It's a bright sunny morning with a fresh blanket of snow and a chilly ten degrees to keep it on the ground. It was sure pretty watching the sun come up this morning. I snapped this picture as I headed out to the wood stack to replenish the wood box in the house. After feeding the barn cats and making sure their heat lamp was working, I came in, stoked up the wood stove, put on a kettle of water and made the MIL and I a breakfast of eyeball toast. It's where you cook an egg in the center of a peice of bread. It probably has a actual name, but we refer to it as eyeball toast because with my farm fresh eggs, that bulging healthy yolk sticks right up and it looks like an eyeball staring back at you.

Marlin is coming today to help me paint and I am very excited to see color start going on the walls. It was hard for me to make a decision about what color, but I settled on "Goldenrod Yellow" which is from Old Century Paint Co. and is a muddy mustard color. As much as I love Olde Forge Mustard it seemed a bit dark for the walls, so the Goldenrod yellow is a step down from that. Buttermilk will trim it out. It should fit nicely with all my primitives. I am using 1x8's for the mopboard, 1x4's for the trim and various salvaged door top trims for over the entryways, of which I have multiple in the parlor! So, an eclectic look that drives the perfectionists in my life wild. Ah, how I love it though!