Cheese and Whine

Can I have a little cheese with my whine?  Yesterday I was definitely whiny and sore.  This morning I am sore and tired but making a plan to get through the day.  I'll mostly do the laundry and rest up:)

So, what did I do today?  I fed the goats and the dogs.  I watered a bit using a sprinkler to do all the work.  I moved a couple of items around into the dining room and living room.  I got the laundry done.

I took a nap, twice:)  I sat on my butt and gazed at the new color on the walls and the new chachkies arrangement on the cookbook sideboard or buffet.  I put the two corn plants in the corners by the sliding door on top of the rectangular wicker baskets with flip up lids.  I hide the extra blankets in those.  I think it makes a great statement.

The color [Behr Pale Honey] is stunning.  It really is the color I wanted.  Golden and yet not too dark.  It definitely is not beige.  Ack.  I want some color but it still fits into the earth tones, I think.  I placed the antique chest of drawers with the unique old time radio looking top piece on the wall by the window.  I think it looks good there.  The gold color on the walls certainly accentuates its good looks.

The walnut dresser from the forties is going where the antique piece used to be, near the front door.  I think it will look good there and there is room to hang the mirror.  We can have a basket for keys and such on it.  And you will be able to set items down to open and close the door on your way in and out.

The dog leashes need to find a new home.  We rarely use them anyway.  We'll see what we do about that.

The couch is leaving tomorrow afternoon.  I found it a good home.

I am hurting all over but taking a day off will hopefully help and I will feel better by tomorrow.  We'll see.

Gardening and Painting

It is official.  I feel bad!  I have so over done it that I don't know if I can do one more thing today.

I got the second coat of gold paint on the living room/dining room walls.  That was another 3 hours of painting on top of the hours of scrubbing and painting I did yesterday.

I got a lot of the winter cover crop on the garden and tried to rake it in.  I don't think I did a very good job but it has to get done yesterday.

I got the dishes in the dishwasher.

That is it.  I am all done in.  I am going to hobble to the couch and desperately hope I feel good enough to get 22.5 sq.ft. of slate tile mortared into place tomorrow.

Late afternoon.  I took a break and then decided that it was now or never on finishing up the tar on the roof.  I really only had about 5 feet by 10 feet left.  I crawled up there and got it done but have reached the "I think I am going to be sick" stage of physical labor.  I have a couple of movies to watch and I think I will do that and stop playing Wonder Woman.

I really shouldn't have done it but this is the last day of the year that we will have weather close to 80 degrees.  This was a top priority until Hubby decided getting a wood stove was a great idea.  Which it is.  I just had other things to do so I am trying to prioritize.  Which isn't easy to do when you have a wood stove coming on Tuesday and fall cover crop that has to get in yesterday and painting and tarring the roof to finish and putting in a fire hearth and shopping your butt off to get all the things you need to get all these jobs done.

I think I' ll go now.

Payback

Payback is a bitch and I am now paying the price for getting so much done yesterday.  I am sore and tired.  I think I will drive into town and see about my wall paint, 2 curtain rods, mortar to put down the tile, a couple of snazzy spare tiles and a dining room light.

The old dining room light is butt ugly,  Maybe we can change it out before I paint that half of the ceiling.

Painting

I finally found the paint color I want to paint the living room, dining room and hallway.  The area really needs to be all one color.  I reviewed paint brands on line and they started to all sound pretty good of the brands I can get in my area.  I found the perfect color, Pale Honey, in the Behr brand.

I got one of those paint samples for $3.  It actually had a lot in it.  I placed it around the two rooms, behind some of the furniture and in the hallway to see if it really was what I wanted in here.  It is.  Hubby voted yes as well when he got home from work.

 I tried the Behr brand by buying the ceiling paint.  I went with Honeymilk which I had color matched from the Valspar I used on the kitchen cabinets.  I also got flat matte finish.  I washed with TSP and then a few hours later I painted the first half of the ceiling.  The difference is a bit subtle since the ceiling was shiny white before and now it is matte white but I do think it was an improvement.

The ceiling was looking a bit dirty as well so I think it was worth it.


I filled all the holes from the mirror and paintings we took down.  I also took out all the sky hooks from the ceiling and I filled those today.  I patched a couple of cracks.  I am hoping to have enough prepping and  wall washing done to paint the wall the stove is going on before we bring it in.

I got one set of curtains down and one set to go.  I patched those holes too since I am getting curtain rods that go with our tab top curtains.  I was still using the draw string curtain rods that went with the old curtains.  Not anymore.  I have been wanting to change those up for a long time.

While in town tomorrow I am hoping to finally find a dining room light that looks good, isn't too expensive [okay, I need a great price] and doesn't look like it will get to swinging in the wind too badly.  Yes, even though we have been to town 4 days in a row [Sat-Tues] I need to get some tar, the five gallons of gold paint and a couple of other little things.

Home Again!

We have been home since last Thursday.  We got the truck and trailer unloaded and all the clothes washed up.

Somehow we got the idea on Friday that we should look into a wood stove.  We researched, realized the new stoves are very efficient and headed into town on Saturday to look at stoves in person.  We came home and did some more research.

Sunday we went back to the store we thought had the two best stoves and spent several hours making up our minds.  A mid-size Lennox or a mid-size Kuma.  We finally decided on the Kuma Wood Classic.  We put down our deposit and made arrangements to pick up the stove on Tuesday next week. We went to the two big box stores in town to look at hearth materials. Came home and did more research on what we would need to do a hearth.  We also got the entire living room cleared of furniture.

Monday it was back to town to get a wood cutting permit, some chainsaw parts and measure the new stove for the air inlet and buy our choice of hearth materials.  Unfortunately, it was Columbus day so we couldn't get the wood cutting permit and the wood stove store was closed, as well.  We did purchase our concrete backer board, slate tiles, mortar, grout and air intake parts.

Back to town on Tuesday since we couldn't get everything done in town on Monday.  We measured the stove, double checked that we had the right stovepipe list and had heart failure over the price of stove pipe a second time.  We had lunch in town.  Yes, it was decadent but after all, we are still on vacation:) We hit Costco and we were finally home again.  After taking a break, we got the hearth started.

Hubby did a bunch of measuring and double checking.  He cut a hole in the floor and then he cut a matching hole in each of the concrete backer board layers.  We dry fitted and the holes lined up perfectly.  We put down some Thinset, screwed down the first layer of backer board, some more Thinset and the second layer of backer board was screwed into the floor.

We spent hours and hours driving and shopping these last several days and it has been pretty exhausting.  Hubby is back to work but he is putting in 6 - ten hour days in a row.  So, I am sort of on my own for the next week.  Did I mention that I have decided now is the time to finally paint the living room?  Most of the furniture is out so I through that into the mix.  Today, if I can manage it, I am washing the ceiling with TSP so I can paint it Honeymilk white.  More on painting in another post, I think.

Right now it is time to get moving.  There is a paint sample to put on the wall.  It is called Pale Honey.  It is a gold color but hopefully not too dark.  Then I have some goats and dogs to feed.  And the day is rolling forwards from there.