the week is the woodwork's connected to the living room, the living room is connected to the dining room which is connected to the kitchen which is connected to the hall. There that didn't take long, everything should be finished by Wednesday. I do the trim and hub does the roller. He really hates painting but is a natural with that roller (I hate using the roller).
I started this post last week. It is now Thursday and tada, I'm finished.....maybe. The weather is still keeping me inside so I have a few ideas floating around this over active mind. I listed everything that was connected in the first paragraph but trust me I found a few more. I have always painted the hall a different color than the rest of the house but this time decided not to. Here's the kicker. When I get paint samples I always get four of each, that way I tape them to all four walls to see what they look like. I didn't put the sample in the hall which I should have. All the while I was painting the hall I knew it was not showing like the living room. It was Yuck! Off I go to get a different color, lucky me I had picked up several samples of teals from light to dark. Why? Because I had full intentions of painting the bathroom too. I just hadn't broke the news to the hub. Sticking the teal sample on the walls of the hall and bingo I had a pick. I'm really happy, not a color I would have thought for the hall but...I'm in love. Now I have fake window frames with 15 muntins hanging on the hall wall that I painted a sunset theme behind them. They were avocado green which looked fine with tan walls, not so with the new teal shade. 2 windows, 30 muntins and yes I painted them a light butter yellow shade. Happy again because starting this marathon I had no idea what would be the outcome. So my advice is just go with it ;)
My favorite paint is Glidden with a satin finish has a one coat coverage if not changing it drastically. Norton's Building Supply sells my choice of paint brushes by Wooster. They are amazing and show no brush strokes with the type of paint I use. It makes painting stress free when prepping surfaces and using products that work.
The inside tado list has to be finished before the weather breaks. Then we will be outside getting spring/summer things done. The pizza oven needs faced with field stone, back deck and stairs painted and then get the garden ready for planting. The electric fence will need tightened and and loose posts reset. Plans for a new chicken coop is also on the list. Of course spring green will be in full swing so 2-3 times a week the lawn will need mowed and weed whacked. R &R winter mode has come to an end. As every season we are happy to see it end and a new one begin. Very soon we will be seeing signs of new beginnings and growth at Cook'n by the Creek which is a pleasing peaceful time. We will also be starting the pizza oven, inviting family and friends to enjoy pizza and the beauty of Clara. We have been thinking of it often, as soon as the temperature gets to 50 and sunny ♡
Slacking in the kitchen during my painting marathon called for chocolate chip cookies with pecans and coconut for the guy that is so patient with me. He knows once I get going there will be no "rest for the wicked" as my mom would say. Wicked I am at times but what the heck!
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| Pizza, wings, bagels, bread and what ever we can think of ♡♡ tastes delicious the wood fired oven ♡♡ |
