Flurry of activity

So, it's been two months since we updated the blog. That doesn't mean we haven't been busy. In addition to the holiday rush, and Nate's birthday, we have continued work on the house -- in fact, we've been doing quite a lot of house renovation lately.

Since the weekend after Thanksgiving, I have been working on renovating the "guest bedroom." This room was tolerable, but for some reason it grated on my nerves. It was an awful color blue, there were cracks in the walls, and something about its rundown state infected my vision of the entire house. It is also one of the last rooms that we haven't put some modern touches on. (There are also hallways to tackle... in some future year.)

I started by spackling, then sanding, then spackling some more. At this point, Evan lent a hand in making sure the spackle job was up to par, and with more sanding, and then we launched into painting. Long story short, we're done with painting the walls and ceiling, and part-way through applying primer to the trim. There is, ugh, a lot of trim in this room. We painted the walls a light creamy tan color.

Because the few photos that I took during the spackle phase turned out very uninspired, I've chosen not to document the room upgrade. Nothing really seemed to work in terms of photos. We are now pondering pulling up the linoleum and painting the floor before I actually paint the trim along the floor. Today Evan pulled up some of it and there was a layer of newspaper underneath -- the date was 1968. Maybe I'll take some photos of that stage, or at least of the finished room.

As mentioned, with Evan's gracious help (he's got projects of his own ... continuing to finish the kitchen and building a shelf for Nate ... also not in very photogenic stages right now), I've crept along with this project mainly while Nate naps on weekends (there were also a few Nate naps over the holidays when I snuck in a few hours of work on the room).

So, here's a view of something much more inspiring than my slow progress on the bedroom -- it's the view of the mountain, this morning, following a snowfall of a few inches that we got yesterday.