Painting With Tom Sawyer

Painting With Tom Sawyer

Norman Rockwell's Whitewashing the Fence

It's time again for Tuesday 4 hosted by Anne from Cottage by the sea. Published each week in memory of Toni Taddeo, it's original author.We keep Toni Taddeo's original idea alive here with 4 questions each week to get you blogging, visiting and  learning about yourself and other bloggers.   The more people join in, the merrier and the better it gets. We are always looking for topics, subjects and ideas so feel free to chime in if you have idea.

Well, we are on the doorstep of August. How do you like that?   A lot of Tom Sawyers adventures take place in the summer like whitewashing Aunt Polly's fence.

Hannibal, Missouri has fence painting contests in July and and July 4th is National Tom Sawyer day there.  They have a parade, carnival,  fireworks, and a general good time is had by all it seems.

So here is another set of questions for Toni Taddeo's Tuesday 4.        I hope you enjoy them.

1. What special things happen around you in summer? Well, summer here in the PNW means less rain, more sun, and if you want, more time outdoors. I'm not sure about "special things", though our towns yearly celebration is in June, the county fair is in August, so those would be considered special. We enjoy going to farmers markets and other outdoor events.  If nothing, have you ever considered organizing something? I've never really considered organizing something, other than family or friend get togethers. Maybe if I wasn't working, or didn't have other obligations, I would perhaps be a part of a committee.

2. Tom hated painting. But on the subject of painting, what color is your house? The name of the color of our house is Gristmill. I remember driving by a house and loving the color so I walked up to the door, knocked and asked the homeowner the name of the color. I've had someone come to my door asking the same question.  

Your living room? Our new living/kitchen area is called Tapestry beige and our shiplap wall is enchanted forest.

Your bedroom? Our bedroom is Kingsport Gray 

Thinking of  changing anything? We just finished our addition to our house so we aren't thinking of changing anything over there, but I would like to paint the old side of the house. 

3. Were your childhood summers carefree and did you have any adventures or chores like Tom did? I don't really remember having chores, other than keeping our rooms cleaned and just simply doing anything that was asked. We lived in a housing development that you drove down into, it was called Riverbend and it was because at one point it was part of the river bed of the Snoqualmie River. Across the street from our house were some woods with awesome trails that we spent hours exploring and riding our bikes through. We rode all around that development. It was huge but you at the time felt very safe. We'd play at the river, explore logging roads. We had a blast. 

4. Did you ever help paint a house or a fence or anything at all?  How did that go? I have painted many things. It went good. I'm not the worlds best painter, but I do okay. I've never painted a fence but I've painted walls in our homes many times. 

With Joy Unquenchable,

Kirstin