Painting is Fun

Quite a bit of paint has gone on in the last few days. We started spraying primer on Thursday night. More primer Friday night and a few ceilings got their first coat sprayed over the primer before the sprayer had a temporary breakdown. Saturday morning, Debbi showed up early and started helping paint the laundry room pink. Michele demanded one pink room, and this is it. The walls in the rest of the house are all the same color, but not pink. The title is "Patience", and has been compared to a vanilla milk shake. We also completed building the short retaining wall on the SW corner of the house. It still needs to be backfilled when the weather allows.

On Sunday, we attempted to move some dirt into and around the garage footings that were poured last week. It was fairly muddy still after the 3"+ of rain that we have received in the last week. We worked on the short retaining wall off of the NW corner of the house today also. It too is ready for backfill. Painting continued inside the house. The 2nd coat is on in many places, and the first coat is on everywhere.

Special thanks for the last week of work in approximate order of appearance:
Caruth Construction for making quick work of the garage footings.
Jon's parents for help with cleanup in preparation for paint.
Michele for all of her hard work: taping off windows, painting, cleanup, etc.
My Dad for running my many errands and picking up several things on Friday.
Debbi for high quality painting work and for bringing her own painting tools.
Anthony Moeller for his work on COMPLETING the basement patio pavers.
Myra for bringing tools and painting for hours on Saturday and coming back for even more on Sunday.
Laura for painting and cleanup on Saturday.
Justin for doing a better job than me at spraying the ceilings and help on the retaining wall.
My Dad for all of his hard work and heavy lifting on the retaining walls. And mini dumptruck.
My Mom for painting well past her desired stopping point today.
Steve for moving a lot of dirt through the impossible muck.
Jana for painting. (Like a madwoman)