Saturday morning
Nov. 12th, 2011 10:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
trystinnGot up early this morning because I wanted to get a few things done to burn off some of this energy. Its 56F out there and calm, we weathered the storm just fine with only a few branches down. We had a few blips, but the electricity stayed on. Its muddy as all hell out there, though.
Cleaned out the cat litter box, boy do I not miss that. Crystal cat litter is a lot easier to clean up than the other stuff we've used over the years. Flash has been trying to help by eating the poop, this is not so helpful. Even Hobo agrees with that. Hobo should be done with his antibiotics soon and his wounds are nearly healed over, so we can try the indoor/outdoor cat thing soon. *cross fingers*
I spent about an hour on the front porch, touching up the exterior house paint that the trim-painters got all over the place and to re-paint the thin spots. We've replaced the porch light and doorbell unit, so both needed to be taped off and touched up around, too. Standing on one's porch with a hairdryer while the neighborhood walks by and confusedly waves at you is a real hoot of a way to begin your morning. Do try it.
Josh has been busy painting the patch in the dining room that needed to be re-painted after the wall was removed. Yesterday he finished the green patch near the door. These are good things, but oh Gods does the trim look really horrid now in comparison. We'll be working on getting the trim re-painted pretty much everywhere in the house this Winter.
I've done a bit of research on how to paint the window sills here, which seem to be some kind of pressboard-laminate combination from Hell. The paint has all lifted, given how often I have to scrub them due to the mold. So we'll try the bio-friendly stuff first: white vinegar scrub, sandpaper, then bathroom grade white paint. I'm really hopeful that will work. I'm not even sure I'm willing to try TSP, which is what the renovation sites recommend.
The rest of the day is basically set aside for chores. I may try to nip out for a bit to relax and decompress. I was going to paint my nails, but at this point, they'll already tinged blue from the exterior paint. So laundry it is!
Cleaned out the cat litter box, boy do I not miss that. Crystal cat litter is a lot easier to clean up than the other stuff we've used over the years. Flash has been trying to help by eating the poop, this is not so helpful. Even Hobo agrees with that. Hobo should be done with his antibiotics soon and his wounds are nearly healed over, so we can try the indoor/outdoor cat thing soon. *cross fingers*
I spent about an hour on the front porch, touching up the exterior house paint that the trim-painters got all over the place and to re-paint the thin spots. We've replaced the porch light and doorbell unit, so both needed to be taped off and touched up around, too. Standing on one's porch with a hairdryer while the neighborhood walks by and confusedly waves at you is a real hoot of a way to begin your morning. Do try it.
Josh has been busy painting the patch in the dining room that needed to be re-painted after the wall was removed. Yesterday he finished the green patch near the door. These are good things, but oh Gods does the trim look really horrid now in comparison. We'll be working on getting the trim re-painted pretty much everywhere in the house this Winter.
I've done a bit of research on how to paint the window sills here, which seem to be some kind of pressboard-laminate combination from Hell. The paint has all lifted, given how often I have to scrub them due to the mold. So we'll try the bio-friendly stuff first: white vinegar scrub, sandpaper, then bathroom grade white paint. I'm really hopeful that will work. I'm not even sure I'm willing to try TSP, which is what the renovation sites recommend.
The rest of the day is basically set aside for chores. I may try to nip out for a bit to relax and decompress. I was going to paint my nails, but at this point, they'll already tinged blue from the exterior paint. So laundry it is!
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Date: 2011-11-12 07:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-11-12 07:54 pm (UTC)I've been using the Kaucauna cheese (a guilty pleasure) containers to make little pots of touch up paint handy so we don't need to make such a production of touching up paint in the future.