In the tradition of three-day weekends, we usually have a choice: go to Lake Martin or stay home and work on a major project.

Since the living room project was brought to a standstill due to an unfortunate change in product status (special order versus off the shelf), we were hoping the rest of the ceiling panels would be delivered by now and decided to stay here and carry on. Fortunately for us, on Thursday we got the call that our order was here and we are now on day three of Project Living Room: Git r Dun.

I painted the ceiling panels on Saturday, a two and a half hour project (complete with a smidge of sunburn). D worked on constructing the beam segments (complete with a lot of sunburn). Around 5 pm a storm blew up, so we wrapped up a little early, pawned Fuller off on the Petersons, and went to see X-Men.

Sunday was church in the morning. That afternoon, while Fuller napped, I painted the rest of the moulding and D made a quick trip to Lowe’s. He got home just as a storm rolled in so we got everything under cover and then decided that it was a good time to go ahead and put the panels on the ceiling (they were really in the way).

After the panels were up it was about 6 pm and Fuller was up from his nap. D had a lot to do that only he could do, so Fuller & I received sanctuary at the Wilhelms where we swam and had dinner. When we got home at 10:30 (Fuller had fallen asleep around 8:30 in their pack-n-play), D was still working hard on staining the beam segments. While we were gone he had finished the moulding in the dining room and the lower cove moulding in the living room.

We all got to sleep in this morning (Fuller was worn out from swimming yesterday evening)! Fuller didn’t get up until about 8:45. While he had breakfast and watched Sesame Street, D & I snapped a chalk line and put up the beam segments. Now I have one project to finish- priming and painting the door moulding for the kitchen/ dining room entry. I caulked earlier, while Fuller played and got a steady stream of PBS children’s programming.

We are taking some pictures as we go, but I will wait until we are closer to being finished to post them. And you know, if you are in the neighborhood and actually know us, you are welcome to come by and tell us what a great job we did. (You are not welcome to come by and tell us what a crappy job we did.)

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