Rain, finally!
We finally got a smidgeon of rain today. The morning started off with promise, and then it cleared during the middle of the day. Then, thankfully, at around 3:30pm it started coming down all across the city. This may not sound that important, but with full scale water restrictions about to come in for Brisbane, every bit of rain helps with staving off all the garden plants dying.
This ties in to our family activities for the day. We're gradully repaining our kitchen. We had a kitchen renovation just before Christmas last year, and we decided we'd do the touch up for painting ourselves. This of course meant agreeing on colours. Anth is far more adventurous than me. I'm happy for white. White or Beige. Or White. Can't go wrong with White. So since then, we've had a multitude of potential colour combinations, hence the delay. We settled on a theme known as Desert Spice. When its all done, I'll put a picture up.
With the potential for rain, the kids had to hang around the house. Because we were painting, and arguing with each other over who'd done what, and who'd dripped paint on the tiles and the baby, and whether the colours were better than White, the kids tried to keep out of Mum and Dad's way. By mid afternoon, the elder boys were hanging around like blue-arse flies, and Anth and I were sick of the smell of paint. We decided to go for a drive into the City to the Gardens.
About 500 meteres down the road the rain came. We kept going in case it had already passed in the City. Nup. Rain, beautiful rain everywhere. Stinky, bored kids remained in the car for an hour drive. No let up there. So we brought them home, fed them up on Pancakes, and threw them in the bath. They decided that the bath would double for a swimming pool, so for about an hour they spashed around in there with their goggles on. At least they weren't annoying us.
Ciao for Now, A Rainy Day in the House Angry Dad.
This ties in to our family activities for the day. We're gradully repaining our kitchen. We had a kitchen renovation just before Christmas last year, and we decided we'd do the touch up for painting ourselves. This of course meant agreeing on colours. Anth is far more adventurous than me. I'm happy for white. White or Beige. Or White. Can't go wrong with White. So since then, we've had a multitude of potential colour combinations, hence the delay. We settled on a theme known as Desert Spice. When its all done, I'll put a picture up.
With the potential for rain, the kids had to hang around the house. Because we were painting, and arguing with each other over who'd done what, and who'd dripped paint on the tiles and the baby, and whether the colours were better than White, the kids tried to keep out of Mum and Dad's way. By mid afternoon, the elder boys were hanging around like blue-arse flies, and Anth and I were sick of the smell of paint. We decided to go for a drive into the City to the Gardens.
About 500 meteres down the road the rain came. We kept going in case it had already passed in the City. Nup. Rain, beautiful rain everywhere. Stinky, bored kids remained in the car for an hour drive. No let up there. So we brought them home, fed them up on Pancakes, and threw them in the bath. They decided that the bath would double for a swimming pool, so for about an hour they spashed around in there with their goggles on. At least they weren't annoying us.
Ciao for Now, A Rainy Day in the House Angry Dad.
posted by Wes at 9:19 pm
3 Comments:
Oh, I like your new paint colors! I think your kitchen is going to look really nice. We painted our bedroom over Spring Break--I go to college--and it was TONS of work but it looks sooo nice now.
Thanks again for the compliment about my writing. :) Makes me happy,happy,happy. I would like to be a writer someday so it's so nice to read that somebody likes to read my stuff. Thanks.
I have been having rain for days - and its a cold rain....trade ya!
It's been rainy off an on here all weekend. Usually I adore rain, but when you want to get out and about, well, it can be an obstacle.
But yay for your rain!
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