√ When asked what color they stained their deck, she replied:
“It’s a color called– NOT THE ONE I PICKED OUT.”
√ While in the process of staining the deck when asked by her husband where she was going, she replied:
“I’ll be back. I just need to change my clothes– BECAUSE I HAVE TOO MANY SPLINTERS IN MY BUTT.”
… So how was everyone else’s weekend. Did we have fun?
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{Photos added 05.22.12 for Margaret… because she asked.}
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{Please Note: the deck color that you see here is a warm pearl gray instead of a light golden oak as originally planned. Fortunately our bricks have a gray undertone in them + our siding is SW Agreeable Gray so this “NOT THE ONE I PICKED OUT” color coordinates just fine. No harm done, really. In fact, Z-D really likes it so maybe it was meant to be.}
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I spent the last week in NYC with my daughters and son-in-law. No splinters.
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Mike, what fun! I’ve only been to NYC once & enjoyed what I saw of it. As I recall, I, too, encountered no splinters while I was there. 😉
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Ouch! Did not-the-color-you-picked-out turn out nice anyway?
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Yes Zazzy it did. We haven’t picked out our new deck furniture so we’ll just buy a different color of furniture than I was originally planning to purchase– and all will be well. But talk about a surprise!
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Hey, I know that color! It’s the color of my hair right now.
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Oh no! That’s not good, Britt. Hair the wrong color is a much bigger tragedy than a deck the wrong color. Yikes!
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Photos please!! 🙂
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Margaret, photos of the deck OR of my butt con splinters?! Certainly you’re talking about the former and not the latter, yes?
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Well…. photos of the splinters in your butt might be instructive? Deck looks great!
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Uh huh. No splinter butt photos! 😉
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It may have been a mistake but I think that color looks good against the greens of the grass, plants, and trees.
Oh, and when staining a deck, if you don’t scoot around on your butt you won’t get splinters. 🙂
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la p, I agree. The color is very soothing against nature. We like it… just surprised by what happened.
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Love the color–when it weathers, it will blend better. I find gray a very soothing color. My carpets are gray–warmed up with lots of other colors.
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Thanks Margaret. We like the color now that it’s here. But when I first realized that the guy at Lowe’s had given us the color on the chart next to the color that we asked for I was flummoxed. Now I just think of it as a happy accident.
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Plus, you have a new, gorgeous, BIG deck. Blessing upon blessing.
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Relyn, thanks. Our deck is looking good– even if this wasn’t quite what I had in mind. Kind of wonderful how it all turned out.
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Here are my two sentences: scorching hot; and we went to Disneyland Paris! I think we probably had more fun than you did – no splinters here either.
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Polly, what a weekend! Splinter-free & fun. Sounds great to me.
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