The DOG DAYS of Summer

I'm sure you all have experienced days like these. Days that are long and hot and the fish aren't even biting. Well, I had one of those days today and decided to see what I could do here at home without burning $100 bucks worth of gas to go somewhere, only to spend more money.

Here's what I did:

This is an old picture (taken at night) of what my kitchen looked like at about 2 pm today. Here's my kitchen at 4:30 pm. I took out a nearly full gallon of paint to touch up the scuffs and holes around the the rest of the house. It had been three years since I had done such. Realizing that the paint would probably go bad before the next time I "touched up" I decided to paint my kitchen with the "left-overs". My kitchen was a faux finish that I did nearly 11 years ago, but it looked tired, dull and had some grease splatters and other foreign globs of stuff here and there on the walls. I decided to paint it the same color of the rest of the house and modify some curtains and VIOLA! I now have a bright SUNNY, SUMMERY space!

After that, I still had some energy, or maybe too much Starbucks/Pepsi caffeine in my system so I decided to torment Goosebumps and get some pictures of her. After I was satisfied with the shot I was looking for, I decided to edit the photo on the computer and come up with some fresh new wall-art.

How appropriate; sunny kitchens and canine photos

for the DOG DAYS OF SUMMER!