Today we finished the laundry room floor with a second coat of paint. It looks fantastic, if I do say so myself! We're hoping the paint will be dry enough to load the washer and dryer tomorrow and then I can start doing some laundry. That will be good since we are pretty much out of towels right now.

Here's R scraping down the floor just before we painted.


The whole house smells like paint now because of the laundry room. It's not a nice smell, but at least it kinda covers over the musty and smoky smells.

Finished cleaning the stove and oven. It took several rounds to get it all done, and the drawer still needs to be cleaned. But it's finally functional!

Treated the cats for fleas. They're not happy as they keep getting locked in one of the rooms while we work on projects around the house and have to open all the doors and windows.

R picked up a new door for the carport as the current one is falling apart and has to be replaced. And he got a nice new lock and fancy handle for the front door and installed that. Looks great! And it's great to finally have that lock changed.

He also washed the floor in the den so we can start getting it set up. Then we washed the floor and walls in the bedroom. It was one of the dirtiest rooms in the house, with crap spilled all over the walls and floor and grime on everything. It looks and smells better now. I also continued washing more of the doors and walls in the house. Bit by bit it's looking better.

We're using the upstairs bathroom to shower in the mornings, which is proving to be a challenge. The hot water only lasts for five to ten minutes, which means I end up having a cold shower. The hot water knob also falls off all the time and the drain is really slow. It's just miserable in there. Not a fun way to start the day.

We still have boxes everywhere and it's hard to move around sometimes. It's hard to unpack when there are so few clean places to put everything.