Week 2 Home Improvements

This week on the Winter Home Improvements List

-Applied putty to the nail/screw/staple infested walls
-Sanded the walls
-Applied primer
-cleaned behind the stove
-de-gooed the stairs and landing
-Got a garbage can!
-Got a garage door opener
-weeded the never ending dandelion patches
-Mowed, trimmed , and fertilized the lawn

We are now in our second week as home owners, and it as you can see by our list, being a homeowner is a lot of work. I was at a public health conference the first part of the week, and Brad took one of those days to prime the walls with the help of Janel, Tanya Platt, and Mikey. I came home on Wednesday night pleasantly surprised to no longer have grease stained kitchen walls, and holes all over our living room walls. I can't wait to have the painting done in the house because we can't completely unpack yet, not to mention set up a nursery. ;In the process of prepping the kitchen, Brad was the lucky candidate to clean behind the grease covered stove. That was quite the project. I didn't get to see the mess, but I can only imagine what it was like after cleaning the grease covered walls and ceilings (the previous owner really liked cooking with copious amounts of grease).

We finally got a garbage can yesterday. That was quite a relief. We had quite the pile of refuse accumulating in our garage from two weeks worth of cleaning and daily living.

Brad mowed the lawn for the second time yesterday. He is completely frustrated with the thriving dandelion patches growing throughout the grass and flower beds. He fertilized yesterday with a combination fertilizer/weed killer. We hope to see some improvements in the coming weeks.

I'll post some pictures of the painting festivities the next time I have my camera.

P.S. If you can't tell by the random post created by my brother, Brad installed a dead bolt in our front door last week. He thought it was a lot of fun, and Nathan had fun capturing everything on his camera.