An accomplishment

I have been diagnosed with Anemia, I have had it before, but after taking the iron for a few days I am feeling my old self again. I am in good spirits and actually accomplishing things around the house.

About a month ago, or longer, Jeff and I bought some paint. We need to paint our house, should have had the previous owners do it. I was just so excited to get this house and Jeff refused to budge on price, I negotiated down the things they needed to do before we moved in. I got my house and a butt load of work.

So today I painted the post that the mailbox sits on. I scrubbed the mail box clean and I planted 20 baby spider plants around the base of the mailbox pole. Lily helped me. We ended up getting paint all over Lily. I rushed her into the house to get her washed before it dried in her hair.

She ran her paint smeared fingers through...my new curtains, the walls, her eyes, her hair, the couch. She also painted the little reflective disks on the side of the mailbox and the little red flag. I got Lily all scrubbed. Got the paint off the furniture, walls, and curtains...then our water stopped working. I went outside and found that the water had quit working for the whole neighborhood. Great. I didn't get a chance to wash off the paint brushes, but I thought Lily's hair was more important at the time. Later when the water came back on I was able to scrub the paint off the reflective disks and the red flag. When Jeff was driving to pick up Mandy, he saw along the side of the road, a boil water advisory for our neighborhood. It was a hand written sign. OK, glad we went out. Welcome to Mississippi.

Maybe someday I will attempt to put some of the paint on the actual house. I wonder what would happen then? But, I now have the best looking mailbox on the block!