Coleus-one of my favorite plants

I recently saw this ‘Kangeroo paws’ plant and had to get it.

These petunias are actually a deep purple velvet

I was following links on blog sites and ran across this artist:

I find her designs very stylized and different. Plus we share the same birthday of Nov. 19th, so I’ll always give a twin a little blog space. You have to stitch over one on 25 ct lugana, so if you can do that, have fun!

He of course is hogging the lounge chair. : )

Darn sinuses have me feeling pretty crummy today. I even had to cancel my hair appointment this afternoon. The chemical smells would do me in for good. I have been smelling lots of interesting glues and cleaners lately thanks to the kitchen redo. Then the dusty paper overload yesterday was too much. I can’t believe I felt that bad especially after the spackling I did a few weeks ago and the dust that created. So I got out an ice pack, then took a Tylenol and later a Sudafed. I don’t like taking medicine unless I really have to. I do feel better and actually watered some flowers and took the cat for a walk on his harness.
We have a brown bunny living out in the backyard area. A few weeks ago, Cosmo actually went after it. He didn’t catch him and he is still hanging out. He/she has taken to laying all stretched out under the Rose of Sharon bush. It’s the cutest thing! It reminds me of our late pet bunny Buster. This was taken out the dining room window, so a bit blurry. He’s sunning himself a little bit out from under the bush.

I’m a fairly organized person with most things around the house. When I was single and only had my bedroom to contend with, believe me, I knew if I went to my crate of record albums, I could go to ‘T’ and there were all the James Taylor albums I owned. By release year. I had a good system of cleaning. I’d get a clothes basket and everything that wasn’t suppose to be in say, the living room would go in the basket and get sorted in the various family members rooms later after I dusted and vacuumed the room.
So now I live with one fairly organized person and one very untidy one. Can you guess who is who? Sean is the tidy one, but only with his own possessions. I guess I taught him well. Brian was raised by a clean freak. She cleaned the house top and bottom every Tuesday. Now why would you clean a room that didn’t need it?
What all this is leading up to is that we couldn’t locate Sean’s birth certificate and SS card. I did find something from the selective services with both his birthdate and social security number printed on it. I guess this was all right. Sean’s been at Big Lots since 2. I am kinda hoping he likes making money and works more than 20 hours a week. Mom and I think this will do him good because he can be a little on the shy side like his parents (though I am a lot better than I use to be).
Rummaging through papers is a good way to get rid of clutter in that respect. I tossed a bunch of old bill receipts today. Good thing I held onto that one piece of paper.
It’s warm again today. I did some indoor things like putting liners in some of my cabinets in the kitchen. I have a pot of spaghetti sauce on for dinner-Sean’s favorite. I imagine he’ll be home at 5:30 for half an hour of dinner and go back to the store until closing.

I hope those of you who have their dads had a nice Father’s Day by sending them your love. I do have a dad, but I don’t know exactly where he is and we don’t communicate. Today was also the 6th anniversary of my maternal grandmom’s passing. It wasn’t the best day here. Brian decided to open the box of tin and then I had to get involved. Before you know it, I was cutting it and let me tell you, being left-handed and cutting with those tin snips is not easy. It’s really frustrating too. Needless to say, we messed up one piece. We did manage to hang it up on the one wall and Brian nailed it with the decorative nails before he checked to see if it was perfectly straight. But since the piece (there were only 3 pieces) is mostly hidden by the back of the oven, we are going to live with it. I am thinking of getting some edging which may help. It looks 95% better than what was there. When we do the other wall, we won’t be nailing anything until we make sure it is straight. Here is a photo and it looks so shiny and new. It’s not too bad an installation for inexperienced people like us. I curse the carpenter who at first said he would do it and backed out. ; )

We may add the edging to the blue area directly under the microwave and more tin down the wall next to the door.

Sean insisted that we take his dad out to dinner. So we piled in the newly conditioned van and headed to Ruby Tuesday. It wasn’t that crowded when we got there and we had a nice dinner. I had been a bit peeved at Brian for nailing the tin up, but this helped.

We went to Kohls and I got a few things that were on sale. The guys got Ford Mustang t-shirts.

We stopped by KMart and they had perennials for $3.75. I got a butterfly bush and a few other plants (I think one is salvia and the other is sedum). It was blasted hot today and I am feeling it tonight.

Sean is looking for his birth certificate and SS card for his job and he can’t seem to locate them. I think we needed the BC for our trip to Florida or he needed if for Penn State. I guess I know what I’ll be doing tomorrow morning!

This isn’t too attractive and we sure hope it sticks to the wall so we can add the decorative tinwork over the top of it. Actually, there is another wall I want to apply this to across from the sink . Man, did the adhesive stink! It bothered all our throats, especially Brian. So you may be asking why we used adhesive? We have plaster walls throughout most of the house and we can’t really nail things into it, except small ones for
pictures. We’d have to use the nails with the supports that open in the wall and they wouldn’t really work for this project. We did get wood screws for a few of the spots that just don’t want to lay flat. This luana covers the last of the really ugly 46 yr old adhesive used on the walls by the previous owners.
I used an acid stuff to clean the glass tiles (had on rubber gloves and safety glasses). It smelled a little like old eggs. The tiles look cleaner, but it didn’t get all the grout out of the indentations in some of the glass. I’m wondering if the sealer will do the trick. If not, I can live with it. The walls look 100% better than they did a month ago.

By the way…
I used my Panini grill tonight! I had sourdough bread that I sliced up (I think I need to slice it thinner). I made turkey clubs and ham and cheese for Brian because he had turkey for lunch). They were yummy. I will toast them a bit more next time.