TR is off work today! We slept in until 7:30!
We finally finished removing all the wallpaper in the small upstairs bedroom after breakfast this morning. Then while I made mac and cheese for lunch, TR painted the ceiling. I want to get this room done before we tackle another project. It is being painted a green color; not a shade I would have necessarily picked (given to us by a friend), but the color is a nice medium green. We are hoping to make this a usable bedroom. Which means we will have to figure out why the radiator is not heating up. :/
Most likely the next project will be painting the kitchen (I have picked a Banana Cream color for the walls.) or fixing the entry floor. After we get the floor fixed, I would like to paint the entry Morning Sun. The entry walls go up the stairwell to the second floor. At the top of the stairs is a large window and the morning sun shines in lighting up the entire upstairs hall and the stairwell. I want to take advantage of that light with the light paint color. Unfortunately, before we can paint the stairwell and 2nd floor hall, we have to finish the walls there. One wall will probably have to be covered with drywall. The rest just need spackled and patched.
I would like to use Sunflower as the trim color, as it is much darker (but in the same color family) as the Morning Sun, Banana Cream and Afternoon. However, TR is not sure he likes the Sunflower, so I will wait on the trim color for a while. Banana Cream and Morning Sun are old Sherwin Williams colors, in case you were wondering. They were colors I planned to use at the farm after we painted the living room there Afternoon.
TR got some pictures of the lilac bush/tree near the back porch. It bloomed in December, and now the buds are encased in ice. I hope this old plant makes it....
We are missing The Ladies. It seems so strange to not have chicken worries in the winter. (Thank you QA & Becca for taking care of them.
) Instead, we have a flock of wild birds we are feeding this winter. We are filling the bird feeders by the back porch every day. We are feeding blue jays, cardinals, dark-eyed juncos, chickadees, white-breasted nuthatch, sparrows, hairy woodpeckers, and red-headed woodpeckers. This week, with the ice storms, we also got some birds that look like grackles at the feeders. They devoured a suet cake in a day.
This Sunday is 2nd Sunday lunch and I am providing the main entree - turkey and dumplings. I have 16 quarts of turkey stock in my refrigerator ready to go to church Saturday.
The women from church who are on the Relay for Life team have decided to sign up for a local chili cook-off. They are asking me to help with a recipe. So I am going to start collecting a number of them for the group to choose one.
I am also still researching the replacement stove.
I guess I better get a move on... I still have stuff to do.
Stay warm!
