What's Poppa Doing Now??

Okay - here is the picture....

....can you guess what is going on???  Those two ladies each own a unit in the large apartment-type building.  

Here is Poppa checking out something...........

.......... now what's he doing???

I quit watching for a while and did some cleaning.  Next time I looked out, Poppa was staining the landscape timber around the bottom stair landing.  Now that the wooden stairs have been replaced and look so nice, the consensus was that those landscape timbers tooked kinda shabby.  

So - Poppa decided to stain them.  Needless to say, since it had been so long since anyone had done that - the colour turned out a shade darker than the stairs, but they have already faded in the sunlight since the day he treated them - and they look much, much better!  Then he scraped any loose paint off the wrought iron fence and....

....... then one of the ladies offered to paint the bare spots - another nice improvement in the appearance of our space!

While they did all that -

......... I put the finishing touches on Lauren's blanket - oh yes - big news - Lauren was born yesterday at 4:53 in the afternoon and weighed in at 7lbs and 15 oz.  Aunt Jeannie is now a grandmother! I'll post a pictue as soon as one becomes available!