Open Windows

It is so nice to have the windows open again. Fall is finally in the air. Of course I am sure we will have some hot days again but for now I am enjoying the cool weather.
So a couple house down from us the dad has decided that it is okay to have his kids ride lawn mowers and kiddie cars up and down the street for hours. It is like an endless parade, up and down they go..... The kids are not very old either. Sometimes they get to the end of road by our house and all get off and jump rope and just play in the street. Not really very safe even on a dead end street. I have seen a couple on near crashes between lawn mower and kiddie car. Not sure what the dad is thinking......
So I thought it would be fun the other day to run my face into a board on the deck. Rick and I were cleaning up the scrap wood etc. from the deck construction and I was going under the porch to get some stuff. First I hit the top of my head and then while still laughing about it I went back under the porch. Rick told me to stop going under it and I said laughing the whole time Oh I will be fine and that is when I stood up and smashed the side of my face right into a board sticking out for the steps of the deck. I hit it right above my left eye. This time I was not laughing. I had a nice size goose egg and it hurt :( I put ice on it that night and that took a lot of the swelling down. But it kept me up all night because every time I turned over and touched my face it woke me up. Today pretty much all of the swelling is gone and it has turned a nice shade of yellow. Thank goodness my hair pretty much covers it up.
I have pictures to put up but I did not get them downloaded to the computer yet. Rick has got his shop pretty much done. He started to move his work benches in this morning. He has got a ton of string orders to get done so he needs to get it up and running.
I spent most of the weekend in the garage staining woodwork. I sanded everything down that I did before and stained it again. It looks really good now. Hopefully we will be able to start putting it on the wall this weekend. We bought a sander that really works nice and makes a sucky job go pretty fast.
Monday I was going to start staining the doors but before I started I thought I would clean the garage a little. It was still a disorganized mess from moving. I really cannot stand messes.....Well maybe I really should have waited for some help in moving some of the stuff because my aching back is now really aching. My body is such a mess.....But it was worth it because now the garage looks much better and I can work in it and not go nuts looking at the mess :)
I only got one door half stained before the day ran out on me.
Last night I picked up Liam and Josie after work so Amy could work overtime. They were both very good for me. They love playing on the porch. Of course that is about the only place they can play now since the kitchen cabinets take up most of the upstairs. Rick had a friend of his come over and they worked on the deck until 8:00. They have got most of the floor on.
Rick got all the trim up in the bathroom now we just need to get the doors on. Of course I need to get them stained before they can go on......
Later Sharon