Day 2

Beautiful weather, so today we attacked the ginormous rhododendron-

or judging from the picture ,the rhododendron attacked my dad! They are very hard to cut down, but it couldn't stay as big as it was, it was hiding the whole house.

We now have gas, water, and electric turned on, but no furnace until next week. The water was completely shut off- the water company had to come and turn it on from the street. My "Myspace Plumber" can't come until next week, so we don't want to actually turn on the water until he's there to check for burst pipes. (Yes, we've had that before, too). I really did meet my plumber on Myspace, I'll talk more about him later. It's always a good day when the plumber comes and gives us a working toilet!

I started painting the living room, but I've been having problems with my rotator cuff, so my friend Tina is coming this weekend to help. The living room and the dining room will be painted "Ivoire" by Sherwin Williams. It's a light, creamy tan/ yellow. I've been using deeper colors recently, but this house has such an open feel to it, I wanted to keep it bright. The floors and all the woodwork are a warm oak, so the gold in this color shows it off.


Our dilemma today is the lighting in the kitchen. Whoever had the house before us had started to remodel, so the ceiling is raised and there's a lot of can lighting, but in the center of the room there are three pendant lights. Well, actually right now they look like little flying saucers, but I found some really cool shades at Lowe's to go on them. So we'll see how they look as the rest of the room comes together.

We had the nicest thing happen today. Our new neighbor Nancy stopped over to introduce herself and bring us some zucchini bread. Isn't Erie a great place to live?!