Bathroom improvements

I squeezed the painting of our main bathroom into last week - it wasn't easy and it took more days than I would have preferred because there was never a huge chunk of time on any day.  But, now it is done and I can check one more painting project off my list.  Two more areas are left - the downstairs hallway and doors and the inside part of the quilt room and family history doors upstairs. 

The yellow is the same color as my newly painted music studio - a very light butter yellow that doesn't look quite right in these photos.  I guess I need to take the 30 day photo challenge Kirsti has been doing so I can get better pictures.
 
 

 

 My time with Rock Bridge orchestra has its ups and downs.  Monday was so hectic and stressful that I had to drown my sorrows in an Andy's frozen custard on the way home.  Wednesday, we distributed concert clothing with the help of four fantastic orchestra moms and it was truly like the miracle of the loaves and fishes.  To my meager supply of formal wear, I had been pulling together cast-off dresses and pants and shirts from the band, from the choir, and even from West Middle School but I was still pretty worried we would not have enough clothing for everyone.  But, we did!  (well, we need two dresses) AND, we have left over clothing!  I am just amazed.  And, on Friday, the we actually got to play music the entire class period for the first time in the five days we have met since the beginning of the year! 

So far, Labor Day weekend has been satisfying.  We did our Aldi shop yesterday morning.  Prairie Strings played for a BIG Catholic wedding in Jefferson City in the afternoon.  We had to play up in the too-warm balcony by going up a steep, narrow, winding staircase that truly gave me claustrophobia. We fed two sets of missionaries last night and we finished the evening with Sadie's bath and Steve's haircut.  Tomorrow is Steve's Chronicles of Narnia marathon and I plan to set up my on-line gradebook, grade papers, and study scores while I watch. 

Oh, we have a second cat.  You ask WHAT?!?!?  We are cat-sitting for Jackie Gray who has just gone to live with her son in Tennessee and who cannot take Littlecat.  Jackie hopes (thinks) she will return to Columbia or find an apartment she can get in to down in Tennessee at which time she will collect her cat (not sure how Littlecat will make it to Tennessee???). Until then, we have her.  Well, I THINK we still have her.  She came Thursday night and I have not seen her since.  All the spare room doors have stayed shut since her arrival so I cannot guess where she is hiding.  Maybe she is doing a Tonks and is up in the rafters of our laundry room???  I hope she comes out soon since we didn't do well the the other three cats of Jackie's that came to our house about four years ago.  Those cats were borderline feral and holed up in all the nooks and crannies of the garage for over a week until the day I left the garage door open (humming Free Willy).  Littlecat is at least sociable but I think she is freaked out by the dogs.  Stay tuned.....