Saturday, November 05, 2005, 22:02
More New Pictures!
You should the rosa rugosa bush in my backyard. The leaves are spectacular -- all red and yellow and orange and pink.
Actually, thanks to modern technology, you *can* see the rosa rugosa bush. I have posted pictures of it in the Rural Route 2 photo album. (It was practice -- practice uploading pictures, converting them and then posting them to the photo album).
There are also new pictures of Pixie, and of Randy, with the vacuum cleaner, vacuuming up ladybugs that were coming into the house.
It's cloudy and cold and rainy in west central Wisconsin today.
I am also "knee-deep" in green tomatoes that are simmering on the stove. Eventually the green tomatoes will become more mincemeat.
Click here to see more new pictures! There are a few more on page 2, as well. Click on the little '2' at the top of the page just above the pictures.
LeAnn R. Ralph
Saturday, November 05, 2005, 07:44
Shades of Green
"Since when is white wine green?" Randy asked.
"I don't know," I said, "but that's what it's called."
I bought paint for the bedroom on Friday, and it's called 'white wine.' It's really a pale, luminescent green, and my next project will be to work on painting the bedroom. Which will be in between making the rest of my green tomato mincemeat, now that I have also gotten more brown sugar. I still have a half a row of carrots in the garden, too. Good thing the ground hasn't started to freeze yet.
I am happy to say, though, that the bathroom and hallway are finished. Well, pretty much finished. I still have to put a second coat on the hallway ceiling, but it won't take me long to do that. I hope.
The paint I bought for the bedroom is a more expensive paint, guaranteed to be 'one coat.' We'll see.
I have to laugh at all of the color names for paint. In addition to the 'white wine,' there's one called 'gentleman.' If it seems improbable that white wine would be that particular shade of green, it is really improbable that a gentleman would be a shade of green slightly darker than the white wine. There's also a green called 'spring bud' -- but that one seems all right for a bud growing in the spring. 'Tea garden' isn't bad, either.
The 'alfalfa' -- on the other hand -- is a hoot. Any farmer whose alfalfa field was that kind of a pale, sickly green would be heading for the shed to get the tractor and the plow so he or she could plow it under and start all over again.
The other shade of 'alfalfa' from a different company is just as bad. Any farmer whose alfalfa field was *that* kind of green would suspect radioactive fallout had landed on the field and would be reaching for the phone to call the county extension agent to come out and look at it.
There's one called 'freshness' too. It's a sort of yellowish-green and not my idea of freshness.
The 'sweet pea' seems like a bit of a stretch, too. I can't imagine that any sweat pea plants would look like *that* -- unless, of course, there was more radioactive fallout.
I don't know what we are going to paint the other rooms. I have decided to take it one room at a time. Why overwhelm myself? After all, I've only got about 4,000 colors to choose from.
LeAnn R. Ralph