House status
Things we have accomplished:Stripping 2 walls of wallpaper (though one of them should count as two by itself because it is the entire side of the house)
Removing cabinets and sanding 80% of them. This sounds unimpressive if you have never done it, but it has so far taken 4 days of work just to sand.
Primed and painted both coats on all the kitchen drawers and three of the cabinet doors. Still needs trim painted.
Bought new hardware to install in kitchen.
Made quite a mess in the house.
Purchased all paint, primer, etc. for the entire house.
Planted some things in the garden - hoping I don't kill everything that was already there, as is my tendency.
The electricians have completed the second floor rewire and are halfway through the first. They should be done by next Wednesday, which actually means May sometime I'm sure.
Things we have yet to accomplish before moving in:
Finish sanding, priming, and painting all kitchen cabinets. Attach hardware and rehang.
Spackle nearly the entire downstairs wall that is the side of the house.
Remove wallpaper borders in 4 rooms.
Hire a drywaller to fix the ceiling in one room.
Fix plaster in one small area of wall.
Sand, prime, and paint 6 doors in the house.
Wash, prime and paint almost all rooms in the house.
Have the chimney fixed (already arranged though - yay!)
Purchase a washer, dryer, and refrigerator and have them delivered.
Pull up the carpet on the first floor. Clean, clean, and clean the wood floors. Fix as needed.
PACK. stupid f*&king packing.
Move.
Other house tidbits:
LHPJ saw his first deer in the woods yesterday.
I heard the lions from the zoo the other day.
Our neighbor accidentally drove her car up onto another person's car - it was the neighborhood gossip. LHPJ got a phone call from our other neighbor informing him of this, so that we were not out of the loop.
We visited the 1 local bar - amusing story. I won't give you the long story, but it involved Robert Palmer, a mattress salesman, and a frantic search for a pitcher to serve beer.
Anyway, we are both just ready to LIVE there. This weekend will be another long weekend of working on the house - hopefully we will accomplish much. Most likely it will all take much longer than could ever be imagined.
posted by Schna @ 8:31 AM
4 Comments:
the story about Wilks' (the bar) also includes being greeted with, "Welcome, white people!"
indeed it did - from the same guy who asked if we wanted to buy a bed and then asked if we could get the juke box to play Robert Palmer for him.
later, he asked us to make the jukebox play 4 Non-Blondes.
that was the line.
Surprisingly, the line WASN'T when the ONLY beer they had on draft was Coor's Light.
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