Painting update...last one until Tuesday, likely.

So, the painters are now done. The guy in charge has his GC license, so they also replaced a trim board (or whatever you call the vertical boards at the corners), put mesh over the attic vents again (yay, no more birds up there!), and powerwashed and sealed the deck.

I am very, very happy with these folks. They are excellent. Good work, very friendly. The ladder-across-the-driveway when I wanted to be able to use it in the evenings (and had told them so in advance) was really aggravating, but that was the only bad moment, and the work they did is top-notch. Anyone in the Wilsonville/South Metro area needs a recommendation for a painter or general contractor, let me know. However, I gather he's pretty well booked to the end of summer, now.

Put some new photos of the results over on Buzznet. I really hope we get to keep this color - I don't want those photos and a few days or weeks to be all I have of it, I like it. One of my neighbors filed a complaint with the homeowner's association. However...they approved the color, before we put it on. But now they want to talk to us at their Tuesday meeting. Um. What the hell?

For now, I'm going to assume we get to keep it. I can either worry and fret myself silly, and be irritated, or I can ignore it until Tuesday.

Yay, I have sorbet!

Not so yay, I bought it at Lamb's. However, Albertson's still didn't have it. We went to Baskin Robbins as Scott recommended their lemon sorbet - they didn't have any out. Then Albertson's. Then Cold Stone Creamery, which I'd never been to before. They had a lemon sorbet but the flavor balance was wrong, too bland and not ... something enough, I'm not sure what, but it wasn't right or even close. Then on to Lamb's, which had it, and had ended the sale already although other stores haven't. I got two pints, at full price, gladly. And garlic bread, which was on advertised special for $1.29. They do make good garlic bread.

Cold Stone Creamery is an experience. You pick your flavor and your "mix ins" (candy bars, fruits, cookie dough, etc., etc) which they then crush into the ice cream and mix about on the counter, then put in a bowl or waffle cone for you. I tried Scott's mint thingy with Oreos and fudge syrup mixed in. The aftertaste was almost exactly like Aquafresh. Ew. Nasty. I might have to try other flavors at some point, but the way they're all mixed on the same counter, I find distasteful, even if it is scraped clean after every one.

They have a little tip bowl. If you tip them, they break into song (store policy, apparently). Scott says he tips them just to make them sing. This is likely the point. However, my response is that I would be hideously uncomfortable tipping them, even if they earned it, because I would not want them to sing. It's too...I dunno. Something. A tip is supposed to be a tip, not a performance.