Our guest had to leave last night as his daughter was in labor. He will be back either Sunday or Monday and will stay all of next week.
This morning I went into Emporia and picked up the flooring material for the laundry room and bathroom at the carpet store. I signed the bid for the carpet installation at the rental house. I was given the bid for the master shower at this house. After they picked me up off the floor upon me seeing the huge amount, I picked out the colors for it and told them to order it. WOW! It was much higher than I anticipated. The work has to be done though as we are going to have some serious water damage if it doesn’t get fixed.
I then went to Sutherland’s and picked up a 24 inch wide medicine cabinet and light fixture for the bathroom at the rental house. Went to Cottonwood Falls and dropped off my haul.
Took a nap this afternoon while Jim went to town for an appointment. After he came home and we had dinner we went into the rental house and painted for over two hours. The living room, dining room and kitchen all have their first coat completed. All kitchen cabinets and cabinet doors are painted. Progress at last. Still need a first coat on all the woodwork in those three rooms but Jim is making progress on it. He is having to do a lot of scraping and cleaning up the wood before he can paint.
The handyman worked on the laundry room today. He had a lot of prep work to do before he could start hanging sheetrock. He has the ceiling almost covered with sheetrock which is the hardest part for him. He still has sheetrock to put on part of the walls and then he can start mudding it. Some days it looks like he has made a lot of progress and other days it is hard to see the progress. He hung a light fixture in the laundry room and that helps make it brighter and it looks better already.
The handyman is taking the weekend off. I have company coming for lunch tomorrow but will get in late afternoon or evening to paint some more and I am hoping to spend lots of hours there on Sunday. I would love to get the three rooms we are working on done and cleaned up but not sure we will get there this weekend. I need to mow at this house and do some dusting and vacuuming on Sunday in preparation of my guests coming in on Monday. It will be a busy weekend.
I am still hoping the handyman can be done with the inside of the house by the end of April. We are really close on being done with the rest of the house inside. The outside is going to take a few weeks of his time to get repairs done to the siding of the house and some other things that need done. I am still hopeful that we can get the house rented by June 1. If we can get the inside done I can start showing it and find a renter.
Jim teaches his last class Monday. He will have more free time after that class is done. His next set of classes doesn’t start until the end the June. He puts hours into prep work for each class he teaches. It will be good to have him have more free time again.
Other than having guests all week we don’t have anything on our calendar. Not sure how much time we will have to get in to paint but maybe we can start getting some yard work done while the handyman is working inside. We will see what happens.
Grateful for the painting we got done today, grateful the flooring is at the house and ready to be put down, and grateful the material for the new shower is being ordered.