Stucco

We have found a reasonably inexpensive company that will do colored stucco on our house. Now we have a contract and just have to pick the color. I think we are going to go with a sort of grayish brown ... Hopefully it will look nicer in person than it sounds here. Our house has some brick so the color has to go with the brick and with our cheesy looking gray asphalt roof. They will start soon, possibly Halloween or the day after. First they take off the old cedar shake, then wrap the house in a tyvek-sort of thing and then chicken wire, then do a coat of regular stucco and then a finish of the colored stuff. You never have to paint the colored stucco and it will last supposedly 25-30 years. Of course you can paint it if you get sick of the color, and we will need to paint the trim, which we have been needing to do anyway.

It is really windy today and Owen's class is supposed to go to the pumpkin patch after school. Weather.com says the winds are 23 mph gusting to 33 mph. Hopefully the kids won't blow away.