Finally got lots of painting done today. The living room and kitchen walls have their first coat completed. The kitchen cabinets are all done except for one door that needs one more coat. Half of the dining room has its first coat. Jim gave about half the woodwork in the living room a first coat. Progress at last.
We discovered an issue with our plumbing. The handyman connected the kitchen sink drain last week. When I was washing out paint brushes the water going down the drain made the toilet gurgle. When we were getting ready to leave I attempted to flush the toilet and it wouldn’t flush. I sent a message to my handyman and am trusting it is something he can fix. If not, I will call a plumber on Monday. Jim thinks it may have something to do with a toilet vent – I’m not sure what that is. That will set our time table back a bit but am hoping it will be an easy fix.
Tomorrow I hope to get the kitchen cabinet doors hung and the knobs put on. I want to finish painting the dining room and the two closets. Jim ran into Emporia when we were done painting and got closet paint and another gallon of dining room wall paint for me. I took a nap. What a deal for me!
I may not get a first coat on all the woodwork this weekend but I feel like we have made some good progress. I hate painting woodwork and Jim’s time is limited as he has to work on getting his class ready for Monday. It will get done though – sooner or later.
I need to decide what I want to do for window coverings for the dining room and living room. Exciting to think we are far enough along in the project to be thinking about that.
There are two small areas on the living room and dining room walls that need to be repaired and the medallion needs put up in the dining room and then those two rooms are basically done and ready for their final coat of paint. Yeah! I will have to scrap the floor and clean up all my paint drips when I am done painting but that will mean the painting is done. Can’t wait!
The front bedroom just needs paint on the walls, closet and woodwork and carpet laid. Then the closet will need trim around the baseboard put on. The other bedroom needs some stuff removed from it and then the walls will need some repair and then it will be ready to paint. Neither of those will take very long to complete.
Hoping next week the handyman can get the laundry room and back room done. Both of those need lots of his time. The bathroom still needs a bit of repair work done to it before I can paint it. He also needs to install the subway tile back splash in the kitchen. The carpet/tile guy is coming Monday early evening to give us a bid for the carpet for the two bedrooms and vinyl for the bathroom and laundry room. Hoping to get that product ordered Tuesday so it can get installed in a couple of weeks.
Then we have to turn our attention to the outside. I never can estimate with much accuracy how long the repairs to the siding of the house will take and how long it will take me to paint the outside of the house. I’m also not sure how long it will take us to clean up the yard. It seems huge but it may go faster than I expect it to. We also have to repair the front porch and back entry way. The list seems long.
June 1 is still looking very possible to have it ready to rent. If we can get the inside in good shape I can start showing potential renters the house while we continue the work on the outside. I need to call a Realtor and find out how much the going rent in Cottonwood Falls is. I really have no idea how much to charge.
We don’t have much on our calendar for next week except for Jim’s class on Monday afternoon. I do need to clean this house top to bottom for the guests that are coming in next weekend. I will alternate between painting and cleaning for the week. Jim is going to Stillwater again towards the end of next week for a night or two. He needs to spend some time working on his house too.
It was a cloudy, cool day on the prairie today. High was in the low 50’s and the sun was on vacation today. It is to warm up to the upper 50’s tomorrow but we have a chance of snow on Tuesday. I look forward to next weekend when it is to be back in the low 70’s. I’m done with winter.
I fixed hamburgers for dinner tonight. I had some left over potatoes that I fried for Jim and some left over veggies for me. Easy as can be. Now to decide what to fix for tomorrow night.
It has been almost a month since I was on the hot line. I need to decide if I want to extend my leave, if I am ready to return or if I want to quit. I will need to talk to my coach and see what my options are if I return and get another call that I don’t agree with how it is being handled. I hate to transfer urgent risk calls but not sure I can go through that experience again. I miss doing the calls but still feel angry about what happened. I can’t carry that anger with me if I return to the hot line and for what ever reason don’t seem to be able to let it go yet.
Grateful for all the painting that got done today with Jim’s help, grateful for a long nap while Jim got more paint for me, and grateful for an easy dinner tonight.