On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Norm/Ilene Tyler wrote:

> I might give serious thought to painting our porch ceiling blue, based
> on what I read here, as this time of year the wasps/bees/whatever drive
> us crazy during dinner.  Maybe that will work...I'll let you all know.
> Our house is a nice 1920s bungalow with a real friendly porch we live
> on, eat on, have even slept on.  It's generally yellow with white trim,
> but a blue porch would work, and at least I would be able to explain why
> we did it.

Your house with a blue porch ceiling would be very typical of the street
in East Lansing where I grew up.

On this style of house, the porch ceilings are not so obvious from the
street: I noticed the varied colors of porch ceilings as a child while
lying on my back in the front yard and looking up.

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