Why is this taking so long???

Several times a week I watch home improvement shows on HGTV in which people make major home renovations in 30 minutes including new flooring, kitchen counters and paint. Yea, I know there's a lot of editing involved, but I seriously think I'm the slowest painter in the world. Good thing I work in an office instead of as a home improvement person.

I'm still working on the first half of my garage revitalization project. Tonight I painted the edges of the ceiling and it took a really, really long time. Plus, I'm not good at edging so now I'll have to touch up the tops of the green walls with a tiny little paint brush. I tried to convince myself that the ceiling wasn't that dirty. But in the photo above you can really see the difference between the new white paint and the old ceiling paint.

A Needed Distraction

Now that the walls look so nice, I'm ready to tackle the ceiling. But, I hate painting ceilings. The last time I painted a ceiling I ended up covered in little specs of paint.

So, as a distraction from that project, I painted the garage cabinets.

Here's the before...

And the after...

Cortina Valley

A quick trip to Menards for some wall and ceiling paint turned into a major shopping trip. We settled on a very light green (cortina valley) paint for the garage walls. Painting a light color in a room with bad lighting is not that easy to do. Now that it's dry, I can see a few spots that I missed. So, tomorrow night I'll touch up the walls and paint the ceiling.

Thanks to our Menards shopping trip, our fall chore list has grown significantly.

• We bought supplies to put additional electrical outlets in the garage.

• We picked up some new flooring for the kitchen. The sales guy suggested that it would be an easy weekend project. Somehow I think we'll be eating out for a month while the kitchen floor is ripped up.
  

• I got some paint for the garage cabinets so that's one more thing I'll have to finish before I can start the epoxy on the other side of the garage floor.

• Then, I got 200 flower bulbs which will need to be planted in the next few weeks.

• We didn't get the flooring for the dining room/office. Spike has left puddles all over the carpet in that room and I've tried for months to get the smell out. Since Menards had wood flooring on sale, we thought we'd pick some up today and then rip up the carpet and put the new flooring down. It looks so simple on HGTV. Turned out the stuff we like is real wood and requires quite a bit more labor and specialized tools to install. So, we'll leave that purchase, and project, for another day.

Notre Dame Beats Purdue

Late Friday afternoon Bruce received a call from WRBR letting him know he had won entry into their Notre Dame tent party, along with two friends. Kelly and I were happy to join him.


We ate tons of free food from Taco Bell, played the corn hole game and ran into several friends and neighbors.


One of the WRBR staffers was passing out t-shirts using a shirt cannon. Rather than pointing the cannon in the air, he aimed it right at my stomach. I sure wasn't expecting that. It didn't hurt, but really surprised me. Not being a big fan of either t-shirts or Miller Lite beer, I happily gave the t-shirt to Kelly.


Bruce visits with neighbor Bonnie and her daughter, Tamera.
After the party we headed over to Between the Buns to watch the game.

Bread Bag Comes to Life

As we pulled into the ATM in Osceola Saturday morning some movement in the grassy area caught my eye. It was a bread bag jumping and spinning around. Turns out it was actually a squirrel inside of a bread bag.

Social Media at its Finest

Don't you just love social media. ...
1) Complain about something.
2) Point out the spelling mistakes of those who complain about your complaint.
3) Tell people to stop complaining about other people's complaints.
4) Rinse and repeat.

Go Jimmies

We've lived in Jimtown now for five years and tonight was the first time we went to a Jimtown Jimmies football game. We started by going to the Original Jonah Fish Fry at the high school and then moseyed on into the stadium for the game.

Many of our friends and neighbors were at the game, and other than the uncomfortable seats, we had quite a nice time.