Paint!

Bob came Wednesday to put "Summer Melon" (Benjamin Moore) over the "Sunlit Coral" (also Benjamin Moore) in the kitchen. The Sunlit Coral had not come out the way I'd expected two years ago...possibly in part because the oak cabinets "tricked" the eye into seeing the paint as lighter and pinker than it is. I was never happy with it. Now I have the color I originally saw in my mind's eye!

And next Thursday, the floor guys will come to replace the beat-up white vinyl with "volcanic ash" Marmoleum (a very dark gray, almost black). And then my work here is done! (My redecorating work, that is. There will always be cooking and cleaning.....)

The colors are a little hard to see because it is a cloudy day here. When I used a flash, the flash "pinked" out the Summer Melon almost back to the Sunlit Coral hue. So I took it without the flash in mostly natural light. (Oh, I got new light fixtures last spring, after Easter.)

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Beep for the next Veep! A little UU, a little woo woo, and me

Gentle readers,

You may remember I was summoned to an emergency meeting of the UU Society's Nominating Committee Wednesday afternoon because it had not been able to find anyone willing to serve as vice president next year, when I'll be president. Alison, the minister, had called to feel me out on the idea of serving as prez for two years, instead of one, with the idea that next year at this time, some of the really promising new people who've joined since Alison came aboard might feel "seasoned" enough to serve as vice president. The vice president automatically becomes president the next year, and the president becomes president emerita or emeritus.

I care deeply about my UU Society, and would serve two years, if a little bit grudgingly, because I'm also wearing many other hats there. One thing I told Alison was that if I accepted this plan, I wanted the Nominating Committee to make clear at the Annual Meeting (which includes election of the slate of officers to the board of trustees) that this was not a megalomaniacal power grab on my part, but its idea! :P

We met at 4:30. We were all a little anxious because there was a tornado watch in effect, and we don't get them often here in New England, unlike so many of you folks on my flist.

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In other news, I had to go back Monday for another "follow up" visit with the surgeon who did my lumpectomy last May 19.

( Boob stuff... and it is work safe )

And then today, I got a notice from the bank. I had forgotten to pay the May mortgage! Gah! Fortunately, the Amherst branch (and I was going to head down to that same part of town anyway) was open until 6 p.m., so now we're back in their good graces (including one late charge).

Tomorrow is a local plant swap. There used to be a garden club in our little town, but it's pretty much fallen apart. But one member posted to the list, inviting everyone over at 10 a.m. I potted up three bleeding hearts that are the offspring of a single plant that is extremely prolific, and will drop by with them.

Now, to start dinner in my repainted kitchen. New floor to be installed Thursday and Friday! Wheee!