My guest left for home a little after noon today. She had gone into Emporia to visit some relatives this morning and when she got back to the house told me she had decided to return home. It was fun to have her visit.
After she left I took a nap. I had gotten woken up at 7:30 this morning when the electric company called me and told me the guys had gotten rain out on the job they were scheduled to do today and could come to my rental house. I got up and went in to meet them as she told me they were on their way. They must take the scenic route as they didn’t show up until 9:15. I got an hour of painting done while I was waiting for them.
After my nap this afternoon I went back in and painted for a couple of hours. I have the first coat completed on the living room wall now. Tomorrow I will put the first coat on all of the living room woodwork.
I need to finish getting the first coat on all of the kitchen and finish the last few cupboard doors. Once all the doors are done they can get hung back up and the knobs put on. I realized this morning I had forgotten to paint the tops of the cupboards so will need to do that tomorrow too. I also need to paint under the kitchen sink as the handyman got that area cleaned up and repaired. Then I can put the first coat on all the kitchen woodwork and two rooms will have the first coats completed.
I can’t paint the dining room until I get the kitchen cabinet doors out of it. If I can get the kitchen done tomorrow and the cabinet doors hung I can paint the dining room Sunday. By the end of the weekend I would love to have the first coat on walls and woodwork on the dining room, kitchen and living room.
The front bedroom has construction equipment in it and the other one needs some wall repair from where the electrical conduit was. So I can’t work on painting those rooms yet. I need to paint the closet in each of those rooms too. The closets needed a bit of sanding done to them and the handyman was going to try to do that either this evening or in the morning so I can get a first coat on them. I need to get some paint for them before I can get at them.
The laundry room and bathroom still need some work done on them before I can paint them. The back mud room is going to get sheetrock put up so it isn’t ready to paint yet either.
It was nice to cross the electrical work off my list. I was pleasantly surprised when they called this morning and told me they could come today. The work they did looks good. There are still a few light switches in funny places but I think we can live with them.
I am hoping in another week or so we can start turning our attention to the outside and getting it repaired and cleaned up. I still have to paint the whole house outside when the repair work gets done to the outside of the house. The yard needs mowed but we can’t mow until we rake and get all the stuff out of the yard so we don’t harm our mower. I will have to get a new mower that we can leave there to mow with. The house sits on three lots so there is a lot to mow.
Next week I am going to have to spend time cleaning this house as I have Disc Golf guests coming in next weekend and staying for a week. I haven’t cleaned downstairs for a long time so am betting I will find lots of dirt. My guest this week tried to use the coffee maker downstairs and we couldn’t get it to work so may need to replace it before next weekend so my guests can have coffee.
I don’t have much on my calendar next week so should have plenty of time to clean and paint. It is going to be a cooler week temperature wise and will be a good week to be inside cleaning and painting.
Monday the carpet/tile guy is coming to look at our master shower. Then I am taking him to the rental house and he is going to bid new flooring for the bathroom, laundry room and two bedrooms. It will be good to get those projects bid and started.
We had Ham and Corn Chowder for dinner tonight. It was a good night to have hot soup. I put it in the crock pot this morning and presto – dinner was ready when I came home from painting.
It has been a rainy, cool day on the prairie. The rain gauge on my weather system says we got 1.46 inches of rain over the last 24 hours. Lots of rain puddles in the yard. Snow is in the forecast for Tuesday with freeze warnings for Tuesday and Wednesday nights. The rain has helped clean the air and lay the smoke down for a bit.
I’m glad the electrical work got done and I got some more painting done today. It seems like we are so close to having this project wrapped u yet the finish line seems to keep moving out away from me. June 1 still feels like the date we can have someone move in though so we are getting close.
Grateful the electrical work got done today, grateful more painting got done, and grateful for the company of my guest this week.