Ya learn something new every day....

when BB and kd bought their first home

on Kirtley, I came up to help him clean as

Kd had to work. 

To rest, I sat on their front swing

and wondered why the siding under

their porch eaves, was blue when

the rest was brown. It seemed strange

to me that the color would be different than the

rest of the house.

Last week, went to the cottage when the 

appraiser came I noticed that 

even there, the underneath of the porch was painted

this blue color when all the rest of 

the house is white and black.

I mention the the appraiser and the

girl I am buying from,

"I guess I will paint this ceiling to match

the rest of the house"

Both of them replied in unison,

"I wouldn't that is Mud-dowber blue"

Then I learn something new.

The reason things here in Plaquemine are painted

blue under neath and the color actually has

it's own name is that the color is to keep

bugs and those "mud dowbers" that make

holes in wood away. Must work because

none of them have seen a mud dowber

or many spiders around. 

I ask, there is actually a color o paint that color??

Yep, here in Plaquemine there is.

So I will follow tradition and keep my underhands

mud dowber blue. DTB we just get gecko's

to eat our bugs...