White House

We now have a white house, with a red roof and red doors.

Philip and Ricky, working only afternoons and week-ends, finished painting the whole house this week.

We decided on a traditional gray porch floor with a "haint" blue porch ceiling.  It's supposed to keep wasps and ghosts away and be a calm, cooling ceiling for a porch.

The other BIG step this month was in my laundry room.  Tom finished the plumbing and wiring

and spent a week chiseling a hole through the 10" concrete wall for the exhaust for the dryer.  I now have a functioning washer and dryer in the laundry room!  No more laundromats!

Tom is now getting my office ready for the cabinets that will be installed on Monday.

He's really handy to have around!

The end of summer means Summerfest in York, SC, with lots of fattening fair food (deep fried butter on a stick!) and car shows and people watching.

Summer is not quite over yet.  It was 110 degrees on September 2nd.

But now that we have air-conditioning, it was only 77 in the kitchen!

On the critter scene, the guinea keets that hatched under the two broody hens are still following their two mommies around and learning to scratch.  The moms, Gertrude and Tia Maria, are very protective and haven't seemed to notice that their chicks are different.

Jasmine is making great strides learning not to chase chickens or eat chicken poop.  She's still a BIG puppy and climbs in our laps whenever she can.

She's very jealous of computers and acts out to get our attention when we work too long.  She's in the doghouse now for chewing off the corner of the bottom step into the basement!

The weather has changed dramatically this week.  We finally got some rain from the last hurricane and the weather has been in the 50's at night.  I hope we have a nice long fall before winter sets in!