Color Glorious Color

Well, this is the week of the painters. Today is their third day here painting all the walls on the first floor. They've finished the BIG room that includes the living room and dining room and hallway and stairs to the loft. Today they do the loft and the kitchen. Here are a couple pictures of the work so far and one of the Kollinger Brothers doing the work.

Kerri had her doctor's appointment this morning and everything is going well. The Dr. said she'd gained about 30# and that that was good considering she's been on bed rest for several weeks. She continues to pray that baby Julian won't come until after Patrick is done with his course on April 4. Baby Julian is due on the April 17, 2009 so we're getting into the "anything can happen" territory.

Bogmeister practice went well. I invited them to the "Bar Louie Party" I'd won, and then found out that Bar Louie has pushed back their "open mic" starting date. It's now after Ester. So we'll postpone going until then. I also found out it is a "martini party" not a margarita party that I won, and that it's for up to 30 of my friends and not 20. So I'll keep you posted as to when we'll do that. Bogmeisters plan to sing that night in the open mic contest. Should be fun.

The raccoon trap was removed by the guy that owns it for another site where his grand son wanted it set up. He'll bring it back in a couple of days. And we'll have another go at it.

Last night we watched a movie with Queen Latifa in it. It was fun to watch. It's called "Last Holiday". We laughed a lot and it's a good story line. We'd recorded it from one of the channels earlier in the week.

Earl and I went to the Men's Bible Study yesterday morning. I led the study and discussion since the pastor was taking his wife to the airport. It went well. Then Earl came over to the house and we worked on measuring and cutting the chair rail for the kitchen. He had a large power saw that did mitre cuts for angled edges. He brought it from his son Ron's house. We set it up on the deck (in the sun) and got things ready for installing the rail at the right time (kitchen will be two colors with the rail as an accent color).

Finally, I'm reading a book called "The Definitive Book of Body Language" by Alan and Barbara Pease. It makes for fascinating reading. The authors point out that more of our communication is non-verbal, rather than verbal. They analyse hand shakes, sitting, standing, smiling and other facial expressions and on and on and on. They say that gestures are in groups and that when you "read" the groups of non-verbal signals you can tell what the person is really about. Hummmm. I'm only about 50 pages into it, so I'm anxious to see what else they say.