$8 in paint and it looks new again....on the outside anyway!

Hubby has been dying for a full sized fridge out in the garage....must have something to do with the lack of space in my dorm fridge...

so here's what showed up last week...

a monstrocity straight out of nightmares! 

We opened it up after work that night and found food still in it! With old food, no power and closed doors brings? You guessed it....MOLD, and lots of it. Yesterday afternoon when it cooled off a little in the sun Syd and I were bored, so we were playing in the garage, and I took a bottle of bleach and the garden hose to the inside of this thing. I have to say, the garden hose worked pretty well although I'm sure I looked really foolish! 

Last night I needed to make an emergency trip for ketchup and picked up some spray paint at the same time...after an hour in the garage with a geek mask on here's what I ended up with...

not so bad after all!

He said he was going to bring a big chest freezer home too, and I very sternly told him if he did so he'd be sleeping in it, and not while breathing! I tried explaning to him that everything in our itty bitty chest freezer would fit in the side by side freezer and then some, so we'd still have plenty of room to pack a cow in the space we already had, and I didn't need any more uglies showing up! I won the battle, no ginormous chest freezer coming here, if I do get an additional freezer it will be upright, I'm sick of standing on my head to get to the bottom for something I want! 

This teeny project kept me busy while waiting for the next baby appt to get mortar to finish our little tile project. Not saying where, you'll have to wait for the pretty finished product! 

While you're here I'll show you what's growing in my back yard (I'm rather impressed)

Mr Coneflower is so unique you can't help but like him! Thanks mom for being so particular about finding one of these....we now have 4! It's not the super bright pink one I really wanted, but it was half the price! I'd have lime green ones too if the dog hadn't broken EVERY SINGLE flower off of both the plants! 

And the other pretty....these aren't staying where they are, but needed a home for the mean time, and as soon as I put them in the ground this happened! Again, I managed to not kill em, and keep hubby away from them long enough to keep them alive as well. I can't say the same for one of my pretty grasses though, it's not lookin so hot! (hubby's fault!) 

All of the plants that I love were protected from saturday's bout with weather. We had 4, yes, FOUR severe thunderstorms roll through in one day. Syd and I spent about 45 minutes cuddled up with the cat by the waterheater (under our stairs) while waiting for the tornadoes to make their way past, and luckily the only thing with hail damage is hostas on the north side of my house (they look like they've been to war but should come back fine) even though we were pretty sure the hail was coming in the house the way it sounded from our little cave! 

First severe storm in new house with minimal damage....check!