Pictures of my eye and something else...

[BEG]

I thought I would show those of you who are interested a picture of my eye almost three weeks post canthoplasty on my right eye.  I also thought I would show you the progress of our house being painted.  They should be finished by tomorrow *maybe*.

I took these this morning to show my Mom.  I took them with my phone so the quality sucks.

It was my right eye and it appears on the right in the picture because I am looking in the mirror.  It looks like my eye use to look like, I am really happy.  I hope it stays where it is, it can still "retract" from scar tissue.  I pray that it does not. 



I'm still swollen in the upper lid (outer corner).  My other eye looks kind of weird.  It has been really dry lately so maybe I need to put some drops in it or something.  The outer 1/4th of the lash line is still numb and has a little "flap" of odd skin.  The "flap" has gone down over the past week so maybe it will just go away.




Here are pictures of our house.  The color is called "Bamboo Shade" and has more green in it that it appears in the pictures.  The trim will be white like it was before.  The garage doors were never painted so I'm sure they will look a ton better just being painted.  We bought new larger shutters and we are having them painted black.  I bought new lighting, mailbox, doorbell and house numbers (none of which have come yet) all in black so I'm sure it will tie in nicely.

The circle thing in the middle of the entry walkway used to have this ugly statue on it.

Here is was before:



Here it is after:  The plant in the middle is an Iris.  When I planted the pansies and the sweet alyssum they looked so scraggly and bad that I almost pulled them out and threw them away. 



Before:


After:


Before:  Notice the fence is white in this picture and in the next picture it is painted the color of the house.  It was a mistake but we like it so we are leaving it.  They were supposed to paint it white.  Also notice the green awnings.  Those are being recovered in black.  There are also two more on the kitchen windows on the back of the house. 



After:




Both windows get shutters here.  Also there are two windows in the back that will get shutters.

[IassaFTots]

Beauty!

I love what you did in the circle, and the azaleas look so great next to that pretty house!

[jinxmchue]

Glad your eye is better.  You are stunningly beautiful, BEG, and you have a house that matches.   

[BEG]

Beauty!

I love what you did in the circle, and the azaleas look so great next to that pretty house!

That azaleas go all around to the corner of the fence on the side yard, then there are gardenia bushes with iris and a few ferns on the side fence going around the back yard.  Once we get the whole yard totally cleaned up it will look really nice.  We bought some landscape lighting on clearance because they were tan (metal), my husband spray painted them a hammered grey/black finish.  He replaced all the damaged ones in the front and then decided to replace them all.  There were 10 lights in the front of the house and they cost us $6 apiece, to by replacement lights for the lights would have cost over $5 apiece.  Metal landscape spot lights are normally a lot more than that.  You can see one in the "circle" picture.  We will just use the ones that still work from the front to replace once in the backyard that are screwed up.  We have been working in the front yard for the past few weekends.  When they power washed the house before they started painting they screwed up the beds.  

[BEG]

Glad your eye is better.  You are stunningly beautiful, BEG, and you have a house that matches.   

You are back to the top of my list.    

[DixieBelle]

Gorgeous! The house ain't bad either!

I'll come back later to ooh and ahh over the house when I have time. Looks good!!

[IassaFTots]

That azaleas go all around to the corner of the fence on the side yard, then there are gardenia bushes with iris and a few ferns on the side fence ground around the back yard.  Once we get the whole yard totally cleaned up it will look really nice.  We bought some landscape lighting on clearance because they were tan (metal), my husband spray painted them a hammered grey/black finish.  He replaced all the damaged ones in the front and then decided to replace them all.  There were 10 lights in the front of the house and they cost us $6 apiece, to by replacement lights for the lights would have cost over $5 apiece.  Metal landscape spot lights are normally a lot more than that.  You can see one in the "circle" picture.  We will just use the ones that still work from the front to replace once in the backyard that are screwed up.  We have been working in the front yard for the past few weekends.  When they power washed the house before they started painting they screwed up the beds.  

Well ya know what?  There is something better in CA than Texas....gardening!  Azaleas and Gardenias never look like that!  And ferns, well, you  know....forget it!    I will just live vicariously through your garden. 

