South Fork -- come visit!

Look, it's fall in the canyon. I love this place.

This isn't our cabin above. It's the lovely green one below!

It's coming together. (FYI - The beige is just the color of our Hardiboard, not our destination color. Should we do one green below and a lighter color on top??)

Obama Permission Slip

Zina's painting of Pres. Obama if he were a princess.

Xanny's letter from school explaining that IF they show any part of the president's speech, he will need a PERMISSION SLIP stating whether or not we would like him to participate. Other schools in Utah have already issued apologies for advertising Obama's message to stay in school and get an education.

All of this is good news for my homeschool friends who have tried to talk me into rising to challenge of home education. In truth, I never thought I would consider homeschool because there is NOT ENOUGH government in my kid's public school.

Ah, Utah. You gotta love it.

Intervention!!

I confess -- this morning in the paint store at 7:20 am, I burst into tears in front of my contractors ... and every painter in the greater Utah county area. When they asked which red I was going to pick, I had to tell them that red (yellow, green, blue, purple, magenta, violet and all related wallpapers) had been voted off the island. And then I cried. You know you have the nicest builder in the world if he will hand you a clean tissue as you begin sobbing in the back room of Jones Paint.

I told him all contractors should have a little section of their tool belt dedicated to the medication of their clients during unexpected frustrations. You know, you got your hammer loop, your tape measurer slot, your V-a-l-i-u-m dispenser. It's just incase the homeowner's paint color turns into banana peel yellow. And I don't mean a quart of banana peel, I'm talking TWENTY GALLONS of banana peel yellow. (Of course I am just being dramatic. It's not that bad.)

Don't worry, crisis averted by being nursed back to mental health by my neighbor, Amy. She keeps an emergency supply of neutral Ivory paint chips around Just In Case. Please remember Impressionist Ivory is way better than Greenmount Silk. I had to learn my lesson the hard way.

I know it's bad for me, but ...

I LOVE this ...

I lust for this ...

and this room makes me want to change my religion.

The kicker is that I just told the painters to paint everything GREEN. Lord help me. Well, that is exactly the problem. The Lord isn't going to help me. At the end of the day, Jesus doesn't care what color I paint a room. How depressing is that??? Color is driving me MAD and Jesus doesn't care.

Man.

This is the President of the United States -- thinking deeply about color -- looking fabulous -- in his red room.

Could this be the sign I've been waiting for???