paint......

ok, so i have spent the past two days painting the porch...the floor, the pillars, the railings.......and repainting the rest of the porch furniture...most of which has acheived relic status at this point......our benches were found underneath the cabin known as the ham house when we moved in.....the ham house originated as a clubhouse for the knights of pythias......a pseudo-whitesupremacy group it would seem from reading the deed for that section of the property we purchased from my spouse's grandpa.....but i digress from the painting theme......i have ruined a pair of quickdry hicking shorts with the seminole red paint used these last 24 years in the rocking chairs, benches and doors.....and have spots of harbor grey from the porch floor in my hair........how that was managed i have no idea........all this for our little gettogether on sunday night to honor our graduate to be......at thispoitn i can no longer be accused of having a party to show off my garden.....this is to showcase my lack of painting skills.......gentle readers...do not look too closely.........simply smile and nibble a cookie ro two.......i am pleased with the guest list thus far.......people who have meant so much to us and hopefully to our child in terms of his overall journey into the man he is today.......i am grateful that his montessori teacher could attend.....she taught this child from 2-5th grade, in addition to latin tutoring for 3 years......and i must credit her with the keeping of his flame.......my spouse had a curious conversation with a centre professor this morning on the thursday 6:00 am run.......this fellow contended that he could acheive a quality education for his child without resorting to private schools or tutoring and most to the point...without paying extra for any of these services.......to which collective replied.......heck no........at least in most cases........public schools have always and will always cater to the most common denomonator.....and those at the top of the heap and those at the bottom do lose out......either from being lost in the shuffle, or held back from their potential..........and this is what i value in the montessori style of education........the go-at-your-own-pace format.......or in the case of our sons.....the how far can i go before i run out of things to study format........in both cases.....we will easily recoup our investment in the form of scholarships and grants awarded to both............as i recall, the montessori tuition was little more than we had paid for daycare......a bargain........but back to paint.......one oculd argue that i am simply covering the flaws in both the prch floor and the railings with paint.....but hey.....i plan to cover more flaws with mulch when i pick up a truck load tomorrow.......we all have so many flaws.....and the polite amongst us will refrain from pointing them out..........especially any paint still clinging to my hair...........