Ruffled Iris

The big news of the week was the rain. In fact, it's pouring again at the moment, but nothing like it was this week.


Oh boy. It rained and rained.


On Wednesday, because there was no choice on the way home, I jumped off the bus onto the sidewalk covered in probably 8-inches of running water. There was just no where for the water to go. Then I ran home a block and climbed up into the attic to make sure the plastic trash cans we have up there were catching most of the dripping water.

In other news, we kept working on the plaster/spackling of our half-bathroom wall. We were instructed to get it as flat as we could with a spackle knife, then once it dried, to get a hot, wet rag and rub the plaster to flatten it out even more. Repeat three or four times as necessary. It's getting there.


This doesn't really look like it, but check out Ruffled Iris. That's the color we're going to paint the upper halves of the bathroom walls.

Yesterday as we worked some more on the front yard, Keven McKenna stopped by to shake our hands. Our hands were too dirty, but he did tell us he was running for state senate, that he liked our street because it was quiet. That his street was noisy, he wanted to outlaw boom boxes, but not really, and bribery in the statehouse was too much -- that last part was why he was running. He should have asked about us and listened more, but he seemed like a pretty nice guy.

A friend also shared this community blog. I strongly recommend reading the entry entitled, Enduring Racial Slurs. . . and Laughing. . . in Mt. Hope! *Strongly* recommend. Mt. Hope is a neighboring community.