Busy Weekend Ahead

What does the weekend have in store for us? Well, of course, there will be lots of outings with the dogs even though it's too hot to stay out for long. Noah is getting a bath tonight and Sky needs his bangs trimmed.

The county fair is on. These are some pictures I took from the car yesterday as we drove by. We like to go and walk thru the barns and I like to check out the quilts and knitted items. We also get our once a year fair food, really bad for you sausage sandwiches with onions and peppers and curly fries.


Last year it rained a lot during the fair and we didn't go. This year it's been too hot. We might possibly go this evening after the sun goes down. It'll still be hot but we won't feel like we're cooking.


Rob likes the rides, but I don't. He won't go on them without me. When we were first married that would have made me feel bad and I'd go just to make him happy, but I really hate them so now we skip the rides.

We've had an ongoing project for quite a while that is finally nearing completion. We're turning a bedroom into a library. Rob is doing all the carpentry himself and yesterday he finished up the window seat. Now I need to make cushions for it.


This is the wall as you walk into the room.


This is the opposite wall.


The window seat under construction. The seat is 100 inches long and 24 inches deep with cabinets with sliding doors under the seat.


Here is a closeup of the trim. It goes across the top and down each section.


Both side walls have shelves and there are deep shelves on each side of the window seat.


This wall, after it has another coat of paint will have a table for doing puzzles or other projects. I plan to frame some pictures we've taken on our travels and hang them on this wall. I wanted a dusty rose color on the walls. This bright red is Robert's version of dusty rose. Everyone who saw it liked it and I've gotten used to it.


I found some computer software for cataloging books and we're going to start that and setting up sections for them. Rob wanted to see if they all fit. He didn't think they would. I knew they would. I planned to leave room to buy more books.

I need to decide on fabric for the seat cover and the curtains. We also have a couple of easy chairs waiting to move into the room once the painting is finished.

These are my projects for the weekend, but usually something unexpected comes along and the plans get adjusted.