White Picket Fence

We bought a fence today!  In the next few weeks the old, rusty, chain link monstrosity that has lined our yard will be hauled away and replaced with a beautiful, maintenance-free picket fence.  I know it is cliche but I have always wanted a white picket fence.  We have been wanting to redesign our exterior for a while, but it is never a priority and it is so expensive.  This will be a nice start.

As the fence is getting installed we are going to start stripping the paint on our window sills and repainting with exterior paint.  Not interior paint.  I shouldn't have to be so specific, but apparently no one was specific in the past when they painted our sills and thought that interior paint was sufficient.  It was not.  I don't care if it is lying around- don't ever use interior paint on the window sills.  Because then they peel.  And rot.  And get carpenter ants.  And you will be forced to repaint all your trim, and ain't nobody got time for that, but I guess we will have to make time. 

While we are doing that we are hoping to install new shutters on all the windows.  In a perfect world, depending on how the summer goes, I also want to add fish-scaling to the peek of our home and a gable.  I will upload a sketch of what I hope we can accomplish this year on the exterior.  It isn't the total redesign I want, but that will have to wait until more important projects are done- like that pesky garage.  And replacing the upstairs bathroom.  And dry-walling the entrance to the theater.

Another day, another project.

Seedling Status: Failure

I don't know what the deal is.  I can't keep my seedlings wet to save my life... or their life I guess.  I think our house is way to dry and the lamp we are using is too hot.  They were sprouting so great and suddenly dried up and fried even though I have been diligent with spraying them.  Perhaps the spray bottle isn't getting them enough as well.

Either way, I would say that a quarter of the 98 cells are salvageable.  I added new seeds to most of them to see if I can still have some luck.  With the way our three April blizzards have gone, I am not very optimistic for May, so I think that I still have time.

Luckily there is a plant trade on May 11th at the community garden so hopefully I can get some seed starts there!