I am tired! What a long day. I went in to the rental house before 10:00 this morning. I finished some last minute painting inside and then started painting the siding on the outside of the house. I got most of the front porch area done. The rest of the porch still needs painting but I have to scrap paint before I can start painting it.
Jim came around 12:30 to help paint. My first applicants showed up at 1:00. I only had four people show up. Ten had told me they would come by. I have my choice between two of them. I will do background checks tomorrow and then decide which one to rent to. One is a young, single woman and the other is a couple with two small children. One of the other two took an application with them but didn’t fill it out on the spot. The other is a third potential but not quite what I am looking for.
Between showings I was out on the front porch scrapping paint. Later in the afternoon I went down to the corner of the lot and started cutting down little trees that had grown in places I didn’t want them to grow. We had quite a pile of branches before we were done.
Jim worked on painting and got most of the rest of the painting done on the south side of the house. The east side of the house just needs the front peak done. Jim helped me cut down trees as a couple needed sawed down.
I closed up the house at 4:00 and came home and took a nap. I was tired! I slept hard for an hour and half. I woke up feeling achy all over – probably from the positions I put myself into painting and using the loppers.
It felt good to get some more painting done as well as cleaning up the yard a bit. I get so overwhelmed when I am outside at the house and see all the things that still need done. It doesn’t feel like there will be an end to this project.
We got a few sprinkles off and on today. I am ready for this rainy weather to go away for a bit. I know we will be begging for rain in another month but for right now I am tired of it. I need some sunshine for a while.
I grilled chicken on the grill tonight for dinner. I had marinated the chicken tenderloins in olive oil dressing all day. It makes an easy dinner to cook up. I fixed Jim a baked potato and I had some green beans with mine. Now to decide what’s for dinner tomorrow night.
Jim has decided to postpone his Stillwater trip this week. He wants to stay home and help me get the rental house ready for someone to move into in next week. The handyman is going to work Monday through Wednesday so hoping between the three of us it will be ready for new occupants by June 1.
I will go in again tomorrow morning and do more painting. We have got to decide what to do to the back room and get it done this week so we won’t have to be inside the house after the new renter moves in June 1. I will do more outside painting tomorrow if the weather allows. The guys are going to start replacing siding pieces tomorrow so we can get those on and painted if weather will allow and if not will work on the back room.
I will have to make a trip into Emporia tomorrow to get paint for the back room. I don’t have enough of any of the colors left to paint the whole back room. I have floor paint but not wall paint. If we decide to sheet rock part of the back room I will need to pick up sheet rock too.
I don’t want to forget to do my egg delivery tomorrow. I need to get rid of eggs again – I have over 14 dozen piled up again. If I remember I will boil us a dozen eggs and make more deviled eggs.
I need to spend some time mowing early this week if it dries out enough. The grass in the back yard is knee high. By the time I get it mowed the front yard will probably need mowed again. The grass has enjoyed all the rain and is growing like crazy. Hard to keep up with it.
We will need to mow the yard in town again this week too. Maybe one of these days soon I will feel like we are caught up but I can’t imagine that day right now. Lots of things on my to do list and I can’t seem to get to all of them.
The spasm in my butt has been going off a lot today. It sure doesn’t like me painting. It needs to get over itself as I have lots of painting to do this week.
Think I will declare the rest of the evening a rest evening and not get anything else done today. This house needs some of my time and attention but I don’t have it in me tonight to give it anything. Dirt seems to wait for me.
Grateful I found a renter for the property, grateful for Jim’s help painting today, and grateful for easy dinners to fix.