Busy busy

Montana and I spent the day getting flower baskets, getting paint, testing paint, emptying overgrown planters (NOT an easy job!), painting planters, finalizing paint colors - all sorts of combinations of plants + paints.

One of the first tests of our new color was painting the old pump house.

This poor structure really needs to be torn down, but it is going to be a bit of a challenge to build a new one around all of the water pump machinery inside. So we are happy to get a few more years out of it.

All of the paint on the walls are the same color (same as that pump room above.) We are testing door colors. We all independently and unanimously chose the one on the left. The current doors are SO ugly - badly gel-stained fiberglass that is literally orange. Yuck.

There they are.

Montana using about 4 different colors and types of paint to refresh the front planters.

Day One of the new season’s hanging baskets! Also - look at how horrible those railings are. Also the exposed cement pilings. It’s funny how you live with things forever, and somehow they don’t bother you. And then when they DO start to bother you - they REALLY bother you!

Cannot wait to see this place transformed. Including those sad, sad front stairs!

When Steve came home we loaded up our gas cans in the truck and headed to the state border to get some of that Cheap, Cheap Idaho Gas (as you do up here.) We just happened to drive to a Circle K by Cabella’s and saw a $4.10 gas price! (For comparison: Spokane gas is $5.20 these days.) Apparently there was a 3-hour special deal that took already-low Idaho prices EXTRA low by another 40 cents! We had no idea. About a minute after Steve started the pump, the promotion ended. We had just made the cut-off. It was the luckiest gas-date ever.

Back seat passengers.

Caught a sweet sunset.

And just to cap everything off, we saw a beautiful herd of elk grazing along the road on our way home!