making the livingroom less awful

We had been doing our best to ignore the livingroom.....but we realized we would never convince anyone to come visit if they had to stay in that stinky old linoleum and crappy fake beadboard paneled room . So, we thought we should paint. And I have to say, even though we don't even have the trim done, it is a VAST improvement! After all that hard work, Mike decided to relax with Adler under the shady tree, and I got started on our front garden.

Spring in Spring Glen

So, spring may have sprung a bit ago, but with no real heat or insulation in our little cottage, overnight stays haven't really been possible until late May--- our newest addition, Adler, seems to like to be warm when he sleeps, so he has to snuggle up with mom and dad until later this summer when he can spread out in his crib.

Over the winter, Mike scraped, stripped, rebuilt and painted all of the screens to the cottage, which you can see behind me and
Adler--- pretty nice color combination, no?
A pleasant suprise was that the "garden" such as it is, is filled with daffodils and lilies. Eventually I will have to rip out all this and re-plant them, but it is nice to have "free" plants to start with. There is also some mint growing rampantly throughout, and unfortunately some poison ivy which I need to take care of.