Well, there's progress being made around here! And it's exciting to finally SEE progress that feels like we're getting closer to our goal. I know, all the behind the scenes stuff needs to be done too, but it takes longer and doesn't look as obvious. But now, some of it is obvious. And we get a season of obvious progress for a time... Hooray!
The drywall has been patched and sanded and textured on the main floor! And a few walls in the basement too. Now we're ready for paint. It's been a bit of a drawn-out process, but so worth it to have things looking nice! We did a light orange peel texture in the kitchen and laundry, none in the bathroom, and a knock-down in the living room. It still looks very odd, with the different paint colors and some bare drywall showing underneath, but painting should dress it up incredibly. Any volunteers? It's an awful big job... 'Specially when I'm homeschooling and dealing with selling puppies on top of it! :) Wow. But, God is gracious to us. Don't tell the folks Jere's working for right now, but I'm terribly glad he got two whole weeks off work waiting for the slow pokes to get the floor poured on his job. That brought us forward amazingly on the house project, and to a place where I can keep some of it going while he's at work. God is SO good!
I did get the painting done in the basement for now. We still have some walls to build down there, but we have enough done to move the freezer down there (fall rains have been coming a little now, and it's a pain to walk across the mud soup yard to the shed to grab something out of the freezer!) and I can move some of the clutter out of our bedroom into the sewing nook. A little bit of cleaning, and the pantry will be able to start receiving what produce the garden managed to give us amid the weeds. I'm hoping for a few onions, potatoes, and sweet potatoes, even if the corn didn't do a thing!
The angel, watching the texturing happen.
We replaced the window that looked from the living room to the entry. Here is the entry side of the repairs, freshly stained and ready to go. Jere has to lay the tile on the floor in this room, and then we can install the cabinet and utility sink under the light on the wall.
Field trip day at home--the boys learning about drywall and texturing from first-hand experience.
Jere prepping for texturing.
Me, priming in the pantry.
The "sewing nook" corner of the basement, freshly painted. (The stripes are shadows from the shop light cage, not painted in!)
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