Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Look out Zion, Here we Come
If any of the three people who read this blog are going to be in Utah in the next 3 weeks, drop me a line and maybe we can do lunch.
Saturday, April 05, 2008
Project Time
So this isn't EXACTLY a chronicle of just Linus, but it is something his family has been up to.
A couple of weeks ago I reached maximum tolerance of the mustard yellow color of our dining room walls. When we moved in we tolerated the color but over time the horrific lack of technique the previous owners employed just kept grating on us (streaks, cheap paint, needed a second coat etc). The window coverings were a ghastly vertical blind that had kind of a fabric texture that still had their cat's hair on it - so gross- but when I took down the verticals the old hardware's holes needed to be patched but I didn't have the mustard color to touch up over my spackle job and didn't see the point of buying a color I didn't love so one day I just caved and decided to start from scratch. So after patching some cracks in the ceiling and painting its sickly gray (we called it "prison gray") with some fresher off white, I patched, primed and painted the walls. Richy and I then put up some crown moulding with some borrowed tools from friends. Pneumatic nail guns and compound miter saws ROCK.
We haven't painted the moudling yet, but even as it is it feels like a HUGE improvement. Here's a peek (the picture is just a view of the upper part of the room because the bottom half of the room was still a DISASTER when I took the pic):
We also did moulding in the living room, but for now I'm bragging on the dining room (sound of me patting us on the back).
Linus was mostly stoked that will all the furniture scattered around it gave him more room to ride - and he's getting pretty good, too! Today he rode outside (with helmet) for the first time.
A couple of weeks ago I reached maximum tolerance of the mustard yellow color of our dining room walls. When we moved in we tolerated the color but over time the horrific lack of technique the previous owners employed just kept grating on us (streaks, cheap paint, needed a second coat etc). The window coverings were a ghastly vertical blind that had kind of a fabric texture that still had their cat's hair on it - so gross- but when I took down the verticals the old hardware's holes needed to be patched but I didn't have the mustard color to touch up over my spackle job and didn't see the point of buying a color I didn't love so one day I just caved and decided to start from scratch. So after patching some cracks in the ceiling and painting its sickly gray (we called it "prison gray") with some fresher off white, I patched, primed and painted the walls. Richy and I then put up some crown moulding with some borrowed tools from friends. Pneumatic nail guns and compound miter saws ROCK.
BEFORE/MID:
We haven't painted the moudling yet, but even as it is it feels like a HUGE improvement. Here's a peek (the picture is just a view of the upper part of the room because the bottom half of the room was still a DISASTER when I took the pic):
AFTER/PEEK:
We also did moulding in the living room, but for now I'm bragging on the dining room (sound of me patting us on the back). Linus was mostly stoked that will all the furniture scattered around it gave him more room to ride - and he's getting pretty good, too! Today he rode outside (with helmet) for the first time.
Wednesday, April 02, 2008
Some Easter Pics
After the annual hunt complete with Elmer Fudd hunter's hat (and warm up pants -Belnap I'm lookin' at you)
I could only get him to stay still for a picture if he got to sit in his tacky lawn chair. As beggars can't be choosers, I give you Dapper Easter Dude on a fifty cent yard sale chair. Meet Dapper Serious and Dapper Jolly. He cleans up well. It doesn't last long, but you take what you get.