we picked out the colors for the bathouse today. it will be a beautiful purple with splashes of pink. i love buying stuff and just charging it to the pool. cort and i get to axtell dressed in our dirtiest ;), ready to work with our new brushes and rollers; however, the bathouse is so disgustingly dirty we cannot even think of painting until some major cleaning is done. fun! fun! fun! that is monday's project. ick. knocking down birds' nests and throwing out dead toads will be thrilling.

it seems like half the state of nebraska is in a tornado or severe thunderstorm warning tonight. it's eerily dark for a bit before seven, and it's started hailing. chris and dad say it's the smallest hail they've ever seen, "it looks like sonic ice!" chris says. what a wonderful similie. sonic. yum.ˇ