I took this photo about several hours ago.
That’s my car on the left getting buried in snow. It’s even deeper now. Jake is off plowing snow for half the county and probably won’t be home until 3 a.m. this morning, so it’s just me, my wits, the dogs, 30 chickens and three wheelbarrows of firewood lined up in the basement to keep me and the baby bump warm. I don’t dare drive, which means I’ll probably be house-bound for the next couple of days. But that’s okay. Because I’m determined to tackle two big indoor projects I’ve been putting off:
• Paint the master bedroom
• Make homemade peanut butter ice-cream
Those two things sound at odds, but I lump them together because the peanut butter ice cream calls for cooking the mixture first, eggs and all, then whipping it to freeze, which sounds like a chore right up there with painting. But I’m willing to put my usual resistance aside because I’ve never had superior peanut butter ice cream and, being somewhat PB obsessed, I’m eager to find out if a homemade version is the way to go.
As for the painting, I spent months and months trying to select the perfect shade for our bedroom — one that was warm, pretty and pleasing, but not so pretty as to make Jake feel metrosexual. We ended up selecting Light Blue from Farrow & Ball. I like Farrow & Ball not only for their gorgeous palette but because their paint collection consists of only 100 colors or so. For someone as indecisive about paint as me, I appreciate having less to choose from.
I’ll post before and after pics soon.
Happy painting. And ice cream making, which really sounds more fun than painting.