Yesterday was a very productive day. For starters, I taught The Girl how to use the Sawzall. This was of course immediately after the HH left for the recycling center because if he would have been around, there is no way he would have let us use it to cut down 3 {12ft?} trees and trim up the bottom of half a dozen other trees without him.
But we did it, and the side of the yard looks sooooo much better now that’s it’s been thinned out a bit.
The Girl also helped me paint!
Half the day was spent taking down the gutters and applying primer paint to our little mini barn. The barn was painted a lovely shade of camp green with a burgundy trim by the previous previous owners who used the place as a summer home.
But since I want to live in a cottage rather than a camp, we have decided to lighten the place up by painting everything white {the house, the picket fence, the mini barn, the picnic tables and so on}.
The goal is to create a light bright and airy feel to the place. A picket fence with perennial flowers and a cutting garden. A fenced in vegetable patch with a greenhouse {a project for next summer}.
There is a lot of work to be done to lighten up the property, to make it feel like someone definitely lives here year round and loves to tend a garden type feel but you know what? Fixing up this place, it just feels so right.
It feels like we were meant to be here. Like this is our spot.
Yesterday we ended up getting the whole thing primed and had enough time to give one side of the little barn a top coat of white paint. Today I plan on getting out there early and getting the rest of the thing painted. Then it will be up to the HH to clean the roof, get the gutters back on and install the lighting.
And then tomorrow, I’ll plant a row of my favorite mammoth sunflowers in front of the barn. A happy little white barn… that’s the plan, Stan.
Who knows… maybe someday our little white barn will turn into a flower/vegetable stand. 🙂 A girl can dream, right?
Here’s to a happy and productive day,
~Mavis
Kim says
White house, white barn, white picket fence, white picnic tables…………………….swoon…………. it all sounds lovely to me!!!!!
Robin in WI says
I love simple white too. 🙂 Perhaps some color touches for when everything else is white in winter, lol? 😉
Mel says
I was thinking a wreath on a white barn in winter would be pretty.
Robin in WI says
It would — good idea! 🙂
Ethel says
Women can use saws!
Judi Y. says
I LOVE your barn!!
Bernice says
I love using the sawzall…it is the most fun to get low limbs down…by myself…
Michelle says
Ha! I thought it was just me that waited until my husband left to use the reciprocating saw, circular saw grinder etc….. That’s how things get done! Besides nothing better than using power tools to make projects easier!