House Journal - April Showers
I've been a little slack in my blogging lately and trust me, we've gotten more than a few phone calls from friends and family wondering if we had just given in to the allure of the hammock's siren song. The answer of course is NO, although we can't wait for a day when we have the time to nap the day away.
This past weekend it was just Erin and me. Erin's dad took the weekend to go turkey hunting. I tried to convince him that he could still work on the house and shoot the occasional turkey from the kitchen window, but I was only joking - he really deserved a good break.
Erin worked on stripping the wallpaper from the living room. We found numerous poor patch jobs that had been wallpapered over but in general the plaster was in pretty good shape.
We went into Chelsea for lunch at Mike's Deli. Erin heard it was a good place and they had very good sandwiches. After that we went into Chelsea Farmer's Supply which is a real, authentic old farm supply shop that has probably been in the same spot for a hundred years.
A big thunderstorm rolled through and sadly we left the windows open in the house so we had some clean up to do when we got back. We also found one window that had a good leak in it that we'll need to repair.
The trim in the living room was very dirty and needed to be cleaned up before painting so Erin scrubbed the heck out of it.
I worked on some drywall and did a little more trim work, helped Erin with the walls, then finally got around to painting the rest of the kitchen.
That's it for today - I'll be back at the house on Thursday waiting for our backsplashes to be installed and will work on a few other pet projects while I'm there.