Colorific!

The funny farm home has been exploding with color! We're painting again. This time it's the upstairs learning center, in anticipation of the approaching new school year (Hear Alex groan!).
The wall above the fire place is now Ralph Lauren Ranchito sueded red. The fireplace itself is Behr Solitude blue. The side wall are in various stages of Behr Ripe wheat and Behr Rye. To see the true colors check out the websites (because they won't let me copy the colors here). The hardest parts have been 1) moving all the books, toys, and etc in that room, stopping the dog and cats from sticking to the wet paint, and removing Anni's hand prints as she guides down the walls! The trickiest part is going to be painting the wall above the staircase while balancing on a very tall ladder perched on the steps!

The warm weather has returned to Seattle, and the garden is going bonkers. New harvest items today were raspberries (yum!) and the sunflower heads. We're drying the seeds in the oven. We'll use them in our bread making over the next few months. We picked 6 large red tomatoes, 20 cherry tomatoes, and a green zebra striped one. We also harvested beans, kale, chard, and 6 more zucchini! In addition to zucchini, the yellow squash are beginning to explode. We also have acorn, delicata, and cabochon (sp?) squash coming on for the fall. For those of you following the zucchini 100 here are the numbers: 67 + 6 = 73 to go.