The Ice Cream House

..is finally being painted!

It's a little sad now that I know why our house is painted a minty green with a bright pink trim. I guess it's suppose to look like ice cream. The previous owner also owned the Baskin and Robins up the street. So our house was affectionately called "The Ice Cream House." Sweet! When we bought the house it even came with an old ice cream freezer.

Since we bought the house three years ago we have pried off the security bars in the front of the house, and tore off the rotting shutters that framed the windows. So Now there are big gray rectangles where the shutters were. And since we started sanding down the paint some, the paint looks chipped. The poor little Ice Cream House is in a sad state.

If this isn't enough to make our house look completely tacky, there's more. I painted "Happy Birthday Ari" and a bunch of flowers on our windows last April. It was a special window foam that you can easily peel off after it dries. At least maybe you can in other states? Here it just melted into a gooey plastic and dripped down our window. I tried everything to get it off, but nothing worked (until the magnificent pressure washer that is.) And if that wasn't enough, I had to finger paint "PAINT ME" on the front.

But I only did that, cause Sarah dared me ...hehehe.

So .... adios casa del helado!

Jan 4, 2006