Month: October 2019

Found these pieces at the Salvation army- The footstool is Patti’s project and the other big thing is mine!

I’m not sure what this is exactly but its very solid and heavy.

. I was originally just going to strip the top and stain that and repaint the lower part, but after i started sanding, I just couldn’t stop. The wood is so pretty and I discovered that it already had 3 coats of paint on it.

Some of the guesses as to what this is were a computer table or a small podium. After working with it I have come to the conclusion that it was most likely a school shop project. It has so many different elements to it–from measuring, sawing, sanding, nailing, screwing, gluing, dovetail joints, deco on the drawer and the wavy base on the front, not sure what that is called. Remember when schools used to have shop class where kids learned something useful?! I don’t think they have those classes anymore do they? Wish I could take one now LOL! If I remember correctly, these fun shop classes were only for the boys back in the good old days!

I think this is supposed to be a small desk. The post in the front makes it easy to “sit up” to it and use the top. So that is my guess as to its original use, however it will make its new home when finished next to my easy chair. The bottom will be utilized with a basket or something to hold my yarn and latest knitting project, and the drawer will be handy for knitting tools, etc.

See the curvy front board–I have no clue how you do this but it’s for sure a cool little feature! I can see some kid taking a whole semester to finish this project! Good job whoever you were!

I still have some paint removal to do in the crevices but making good progress! Now to pick out a stain color–what do you think–dark or light? I am leaning towards dark walnut with a light coat so that the grain shows through well.

Rainy and gloomy here today. Good day for working on projects in the garage or…..hmm..maybe snoozing in that easy chair!

So we planned a fun outing for Saturday, October 26. We had seen signs and articles about the Robins Street Art Stroll. This was a block or so of arts and crafts vendors, food trucks and the high school band entertaining. Sounds like a lovely fall day event doesn’t it?

The day before, the weather man hit us with 100 percent chance of rain on Friday and rain it did all day long. Saturday the chance of rain was down to 80 percent! The event was then rescheduled to be held indoors at an old school building. Still doable and still sounds fun!

Saturday dawns but who could tell the sun was up with all the gloom. Patti had a fun video call scheduled with some of her kin back home so the day still started with a smile or two! The weather soon turned uglier and we were under a severe thunderstorm watch. The winds came and blew and bellowed. Our electricity suddenly stopped . When the storm finally seemed to have passed we surveyed our damage, just some small branches to pick up in the yard and the outside table umbrella had taken a little flight to the other side of the yard, some shingles gone from the old shed out back (scheduled for roofing anyway!) – so all told no major damage. We decided what the heck, nothing to do here, no electric so nothing to do–let’s go see if they have power at the school and see if the Art stroll is still going!

On the way, we noticed many traffic lights out (but not all of them!) and trees down here and there, some across the roads and some on houses Yikes! The song of chain saws filled the air. We saw some businesses closed with “no power” signs on the doors. We wound our way down to the school and yep—they had power ! Lots of vendors set up inside and we enjoyed seeing all the different craft ideas. Poor attendance though so I felt really sorry for the craftspeople. Food trucks not in sight , I guess they all bailed and who could blame them. No high school band either. By the time we came out of the school, it was spitting rain again so we made a quick stop at KFC and got some take out in case we still had no power! We didn’t but luckily it did come back on not too long after we got home. Hurrah!!

The picture above is the Tupelo mayor’s home. He was trapped for over an hour according to the news, but expected to be okay the last we heard. The storm was aftermath of Tropical storm Olga. Well Olga was ugly! We sure seem to have issues with planning outings. It’s not the first time we have planned to go somewhere and mother nature just wanted us to stay home! At least she didn’t drop a tree on our house, so bless her for that!

This week has started out great! Monday was cool and rainy but we had a sunny visit from Jeremy, Brandi, Travis and Anita from good ol’ North Dakota! They are on vacation in Nashville and came down to see us! The weather was not nice for touristy things but we had a nice visit and went out for linner (late lunch/early dinner).

We tried a nice restaurant close to us named Harveys. It lived up to its reviews, everything was very tasty! And it wasn’t busy since we were there at an odd time, we had our waitress all to ourselves!

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Of course the next day, the weather was beautiful, sunny and 70’s. I started out the day in long pants and soon had to change into shorts. I got started getting rid of the green door. Do you know how it is, you live with something long enough and you just forget it is there? It’s been that way with this door that I have been meaning to paint for the last 4 months! It was put off because I knew it would need a coat of Kilz to cover the green, so finally got off my butt and got that project going! Also we putzed with sewing (Patti) and painting the night stand for guest bedroom (me). All in all, a great start to another great week in Tupelo!

So the first visitors are under our belt, who will be next? Remember the guest room awaits! Reservations required LOL!

September in Tupelo was the hottest and dryest on record. October has rolled in with cooler temperatures…so now some outside work is getting done!

We now have a nice clear front yard with all the bushes removed! We put flower pots by the house. Still need to go Magnolia tree shopping but I suspect that project will wait for spring.

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In the backyard we have a little flower garden started and part of the fence coated in sealer. Lots more to do as we have what seems like a mile of privacy fence. We are also in process of tearing down some useless gates and hopefully will use some of the boards for replacement in needed spots. Hard work and slow going, but like everything else, it will get done eventually!

We have gone from 90 + weather in September to” oh gosh close the windows would ya?” in October. I’m not sure if its really that chilly or just the fact that we have gotten used to 90s and anything else feels like sweatshirt weather. At this rate we may be packing up and moving farther south when winter gets here! Just kidding, I think we own enough warm clothes to struggle through! After all, if we get to shivering a bit, we just need to go on Facebook and look at all the snow falling up north and we feel warmer instantly! Keep warm and keep smiling all you northern people! Remember we have extra beds if you can find your way south!

The guest room is ready! Just 3 short months ago this room was full of boxes and totes. We certainly didn’t think we would get to this room for quite awhile, but yet, here it is -almost completely done. A couple more things to hang on the walls, maybe a throw rug or two, a dust ruffle for the bed and finish the night stand project.

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So the color for this room is called Vegas green…here we go again with these silly color names. To me it would be called John Deere Green or maybe 4-H green LOL. Anyways, you know the music is always playing in my head and one of the recurring tunes has to do with John Deere Green, so of course this picture has to be in this room!

Do you remember the tool holder project from the garage…we had a piece leftover, namely the lid from the original piece. Well we found a use for it!! Waste not, want not right? It is now a sweet little bedside shelf! What do you think?

The only questions that remains is who will be first to stay in this room?!?!?! Here’s what it will look like with YOU in the bed!!

Here is a picture of the headboard that Patti found at the Salvation Army store. Another great find, now customized to our guest room! It looked as rough as the room did before we started! Originally we weren’t going to paint this room, but I decided to paint the wall board and then of course the walls looked dingy, so they got painted, and that made the floor look awful, so flooring was next. But now its ready for occupancy, so ya’ll come on down! p.s. we have a couple of blow up beds too!