[thundley4]

You could almost make that first picture your avatar.

[BEG]

Well ya know what?  There is something better in CA than Texas....gardening!  Azaleas and Gardenias never look like that!  And ferns, well, you  know....forget it!    I will just live vicariously through your garden. 

True, I tried to grow some azaleas and they wouldn't even flower let alone looked really sickly a few years ago in Texas.  The only place I could ever grow ferns or gardenias was on my porch in a pot. 

[BEG]

You could almost make that first picture your avatar.

ACK are you serious or are you just being nice?  I'm not "there" yet in my mind. 

[Wineslob]

You, like my wife, look 10 years younger than you are. I'll bet, like my wife, if you don't wear makeup you get carded at bars.



Ya, the house is nice too.     

[thundley4]

ACK are you serious or are you just being nice?  I'm not "there" yet in my mind. 

I thought it was a good picture, except for the camera blocking part of it.

[Chris]

Nice flip flops

Your eye looks better than mine does... mine's still red and swollen and sore.  Pretty house, too. 

[BEG]

Nice flip flops

Your eye looks better than mine does... mine's still red and swollen and sore.  Pretty house, too. 

It looks much better than it feels.  It burns and waters all day.  I'm surprised it wasn't red when I took the picture.  My other eye has been bothering me too.  I thought it was my sinuses because my right side was running constantly for days.  That has dried up but the eye is still burning.  It isn't watering like it was when my nose was a faucet though.  I am just afraid my uveitis will come back so I am constantly touching my upper lid (actually pushing on the eyeball through the lid) to see if it is sore.  That is the first thing I notice when it's back.  It's also still really blurry. 

Hope your eye clears up soon Chris. 

[BEG]

I thought it was a good picture, except for the camera blocking part of it.

Thanks!   

[NHSparky]

Nice job on the house, BEG.  I'm jealous of the fact that you have year-round nurseries or can grow stuff without having to worry about getting it in the ground before it freezes.

Speaking of which, are you going up to Oxnard for the Strawberry Festival?

[Hawkgirl]

I like what you're doing with the house....what color trim are you gonna do??

[BEG]

I like what you're doing with the house....what color trim are you gonna do??

The trim will be white again but the shutters, gates and the metal fence (on the right side of the house where the garbage cans go) will be black. 

We have a potting shed in the back yard.  Below is a picture of it before.  I know it isn't a very good picture but there is a stucco fence about 18" tall (I'm not very good with guessing measurements) with metal fence on top of it and a gate.  This is where they kept their tortoises (which we are giving back to them after they wake up from their hibernation). The metal fence and gate part will also be black.  The windows and the door will be black, the body of the shed will be the color of the house and the trim will be a darker color that was on the same color "strip" to make it look a little different from the house.  The trim color on the shed has more green in it than the body.  We are turning the potting shed into an "Art Shed" for the girls.  It has electricity and a sink in it so it will work out well for that.

Also notice the bottom of the house is white, that is now the same color as the house and the awnings that are green in the picture are being recovered in black.  Oh and the tree on the right, we had that removed.  It was right next to the house and we had hundreds of birds that chirped really loud  every morning at alike 5 am. 

[Hawkgirl]

I see you have a pool too, is it usable?

[BEG]

I see you have a pool too, is it usable?

Usable?  Yes, we use it.

[BEG]

Nice job on the house, BEG.  I'm jealous of the fact that you have year-round nurseries or can grow stuff without having to worry about getting it in the ground before it freezes.

Speaking of which, are you going up to Oxnard for the Strawberry Festival?

No, I must be stupid....I don't know what the Strawberry Festival is.

[IassaFTots]

No, I must be stupid....I don't know what the Strawberry Festival is.

Not stupid...uninformed..

[NHSparky]

No, I must be stupid....I don't know what the Strawberry Festival is.

http://www.strawberry-fest.org/

Up in Oxnard in mid-May.  There's also one in Garden Grove on Memorial Day weekend in downtown GG (between Main and Euclid, across from GG High School.)

[jinxmchue]

Usable?  Yes, we use it.

PARTY AT BEG'S PLACE!!!!

[jinxmchue]

You are back to the top of my list.