Let them call it mischief:
When it is past and prospered 'twill be virtue.
--- Ben Jonson, Catiline (act III, sc. 3)
Back from the Mountain. Being with Kate again just makes me feel so good. Things just don't change. I'm content. I'm happy. I'm smiling. Always. I love it.
And last night [this morning] we painted one of thier bathroom ceilings. As her parents lay
This all started in the year 2000, as Blythe walked over to the neighbor's house, and the Nordbye's had just moved into their new house on Mt. Hood in Brightwood. Kate came up with the fabulous idea for us to paint a mural on the wall. As a surprise for her parents. We got out the watercolors, the brushes, put on our painter's hat and began our first masterpiece. The medium: plaster. The end result: amazing. In vibrant colors one bathroom wall became completely changed by two high school girls. And at the end of the day, as Kate's mom came back. She got mad. "What were you girls thinking!?!!"....A furious mother informed us that we were to scrub those walls. Kate and I cleaned and cleaned, the paint dripping down and smearing all over. We couldn't help laughing as we washed away our work. And then a few hours later, she comes back to us. Girls, actually, I've been thinking about it. I really do wish you'd paint the mural again. So we did! We spent hours on a new and improved masterpiece and added a quote suitable for the mural: "Twenty years from now, the things you will regret most are not those things that you have done, but those you have not." - Mark Twain. And so, now three years later the girls have struck again. This time, with the parents sleeping soundly on the other side of the house [I have no idea how that happened considering we made so much noise with the ladder in the garage and setting everything up to paint the ceiling!], we mischieviously painted away once again.
When it is past and prospered 'twill be virtue.
--- Ben Jonson, Catiline (act III, sc. 3)
Back from the Mountain. Being with Kate again just makes me feel so good. Things just don't change. I'm content. I'm happy. I'm smiling. Always. I love it.
And last night [this morning] we painted one of thier bathroom ceilings. As her parents lay
This all started in the year 2000, as Blythe walked over to the neighbor's house, and the Nordbye's had just moved into their new house on Mt. Hood in Brightwood. Kate came up with the fabulous idea for us to paint a mural on the wall. As a surprise for her parents. We got out the watercolors, the brushes, put on our painter's hat and began our first masterpiece. The medium: plaster. The end result: amazing. In vibrant colors one bathroom wall became completely changed by two high school girls. And at the end of the day, as Kate's mom came back. She got mad. "What were you girls thinking!?!!"....A furious mother informed us that we were to scrub those walls. Kate and I cleaned and cleaned, the paint dripping down and smearing all over. We couldn't help laughing as we washed away our work. And then a few hours later, she comes back to us. Girls, actually, I've been thinking about it. I really do wish you'd paint the mural again. So we did! We spent hours on a new and improved masterpiece and added a quote suitable for the mural: "Twenty years from now, the things you will regret most are not those things that you have done, but those you have not." - Mark Twain. And so, now three years later the girls have struck again. This time, with the parents sleeping soundly on the other side of the house [I have no idea how that happened considering we made so much noise with the ladder in the garage and setting everything up to paint the ceiling!], we mischieviously painted away once again.
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