Nursery, Mural Part 1 and Mutant Garden

It's been a busy couple of days. We finally started on getting the nursery painted and organized for Liam. I ended up painting one coat/one wall an evening after the boys went to sleep. While I painted, Mike worked on drywall issues on the nursery walls and a ceiling area in our bedroom and moved wires around.

The nursery color (Filoli Honey) was chosen from the mis-tinted paint section at Lowe's. I did something very stupid and only got one gallon even though there were two gallons available at the time. Since I painted one wall/one coat at a time, I, of course, ran out of paint and had to head back to Lowe's for more paint. Since we had to get more paint, we decided to do an accent wall and being me, I used the name of the paint to make the final decision on the paint (as well as trying to match with the curtain I had made for the room). The color chosen-Lost Atlantis.

We were so excited with how it turned out that we had to go ahead and move the shelf in . . . it didn't quite work in its current color. I took some of our extra trim paint and painted it white. Now time to move onto the murals.

Going with something of a fairytale theme (in a manly way :-), I am doing a dragon on one side of the window and a castle on the other. Tonight I finished the dragon side and got a good start on the castle. Yeah!!!

In other adventures, we have been harvesting some interesting things from our garden. Two things today have made me think we should call it a mutant garden. First, we have had a crossbreed of our cucumbers and cantaloupes and have created a "cucaloupe". It is small and looks like a cantaloupe in color on the inside but with the seed pattern of a cucumber. Tasted pretty good, not quite as sweet and flavorful as a normal cantaloupe but similar.

Next, I picked the last of our carrots. In this batch there were two carrots entwined around one another (maybe we'll have baby carrots next year :-). There was also the carrot with two legs. Luckily, I was too fast and it didn't get away, I can't wait to see what we find next!