Project Completed (069/365)

TIME: 7:13 pm

PLACE: Kitchen
SUBJECT: Concrete frog/toad

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Mr. Toad is finished!

He looks so much happier in this lovely shade of green with dark brown eyes and a thinner mouth.

His warts have been dry brushed with dark brown as well.

Here is a 3/4 view of his new look....

He will be going out in the flower beds shortly.

 

Project in Process (067/365)

TIME: 12:18 pm

PLACE: Kitchen
SUBJECT: Concrete frog

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I've had this frog sitting on my back porch steps for awhile.

I don't remember where I acquired him, but he was all white with red accents.  His red lips looked like he had issues with lipstick.  He had red eyes, and his warts, were red too.  He actually looked very demented and scary.

I am re-painting him.  We'll see how it turns out.

 

Mr. Patches (224/366)

TIME: 7:44 pm
PLACE: Side of house
SUBJECT: Foundation work

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We've been talking for years how we need to scrape, repair and patch the foundation on the west side of the house.

Now that he's retired, the husband decided to get to work on that project.

It helped that he bought a new power sprayer which made the removal of the the loose concrete a bit easier.

Concrete Blocks (221/366)

TIME: 8:55 pm

PLACE: Backyard

SUBJECT: Concrete blocks

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If you don't have spare concrete blocks in your backyard, can you really call yourself a Sicilian?  

Between The Overpasses (277/366)

Gallagher: I know you people, you're the smart ones…You're not the ones goin' over the overpass with the turn signal on. Where are they gonna turn? You almost wish they would.

Gallagher: Over Your Head (1984)

TIME:  6:11 PM
PLACE:  State Street
SUBJECT:  Highway overpasses and sky

We had a 5 days off from sports (Junior High soccer ended last week Thursday, his other league is still going on though) MonkeyBoy made the 8th grade basketball team – Way to go MB!  Practice started today.  I picked him up afterwards and quickly snapped this as we were sitting at the stop light on the way home.

Footie Prints (283/365)

Yosemite Sam: Great horny toads! A trespasser, gettin' footie prints all over my desert!

Mel Blanc, perf. *Sahara Hare*. Dir. Fritz Freleng. 1955. Warner Bros. Pictures.

TIME:  9:00 PM
PLACE:  Basement
SUBJECT:  Cat paw prints in the new cement floor
(I’m pretty sure these are Tessa’s)

The HandsomeHusband spent the day mixing and pouring cement to fill some of the sewer work excavation that has been going on in the basement.  At 6 this evening, HH and I went with MonkeyBoy to his soccer practice for the annual end of the season “Parents vs. Players” scrimmage.  We parents won…although, I think all of us will be losers in the aches and pains department tomorrow.  When we returned home, HH headed downstairs to see how the concrete was curing.  Cursing could soon be heard drifting up the stairs.  I guess we didn’t secure the area from the cats as well as we thought.

Written In Stone (202/365)

“The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong”

Thomas Carlyle (Scottish Historian and Essayist, leading figure in the Victorian era. 1795-1881)

TIME:  7:19 PM
PLACE:  Dining room
SUBJECT:  StellaDella’s garden sign

SD tearfully told me last night that “This was the worst summer ever!”  All because “…you broke your arm…last year we had a pool and now we don’t…I miss my friends from school…It’s a horrible summer!”  She actually cried herself to sleep.  Before she did that, I promised her that we would do something today.  This morning, I poked around in the basement and unearthed this garden sign kit that I had bought at a thrift shop earlier this year for only 50 cents.  Score!  She helped mix the mortar, and she designed the happy face with the rocks and gems.  At first she was going to make a handprint, but then decided that she would just make indentations for cheeks instead.  I did the lettering for her.  It should be cured and ready to be unmolded in two days.  I think (and hope) this made her a little happier with her summer vacation.   

Planter (093/365)

 
“Concrete is, essentially, the color of bad weather.”

William Hamilton (Scottish metaphysician. 1788-1856)

TIME:  7:10 PM
PLACE:  Front yard
SUBJECT:  Concrete planter

This concrete planter is one of a pair that flanks the bottom of our front porch steps.  In a few weeks, I shall fill it with annuals from our garden center.  I’ve been filling it with blue and purple flowers for the past couple of years, but this year I am feeling the need for some bold and bright colors, like a mixture of oranges and shocking pinks.  We’ll see what the garden center has to offer.