Spring Spruce-up

I had plans to paint the lower half of my entry way over the weekend but realized that I bought the wrong paint.  I knew that the color name started with "A" but forgot to take the sample card.  I got to the store and looked at the sample cards and there were two dark blue ones that started with "A".  I bought "Assertive" when I should have gotten "Awareness."  It was much darker than my other blue wall.  I thought it would be fine but M said no.  I didn't want to waste a gallon of paint and have to buy another but I did.  So, today I finally got to painting.

New blue paint

I was able to bring my car home this week for the first time in months so the pickup got left in Richland for a couple of days.  R was going to check some fence so I told him I needed a ride to get it and to get some stuff to the post office.  I thought it would be a quick trip and I could get right back home and finish up my project.  Wrong!  As we were driving along the pickup developed a clunking sound.  We limped it to town and R and J looked at it and discovered a bearing out on the drive shaft.  That left R without a ride so I would have to wait for him which meant I got to go along to check fence.

I was complaining that I wasn't dressed for the weather but R said "it's 50 degrees, you'll be fine" and we set off in the Rhino.  We had gone up the east side and then turned west and were going into the wind when R commented that we should have gone around the pasture the other way so that the wind wouldn't be in our faces as much.  I said it felt like the wind was coming off a glacier, and he said "no, just coming from Opheim."  Opheim has been the snow capital of the world this winter with about 115 inches of snow (normal is about 30).  J was over there yesterday for his CSP inspection and there was a lot of the land that he leases that they couldn't get to even with a 4-wheeler.  Still snowmobile only.  Kind of scary for the farming season since we're usually seeding by now.

We only had two wire breaks to fix so it didn't take us long and I got home and back to my project.  I finished painting and then scrubbed the floor.  A friend commented that she was "spring cleaning" so that spring might take the hint and finally arrive.  Whatever it takes!

Hoping M can do his part and pick the top 20 caps!