Next week, August 17-22, Rex and I are having our house painted. I am nervous about it, too. Today we pulled weeds from around the house. The man who does the power washing also came by. The porch and deck, which are made of wood, now have most of the paint stripped bare. Rex and I spent a good part of the week before last testing out paint on our house. The color for the house is Oyster White (7637) and is a warm white color. The shakes, porch and deck will be painted Ranchero Red (3044). The trim will be Mineral Deposit (7652) which is light gray, and the front door will be painted Jasper (6216), a dark green. All colors can be found at the Sherwin-Williams site except the Ranchero Red may be harder to look up. Anyway, we applied the paint to our house in test areas. I do like that white for the body. It should make the house look really bright and clean. The Mineral Deposit may be too light of a gray. Hopefully it will not be so light you cannot see it. Finally, the front door. Jasper. This is a very, dark, dark green. Almost black in color. It will be framed by the gray trim. We have shakes over the master bedroom window and the office window. Right now these are rain streaked and fading. I am hoping with the application of the Ranchero Red stain will turn out well. I’ve no idea though. I am not very good at visualizing this sort of stuff. My mother does much better when it comes to these design schemes.
A couple of weeks ago the temperatures here soared. The all-time records, high and lows for Seattle, were 0° and 100° in records dating back to 1891. On Wednesday, July 29th, the temperature soared to 103° with a nighttime low of (if I remember correctly) 71°. We baked and roasted. All our fans were humming. Windows up and down stairs were opened. There was no relief. The nighttime temperatures were too warm for the house to cool down. It was too hot to do much of anything except watch the Weather Bug and hope for clouds. Showers couldn’t get cool enough. I dreamed of going for a swim, a lake, a pool, my tub. All that week, July 27-31, we had inferno (90+) days. Finally, in middle of the following week, the weather broke and we cooled off into the high 80°s range. Last week and this week have been very pleasant with an average day temperature around 72° and a nighttime cool of 54°. Very nice. The bedroom cools off. Fans are no longer blasting and all feels normal. But it was sort of exciting to be in the hottest day on record for our area.
Today we got rid of our old sofa, a TV stand, and the huge Sony 32″ CRT TV. That thing was heavy. It took three men get it down the stairs and out into a truck. The fellow who took these things was a 37 year old male (unmarried–where are those women nowadays?) who rents a condo (a cheap one) in Seattle. Now the house is a bit roomier and the sort-of dining room area has only the old piano and a chest of drawers in it. I still don’t know what to do with that piano. And I really don’t know what to do with that area. *sigh* I am sure one day, we will figure it out. Soon all clutter will have been addressed in the downstairs.
