Lotsa Work and Little Play

Well, as you can see, our house is now blue, Honest Blue to be exact. Jill has been working tirelessly for a couple weeks getting the house ready for paint. Oh, I have helped here and there but nothing like what she has been doing and has done. Larry, our neighbor’s (Dale/Francis) son, offered to spray it for us. The house was ready when Larry and Elaine showed up this week, and off Jill and he went taping and spraying and rolling the paint on. Two days later and before the real “heat” hit us they finished up spraying and back rolling. Whew.
It sure looks different than the tan/beige/off yellow, much brighter and cleaner looking we think. We still have quite a bit to do, touching up hard to reach places and then all the trim again. This will be done in the next few weeks in the cool mornings or late cool evening we hope. What a difference a color can make.
After painting, Mom and Uncle Todd took the kids to Green Peak Falls, just past Alsea Falls, for a needed break of fun. Oma stayed home to sleep and just take care of herself. We all had a good time that day, the kids all ran/walked the trail to the waterfall and after a very short time of walking around the rocks and wading in the water they were wet from head to toe. Cole even tried swimming a little bit in the chest high water they were wading in.

We ended the play at the fall itself climbing on some more rocks, stood in/close to the water falling getting even more wet and then we headed back to the car only adding a little mud to their legs. LOVED IT! Uncle Todd said at one point “When as a kid do you remember going on a hike and being told to jump in, get wet”? That is a whole other childhood story… but I thought it was dang cool to take the kids to a place like this and tell them at one point, “go for it, get wet” and they just had a ball.

I sure love living in and round places like this. We need to hike and play more in our area. Free and Fun!