While I'm off work two weeks Don and I have the leisure of gradually getting tasks done before Farm Day.
The deck rail and skirt need painting.
The porch steps needed painting last year, it never got done.
Yesterday I painted them! It took maybe an hour and a half. The wood is wolmanized, and no matter how much good primer I use, the paint peels off. I've painted them every year - except 2007 - since we've lived here. This time I didn't prime. Wouldn't help anyway.
Don's been straightening the barn.
We have too much stuff. Well some of it is our kids' stuff. You can see Lesley's Barbie car. Do you think she and her boyfriend might play with it when they're home this week?
Oh, hey, Anet and Sharon (and Loring)! There's an ugly Vail mug.
While working in the barn Don fixed up this old wall, adding the door, hanging the old Coleman lanterns and tools, and also the 1939 sign, which he found in the barn. I wonder who 'W.B.' was. Our farm was built around the turn of the 20th century, 1904 I think. I wonder if W.B. was the first owner.
Just a bit more tidying inside and outside before Lesley and Brian come tomorrow night.
Maybe I ought to toss these decayed hydrangea blossoms. Believe me, they look better in this photo than they do in person.
Saturday 30-40 wonderful people from my family - my siblings, their spouses, their kids and grandkids - will descend on the farm and just hang out. It's our big event of the year. And while Don and I are not very social 95% of the time (maybe because we are both helping students ALL DAY in our jobs), this is one time we make up for it.
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