T Stands for Squeezing in Projects

Hi everyone. Happy Tuesday. It's time once again for T. 

It's been a pretty wet spell in my area since before I came home from Iceland. I had a few outdoor projects I wanted to get done last week, and most of them have been put onto the to-do-another-day list. However,  Thursday I was home, and we had sunshine (😀) so I started one of them.

It's time to do one of my favorite things- set up my screen porch. In the fall we replace the screen panels with plastic for the winter, and those plastic panels finally came down just before we left on our adventure north. Of course with all the rain that we've been having, it is not yet set up, but hopefully soon.

The floor was in pretty tough shape, and all last year I thought about painting it. Well this year I decided I had better paint it before I set up the porch or all I would do this season is think about painting it again.

This first photo shows the before view. I don't know if you can see all the stains on it, and there were also a couple of spots where the paint had chipped. I pushed all the furniture to one side since no one else was home to help me move it.  After I painted this part and after the paint dried, the hubby helped me move the furniture to the other side so I could finish it. 

I also decided it had been grey long enough, and it was time for a change.

And now it's green!

Besides my painting supplies and the start of my painting, you can see my drink for this week in this next photo. It's my ticket for T day over at  Bleubeard's and Elizabeth's blog. I opened a bottle of Diet Coke to drink while I painted.

The new color is called fern canopy. It looks a little splotchy in these photos because some of the paint had dried and some was still wet. It also needed a second coat.

I'm loving this green though.

I finished up my painting Sunday, and now I need to find some time  to get everything back into their spots and set up so I can use it.

And here's a couple of more T day related photos from Iceland.  First of all, I found soda bottle tops interesting, as the cap was designed not to come off the bottle. I think it's smart and maybe one of the reasons why Iceland had such little litter. It's easy to lose the top of a bottle but not so easy to lose the whole bottle.

Perhaps other places have this type of cap, but I've never seen it before.

It was also tricky to find as many Coke products as we have here in the US. This makes sense since Coca-cola is an American product. Pepsi seemed to have the market in Iceland. I like a Diet Coke on occasion. I did see regular Coke, but that's a lot of sugar for me. I could find Coke Light at a couple of places, but it didn't taste quite like Diet Coke to me. Instead I went to drinking Coke Zero when I wanted something bubbly, which tasted more like Diet Coke to me than Coke Zero does at home. My husband said it tasted just like Coke Zero to him.

The best while driving drink was this next one.

I wish I had noticed more water bottle fillers as we drove around the country, but I did enjoy this water.

And I also discovered a favorite sweet nibble when I was there too.

It's like an M&M with a crunchy coating, chocolate and a bit of black licorice inside.  

And when I went to Iceland I went yarn shopping. The Lopi Icelandic yarn was about 60% cheaper than buying it here in the US. If you ship it, you don't need to try to squish it into an already too full suitcase, and you save the 14% VAT tax they charge if you buy it and take it with you. 😀

This week my yarn arrived, which was a lot faster than I expected it would.

My husband wondered why I just didn't buy a finished sweater which are one of the hot souvenirs. Here's an example of one in case you aren't familiar with the style.

 

I told him buying yarn is better, because 1) I could use the colors and pattern I wanted, 2) I could think about my trip not only when I wear the sweater but also while I knit it and 3) knitting a classic Icelandic sweater is fairly fast and easy as you make it on big needles and in the round. I've knitted a few in the past. It will make a good cold weather project, if I can wait that long to start it. Smile.

I think this post has gotten long enough, so I'll end it here. Have a wonderful T day and week ahead.