I actually loved working outside yesterday.  It wasn’t hot, it wasn’t cold, it was just the right temperature for working.  We were given an extra week or two of gorgeous weather to do things we thought would have to wait until next spring.  But all good things end.  It’s raining today.

My husband and I spent the day cleaning with mineral spirits and painting the front porch pillars and top rails.  Had it been hot or cold it would have been miserable.  But yesterday it was relaxing and fun.  I also cut back all the Russian Sage and pulled up and separated my dahlias.  What a crop I got.  Each dahlia made about 7 bulbs.  I’m not sure if we want to plant them again, though.  They grew so high I could see them through my kitchen window.  We had to stake them and then run a support system to keep them upright.  They went crazy.  The tallest was over 6 ft.

I brought in my custom-made house-number sign.  The paint is peeling badly and I will have to strip it…so was the frame of my garden-art painting I had on my garden fence.  The painting itself held up beautifully through hot sun and snowy winters with no sign of cracking, peeling or fading.  I’ll look up the name of that product and post it in another post.  I remember it was pretty expensive but looks like it is worth it.  The painted frame, on the other hand, peeled like crazy.

We finished  working and headed out for dinner and a movie.  Unfortunately, there was a traffic jam going to Upper Peach because of  construction work.  It took 28 minutes to go through 3 stoplights near the mall area.  No time for a movie by the time we got finished with dinner.