We're hoping to wrap up Redbud in the days following Thanksgiving, so if you're able, come on out any afternoon. We're starting the South wall, and finishing up the last of the East and touch-ups on the others!
Thanks to Margaret Menicucci and Wes Amberboy for organizing the Fall Landscape cleanup to the front of the school! LOADS of trees and plants were trimmed and readied for winter, beds were cleared, and invasive plants were removed to get the front of the school looking ship-shape. Also thanks to Nadene Morning for donating a Mexican Buckeye tree, and to Sean Compton for planting it and the Redbud sapling, near the Redbud and Buckeye portables on the West side of the school. The landscape cleanup will be looking for a few MORE good hands soon to do some MULCHING....so contact Wes or Margaret if you'd like to pitch in for the Winter mulch event. http://www.flickr.com/photos/jubilee88/sets/72157622733744845/show/
not pictured: Pete Inman
Here's the new Redbud by the 'Redbud' portable
Beautiful days, now, to be outside painting, and this lucky team took full advantage and made some progress with the Redbud stencils. We're looking forward to a follow-up session next weekend, Sat. Nov. 21 @ 12:30, so if you think you can make it send jdaz@att.net an e-mail and we'd love to put you on a team! Many thanks to Thad Henry, Sandy Tipton, Ray Calderon, Michael Young, David Lynch, Nathan Phillips, and David Tasch for lending lots of hands to us and getting this weekend off to a great start! Take a look: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jubilee88/sets/72157622686581647/show/ 
Just in time for the Bur Oak acorns to start dropping on the ground, the Bur Oak & Sycamore leaves have finished 'falling'. The rain stopped and the teams had some lovely days to apply the layers of color. Stop by and see the shadow of the real leaves on the sides of the buildings, overlaid with the stenciled leaves to see the full affect. Pictures of the process can bee seen here:http://www.flickr.com/photos/jubilee88/sets/72157622809590468/show/ & http://www.flickr.com/photos/jubilee88/sets/72157622685466901/show/
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New leaves have been layered onto Sycamore this weekend, and have begun to appear on Bur Oak as well. Now the range of spring green, mature green, and late autumn green leaf colors can be seen, and is beautiful. Thanks to Baron, Michael, Nathan, Suzy, Diana,& Elizabeth for the productive weekend, it all looks Great! 
Now there's a designated spot for teachers and homeroom parents to post information to the class--each posting-board has Room number, Portable name, and Leaf illustration. Thanks to Frances for keeping us on task and getting them lettered, Christian for cutting the boards, and Wendy for hanging them...what a team effort this has been!
Fall is here at last, and the leaves are falling...and appearing on our pretty portables. We began today with the first layer of Sycamore and are thrilled to see this stage upon us at last. Leaves will continue to appear for the next 5-6 weeks. The post-boards are underway and will be installed next to each teacher's door as well. Thanks again to early-risers Stella, Frances, and Elizabeth, Frank & David for painting with Wendy, Elizabeth, Stephanie and I this weekend. For more pics of the process seee: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jubilee88/sets/72157622400630237/show/ More painterly volunteers are needed each weekend day through the end of October--if you wish to join us, contact volunteer coordinator Stephanie Wilson @ sw@stephaniewilsoninteriors.com
It's here! AISD dropped Pecan portable down over by the former kickball field...now we're just waiting for some other maintenance items. So, while some of us work with AISD to get this wrapped up, we need a crew and crew leader to get organized to paint Pecan, while others of us get organized to stencil Bur Oak, & Sycamore. Calling all volunteers! Are you able to get a crew or be on a crew to paint Pecan? Do you have pretty good painting skills, and want to help with the stenciling? Give us a holler! >>sw@stephaniewilsoninteriors.com or jdaz@att.net can't wait to hear from you, if you do!
HOT as it was, those loyal HP parents and kids showed up and finished up PHASE 1 for good! Wow, what a difference it makes to paint away all that BROWN! Thanks go out to Wes, Juli B, Kieth Ben & Isabel, Bill R, Brian Y, Lawrence L, Eileen C, and to Kevin G for heading up the team.
If you are on campus any time soon, you'll now see that Phase 1 of the Portable Beautification project is just about wrapped up. A friendly crew spent Father's Day amiably sprucing up the once-brown doors, and now they are all a lovely shade of Waterbury Green, to compliment the base Homestead Blue. Next weekend, we'll be looking for a bunch to help paint the insides of the doors/frames. Are you free to help? If so, please contact kgolliher@austin.rr.com for next Saturday's crew time. 
It's easy to remember what we're all out here for: making it a great environment for all of the kids to grow and learn. The kids really enjoyed pitching in and painting alongside the adults. Below, Stephanie is showing the color palette for the portables against the existing HP brick color.
It was a busy painterly day for this crew...we followed the shade and painted on the 'cool'. 
Next weekend, we'll finish up some detail work and do the doors/door trim. Then we can get started on the stencil/embellishments. Hope to see some of you out there with us in the weeks to come. We've really enjoyed the camaraderie of working together and meeting other HP parents, and would like to work with more of you! To see more, go here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jubilee88/sets/72157619742206442/show/
After & Before: they speak for themselves
