More Remodeling

We're getting the house ready to be painted by our awesome neighbors via projecthounds.org Soon this faded green house will be freshly painted into a Syracuse Street awesomeness house. We picked up our primer from the friendly people at MetroPaint . Metro Paint offers a high quality, extremely affordable, environmentally friendly, 100 percent recycled latex paint. We just need to decide on our final paint color. Since our shingles are a light green we've narrowed down our choice to Sweet Corn Yellow or Desert khaki. Personally I'd like to see a burnt pumpkin color.

Jake and I started scraping old paint, removing storm windows and caulking holes. Note to all of you who might want to do the same, make sure the tube of caulk is a paintable caulk before you go and use the whole thing up on your cracks. I started priming the windows but soon lost interest, I blame it on the incredible weather we've been having.

Ollie has taken advantage of the screenless windows to share his dinner with the chickens. The girls seem to love that we've let them take over the side yard (we've never used it), it's shaded, quiet and now all spider have been eaten. They produce about 2 eggs a day which we gladly share with our neighbors, 2 eggs a day really adds up fast.