As some of you know the huge selling or renting point for our current house was the breakfast nook. I have a history of renting houses based on one feature alone (purple toilet in Corvallis anyone?) but really that is the luxury of renting you can be ridiculous without signing your life away. Ever since we moved in I have been dying to rip down the hideous wallpaper in the nook and put a fresh coat of paint up instead but I held off on asking permission from the landlords for fear of being rejected. Well, this spring weather got me in a painting mood and I couldn’t take the nasty wallpaper any longer, I mustered up the courage to ask and they said YES! I am so pumped, I have all the wallpaper down, it surprisingly came off without any aid. Now I am nearly done washing the walls to remove the old glue and then I should be painting in just a few days, once I recover from my night shifts that is. Here is a picture of the nook without wallpaper (there was old pink paint under the old wallpaper)…
As you can see I have some shades of yellow, right now I am leaning towards Lemon Chiffon, I like the way that sounds, it is a little more sophisticated than when I painted my room in college a shade of green called “Salty Margarita”. Below is a picture of the nook with the wallpaper…
Coming soon pictures of a fresher nook!
Oh yes there are a lot of herbs indeed and see those lawn chaises in the background?! Our landlords (we shall call them the Preacher’s for privacy sake) gave us those for free! They are about 50 years old I think but they have been kept in storage and they are in perfect condition they need new cushions though because the ones that they came with are sort of covered in mildew but for now I think throwing a towel over them will do just great. I need to work on getting the patio area set-up. The Preacher’s are funny landlords, sort of nosy at times but I think they actually really like us. Last Saturday they were over in the morning measuring the garden beds so that they could buy us some soaker hoses, this was very nice of them but since I was not expecting anyone to be over that early I had the side door open and was still in my pajamas. When I heard someone call my name I thought it was Jason trying to be funny and talking with an old lady voice but it was just Patty Preacher wanting me to go outside and help them hold the measuring tape. Luckily we have not had to water too much since we had a huge downpour on Sunday which resulted in this…
Later that evening it turned into this…
Jason took a much better picture of the event which you can see on his blog
Sad, is it not? Anyway, that is what is going on here guess I should get moving before it heats up.
It was a nice 5 mile hike with a good viewpoint of the valley but it was sort of hazy so hard to take a nice picture…
And here is a picture of me looking quite pathetic and only half way done with our ride but happy to be on pavement and not teetering on some rocks and a cliff, some how Jason always seems to capture the best of me…
As you can see my phone with a cord is conveniently located near the nook so that I can sit and talk comfortably inside my cozy little space. Last night I was lying down on one of the nook benches and decided to look at the underside of the table, I am not sure what I was expecting to find maybe some old paint chips I don’t know, but what I found was the handwriting of a young girl proclaiming her love for different boys, luckily she dated each entry so it was interesting to see her go back and forth between who she was “in love” with at the time, here are a few quotes from the underside of the nook:
