The heat has come to VA!! Even though it is way too early for me, it still has a certain "feeling". Memories of long summer days swimming and Peaches on the screened porch!! In GA, where I hail from, screened porches were almost part of every house! We lived out there in the summer, since we had no air conditioning, it was a place to visit with friends and spend a rainy afternoon reading! I loved to sit out on the porch in the rain! Our horse Lady Blaze even tried her best to get on the porch too:)
If we ever build a house I would like for it to have a sleeping porch. Many old farmhouses had sleeping porches.
Our own un-farmhouses can easily have screened porches, in fact here in VA most houses have them! Wicker Furniture and white ironstone seem to always be on our porch so you can imagine my Total Despair when I say that THIS Thurs, I will LOSE my screened porch!!!!! My husband needs an office since he works from home a lot. SOOOOO we are going to enclose the screened porch for his office!! We will try to find a place for another porch but so far it is not going that well!! I don't want it to be in an awkward area so we are going to have to figure this out cause a Southern Girl without a place to sit and listen to the birds and have a glass of iced tea gets really GROUCHY !!:) I sit on the porch almost everyday, maybe only for a few minutes, I like to have lunch there and I used to paint out there too. In fact I did most of my "creative" things out there:) I have to go out and finish cleaning it off. I had so many flower pots, bags of sand dirt and rocks! I am going to try to find a place for a potting area so I don't have to do it on the porch! I don't know what to do with the furniture and ohhhh those adorable primitive mirrors!! I am sure I will work it all out!
By the way I will pass on a recipe I love for "Sweet Tea"
1 1/2 Cup Loose Tea
7 Cups boiling water
5 Cups Sugar
Steep the tea in boiling water for 7 minutes. Strain and add sugar. Use 1 1/2 Cups of the concentrate to make on gallon of tea. Syrup may be frozen. To make unsweetened tea use the same process and omit the sugar.
I usually separate out 1 1/2 cup portions and put it into a zip lock bag, lay it flat in the freezer to save space, then just take it out and place it into the gallon pitcher add water (that also helps it to thaw) a bunch of mint, and we are ready to go:)
I will keep the "saga" of Vicky's screened porch going. I will really try to age this porch and pass it on. If you have any advice please post it and let us know!
I hope you all have a Happy Day!!!
Now that the porch is almost done, I am constantly thinking of what else I can do! What is THAT about!! I can never just finish and sometimes things look overworked! So tonight I am sitting on the porch listening to the rain, and deciding to finish tomorrow. I will do as much as I can in the next day and "Say When"!! I don't think that it looks all that old. I was going for the Old Farmhouse Porch look that I remember from childhood. They always seemed to be sort of plain with lots of wicker and plants. I was thinking that I should have stained the wood then just dry brushed it with the tinted primer. Primer is so thick and dry that it is a great medium to use as a dry brush technique. I think that would give the look of old peeling dry paint without sanding and roughing up the surface!
