It's week 3 and 4 of social distancing. I decided if I plan to paint the house, now is the time to do it. I at least wanted to have the supplies in case we are more shut down and cannot get them later and then have nothing to do. But as usual, I started right in the day I got everything. The color I went with is Sherwin Williams Showcase Latitude. I got around 30 gray samples and brought them home. I checked 7 I liked and gave them to Sahara, she starred 5 she liked and this color had both marks. The color I originally wanted was called Early Evening and was a greige. I probably should have went with that but here we are. The living room and entry was first. All the red. It covered really well but still needed 2 coats. I'm not going to rehang things for at least a week.
Then I moved onto the dining area and kitchen. I forgot to take a before picture of the dining area so this one was from Christmas 2018.
Then the hall by my bedroom, laundry room, and garage.
That was 3 days and 2 coats on everything. Adding more later!
The color is growing on me.
Decided to see what a mask was going to look like. The elastic ear straps on the bandanna hurt my ears. I'm pretty sure Canyon won't wear it. I ordered something online to use as masks but they will not be here for 2 weeks. The dust masks I had from many years ago when I had a bad spring allergy season and my eyes would swell shut when mowing. It was only bad like that for 1 year so I have 10 or so masks left over. Currently only about 30% of people around here are wearing them, but the announcement to do so just came yesterday.
A photographer we know was doing front porch (social distance) photos so I signed us up. Unfortunately, as soon as she got here, she slipped and knocked her head pretty good. I had warned her in a text that the walkway down by the mailbox gets slick. Her camera bounced off her head and split her eyebrow open and she needed help getting up. I ran in the house and got her a towel to dry her water/mud/grass soaked clothes and wet paper towel for her head. So much for social distancing! I felt so bad but after we cleaned her up as best as we could, she did our pictures anyway. I told her she did good work considering she had a concussion! :)
Here's the area. The part that is brown is super slick algae. The black part isn't as slick but it's still slippy.
The UPS, FedEx and mail lady all deliver packages walking right up this walkway and this has happened to me and to Jared too. It's pretty dangerous.
My temporary fix is pool salt and a sign to use the driveway.
Then I got edging and am hoping it directs the water to continue in the grass to the road and not cross over the sidewalk. Better yet, IT COULD JUST STOP RAINING!!
So far it looks like it's working but it also hasn't rained again yet.
Here are a few of my quarantine dinners. Canyon is getting tired of my cooking and I'm getting tired of all the dirty dishes.
grilled chicken caesar
potstickers and roasted veggies
chicken parmesan pasta
loaded sweet potato
More painting is the hall by Canyon's bedroom and my bathroom.
If I ever get the bright idea to paint a master bathroom again, STOP ME. That was a huge ordeal and that 1 room took 3 days. But it looks so nice now. The poop brown is a gross memory. I ended up painting the ceiling too because the poop brown was not edged well.
Next week I will start hanging up all the wall stuff in all the rooms I painted. MAY paint the other bathroom later but not anytime soon. I need a break.
These wide headbands I ordered online to use as masks came earlier than I thought. I think they will work out good and it's more like 60% of the peeps out there are wearing them now.
I also got a magnetic wrap for my mailbox that the paint was peeling off of. I didn't even realize that the birds would match when I picked it!
