Blue and happy

The soffit at the top is the same color as the one at the bottom, and the beam -- it's just a trick of light, because all the blues are the same shade, and apparently pretty eye-catching.

A nice couple staying at a guest house down the street stopped by to compliment me about the house's appearance this morning.

Arnold plans to paint his porch ceiling this blue, the sincerest form of flattery, so I gave him the chip to match.

Dennis, who runs the guest house two doors away, calls it baby blue but says he likes it a lot anyway. Roy, the painter, calls it sky and wrote the number down so he can do all his porches in it.

Nice. But people are still perplexed by our two tones of yellow. Under the porch is the real color. The rest is just tinted primer -- but Roy thinks the exterior will be finito by the end of the week and no one will doubt the shade.

Everybody says the yellow makes the house look a lot bigger. I told Arnold I'm not going to wear yellow anymore.