To Paint, or Write of Painting

That is the question! I've been busy with the work of improving curb appeal for the house while we have this stroke of warm weather that will allow for painting, See the picture below shot at dusk. The Front door is now gray (rather than green) and the rail and cement pedestal are now dark gray as opposed to green and purple.

The deck still needs washing and painting as do some of the white rails. I also scraped primed and painted the downstairs windows that were flaking and looking like they were falling apart. A little cosmetic work goes a long way!

But the physical punishment is not insignificant. To paint the side of the rail by the rosebush first required pruning... or really removing about 80 percent of the bush. My forearms show the scratches pokes and thorn splinters of wrestling branches into two large yard waste bags.
And then there is the ladder incident... I fell off the ladder as I was descending. I stepped on the bottom rung in a funny way and twisted my ankle. I was surprised how quickly I was lying on the ground. It took me right down, I started feeling nauseous and dizzy and it was immediately clear that I had either sprained or broken my ankle. I wiggled my toes and found that that was no problem. I lay there for about 5 minutes and then cautiously stood up. A sprain. And a mild one. Can you tell which ankle is swollen?

See the smallish bruising below my ankle?

Awww... Poor me!!

Another project this week was was solving a technical problem for the CMC; my former employer. They had installed robotic cameras in the Wealthy Theatre auditorium but they were just plain not working. It took two days of troubleshooting and down to the last possible alternative theory but it turned out to be the correct one. Shazzaam!! Everything works. They were nice enough to write a little thank you blurb on their website.

In other CMC news, the Capital Campaign that busted my butt and caused great stress for a tear and a half of my life is officially over. They reached their goal which kicks in the Kresge challenge grant award of $300,000. This grant is tough to get and co-writing and submitting it was the last thing I did before handing the Executive Director job over to Laurie. You have to reach your fundraising goal to get the award. I'm pleased she was able to make it pay off.

Tonight, Abby is away at her birthday party with her girlfriends at Craig's Cruisers and I am entertaining Marlee and her pal Karlee as Mary is out with her girlfriends.

I need to get started editing the Children's Museum video. The deadline will be here before I know it. I was going to put it on the portable hard drive but apparently it is dead. I have nothing recent on it, just old projects.