Spring Renewal in Postcards 4
- May 1, 2016, 12:38 p.m.
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We are home, and our home is dirty. Ah reality be dirt.
There’s a carpet cleaning special for 99 dollars. We need one stairway and one landing cleaned, and that’s in our budget. Since we don’t wear shoes in the house, I don’t know why our stairs look so bad. But they do. The back stairs are worse, but there are two rooms needing painting, so that’s more important.
Paint. Neither of us noticed that the paint was too old. When it never dried, George told me what had happened. Now we have to have the many-year-old, still sticky-paint removed before we can repaint both the kitchen white and the upstairs bathroom white.
He is also looking forward to a bluely accented living room again. I tried gently reminding him that a year ago I had asked him to replace the glass in the big piece above. My daughter did it, and I flat out love it. The glass is broken. Maybe we can get this replaced today.
Spring is like that. Just for a moment, things and life and get repaired and move on. Renewed. I like that. What in your life is getting freshened for Spring.
- Himself: Games, home Depot, games. LOL Yesterday he did all the work.
- Herself: Himself put everything away. I went to the Shop and unpacked half a library of books yesterday. Philosophy, history, and some art.
- Reading: Gilman.
- Gratitudes: For being here. That my pants are loooosssseee! That we are home.
gattaca ⋅ May 01, 2016
Spring is indeed like that.
I've been noodling in the backyard all weekend. Painted a wall and the garage door (inside). Mopped all the tile floors (I hate carpet).
Pruned trees. Cleaned out fridge.
That's enough for a weekend I think. ;-)
Narrator ⋅ May 01, 2016
Spring is like that! Also, full of cleaning. :)
Zipster ⋅ May 01, 2016
Lovely composition of those 2 art pieces. The only thing about freshening up for Spring is that one job inevitably leads to another, and another....
GypsyWynd ⋅ May 01, 2016
Well, we just had the kitchen gutted and remodeled. This week, we're having the 70's wall-to-wall cream carpet ripped out and replaced with hardwood. Then....there's all the cleaning that will have to be done as a result of all the remodeling. ACK!
I remember my mom trying to reblend old paint in my old food processor so Dad could repaint the walls. It didn't work, and we ended up buying new paint (and ruining the old food processor)
Hillbilly Princess ⋅ May 01, 2016
Deleted user ⋅ May 01, 2016
So much that needs done here, it makes me want to weep :-)
NorthernSeeker ⋅ May 02, 2016
I love the floral painting your daughter did and I hope G finds time to replace the glass. How do you remove still sticky paint?
MageB NorthernSeeker ⋅ May 02, 2016
There is a chemical sander stuff. That's the only choice for spoiled Acrylic paints.
MageB NorthernSeeker ⋅ May 02, 2016
There is a chemical sander stuff. That's the only choice for spoiled Acrylic paints.