Wordy Wednesday: Paint

I'm covering myself over in paint this week. The classrooms at church went up just before Easter and were duly painted and moved into, and then we had the season of weddings which meant that the parish hall got a fresh coat, and then, well, you know, life is busy. Painting the new hallway just hasn't been the top of any list. But VBS is next week and it looks like the leader and organizer of it has everything all under control…I said that wrong…it doesn't just look like it, she does have everything under control…so I thought I'd mess around with paints and ladders and let everyone else worry about how to make a gangway, although, for a lot of grubby little kids, wouldn't a plank be a lot more interesting. Just a little joke there.

Like a lazy idiot (I said like! Like! Not the same, not an actual lazy idiot, just like one!) I didn't want to bother with the bigger ladder, so I just perched on top rung of the smaller one, applying paint, feeling uncomfortably suspended between heaven and earth. Finally had to climb down when I began to feel very hot and light headed. Sat around on the floor for a while and painted my new tray. Every three years I have to aquire a new Morning Tray. Matt brings the tea up to me on a tray. The last one was red. This one is blue now because the brush was in my hand, the fog was in my head, and the cosy was calling quietly that the blue on the brush might be just the thing.

I love this cosy. A friend made it in the middle of all her packing to move away. It's just the sort of thing I would do. You have a huge deadline, a hard and fast deadline, and so you stop everything and do something creative, like write a book, or sew a cosy, or repaint the kitchen. Anyway, the suggestion that I stencil the tray, a good one, won't probably happen until like right before Sunday School starts, or something else unavoidable and big that I will definitely be trying to avoid.

Eventually someone else came along and added a long pole on to my tiny roller so I didn't have to be on the ladder quite so much. I guess today I will definitely fuss along on the ladder. The color today will be a sort of near white, because there's no light yet in the back section of the hall, and so it needs some brightening.

Have a love day!