The bathroom is all ready for Ginny’s arrival tomorrow. All the holes have been patched and sanded. The walls have been wiped down. The guy at Lowe’s mixed me up a gallon each of River Romance Blue and Anthem White, which was one of the sixty thousand whites available to me. According to the guy behind the counter, the formula was white base with four drops of white tint. Whatever. It’s white white, and that’s what I want want. I should have just picked up the white base and made life simple, but it’s too late now.
I also picked up a couple of swatches for the red/burgundy I want to paint the kitchen. I’ll see what Gin thinks tomorrow and go buy two gallons of that this weekend. Through Monday, Lowe’s has a $5 rebate on each gallon of American Signature paint… so, I’ll take advantage of that and buy it this weekend even if I don’t get around to painting for a couple of weeks.
I cut down the ugly crape myrtle along the edge of the curb tonight and finished digging out the mulch bed that runs along the driveway. Tomorrow morning I’ll see if I can prune the piney/junipery tree that had merged with the bushy crape myrtle and then take all the clippings to the landfill and shovel a load of mulch into the truck while I’m there. I moved all of the dirt I pulled out of the mulch to the side of the front yard where the path leads down to the storage area under the house. The idea is to flatten out the yard as much as I can with the resources I have.
I’m expecting I’ll need two or three truck loads of mulch to do everything I want to do this weekend and while I’m on vacation. That’s a whole bunch of shoveling… I’m not looking forward to it, but it’ll be good exercise.
