Friday

 

New manifold installed this morning. 

Second manifold installed. Our sprinkler system is mostly up-to-date. There are a few sprinkler heads that need adjustment and cleaning, and maybe one with a leak, but they're all low priority. I'll get to them.

After we walked Toby this morning, we drove to Ace to pick out paint chips for the exterior of the house.

The new roof will probably be metal painted "stone white," as seen above. It's actually light gray.

After lunch, we headed back to Ace (with Toby) to get paint samples of our favorite four. Here are the paint choices in no particular order:

Watercolor Blue (our darkest color; we agreed to eliminate this one)

Watercolor Blue

Swiss Chalet (our lightest color; it's probably too light, but it's very pretty in certain light)

Swiss Chalet

Swiss Chalet

Swiss Chalet at night

Swiss Chalet at night

San Francisco Blue

San Francisco Blue

San Francisco Blue

Antartica

Antartica

Antartica

Antartica on the left and San Francisco on the right at night

Ignore the color, this just shows where the paint will go. The frame around the garage and the garage door would be white.

Same here. The frame, border, and decorative low wall will be white.

Same. The window frames, border, low wall will be white.

The doors, window frames and borders, columns and pedestals, low wall, and decorative element above the door will be white. Only the walls will be painted blue. The point is: there will still be lots of white.

We have neighbors sending us their paint color that we both like. It's sort of in between San Francisco and Antartica.