I am a S N A I L

Painting continues. It's taken me THIS long to figure out how to use the new blogger...sorry. At least I have a lot of things to write about. Let's start with paint colors, shall we? The den and kitchen walls are painted! Hoo-ray! The look we were going for was the faintest of tissue paper blues-whispers of blue, sighs of blue. Blues so faint they looked white without a sheet of typing paper held next to them. We used the little paint pot samples of three shades, after having lived with the many many many paint chips plastered all over the walls. We painted each wall with a Very Large Swath of color. We lived with these for a week and then decided on one. After painting all four walls with two coats, the next day it looked like we were in a swimming pool the color was so vivid. Back to town... We picked an even fainter color, same drill, same result. Back to town... Another color...DDSS argggghhhhhhh Back to town. Standing there at the color chip wall, my old friend, Jim picked one at random and we went with it. Do you know what? BEAUTIFUL color. Perfect color. Fantastic color. It was blue in some light, grey in some light, white in some light, green in some light...it was great. The kitchen got painted and at last! The perfect perfect color. In the kitchen it appears blue, or white, or green depending on the light. We were happy then but imagine how happy we were after we pulled the fridge from the wall, took off the switch cover and saw the wall underneath with the original color was almost exactly the same! It couldnt be more perfect. I have pictures somewhere. I'll add them. For now just be happy with me. Let's all hold hands and grin, shall we?