Painting and Stuff

Today was a long day.  I took picts, but left the camera at Charles St.  We logged 5 trips to our neighborhood hardware store in 24 hours.  Thank goodness the awesome folks at Ace Hardware Federal Hill on Charles Street allow dogs, and shower them with treats and pets while Mom and Dad agonize over which shade of beige to paint the family room.  Shout-out here - you should give these hardware gods your business.  We also logged countless trips to Sharp Street because when your two homes are four blocks apart, you tend not to plan very well.

So today we did lots of prep work for painting, primed where necessary, and painted the hall, bedroom, and living room ceilings.  We also painted a lot of trim.  Tomorrow we'll knock out a few doorways, and the huge job of our living room (really kitchen/living/office).  It will be another long day.  We also finally got around to removing the old linoleum adhesive tonite at around 9.  Turns out those fumes really can make you sick.  Anyway, we quit while we could still see straight - job to be continued tomorrow.

An upside to all of this hard work is getting to jam out to Johnny Cash and Cake all day and sing along TOGETHER.  We seldom get to spend so much time within earshot of each other, and it was really wonderful to listen to music we love, and shout our interpretations of songs back and forth.  Speaking of Cake - catch them as the Saturday night FREE artist at Artscape this year (weekend of July 17).  I heart Baltimore.

I'll try to post picts in the next few days.  I am not spellchecking this post.